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2013 (3)
Apr 18
Still using HTTP Basic Auth?
Great article by Steve Graham about why you should stop using HTTP Basic Auth immediately!
As well as being tremendously simple, HTTP Basic …
Jan 3
Do small experiments, often
A long time ago, I realized that every successful business was a continuous process of small experiments that operated in the context of a …
Jan 1
Deliver on your promises
So if I can give entrepreneurs a single piece of advice for 2013 it would be to deliver on your promises. Not just to your investors but …
2012 (17)
Nov 9
Is the World socialist?
Revisiting an old story by Dave Winer: Ayn Rand was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. Rand is best …
Sep 12
AsciiDoc
AsciiDoc is a text document format for writing notes, documentation, articles, books, ebooks, slideshows, web pages, man pages and blogs. …
Sep 11
Advertising’s bumpy transition
Advertising’s bumpy transition
Until advertisers start to value the focused, memorable, impactful opportunity they have in buying the …
Sep 11
Black Swan Farming
Black Swan Farming
The total value of the companies we’ve funded is around 10 billion, give or take a few. But just two companies, …
Sep 6
Use sprints to maximize productivity
Use sprints to maximize productivity
The powerful thing about Sprinting is that it helps you break projects down into actionable steps. …
Sep 4
Agile development & WMSS
Agile development & WMSS
I think what I called We Make Shitty Software is in other words the same thing as the agile process. Whatever …
Aug 27
A Hardware Renaissance in Silicon Valley
A Hardware Renaissance in Silicon Valley
Today some of the most successful hardware start-ups in Silicon Valley have been formed from the …
Aug 23
Water LED Art
Water LED Art
When art and electronics meet some very beautiful things can be born. Here Antonin Fourneau made this wonderful piece, …
Aug 23
Tent: Open Social Networking protocol
Tent: Open Social Networking protocol
Tent is a protocol for open, decentralized social networking. Tent users share content with apps and …
Aug 22
Ghosts in the ROM
Ghosts in the ROM
(…) we noticed that there was a large amount of non-code, non-audio data. Adam Mayer tested different stride widths …
Aug 21
Amazon Glacier
Amazon Glacier
Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and …
Aug 18
Harvard cracks DNA storage
Harvard cracks DNA storage
A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data …
Aug 14
What is branch.com?
What is branch.com?
A mix between Convore, Google+ circles and some of FriendFeed… Their killer feature is called branching and it …
Aug 13
Portugal as a source of cheap talent
Portugal as a source of cheap talent
Western technology companies have traditionally looked to developing economies as a place to find …
Aug 9
pandoc
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/index.html
If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army …
Aug 9
If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet
Google did a great job of slurping up some of the most talented researchers in the world at a time when places like Bell Labs and Xerox …
Aug 6
Force of Nature
I just found out about this great work by Robert Buelteman.
2010 (2)
May 13
Where is the Web going?
I need to share a great video documentary by Kate Ray called Web 3.0. Here’s a transcribed quote:
If I was gonna start a news business …
Feb 16
More on the @replies subject
I just stumbled on a Buzz by DeWitt Clinton about a possible solution to the use of decentralized @replies. From the Buzz:
I want to throw …
2009 (2)
Dec 2
Cliqset FeedProxy and the ActivityStreams format
Great news:
the Cliqset FeedProxy tool will normalize feeds from more than 70 other services into new feeds in the ActivityStreams format. …
Nov 23
Re: Bing Tries To Buy The News on TechCrunch
In order to actually make a dent in Google’s market share, Bing would have to pay such exorbitant sums to so many different news …