Fri 16 Sep. 2005

Delicious Birthday

Yesterday del.icio.us turned two.

Belated congratulations and wishes for many happy returns!

Thank you for a most excellent service!

Go, go, go!

Reinvented Software

Feeder

An application for creating, editing and publishing RSS feeds on Mac OS X. With Feeder you don’t need to understand RSS to create feeds and publish them to the web.
(…)
Feeder now works with podcasting feeds that use the iTunes RSS extensions.

(via Jots)

Tue 06 Sep. 2005

Blog Link Tracking Reviewed

Blog link tracking has come along way since Technorati and Daypop where at the top of the list. New sites have come along and bloggers have never had it so good in terms of choice.

The Blog Herald provides an overview of 6 blog link tracking sites.

Mon 05 Sep. 2005

Political Blogs in Germany

Deutsche Welle says: Blogs Making Baby Steps in German Politics

“Germany is still a developing country when it comes to blogs,” said Markus Beckedahl, who blogs at netzpolitik.org. “The awareness of blogs as a means of political communication needs to be raised in Germany.”

You said it, Markus.

“Maybe one day the realization will come through that the Internet can lead to a new form of communication between politicians and voters,” Politik Digital’s Dowe said. “That is a long way off in Germany…

No kidding! Maybe one day…

(via Schockwellenreiter)

Sat 03 Sep. 2005

Monkeyman Loses It!

Slashdot reports on how Balmer Vows to Kill Google

“At some point in the conversation, Mr. Ballmer said: ‘Just tell me it’s not Google,'’ Lucovosky said in his statement. Lucovosky replied that he was joining Google. ‘At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office,’ Lucovosky recounted, adding that Ballmer then launched into a tirade about Google CEO Eric Schmidt. ‘I’m going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to f***ing kill Google.’

Terrific!

Go, Google, Go!

Go, Slashdot! LOL!

Thu 01 Sep. 2005

Robot Wisdom Jukebox

Seen the cool MP3 Jukebox on Robot Wisdom?

As the guy who coined the term ‘weblog’, I wanna propose that this
Flash app makes mp3-blogging practical for the first time. The basic
features are identical to the archetypal weblog: you link your good
finds in reverse order, and people who like your taste check in
regularly to hear what you’ve found, checking them in order, skipping
ones they already know, and when they hear something they want to
investigate further, jumping to this page for a link.

Must look into this.

Sat 27 Aug. 2005

GIMP re-done in Cocoa for OSX

Seashore:

An open source image editor for Cocoa. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP’s technology and uses the same native file format.

Caveat:

Seashore is still undergoing development and may contain bugs so please make sure only to work on copies of important images…

Still, good value!

(via digg/apple)

Virtual Blobby Things

An amazing Installation demo from MIT

Said blobby things then appear to exist within the dimensions of the room.

Not sure what the implications or application might be, but it sure is impressive!

(via digg/software)

Magic Number

While not normally worthy of a link, this article by John C. Dvorak on the number 30 Billion might be an exception:

… when we put all the numbers together, we can estimate that there are a minimum of 30 billion Windows system crashes a year.

(via digg/links)

Free Self Publishing

Lulu.com:

An on-demand publishing tool for books, e-books, music, images, movies and calendars.
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There is no set-up fee and no minimum order to publish and sell on Lulu.

Not an entirely new idea, but one I think is bound to be replicated in various forms by many others, soon.

(via Jots)

Fri 26 Aug. 2005

The Flattening Blogosphere

Steve Rubel: The Blogosphere is Flat

As the blogosphere becomes more flat, the so-called “A-list” won’t matter anymore. There will be A-lists in virtually every sector. The geeks will continue to read Scoble and Winer in droves, but other kings will be crowned in domains like autos, movies, baseball, etc.

Thu 25 Aug. 2005

10 Years of Windows Worms

eWeek: From Melissa to Zotob

…the latest Zotob attacks prove, the time to exploit an unpatched flaw has narrowed significantly since the launch of Windows 95 10 years ago.

(via MacSurfer)

PC Mag Awards

IGM: It’s a Wash: Apple Tops…

Apple has beaten its PC rivals by a country mile in the latest PC Magazine awards. And the voters were the paying public, not the (non-paying) editors.

The Reader’s Choice awards saw Apple poll “far and away the highest for all vendors,” the magazine says. Apple received a score of 9.2 for its desktops and notebooks. Among portables, only IBM and Fujitsu were anywhere near Apple, both with a score of 8.4.

MacWorld UK adds

The report observes that Mac users are martial in favour of their platform, but nevertheless states: “There’s solid evidence that Macs may be worthy of devotion.”

No kidding. The proof is in the pudding!

(via MacSurfer)

Jon’s Radio in iTunes

At last.

Jon Udell’s podcasts are finally available for subscription in iTunes.

A definite must!

A List Apart 4.0

Jeffrey Zeldman describes the visual and structural relaunch:

…both old and new. Old in its mission to help people who make websites see farther and jump higher. New in its design, structure, publishing system, and brand extensions.

(via kottke.org)