Archive for the 'Aside' Category
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April 17, 2009
⇒ #2 Every Building with a Shoebox in it’s Basement.“Buildings could offer WiFi photo uploading service, in return for keeping the photos taken of them….… what if Cloudgate were built with servers and wireless inside, right from the start, offering to consume the photos taken of it. You take a shot with a wireless enabled camera and it could store a copy for you. It’s building up a library of itself, in all seasons, in all weather. Meanwhile you, have a backup, findable by time and browsing, stored safely in the Cloud!”
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(Aside data, flickr, fluffy clouds, new cities, photography) -
April 6, 2009
⇒ rev=canonical: url shortening that doesn’t hurt the internet.A URL shortener that implements rev=”canonical”.
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(Aside Code, cool uris don't change, gae, history, infrastructure, revcanonical, urls, web) -
March 6, 2009
⇒ World Builder by Bruce Branit.Wow.
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January 17, 2009
⇒ Belkin is paying people to say their products don’t suck.I wonder how much they’d pay for me to take down this post and the 60+ associated comments.
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January 12, 2009
⇒ Twitter Grader, Brooklyn.Via swissmiss, I’m amused to find myself among the “Brooklyn Twitter elite”, not the least because its clearly down to having had dinner once with the Grader.com VP of Engineering. And you thought it was a level playing field
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(Aside brooklyn, leaderboard, techdinner, twitter) -
December 21, 2008
⇒ Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: If it looks like a leaderboard, and quacks….“…social software is a medium turns all communication into a self-representation game…”
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(Aside games, identity, leaderboard, performance, performative, quotable, social, social software) -
December 13, 2008
⇒ 7 Free WikiPedia iPhone Apps Compared.This is the blog post I’ve been promising myself I’d write for 2 months. Though it also highlights the failure of the feature matrix based approach to classifying apps. The three-word summary of my once and future blog post: Quickpedia, it’s quick.
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December 11, 2008
⇒ My Flickr API library for PHP.I’m a big believer in Norvig’s “Code is liability” maxim. Which is how I justify my ugly, but functional Flickr API implementation, in 40 lines of PHP (not the most expressive of languages), which I wrote in about 15 minutes one evening, and I now use for all of my Flickr side projects. And all apropos of digging through other folks Flickr API impls, trying to get them working on GAE. Thankfully blech is already there.
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(Aside api, appengine, Code, flickr, library, php, python) -
October 29, 2008
⇒ Video of electronic voting machines totally failing to accomplish the simplest of tasks..The current crop of electronic voting machines are so bad it’s criminal, and the companies that manufactured them should be put out of business on the grounds of constituting a clear and present danger to our national security.
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(Aside politics, video, voting) -
October 21, 2008
⇒ Twitter / Tower Bridge: I am opening for the Rainbow Warrior, which is passing upstream..Tower Bridge is my favorite account on Twitter. I didn’t realize the Rainbow Warrior II was still out there.
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(Aside cities that talk, green peace, rainbow warrior, the future, tower bridge, twitter) -
October 2, 2008
⇒ “A box of books labeled “Free Books” is deposited at various 14th Street locations. A seeming act of generosity, the artist has removed the last few pages from each book…”.It’s the LARP version of “if on a winter’s night a traveller”
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(Aside art, books, calvino, nyc, performance) -
September 22, 2008
⇒ Zach Klein: “My astonishment upon discovering this is similar to that one time I found a 2-month old bologna sandwich in the fridge ripe with dozens of mold cultures, spawned while it sat neglected on the dark, bottom shelf.”.My work here is done.
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⇒ Photos from the Kwang-Young Chun show.
Jasmine introduced me to the work of Korean artist Kwang-Young Chun who sculpts textured swooping surfaces that veer between shaggy and organic, to austere moonscapes out of bits of hand dyed, inked, and folded paper. Gorgeous stuff.
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September 16, 2008
⇒ FlickrBlog: El Camino de Santiago.“Every year around this time I search for the latest photos from the summer’s collection of trips from El Camino de Santiago, the ancient route filled with stunning scenery which spans between France and the north of Spain.”
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September 15, 2008
⇒ Speaking at Web 2.0 Expo this Thursday, 4:10pm. 1.
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September 4, 2008
⇒ code.flickr.com: Who’s On First?.Aaron’s comprehensive documentation of all things geo and Flickr API-ish.
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(Aside api, documentation, flickr, geo) -
August 25, 2008
⇒ code.flickr.com: API Responses as Feeds.This would have been out months ago if only the flight from Dublin was another 2-3 hours longer.
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(Aside api, flickr, syndication) -
August 24, 2008
⇒ Jzawodny: Dumber is Faster.We use this pattern so often we have libraries to make it easier.
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August 16, 2008
⇒ Spike in CalDAV job searches.I’m seeing an interesting spike in folks looking for resumes with CalDAV on them, 37 queries for “caldav inurl:resume” in the last week. (and I should probably take it off mine as the state of the art has progressed while I’ve been away)
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(Aside caldav, calendaring, jobs, resume) -
August 14, 2008
⇒ Twitter turning off SMS delivery in some countries.Gone missing: SMS, the IM interface, and the OAuth protected APIs. Oddest release cycle ever. (But glad to see they implemented the contact limits I advised them on in ‘06.)
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