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Done, and Gets Things Smart
via Stevey's Blog Rants by Steve Yegge on June 17, 2008
Disclaimer: I do not speak for Google! These are my own views and opinions, and are not endorsed in any way by my employer, nor anyone else, for that matter.Everyone knows and quotes Joel's old chestnut, "Smart, and Gets Things Done." It was a blog, then a book, and now it's an aphorism.People quote Joel's Proverb all the time because it gives us all such a nice snuggly feeling. ...
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What Comes After Post Modernism?
via A VC by Fred on June 16, 2008
Horacio (aka vruz) pointed me to this 2006 essay in Philosophy Now by Alan Kirby on "the death of post-modernism." I read it yesterday evening (on paper taking notes). Yes I am old school when reading anything over a page or two.I am no expert in art, philosophy, and literature so the terms modernism and post-modernism don't run deep in my brain. But from a simplistic point of view, I...
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Clarifying Application Authorization Changes
via Facebook Developers News Feed by (author unknown) on June 03, 2008
Last week we announced the changes we're making to simplify how users first interact with new applications. We've received a lot of questions and concerns so we'd like to take some time to answer the most common questions. How are sessions changing?The Facebook Platform API will grant your application an active session key every time a user begins interacting with your application....
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Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit 1.0
via Ajaxian by Dion Almaer on June 01, 2008
... in various states including:Ad UnitsCalendarsCarouselsCharts and TablesUI ControlsForm ElementsGridsMenus and ButtonsMobile - GeneralMobile - iPhoneNavigation and PaginationOS ElementsPlaceholder TextScreen ResolutionsTabsWindows and ContainersWhip out Omnigraffle or your tool of choice and get going :)You can download the artifacts in various formats: OmniGraffle,Visio (XML),PDF,PNG,SVG.
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Why did they build expensive medieval churches?
via Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen on May 30, 2008
Bryan Caplan asks (the rest of the post is interesting on other matters):Seeing a bunch of French cathedrals makes me even more skeptical of the claim (made by Larry Iannacconeand others) that people weren't more religious in earlier centuries. Ifpeople weren't far more religious in the Middle Ages, why did they poursuch a high fraction of their surplus wealth into century-longreligious...
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Does the CPI understate inflation?
via Marginal Revolution by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
Shared by Bret Taylor The price of major appliances has been flat over the last year. Furniture is 1 percent less expensive. A decade ago, a basic four-door Toyota Corolla LE cost $16,018, according to the company. The 2009 basic model costs $16,650, and it’s a safer, more powerful, more fuel-efficient car than its predecessor... To top it all off, most people don’t buy any of these items...
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Zuckerberg Hires Another VP From Google: Elliot Schrage
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 05, 2008
Mark Zuckerberg loves to hire folks from Google. His poaching started in earnest last year, and includes Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, CFO Gideon Yu, and others. The latest is Elliot Schrage, Google’s vice president of global communications and public affairs. He will join Facebook on May 14 under the same role. Zuckerberg’s letter to the troops leaked to us:Hey Everyone –I’m...
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Street View in the API (or, How I Spent My Summer "Vacation")
via Official Google Maps API Blog by Pamela Fox on March 26, 2008
Posted by James McGill, Maps API TeamFor the past three months I have had the great pleasure of working as an intern with the Google Maps API team in Sydney. Unfortunately my time is now up and I must head back to the mundane life of a undergraduate scholar, but before I do I'm ecstatic to announce that my intern project is FINALLY complete: Street View is now in the Google Maps API!Many of...
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I Just Fell In Love With FriendFeed
via A VC by Fred on March 24, 2008
Several days ago, I whipped off a quick list of feature requests for FriendFeed which I published on this blog.First, I got a comment from Bret Taylor, one of the founders. He said they had passed the list around the company and agreed with them. Cool.Then yesterday they launched one of them, posting an @reply to twitter from friendfeed.This gives me great confidence that they'll get to all...
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Feed Forms
via Facebook Developers News Feed by (author unknown) on March 11, 2008
As we move towards the new Facebook profile, one of our major goals is to improve the quality of feed stories. We want users to have a sense of ownership of their Mini-Feed and trust in the stories that are created on their behalf. Since applications make up such a large portion of feed content, our aim is to give developers a simple way to publish rich feed stories with user approval. With...
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