- A handful of lessons from beta testing features on the Guardian’s website
"One comment we got said the feature definitely wasn’t “ready for prime time”. At that point we’d switched it on for 6 articles out of the 1.4million pieces of content in our database, about as low key as you can manage for a site with in excess of 3 million visitors a day." (learning user_experience dopost iterative testing )
- I’m leaving the Guardian
Martin Belam is moving on. (guardian jobs martin_belam )
- Everything you need to know about the e-book lawsuit in one post — paidContent
"After weeks of buildup, the Department of Justice sued Apple and five book publishers today and accused them of conspiring to set e-book prices. This is a big story and publishers, consumers and retailers may see the ramifications of today’s lawsuit for months or even years to come. Here’s what you need to know now." (monopolies ebooks dopost legal publishing apple )
- Go Free Range build outstanding software for the web.
"An open source kit for exploring the possibilities of internet-of-things printing." Even the creator isn't sure about the purpose of this, but it looks interesting. (dopost printing arduino )
- The e-book wars: Who is less evil, Amazon or book publishers? — Tech News and Analysis
A good overview of the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and book publishers. (dopost monopolies ebooks legal amazon publishing apple )
- Hi Roger. It’s Me, Joe: The Fox Mole
"Hi. My name is Joe Muto. I was the Fox Mole. Two hours ago I was called into a meeting with Dianne Brandi, the Fox News Executive Vice President of Legal and Business Affairs and suspended indefinitely… with pay, oddly enough. They nailed me." That was pretty quick. But if you will steal data by logging in with your own username… (journalism usa fox_news )
- Venture Capital–>Scrappy Startup |The Thoughtiverse of Victoria Song
"There was a moment I had doubts that I’d be able to make the impact I want in only 6 months, but boy was I wrong. 1 day in startup life is equivalent to 200 days in a big company. Shit just gets done." (dopost employment startups )
- Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon CloudSearch – Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month
"Continuing along in our quest to give you the tools that you need to build ridiculously powerful web sites and applications in no time flat at the lowest possible cost, I'd like to introduce you to Amazon CloudSearch." (dopost cloud_computing amazon launch search )
- PHP: a fractal of bad design – fuzzy notepad
"PHP is not merely awkward to use, or ill-suited for what I want, or suboptimal, or against my religion. I can tell you all manner of good things about languages I avoid, and all manner of bad things about languages I enjoy. [...] PHP is the lone exception." (criticism languages programming dopost php )
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