Twitter.com vs The Twitter Ecosystem"You can talk about Twitter.com and then you can talk about the Twitter ecosystem. One is a web site. The other is a fundamental part of the Internet infrastructure. And the latter is 3-5x bigger than the former and that delta is likely to grow even larger." (twitter analysis bitly ecosystems [...]
Flash Player content, Mouse Events, and Touch input at Mike Chambers"So, the Interwebs is all a buzz again around the latest article that “proves” that Flash will not be useful on mobile devices (much less the iPad). [...] I wanted to make a quick post that corrects some of the false assumptions and conclusions presented [...]
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: A Robbery of Three Liberal Arts Graduates: The Police Report. (humour police )
YouTube – Apply Daily on Gordon BrownGreat view from China on Gordon Brown Tempergate (copyright some news outlet somewhere, probably). Features 3D CGI reconstruction of what might have happened, possibly, and very large SUPERIMPOSED TEXT. (apple_daily gordon_brown politics news )
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Try Coding Dear Boy – Laughing Meme"Several times a week I get an emails like, “Can you explain how Flickr does XYZ? I’m hoping there is a nice packaged solution for this.” [but] We generally try do the dumbest thing that will work first. And that’s usually as far as we get." (flickr development software_in_practice [...]
Photographers Rights In The UK | Information Is Beautiful"Here in the UK, there’s been a recent spate of harassment and even arrests of innocent photographers by police invoking anti-terrorism laws. So we’ve compiled an easy-to-read wallet-sized infosheet of photographer legal rights here in the UK (PDF)." (photography rights police )
A picture of every page of [...]
Soft hyphen (SHY) – a hard problem?More than you probably wanted to know about "soft hyphenation" on the web, but fascinating if you do. "There is a fundamental controversy about the soft hyphen character (often abbreviated SHY, one HTML notation: ­). Although the ISO Latin 1 standard (ISO 8859-1) makes things perfectly clear, saying that [...]
Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog : Innovation on Linux and UNIXCompany bought by Microsoft, company stops developing on Unix and Linux operating systems: "When we announced the acquisition [of FAST by Microsoft] two years ago, we said that we were committed to cross-platform innovation—that we’d “continue to offer stand-alone versions of ESP that run on Linux [...]
Blairometer: how Twitter rates Tony Blair at Chilcot"Below are the 50 most recent tweets that include the word 'blair' with a minus sign indicating a negative comment and a plus for a positive one" (tony_blair twitter fun chilcot )
The Forrester Blog For Consumer Product Strategy Professionals"I was sitting on the edge of my seat, ready [...]
data.gov.uk launch – a set on FlickrReally great photos from Paul Clarke at the data.gov.uk launch (photography government data open_data launch )
Ooyala scores partnership with Telegraph Media Group, will power its video content"Ooyala, a US-based provider of video platform applications and services, and Telegraph Media Group (TMG) are today announcing that they have signed an [...]
Agile as a ‘Cargo Cult’ « Made by Many"In our rapidly converging media world, we hear the word “agile” bandied around a lot these days – sometimes, it has to be said, by people who don’t actually have a scooby about what it really means to work in an agile way. [...] It’s like the [...]
