Archive for November, 2007

The ?Android? of Journalism?

The ?Android? of Journalism?
Today I learned that I actually work for Valleywag, but don’t get paid.
Hey, Valleywag is the Android of journalism!
For those of you who don’t get that: I do the work, Paul Boutin points out my messes. He Nick Denton keeps the advertising revenues. Sorta like working for Google on an open source […]

“So, the API which has easily 10 times more traffic than the website, has been really very important to us.”

“So, the API which has easily 10 times more traffic than the website, has been really very important to us.”

Webkit gets @font-face

A post for the web-designers out there. Rejoice, for the blogosphere bears good news today - Webkit (the engine behind Safari) joins Opera in supporting @font-face rules in nightly builds. This means it includes […]

Episode 35 - Twistage

Episode 35 - Twistage
Chris rejoined the cast to chat with David Wadler from Twistage, a roll your own YouTube like video distribution service. After an initial recording snafu, we get rolling and discuss the online video distribution, content distribution networks, pirating media, and copyright licensing.
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Hire People for their Strengths (You […]

Yo Valleywag

Yo Valleywag
Kind of amazing this pic hasn’t shown up on Valleywag, given their obsession with Scoble.

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Canter on Open Social and the Starfish

I just spent an hour decompressing with Marc Canter about all the Open Social and Facebook stuff along with a TON of coverage of how the Social […]

Compress PDF: First Leopard Headache

Compress PDF: First Leopard Headache
I have found my first toe stub in Leopard: I no longer apparently have the option to make a compressed PDF in the print dialog. Which is a pain, since services like Slideshare have a 30MB limit, and my presentations…
Tech Museum President Peter Friess at the 2007 Tech Awards
San Jose, Calif. […]

Episode B2 - Isaac Garcia at BarcampLA

Episode B2 - Isaac Garcia at BarcampLA

Nick Dynice interviews Isaac Garcia of Central Desktop, the hosted collaboration tool for business teams for project management. This interview took place at at BarCampLA on March 4, 2006. Isaac talks about:
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MySpace joins Google?s open social announcement
TechCrunch and others are reporting that […]

Movie Rentals Are Baked Into the Latest Version of iTunes.

Movie Rentals Are Baked Into the Latest Version of iTunes.
Look inside the code of the latest version of iTunes (version 7.5), and you will find eight lines that speak volumes about Apple’s next move in video. Movie rentals and video-on-demand, it appears, are now baked into iTunes, just waiting to be turned on.
When Evan […]

“User” Generated Content and YouTube

“User” Generated Content and YouTube
YouTube has been getting a lot of press lately, both for its runaway success as well as for the real sources of its vast video library.  Rated as a top 20 destination on the Web, YouTube serves up at least a whopping 70 million videos a day to its users and […]

All We Got Was Web 1.0, When Tim Berners-Lee Actually Gave Us Web 2.0

All We Got Was Web 1.0, When Tim Berners-Lee Actually Gave Us Web 2.0
The blogosphere flew into its usual uproar a few days ago when the inventor of the World Wide Web himself, the venerated Tim Berners-Lee, was recently recorded in a podcast calling Web 2.0 nothing more than a piece of jargon.  There is […]

Tutsbuzz

Tutsbuzz
Find tutorials on popular audio and video editing software, programming languages, and more. At Tutsbuzz, you’ll find tutorials covering a wide range of programs and programming languages from Adobe Photoshopt to Visual Basic.NET. Search tutorials by program or by type, and narrow your search to just html or video tutorials. Users can give back by […]