Dive into the archives.
- A Peek Inside the Algorithm
As a way of introduction, I should say that I work for a company that competes in some instances with Google and I specifically work in the group that is building a search platform for apps to use. My point is that my comments aren’t necessarily unbiased.
All of that being said, I enjoyed the [...]
- A little bit of tab clearing
Continuing to dig Guardian America
A look at the literary journal, Zyzzyva
Cloud Oriented Architecture
Dealing with a geographically distributed Memcache
NeverBlock is a Ruby library that allows developers to write non-blocking, concurrent code in a transparent manner. Meaning that you will keep coding in your traditional ways while you get the benefit of non-blocking IO operations.
Interview with Twitter’s [...]
- 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.
- Tab Cleanup
Some links to PyCon talks
The story everyone missed on The Wire
wikinear.com
How good is Aggregate Knowledge?
CiUI: CNET iPhone UI
How to think under pressure
Mediatyping
Disks have become tapes
Google Visualization API
- Becoming Digitally Savvy
Howard Owen gives a great list of things non-wired journalists can do to become digitally savvy. I think it’s awesome and I’m trying to think of how to pass it along to folks without it being viewed as some sort of slam.
Beyond that though, I think the list is something everyone should work on. [...]
- Ask3D
Lots of people are talking about Ask’s launch of their new search interface and new algorithm. It is a different way to search and so far, I’m very impressed by it. I’m not going to rehash all the new features as any of the above links can do that. Instead, I thin [...]
- Physical Activity Fishbowl
One of my favorite blogs is information aesthetics. They post some amazing visualizations of data and sites which do the same. One of their latest posts shows off a physical activity fishbowl which was used in a study recently.
The basic idea is that a virtual fish’s size and facial expressions are [...]
- Stamen and Trulia
At XTech, a few of the Stamen Design folks gave a presentation looking at the different ways to express time visually. I enjoyed the presentation quite a bit though I wish more of the audience would have come earlier to hear my talk since they spoke right after me but that’s neither here nor [...]
