What happens when a Twitter client hits the token limit – Marco.org
http://www.marco.org/2012/11/16/twitter-being-a-dick-again
The effective rule, therefore, is even simpler: “Don’t build anything for Twitter.”
Why Web 1.0 Needs to Make a Comeback
http://www.lockergnome.com/net/2012/05/15/why-web-1-0-needs-to-make-a-comeback/
In reality, all of these services make money from your content. Either they serve advertisements next door to your content or they are targeting advertisements towards you, specifically, depending on whatever it is that you are sounding off about on these services.
Why Web 1.0 Needs to Make a Comeback
http://www.lockergnome.com/net/2012/05/15/why-web-1-0-needs-to-make-a-comeback
In reality, all of these services make money from your content. Either they serve advertisements next door to your content or they are targeting advertisements towards you, specifically, depending on whatever it is that you are sounding off about on these services.
Don't Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog)
http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user
These projects are all very different, but the dynamic is the same. Someone builds a cool, free product, it gets popular, and that popularity attracts a buyer. The new owner shuts the product down and the founders issue a glowing press release about how excited they are about synergies going forward. They are never heard from again.
Whether or not this is done in good faith, in practice this kind of 'exit event' is a pump-and-dump scheme. The very popularity that attracts a buyer also makes the project financially unsustainable. The owners cash out, the acquirer gets some good engineers, and the users get screwed.
Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/11/groveio-hosted-searchable-irc.php
Grove, a new hosted IRC chat service for teams, launches today. It's IRC without the fuss, providing hosting, account management, access controls and fully searchable chat logging, as well as a sparkling new Web chat client.
Steven Poole: Whatever made you think it was your data anyway?
http://stevenpoole.net/blog/whatever-made-you-think-it-was-your-data-anyway
In case it helps, I hereby declare the following iron law of “free” internet services:
If you’re not paying for something, you have no reason to expect it to be there tomorrow.
This is an important corollary to the law “If you’re not paying for something, you’re not a customer; you’re the product being sold”.
The Evolution of Fail Pets | UX Magazine
http://uxmag.com/articles/the-evolution-of-fail-pets
Fred Wenzel refers to error mascots, such as Twitter’s Fail Whale (Figure 1) as fail pets. Fail pets are of particular interest in terms of branding because they can result in brand recognition through earned media. However, that same recognition carries the danger of highlighting service failure. This article discusses the rise of and changes to the depictions of fail pets, from the initial, highly recognizable fail pets, to markedly more cautious error message imagery in later products.
Nick Bradbury: The Long-Term Failure of Web APIs
http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2011/11/the-long-term-failure-of-web-apis.html
But we've also learned that while web APIs enable us to tap into a wealth of data, they can only be relied upon in the short term. The expiration date of software we create has been shortened due to the whims of those who create the web APIs we rely on.
IMO, this goes for almost anything with net-based DRM, as well.
Nick Bradbury: Anti-social FeedDemon (Killing Features, Part II)
http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2011/11/anti-social-feeddemon-killing-features-part-ii.html
Last night the changes to Google Reader went live, and as promised, they've removed the sharing features. This means that the sharing features in FeedDemon which rely on Google Reader will eventually stop working, so I'm forced to remove them.
Reader redesign: Terrible decision, or worst decision? - *
http://brianshih.com/78073742
Google released the previously announced set of changes around G+ integration and UI updates today, and boy is it a disaster. Since the general changes were pre-announced last week, most of us were prepared for the letdown, but actually seeing how it works end to end has made several flaws abundantly clear. Let's start with the obvious.
THE NEXT WEB: Google reportedly considering bid to acquire Yahoo
http://www.blogrunner.com/snapshot/D/2/6/google_reportedly_considering_bid_to_acquire_yahoo
Study from Yahoo shows that 50 percent of all tweets come from just 20,000 users
http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2011/10/03/study-from-yahoo-shows-that-50-percent-of-all-tweets-come-from-just-20000-users
Years to build up Delicious - one day to wreck it
http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2011/09/years-to-build-up-delicious-one-day-to-wreck-it.html
growing pains
Multi-touch finger paintings
http://kottke.org/11/09/multi-touch-finger-paintings
Why You Should Think Twice About Opting-In to the Delicious-AVOS Transfer | ZDNet
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue/why-you-should-think-twice-about-opting-in-to-the-delicious-avos-transfer/331
Super Awesome Buttons with CSS3 and RGBa - ZURB Playground - ZURB.com
http://www.zurb.com/playground/super-awesome-buttons
Yahoo! OpenID: Now more powerful and easier to use (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/09/yahoo_openid_hybrid.html
"We're happy to announce support for the OpenID OAuth Hybrid Protocol, which combines OpenID authentication (sign in) with OAuth authorization (access control) in a single interface. The Hybrid Protocol makes it easy for the hundreds of millions of Yahoo! users to sign into websites with a Yahoo! account, and to enable two-way data sharing of their Profile, Contacts, and Updates, without having to register a new site-specific account or share their Yahoo! password."
GameSetWatch - IGN/GameSpy Shutting Down Classicgaming Fan Sites
http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2009/06/igngamespy_shutting_down_class.php
"IGN/Gamespy is shutting down its public hosting services as of August 31st, 2009, doing away with its Classicgaming.com sites and possibly others (e.g. Strategyplanet, RPGPlanet), according to a forum post by Kurt "discoalucard" Kalata."
Social Fresh Cruise, a Netcation | Social Fresh Cruise
http://socialfresh.com/cruise/social-fresh-cruise-a-netcation
"The Social Fresh Cruise is your opportunity to enjoy a Cruise vacation while also connecting with others who are leaders in the Social Media industry. It is a networking vacation; a Netcation if you will. Sharing the unique experience of a cruise is one of the best ways to strengthen relationships with your peers. Although you will be getting away, you will actually be making your network much stronger than if you would have stayed at home and worked. There is no focus on going to tons of speakers and sessions. Instead the focus is on relaxing and personally getting to know one another. Organic, quality discussions will happen. This is the goal."
Bit.ly Builds Business on Libya Domain | Workbench
http://workbench.cadenhead.org/news/3503/bitly-builds-business-libya-domain
Main Page - Libre.fm
http://ideas.libre.fm/index.php/Main_Page
Building Sites Around Social Objects (Live from Web 2.0) - ReadWriteWeb
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/building_sites_around_social_objects_live_from_web.php
"This morning at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Jyri Engeström, co-founder of Jaiku and now Google employee, spoke about building sites around social objects. What this means is that the social sites we visit today are not just friend networks - they're also built around objects that connect people with shared interests. These social objects could be anything from a photo on flickr to a video on YouTube or a track on Last.fm. This concept may not be new information to some of you - Jyri has been talking "social objects" for years now. What is interesting, though, is how well this information has held up over time. "
sunkencity.org: flickredit
http://sunkencity.org/flickredit
"FlickrEdit is a Java Desktop application that allows you to display and edit your photos in a variety of ways. It also allows you to download/backup or upload your photos to and from Flickr. FlickrEdit is written in Java and it uses flickrj framework to access Flickr."
Adactio: Journal—To protect and to preserve
http://adactio.com/journal/1553
Robot Wisdom auxiliary: Twitter's two cultures
http://robotwisdom2.blogspot.com/2008/10/twitters-two-cultures.html
Twitter's two cultures: Retweeters vs Favrders (RWx-short)
Will Obama Break Up Google? (GOOG)
http://www.businessinsider.com/will-obama-break-up-monopolist-google-2009-2
I hope not. Google's not a monopoly - it's got plenty of lesser competitors. They just happen to be really successful. It's easier to live Google free than MSFT free. "Obama's pick to head the Justice Department's antitrust unit, Christine Varney, believes that Google has a monopoly in search and will soon have a monopoly in cloud computing and that the government should act aggressively to prevent monopolies. So will she try to break Google up?"
Citizen Garden Episode 11: Whither Ma.gnolia? on Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/3205188
Honest look at what happened to ma.gnolia. Painful, but honest. In a nutshell: Make sure your backups are recoverable, and prove it regularly. Someday, something *will* go boom. It'll really hurt when the data loss is over half-a-terabyte. "This week Chris and Larry discuss the Ma.gnolia's data loss, what is has meant for the service and in the community, and what may be coming in the future."
787
http://zork.net/~sneakums/fortunes/sneakums/787
"Web 2.0 is where you have to read TechCrunch every morning to know if you'll be able to get your files that day. "
Cornify - Unicorns & Rainbows On-Demand
http://www.cornify.com
"Cornify is the #1 unicorn and rainbow service worldwide, giving websites sparkle around the world."
Yahoo vacating 400,000 square feet in Santa Clara towers - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:
http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/01/26/daily65.html?ana=e_du_pub
ASCII by Jason Scott / FUCK THE CLOUD
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1717
"Don’t blow anything into the Cloud that you don’t have a personal copy of. ... Insult, berate and make fun of any company that offers you something like a “sharing” site that makes you push stuff in that you can’t make copies out of or which you can’t export stuff out of. Make fun of these people, and their shitty little Cloud Cities running on low-grade cooking fat and dreams. They will die and they will take your stuff into the hole. Don’t let them. ... Are you paying for these services? No? You are a sucker. You are giving people stuff for free. ... These are parties. And parties are fun and parties and cool and you meet neat people at parties but parties are not a home."
Delicious Founder Schachter Joins Google? (GOOG)
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/delicious-founder-schachter-joins-google
getluky.net » A Warning About the Real Cost of Microformats
http://getluky.net/2009/01/08/a-warning-about-the-real-cost-of-microformats
"Anyway, here’s the question I want to put into the reader’s mind: should one spend time and effort making a frontend into an informal API through microformats, or to instead spend it on building a fully supported API or data publishing system that exists and operates separately? I think my stance is clear - i’m not against the theory of microformats, but i’m certainly going to differ with anyone who thinks it’s practical."
ASCII by Jason Scott / Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617
Reasons Behind Yahoo!'s Four-Year Slump | Investing News | Print Financial & Investing Articles | TheStreet.com
http://www.thestreet.com/print/story/10454159.html
Vacuum - Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104: web two point naught: watching the shutdown of free web 2.0 services
http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2008/12/web-two-point-naught-watching-the-shutdown-of-free-web-20-services.html
"Web 2.0 is over. Back up your important data now, or decide which parts of it you are willing to discard."
timeago: a jQuery plugin
http://timeago.yarp.com
"Timeago is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to support automatically updating fuzzy timestamps (e.g. "4 minutes ago" or "about 1 day ago")"
Nostalgia - Laughing Meme
http://laughingmeme.org/2008/09/30/nostalgia
Google Chrome-Induced Déjà Vu - GigaOM
http://gigaom.com/2008/09/03/chrome-induced-deja-vu
"Reading the Google Chrome comic strip made clear the parallel to the emergence of QEMM and DESQview: All today’s browsers are effectively single tasking, in that only one tab can be actively processing, say, a JavaScript application at any given time (”inherently single threaded”), yet the tabs are interactive to the point where the misbehavior of an “application” in one tab can impact — and sometimes crash — the operation of the entire browser. Web 2.0 has brought about an array of browser-based applications and activities that require a more robust, stable, multiprocessing browser with each process assigned to its own memory space and associated data structures — which is basically how DESQview operated. Indeed, when I pointed this out during yesterday’s SquawkBox, someone labeled Google Chrome as “DESQview for the cloud.” Talk about “Back to the Future“!"
FriendFeed Blog: Last.fm Loved Songs
http://blog.friendfeed.com/2007/10/lastfm-loved-songs.html
I guess this explains why I don't see Last.fm events on FriendFeed. Funny how it happened almost a year ago: "A number of FriendFeeders complained that Last.fm was showing up too often in their feeds because we tracked every song you listened to. We updated our service so that we will only publish the songs you explicitly marked as "loved" in Last.fm. We hope this will make the Last.fm entries more useful and a bit less frequent."
Raptr Blog » Raptr Public Beta Launch!
http://blog.raptr.com/2008/09/03/raptr-public-beta-launch
"No more secret handshakes, no more private invites; we’re proud to open the doors to Raptr and share the service in an open public beta! ... Raptr was born out of a stellar team of people who are passionate about playing and discovering games. ... In every case, each game or system seemed to require a separate login before we could even begin to see whether our friends were playing. There was no single place to go to see what your friends were playing - until now. ... Know when your friends are playing ... See how your friends are doing in their games ... Discover new games you might like ... One thing we think is pretty cool about Raptr is that we intelligently recommend games to you that you didn’t even know existed or that you didn’t even know were out yet."
How Yahoo dropped the del.icio.us ball with a pointless 3 year rewrite (from mod_perl to PHP) : reddit.com
http://www.reddit.com/comments/6v4yw/how_yahoo_dropped_the_delicious_ball_with_a
I'm on pretty much the same page as Joshua. I was amazed it launched, which is a credit to the remaining team of heroes. It'll be interesting to see what happens now—given a 2-3 year innovation time-debt, a brand-new bespoke infrastructure, and a load of enqueued we'll-fix-it-laters. Selected joshu quotes: "I think the open question now is whether the remaining team will be able to innovate or be stuck in complicated codebase hell. ... I have significant regret over what ended up happening with Delicious. We could have gone so much farther. ... engineering was focused on the rewrite so nobody had time to replace the old search engine ... They had the technology, but the relevant staff had higher priorities."
Salon Technology | Howl.com
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/03/22/howl/index.html
"I saw the best minds of my occupation destroyed by venture capital, burned-out, paranoid, postal,"
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Avoiding the Second System Effect in Software Development
http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2008/08/04/AvoidingTheSecondSystemEffectInSoftwareDevelopment.aspx
"Realize You Can't Do It All In One Release ... You Can be Date Driven or Feature Driven but not Both ... Don't Lose Track of What Made the First System Successful"
Use Fluid to bring mobile web apps to your Mac desktop
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/05/16/use-fluid-to-bring-mobile-web-apps-to-your-mac-desktop
"After I discovered Fluid's ability to change browser agents, however, I realized that it has quite a bit of potential to create SSBs for mobile web apps that are a bit more friendly to desktop real estate."
Why There Aren't More Googles
http://www.paulgraham.com/googles.html
"If you want to get all that value, don't destroy the startup after you buy it. Give the founders enough autonomy that they can grow the acquisition into what it would have become."
A VC: We Need A New Path To Liquidity
http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/04/we-need-a-new-p.html
"But who am I to complain? We got paid right? So sit down and shut up. Except I am also a user of these services. I see what happens when a company gets purchased."
Adactio: Journal—Mi.gration
http://adactio.com/journal/1433
"It remains to be seen whether I’ll stay at Magnolia. Even though it is functionally and cosmetically superior to del.icio.us, that might not be enough"
Pownce Community Wiki / API Documentation2-0
http://pownce.pbwiki.com/API%20Documentation2-0
"Pownce has an Application Programming Interface (API) for anyone to create fun projects with Pownce."
NCZOnline - Torn between two lovers
http://www.nczonline.net/archive/2008/2/553
"Yahoo fell on some hard times but never lost her smile. She still wore her pretty purple dresses around town and acted as if nothing were wrong..."
Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » JavaScript countdown solution
http://www.wait-till-i.com/2008/02/05/javascript-countdown-solution
"This is not going to be amazing, but I had to find / write a script like that for every hackday / barcamp I attended so far. Being lazy, I just wanted to create one I can re-use later on."
Dynamic Bookmarking with Iterasi - ReadWriteWeb
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/dynamic_bookmarking_with_itera.php
"Unlike other bookmarking services, which simply save a link to a page's location, Iterasi captures the content of a page as it appears at that particular moment in time and saves it in an accessible HTML format with just one click."
practicalist: why valleywag brings no pleasure, sucks
http://www.practicalist.com/mt/archives/000386.html
"Valleywag isn't a witty gadfly, it's just breaking things to see the pieces, like a little child."
The personal service management console « Jon Udell
http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/01/16/the-personal-service-management-console
"it’s becoming impossible to sanely manage and control our growing numbers of service relationships."
Technology Review: TR35 - Joshua Schachter, 32, del.icio.us
http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/Profile.aspx?Cand=T&TRID=432
"How tags exploit the self-interest of individuals to organize the Web for everyone."
Jaiku users flee to Twitter as a result of Google's neglect
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080108-jaiku-users-flee-to-twitter-as-a-result-of-googles-neglect.html
"Unfortunately, Google has allowed Jaiku to languish and is now suffering a backlash from frustrated users who are beginning to mass-migrate to Twitter, a competing microblogging service. "
Rational Survivability: Horrific Facebook Breach!
http://rationalsecurity.typepad.com/blog/2008/01/horrific-facebo.html
"No more Romanian Turtle Wedgies."
Free teleprompter/autocue service. Cueprompter - The online prompter.
http://www.cueprompter.com
"CuePrompter is a free teleprompter/autocue service. Your browser works like a teleprompter -no extra software needed" The Web 2.0 office suite is now complete
Nsyght » Blog Archive » New Feature: Nsyght supports oauth
http://blog.nsyght.com/2007/11/20/new-feature-nsyght-supports-oauth
"Over the weekend we quietly rolled out support for the oauth protocol."
Wibiki
http://wibiki.com/whatiswibiki.html
Pownce: Pownce documents self-promotion API
http://valleywag.com/tech/pownce/pownce-documents-self+promotion-api-316869.php
"You know what an application programming interface really is? An admission that you're too poor, cheap, or uncreative to build all the features your website needs." True, except that anyone who doesn't admit this is lying.
Behnke's Blog: November 1st, 2007 - Upon Which Seeds Grow in Bullshit
http://jeffbehnke.blogspot.com/2007/11/november-1st-2007-upon-which-seeds-grow.html
"“Plant your flowers here! Look at all this bullshit! Something’s just GOTTA grow.” To me, this is what Google did."
Automattic Acquires Gravatar « Gravatar Blog
http://blog.gravatar.com/2007/10/18/automattic-gravatar
"Scaling happens to be something my company, Automattic, is very good at, and as we started chatting with Tom Werner of Gravatar it became obvious there’s a lot of potential for combined forces"
Last.fm – the Blog · Spot the difference
http://blog.last.fm/2007/10/15/spot-the-difference
"From the moment Radiohead announced their plans for latest release ‘In Rainbows’ we’ve been itching to see how you, the listeners, would respond."
Dodgeball? Jotspot? Jaiku! « Scobleizer
http://scobleizer.com/2007/10/09/dodgeball-jotspot-jaiku
"Imagine if Google made a more open social networking tool than Facebook all via RSS feeds? Stick that into your RSS feed reader and smoke it!"
Jaiku | Google Q&A
http://www.jaiku.com/help/google
"Google acquires Jaiku - Jaiku is joining Google. "
TwitterNotes
http://twitternotes.com
"Be able to take notes as easily as: + I'm using TwitterNotes and you can even tag your notes: + The fastest way to take *notes* and *tag* them anywhere"
Your Outboard Brain Knows All
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-10/st_thompson
"Sure, I'm a veritable genius when I'm on the grid, but am I mentally crippled when I'm not? Does an overreliance on machine memory shut down other important ways of understanding the world?"
ongoing · The Intimate Internet
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/10/04/Intimate-Internet
"The Next Big Thing? · Two fearless predictions: it’ll be about a new way to connect to people, and it won’t show up first on either Techmeme or TechCrunch."
RussellBeattie.com - Five Reasons Why Web 2.0 People Need to Shut The Fuck Up about the Mobile Web
http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/five-reasons-why-web-20-people-need-to-shut-the-fuck-up-about-the-mobile-web
"Actually, I'm not going to give five new reasons, I just wanted a catchy title when I responded to this moron who has absolutely no fucking idea what he's talking about."
User-generated neologism: "Indigenous content". Many-to-Many:
http://many.corante.com/archives/2007/08/03/usergenerated_neologism_indigenous_content.php
"Indigenous Content (which is to say “Created by the natives for themselves.”)"
bradchoate.com: Microblogging and How the Internet Stole my Blog
http://bradchoate.com/weblog/2007/04/15/microblogging
"You see, I’ve fallen into that blogging trap where you start to feel as if you have to write a very long and involved essay in order to post to your blog."
Techworld.com - Deploy Google Apps, get fired
http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=9877
"Google says in its user agreement that it will not be held liable for lost data, lost profits or lost revenue, or the cost of buying a substitute product if the Google Apps service fails."
ASCII by Jason Scott: Fails Under Load
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000444.html
"If you refuse to recognize its importance, if you think of people issues as minor annoyances towards a glory of a newly minted era of freedom midwifed by connectivity, your project will fail under load."
Digg - The Konami Code Works on Digg
http://digg.com/programming/The_Konami_Code_Works_on_Digg
"This was noted in the Contra 4 DS digg, but it is just so cool everyone needs to know about it. Just use your keyboard to type the Konami Code (Up key, Up key, Down key, Down key, Left key, Right key, Left key, Right key, B, A, then Enter/Return) to expa
Glossy.js (now with IE 6/7 support)
http://www.netzgesta.de/glossy
"Glossy.js 1.2 allows you to add corners and shading and shadow to images on your webpages (alternatively: corner.js)."
Anything to Keep That Traffic Coming In, Eh Zuckerberg? | Digital Daily | John Paczkowski | AllThingsD
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20070525/yay-facebook-widgets-awesome
"And looking over press coverage of the announcement today, you’d think it was the late ’90s and Six Degrees had made Flooz its official currency and offered free Kozmo.com deliveries to all its members."
Last.fm – the Blog
http://blog.last.fm/2007/05/30/lastfm-acquired-by-cbs
"Today, Last.fm was acquired by CBS, a company who had the first commercial radio station in the US, ran a record label (CBS Records), and amongst other things are responsible for several respected TV series (CBS on Wikipedia)."
yahooza | blog: The price is right. Right now, that is.
http://yahooza.com/blog/2007/05/price-is-right-right-now-that-is.html
"I do miss the Midwest and its simpler way of life. It's not my time to leave yet, but one day, I will miss this place."
whump.com | More Like This WebLog » If he hires Grace Jones as a bodyguard, look out.
http://www.whump.com/moreLikeThis/2007/05/22/if-he-hires-grace-jones-as-a-bodyguard-look-out
"I’ve been through a downturn. It’s not fun. Without the grace of circumstance, friends looking out for each other, and a working knowledge of Usertalk, the 2001 bust would had been a disaster. Sorry for not being a hard-headed Chicago School sort of
Anne 2.1 » Blog Archive » How to Get Out of Your Funk A-Listers: Stop Thinking About Money
http://annezelenka.com/2007/05/how-to-get-out-of-your-funk-a-listers-stop-thinking-about-money
"Give me a chance to play with new technology, a bunch of smart online buddies, some money to pay the bills, and I’m happy. For a lot of us, it’s not about the money. It is STILL about the technology and more money floating around doesn’t change tha
MICHAEL ARRINGTON: The genie is out of the bottle - Valleywag
http://valleywag.com/tech/michael-arrington/the-genie-is-out-of-the-bottle-262583.php
Meh. "Sure, the advertising buys just roll in. But Michael Arrington, founder of the Valley's most influential news site, is feeling harassed by over-eager startups."
Silicon Valley Could Use A Downturn Right About Now
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/22/silicon-valley-could-use-a-downturn-right-about-now
"In a few years, things will be beautiful again. The big money will be slumbering away, and the marketing departments will be a distant memory. We can focus, once again, on the technology. And the burgers and beer."
Bill Higgins :: the Uncanny Valley of user interface design
http://billhiggins.us/weblog/2007/05/17/the-uncanny-valley-of-user-interface-design
"Gmail uses Ajax to accelerate common operations ... but its core look and feel remains very similar to that of a traditional web page. In my view, this is not a shortcoming; it’s a smart design decision."
Photo Matt » Meaningful Overnight Relationship
http://photomatt.net/2007/05/10/meaningful-overnight-relationship
"I’m not a millionaire, and may never be, but there are now hundreds of people making their living using WordPress, and I expect that number to grow to tens of thousands. That’s what gets me out of bed in the morning, not the prospect of becoming a fe
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: What happens when you build a company without owning any IP?
http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/05/what-happens-when-you-build-company.html
"because, um, Digg doesn't really have anything other than these crazy users and they live in constant fear that the party will move on to some other place."
Digg Surrenders to Mob
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/01/digg-surrenders-to-mob
"To say what happened today on Digg was a “user revolt” is an understatement."
Tips for Web 3.0
http://dannyayers.com/docs/web3.0-tips
"Whether or not it's possible to list Best Practices in this space, I think it most definitely is possible to identify ways in which developers of such systems can maximise their impact on release. Whatever the particular business model or target audience
Why Digg is More Popular than Del.icio.us… Or is it?
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/digg-more-popular-than-delicious/4758
"Kevin Rose takes full advantage of the Internet’s Cult of Personality by throwing himself in the media spotlight while Joshua is more of a behind the scenes master of technology."
Passively Multiplayer Online Games
http://www.passivelymultiplayer.com/PMOGPaper.html
"Passively Multiplayer uses user data and device-use history to generate avatars and/or game moves in an online multiuser environment."
Corner.js
http://www.netzgesta.de/corner
Can we have LensFlare.js next please? "Corner.js 1.0 allows you to add corners to images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean."
YouTube - Supermarket 2.0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9MgHuitMwU
"Episodes in a supermarket a-la web 2.0 ;-)"
Twitter: Is Brevity The Next Big Thing? - Newsweek Steven Levy - MSNBC.com
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17888481/site/newsweek
"The lure of Twitter—as well as its Achilles heel—is its simplicity. You "twitter" (yes, it's a verb) by answering the question "What are you doing?" in 140 characters or less."
I HATE IT HERE: Dear bubble veterans: We get it. Now shut up, you're harshing our buzz. - Valleywag
http://valleywag.com/tech/i-hate-it-here/dear-bubble-veterans-we-get-it-now-shut-up-youre-harshing-our-buzz-249065.php
'We'll laugh all the way to the billion-dollar buyout. And when the dust settles and it's time to make the fuck-you money say "fuck you," we'll see who looks stupid.'
A quote from Dick Costolo
http://simonwillison.net/2007/Mar/16/apis
"The best reason to always build out APIs for your product is that it makes it easier for the rest of the world to extend your product or service rather than start competitors."
Ficlets | Welcome to Ficlets!
http://ficlets.com
"A ficlet is a short story that enables you to collaborate with the world. Once you’ve written and shared your ficlet, any other user can pick up the narrative thread by adding a prequel or sequel."
YouTube - Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?eurl=&v=6gmP4nk0EOE
"Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes."
Welcoming startups into Yahoo's fold / Web portal works to integrate the companies it has acquired
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/24/YAHOO.TMP
"Users get very passionate about the tools they use. If you change them and alter them radically, they get upset. We want to only make steps that make sense for everybody."
Google retreats back to Web 1.0 | Software as services | ZDNet.com
http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS?p=258
"Put bluntly, it confirms Google's abject failure to monetize its API except by the indirect mechanism of contextual advertising."
web2_0.gif (GIF Image, 124x160 pixels)
http://www.helpfarm.com/images/rightclickers/web2_0.gif
web 2.0 makes me want to punch babies
z2006-11-01- Fettig Fried Wysiwyg (WebSeitz/wikilog)
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/z2006-11-01-FettigFriedWysiwyg
Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard ‽ Blog Archive ‽ Business Week followup: Valuing assets
http://www.wordyard.com/2006/08/07/business-week-followup
'Digg is a great site and a great service, and someday it may be worth a big pile of actual dollars, and many of those dollars may end up in Kevin Rose's pocket. But until then he has simply not "made" millions of dollars.'
Glorified fanfic - Amyloo's OPML blog: Saturday, August 05, 2006
http://blogs.opml.org/amyloo/2006/08/05#glorifiedFanfic
My next idea for a startup - 'I wonder when the two-dot-ohers are going to discover fanfic and declare it a new thing, throwing in the word "social" for good measure.'
The Feed Store | Web 2.OH, YEAAHH!!
http://store.muledesign.com/shirts/koolaid.php
"Our new photo-realistic printing process is on full display with this great image of Tim O'Reilly busting out of his lawyers office."
Please cease-and-desist from using "Web 2.0"
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060526-6922.html
"Will controversy tarnish the shiny O'Reilly image, or will the publisher recover the community's goodwill once the event fades from memory?"
O'Reilly Radar Controversy about our "Web 2.0" service mark
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/05/controversy_about_our_web_20_s.html
"While we stand by the principle that we need to protect our "Web 2.0" mark from unauthorized use in the context of conferences, we apologize for the way we initially handled the issue with IT@Cork."
O'Reilly trademarks "Web 2.0 and sets lawyers on IT@Cork! - at Tom Rafterys I.T. views
http://www.tomrafteryit.net/oreilly-trademarks-web-20-and-sets-lawyers-on-itcork
"So Tim was aware of the event in February but decided to wait until 2 weeks before the conference to set the lawyers on us."
Platform Wars: Web 2.0 By Paul Boutin
http://platformwars.blogspot.com/2006/03/web-20-by-paul-boutin.html
"Pretty much everything (good) in web 2.0 is really a playing out, in one form or another, of things those people were saying around 8-10 years ago."
Ajaxian - Hyperlinks 2.0 - Ajax WTF
http://ajaxian.com/archives/hyperlinks-20-ajax-wtf
"Using remoting, DHTML, and URL modification to build a brand new hyperlink system! Resume-Driven Development at its finest."
Web 2.1 server-side blink tag demonstration
http://cheese.blartwendo.com/web21-demo.html
"The server-side blink tag works by using a timed AJAX request, to let a Web 2.1 compatible server update the client document so that the blinking text is turned invisible."
ITworld.com - Re-thinking the online spreadsheet
http://www.itworld.com/App/921/nls_ebiz_onlinespreadsheet_060404/index.html
"What happens if we take the next step and put our spreadsheets on the Web rather than keeping them local?"
Software Out There - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/technology/techspecial4/05lego.html?ei=5090&emc=rss&en=9294046d7c3d82ca&ex=1301889600&partner=rssuserland
"blocks of interchangeable software components are proliferating on the Web and developers are joining them together to create a potentially infinite array of useful new programs."
blyberg.net - 2006 Library Camp: A library 2.0 unconference
http://www.blyberg.net/2006/03/07/2006-library-camp-a-library-20-unconference
"Superpatron Ed Vielmetti has been quietly assembling a fantastic group of people to attend the first ever Library Campan "unconference" which follows open-space guidelines."
Ray Ozzie: Wiring the Web
http://spaces.msn.com/rayozzie/blog/cns!FB3017FBB9B2E142!285.entry?_c=blogpart&_c11_blogpart_blogpart=blogview#permalink
"Simply stated, I’d like to extend the clipboard user model to the web."
Matt McAlister :: Washingtonpost.com and CJRDaily first major publishers to add del.icio.us button
http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/_archives/2006/2/22/1777920.html
I think it's critical for publishers to think about ways to enable their users to utilize content in more ways.
Don't ya know?
http://www.dontyaknow.com
"Ask a stupid question..." It's the Web 2.0 version of the great Usenet Oracle!
My 'Future of Web Apps' slides... (plasticbag.org)
http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2006/02/my_future_of_web_apps_slides.shtml
Tom's Future of Web Apps, Translated for Product Managers (by Jeremy Zawodny)
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006323.html
And even with my recent push on the tools front, data and APIs are nonetheless still essential
A life online: living decentralised (Mercurytide)
http://www.mercurytide.com/knowledge/white-papers/life-online
"As the computing world becomes more and more decentralised, people are realising more and more ways to free themselves from a single PC, work socially, and live a life online."
JavaScriptStrftime
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/JavaScriptStrftime
"Date.strftime(formatString, dateObject);"
Google Homepage API - Developer Guide
http://www.google.com/apis/homepage/guide.html
"The Google Homepage API provides a way to put third party content onto the Google homepage."
Agile Partners weblog » iPhoto-like image resizing using Javascript
http://www.agilepartners.com/blog/2005/12/07/iphoto-image-resizing-using-javascript
"Upon seeing the Fluxiom intro video, I was compelled to figure out how they pulled off iPhoto-like image scaling in a browser."
A Yahoo! Company
http://mike.teczno.com/ayahoocompany
Now, this is pretty dern funny... 'Add “Yahoo! Company Logo” to the whole web'