Bookmarks for 18 Oct 2011
- Daily Dot | Warner Bros. signs to make movie from Reddit comment
"Warner Bros. Studios has snagged the rights to Rome Sweet Rome, a story that began about a month ago as a breathless series of comments by Reddit user James Erwin. Those comments answered a question posted by another Reddit user: “What if a unit of current U.S. Marines are suddenly transported back to ancient Rome and forced to do battle with the Roman legions?” Adam Kolbrenner, of Hollywood’s Madhouse Entertainment, was following those comments closely. As we reported last month, he moved quickly to contact Erwin and work with him on refining the concept." (film rights warner_bros reddit ) - Amazon.com Help: Source Code Notice
"Amazon is pleased to make available to you for download an archive file of the machine readable source code ("Source Code") corresponding to modified software packages used in the Kindle device… (open_source amazon kindle dopost ) - Official Google Blog: A fall sweep
Google shuts down more projects. Good for them: "We aspire to build great products that really change people’s lives, products they use two or three times a day. To succeed you need real focus and thought—thought about what you work on and, just as important, what you don’t work on. It’s why we recently decided to shut down some products, and turn others into features of existing products." (closure google dopost ) - Diethard Steiner on Business Intelligence: Kettle Transformation Logging and Change Data Capture (New)
(cdc kettle etl data_warehousing data_integration dontpost tutorial ) - Discombobulated: Guardian iPad: Product challenges
A good account of developing the Guardian iPad news app: "Many senior managers don’t understand the complexity of delivering truly successful technology products (and most don’t need to). Even the team – who do and did – dramatically underestimated the amount of time it would take to integrate the new CMS into our print production systems and tools." (guardian ipad product_development dopost app ) - iOS 5: Exploring 7 Hidden New Features | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
"Here we explore some of the more notable or quirky additions to grace our iPhone and iPad interfaces." (ios iphone ios5 dopost )
