Dive into the archives.
- Twittering the Earthquake
Our awesome Flash guy put together this really cool graphic showing the first 12 hours of tweets talking about the shaking that went on yesterday.
- Who I’ll be watching tonight…
‘Mad Men’ review…
- Dodgers Trolley Begins Tomorrow
Yay! This will make going to a game much easier from downtown.
- How Dopplr learns
Dopplr does some interesting things with the data they are given. It helps them narrow down where and when people are traveling. Utilizing the input given from a user is a great way of creating more intelligence within your system.
- Failing Fast at Pixar
Peter Merholz interviews Michael B. Johnson from Pixar and there are some nuggets in there that need to be shared.
The important take-home point, though, is that Pixar loves their films so much, we make them twice :-). Compared to the final product, the first time we make it is sketchy and rough - but the [...]
- Drizzle
Drizzle, a slimmed down MySQL, looks very, very interesting. [ via ]
Stored Procedures, Views, Triggers, Query Cache, and Prepared Statements are gone for now. The field types have been simplified and there is an open debate about the SHOW commands (I am falling into the camp that think they may just belong in the client [...]
- Telegraph.co.uk redesign
Some interesting ideas in the redesign of the Telegraph’s site.
The best to me is the understanding of the article as homepage.It’s a logical progression that boosts views and keeps the user engaged for longer, and is part of what the team behind the Telegraph redesign refer to as ‘the concept of the article as the [...]
- New York Times and LinkedIn
I’m intrigued by this new partnership between the New York Times and LinkedIn.
LinkedIn will power the NYTimes.com customized headline feature with the five latest Times articles relevant to LinkedIn members based on non-personally identifiable attributes. For example, LinkedIn members who work in the energy sector will have the option to get relevant, targeted Times stories [...]
- Pressflip and Sour Grapes
It takes an amazing amount of courage to start a company. I think it takes even more courage to do so after you’ve written takedown after takedown of other start-ups but that’s what Ted Dziuba is doing. It started as Persai but now it’s Pressflip.
Of course, when you try something new, people are [...]
- Kottke Updates
Jason Kottke had the right idea when Twitter was down today. Also, check the impressive API.
