December 2010
4 tags
Beats, Rhymes and Fights: The History of A Tribe... →
5 tags
The Men Who Stole the World →
azspot:
A decade ago, four young men changed the way the world works. They did this not with laws or guns or money but with software: they had radical, disruptive ideas, which they turned into code, which they released on the Internet for free. These four men, not one of whom finished college, laid the foundations for much of the digital-media environment we currently inhabit. Then, for all...
4 tags
6 tags
3 tags
“If the terrorists have won, it’s because we’re so decent that we’d rather...”
– Jeff Miller
November 2010
2 tags
Wikileaks has 5GB of secret docs on Bank of... →
“At the moment, for example, we are sitting on 5GB from Bank of America, one of the executive’s hard drives,” Assange told the technology site Computer World in an article published on October 9, 2009.
The Wikileaks chief continued: “Now how do we present that? It’s a difficult problem. We could just dump it all into one giant Zip file, but we know for a fact...
2 tags
6 tags
““Clearly, clearly, the endgame—insofar as there’s ever an endgame, it’s all a...”
– John Koblin
4 tags
“We all know about the proverbial million monkeys at a million typewriters...”
– Bob Garfield
4 tags
When is the internet going to invent something...
anannas:
I hit “like” (or a heart, or a star, or a WHATEVER) on any item I run across on any site on the internet and it gets compiled into a wishlist registry somewhere in the magical world of servers and tubes.
Then somebody else (my mom, my bf, my 1st grade teacher, my WHATEVER) types in my name, the list magically appears and they see the millions of gift possibilities available.
Prices...
7 tags
“The attack on two of Iran’s leading nuclear physicists is likely the work of a...”
– Reza Aslan for the Daily Beast
Told you so.
(via seaofgreen)
4 tags
6 tags
3 tags
4 tags
Watchdbreunig:
The dynamic cover for Richard Branson’s iPad magazine.
While cool, this effort can only be fully delivered by Apple, with a shelf of similar covers all playing in the iBooks store. (by Project)
4 tags
4 tags
WatchMark Zuckerberg interviewing George W. Bush live on Facebook
4 tags
2 tags
“Don’t worry about it. You should see what we say about you.”
– An unidentified foreign official, speaking with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as she tried to do damage control over the release of secret diplomatic cables that described many foreign officials in blunt terms. (via officialssay)
3 tags
4 tags
2 tags
7 tags
Ad Age Digital Media Vanguard Awards →
Some notable winners
Best Free iPad Newspaper : USA Today
Best Paid iPad Newspaper : Wall Street Journal
Best iPad Magazine : Esquire
Smartest Aggregator : The Atlantic Wire
Best Consumer Magazine Twitter Strategy : People Magazine
Best TV Show Inspired iPhone App : Glee Karaoke
4 tags
Did Google Just Buy Groupon For $2.5 Billion? →
Emerging tech site VatorNews has an unconfirmed report this morning that the search giant bought deal-of-the-day site Groupon for $2.5 billion. Neither Groupon nor Google have commented on the report at the time of this writing.
The source seems a bit dodgy. I’m going to keep an eye out for reports from more legitimate outlets.
More on the source: Site reporting the Groupon sale is run...
6 tags
3 tags
5 tags
Palin Debate Aside, Does 'Dancing' Vote System... →
abbyjean:
this article made me feel a little bad for nate silver. surely his data analysis super powers can be put to better use than analyzing the voting system on dancing with the stars?
Nate Silver officially gets out the waterskis and attempts to clear a deadly sea predator with a dorsal fin.
5 tags
A million dollars isn't cool.
langer:
A curious thing happened on Friday, something that probably went unnoticed by most Americans, either because they were just waking up from their food comas and heading to the malls to do their part in helping corporate America pile on to its already record-setting profits, or else because the average American would never notice (much less consider it curious) that a relatively obscure...
7 tags
6 tags
“I don’t necessarily know if it’s a good investment or not — I just know people...”
– buyer beware
Facebook Shares Get Chopped Up Into Derivatives as Value Soars - Bloomberg
(via fred-wilson)
1 tag
To the only person out of 30 people in my new...
You’re a saint.
5 tags
5 tags
5 tags
Watchshaneguiter:
News+ concept live from Bonnier (by Bonnier)
4 tags
3 tags
Apple iPad 2 To Launch By April 2011 →
The Ipad 2 will have almost every feature that people said should be on the first Ipad but which Apple refused to provide. These include the ability to run on various carriers, two cameras located on either side of the tablet and a switch from Apple’s proprietary connection to mini-USB. Of course it will not have Flash so it will not be able to use half of the Internet, but Apple fanbois are used...
2 tags
Disney Done Doing Fairy Tales →
This is kind of sad
3 tags
My iPad Is Now A TV →
ckanal:
No more using the SlingPlayer iPhone app on my iPad like I did in the past. The new SlingPlayer for iPad app is out and it is indeed live, high-quality video iPad-optimized. Love it. And just in time for Thanksgiving to show the fam.
There aren’t many iPad apps I’d pay thirty bucks for. This is one of them and it’s worth every penny.
5 tags
The more you know:
britticisms:
Suzanne Vega’s song “Tom’s Diner” was used as the reference track in an early trial of the MP3 compression system, earning her the distinction of being the Mother of the MP3. It was chosen because her a cappella vocal with relatively little reverberation was used as the model for Karlheinz Brandenburg’s compression algorithm. Brandenburg heard “Tom’s Diner” on a radio playing the...
2 tags
2 tags
1 tag
A/B testing for headlines: Now available for... →
nickdouglas:
“This plugin lets you write two headlines for each post and have them presented at random to readers. The plugin records how often each version of the headline has been clicked and, once it has enough data, swaps full-time to the most effective one.”
Whaaaaat
Sandwich experts, GET EXCITED.
