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This makes me perhaps angrier than I’d have expected; it’s a stupid, sledgehammer of a solution, and it severely impacts the neutrality of Verizon’s offering. Also, Andrew Cuomo is a moron. Who loses? The users, of course. As usual.
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“people… are going to judge your product on that single thing that you think is so important… Have you thought through everything about that? Are you happy with dealing with all those implications?”
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“Zillionics is a new realm, and our new home. The scale of so many moving parts require new tools, new mathematics, new mind shifts.”
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“QTAmateur is a small, simple QuickTime video player. It can play any format that QuickTime can understand, handle fullscreen video playback, and export files to any format that QuickTime can write.” Cheaper than QTPro for converting Flip video files.
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“If you are going to build a RESTful API, do it right. Your developers will thank you for it.” Dare is right; the Newsgator REST API is very lacking, to say the least. When I used it, it even missed documented functionality.
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Stripped-down – not a fully-featured feedreader, more a window on your feeds for when you’re out. I like “window” metaphors for mobile tools.
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“The holy grail for me now wouldn’t be the game that can create infinite story – but a game that could procedurally generate infinite interesting content.” Jamie Fristrom on games and storytelling. Good stuff.
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“Google has to search through those blobs of stories to pull out that raw data again, thus undoing the work of the journalist. The two need to meet in the middle, argues Holovaty.” More data-driven journalism stuff; all spot on, really.
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“Film showings from London’s independent cinemas for the coming week.” A bit like Tourfilter for movies. Roland’s pet project, running on Sinatra/Thin/nginx (erk!). Looking forward to see it grow.
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Absolutely excellent. A little depressed but also pleased at the overlap with my NLGD talk. Here’s hoping I can munge together something good. And give credit where credit is due.
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“I’ve reproduced the list [of rules from Lockheed’s Skunk Works] here with an identification of a modern software development rule or business practice that it corresponds to.” Good stuff from Matt J. Can’t wait to see his book.
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“This requires a light touch. This requires respect for the gap. The gap is part of your toolset.” The importance of gaps is cropping up everywhere. It’s in the gap that magic happens.
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“I may not hear the Rocky theme song, or see the sunset anywhere, but for me, this may be a sort of conclusion.” Delightful Murakami article on running.
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“What I want to argue is that humans are uniquely talented at ‘thinking with our hands’, and its wrong to discard ‘intuitive’ engineering as a historical curiosity.” Tim Hunkin, on fire, about the importance of making.
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Nice alternative to the somewhat clunky fixture_replacement – factories for generating fixtures for your tests and specs. Yummy!
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Wells Fargo hired Pentagram to overhaul the UI of their ATMs. Interesting article.
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The Yahoo! Patterns library on Reputation; a new section, I think, and with lots of good points about game-inspired design for social software.
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“But it’s a joke! A REALLY FUNNY joke.” Entertaining because it’s accurate and awkward, all at once.
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A nice reminder about the perception of interfaces (as opposed to the reality).
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“Plainview is a full-screen web browser.” Simple, Webkit, and effective. Useful if you need a kiosk-mode Safari in a hurry.
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“Given that real terrorists, and even wannabe terrorists, don’t seem to photograph anything, why is it such pervasive conventional wisdom that terrorists photograph their targets?” Great article from Bruce Schneier.
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“All the _around_ stuff, never the _it_ stuff.” Which is an interesting way of putting it.
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Some lovely portraits and lighting; also, a really gorgeous, DHTML site with no Flash. Rare for a photographer like this.
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A brief – but useful – guide to getting data out of the Wii Nunchuck.
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“I don’t think iPhone brings anything new to the table. It has a great user experience, but that’s all.” This is the problem with corporate IT condensed into a single quotation.
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I’ve been enjoying the Reuters Photographers blog for a while now; this post reminds me how remarkable some of the lengths their correspondants go to.
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I am amazed that anyone would have the patience to respond to Mike Arrington’s general arsery, but it seem the Twitter team do. They are better men and women than I.
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Great for designers, or anyone else with no knowledge of version control, but a not-half-bad introduction to Git at the same time.
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16×2 LCD and a d-pad, all wired up as an Arduino shield. Slap it on, and off you go. Looks fun.