March 2009
WatchJacek Utko asks, Can design save the newspaper? | Video on TED.com
WatchReadability was created because prose on the Web is becoming increasingly painful to read. It cleans up a page and presents only the content worth reading in a customizable “reading view.” (via Basement.org: An Arc90 Lab Experiment : Readability
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“Focus on the mobile user, and all else will follow”
– Follow the Mobile User
Spiegel Online BILD Headlines →
laureola:
For all German-speaking/reading people out there, this is our newest tumblr project.
You can get the ‘coolest’ news headlines from the most famous German news website as dainty bits. Unfortunately SpOn is more and more becoming something like BILD. But please feel free to spread the word and follow this tumblr. We’re also going to made up some features for you to contribute etc. -...
“Everything that we’re doing right now is engineered to avoid reality, to sustain...”
– Jim Kunstler (via azspot, dalas verdugo) (via marco)
“AppScale is an open-source implementation of the Google AppEngine (GAE) cloud...”
– appscale - Google Code
“The $99 3G netbook will start selling this summer, and the first one won’t...”
– AT&T: New iPhone will be hot, son : Boy Genius Report
Que se hable de la red social Tuenti como si fuera...
quenosfastidia:
YA SABEMOS que es española y que estan orgullosos de ella, pero a nadie le importa la porquería.
“The mysterious ailment called colony collapse disorder has wiped out large...”
– Solving the Mystery of the Vanishing Bees: Scientific American
“Last week I released my first iPhone open source project, Facebook Connect for...”
– Joe Hewitt
quietube | YouTube without the distractions →
bebelestrange:
justincharles:
Get rid of all the ugly, busy crap that is YouTube and just watch videos (via Daring Fireball).
Why another to-do app?
patio:
patio was born out of my desire to convert my paper-based to-do system into a more accessible and efficient tool. The paper system I had been using was very simple—take a sheet of paper and brain-dump all of the things I needed to get done onto it. Items I finished would be crossed off, and items that I hadn’t would remain; the next day, my unfinished items from the day before would be...
Theocacao: Measuring the Design Process →
“1 - Colombia : Even before Anthony Bourdain featured the Colombian...”
– Top 10 Destinations for Independent Travelers in 2009 | BootsnAll Travel Articles (via antoniowills)
“The Faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is committed to...”
– Peter Suber, Open Access News
Future web / love sounds →
marco:
Langer’s well-written manifesto on why dropping support for IE6 (and maybe 7) is the right thing to do.
“Over the past year we’ve seen an uptick in the infrastructure, development...”
– Facebook in 2010: no longer a walled garden - O’Reilly Radar
Kill your computer and join the cloud
Use as little software as possible.
Use software that does one thing well.
Do not use software that does many things poorly.
Use a plain text editor that you know well. Not a word processor, a plain text editor.
Do not use your text editor for tasks other than editing text.
via Slate Mag
“Depending on what you’re doing, making your site work in IE can range from a...”
– Marco.org - Dropped IE support for Instapaper
“Cualquier sitio en el mundo puede enlazar a contenido con copyright publicado en...”
– Jonas Nilsson, abogado defensor de The Pirate Bay. (via livercake) (via rubendomfer)
“Avoid first- and second-person pronouns. Always write “Google” instead of “we.”...”
– via matiasjajaja