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Flickr Co-founders Join Mass Exodus From Yahoo
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on June 17, 2008
Photo sharing site Flickr is one of the leading lights of Yahoo - but cofounders (and husband/wife team) Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield won’t be around to keep driving the product forward. They are both joining the mass exodus of executives from the company.Fake officially left last Friday. Butterfield (who still officially runs Flickr) will leave on July 12. Kakul Srivastava, the...
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Why we skip Photoshop
via Signal vs. Noise by Jason on June 02, 2008
When designing a UI we usually go right from a quick paper sketch to HTML/CSS. We skip the static Photoshop mockup.Here are a few reasons why we skip photoshop:You can’t click a Photoshop mockup. This is probably the number one reason we skip static mockups. They aren’t real. Paper isn’t real either, but paper doesn’t have that expectation. a Photoshop mockup is on your screen. If it’s...
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Award Winning Fiction in 140 Characters
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 29, 2008
"Constraints drive innovation and force focus," according to 37Signals in their popular "Getting Real" book. If that's true, then Copyblogger's Twitter Writing Contest, announced a couple of weeks ago, should have had writers brimming with creativity. The task? Write a short story in 140 characters. Not less than 140 characters, exactly 140 characters. That's no easy task, but...
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Clive Thompson on How Man-Made Noise May Be Altering Earth's Ecology
via Wired Top Stories by Clive Thompson on May 29, 2008
Bernie Krause listens to nature for a living. The 69-year-old is a field recording scientist: He heads into the wilderness to document the noises made by native fauna — crickets chirping in the Amazon rain forest, frogs croaking in the Australian outback.But Krause has noticed something alarming. The natural sound of the world is vanishing. He'll be deep inside the Amazon, recording that...
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The Fork in the Road for Social Media
via ReadWriteWeb by Bernard Lunn on May 28, 2008
Social networking is at a major fork in the road. Down one road is adding more features to a walled garden and opening up just enough, so that users seldom need to leave. Most sites are going down this yellow brick road and the prize is clearly a big one. But they may end up back in Kansas. Down the other road, lies a future of being the primary repository for your connections (aka the social...
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Antigenic Cartography: Fighting the Flu with Maps
via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies by Brady Forrest on May 29, 2008
This guest post was written by Terry Jones, former antigenic cartographer and founder of fluidinfo.At the O'Reilly ETech conference in March I gave a talk describing Antigenic Cartography, a new method being used to visualize virus evolution and to aid in the design of vaccines, in the context of influenza. My slides from the talk are online.Having "the flu" is something of a generic...
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Saving small
via Signal vs. Noise by Sarah on May 29, 2008
My favorite quarterly magazine is American Bungalow. It’s small, niche, and expensive, but it’s worth every penny for articles like the one in the summer 2008 edition titled “Brining Back Stinesville.”Nancy Hiller wrote this amazing piece on the town of Stinesville, IN and the preservation group Bloomington Restorations, Inc. In the 1990’s Stinesville’s population had dropped to...
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SocialHistory.js: See Which Sites Your Users Visit
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 27, 2008
With so many social media sites in circulation today, badge soup can become a real problem for web sites trying to squeeze the most out of their traffic. Everyone has a different set of core social media sites that they use -- from del.icio.us and Ma.gnolia, to Digg, Reddit, and Diigo, we all have our favorites. But appealing to your users' varied tastes often means an overwhelming sea of...
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TipJoy’s New API Lets Web Apps Share the Love (and Cash) With Their Contributors
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 26, 2008
How do you get more people top leave tips on blogs? Try to make your tip jar app into a platform that spreads the wealth to more people. Y Combinator startup TipJoy is trying to do that with a new platform API for Web applications that will let them share tips with users who contribute content. The platform is launching today in closed beta (the first 200 Web developers who mention...
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Sometimes Crowds Aren't That Wise
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 25, 2008
Last week, computer book publisher SitePoint relayed a story about recent experiences with Digg that demonstrates that the Digg system is far from perfect. We've written recently on ReadWriteWeb about the decline and fall of quality on Digg, but SitePoint's anecdote demonstrates that sometimes the wisdom of crowds approach is, well, kind of dumb. Now is probably a good time to revisit...
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