March 2011 - Page 2 of 3

March 17, 2011

Paul Graham shares his email exchanges with Fred Wilson over Airbnb — fascinating glimpse into the thought process #

NYT announces their paywall, effective March 28 — Nieman Lab outlines their big challenges #

March 16, 2011

An Open Letter to Jon Bon Jovi — responding to his claim that "Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business" #

How Fred Wilson missed Airbnb — great story about the Airbnb team, Obama O's cereal, and a whole lot of hustle #

NYT editorial on the abuse of Bradley Manning — a State Department official was forced to resign after critical comments about his treatment (via) #

Jeri Ellsworth makes $10 alternative to $4k bus alert system, gets harassed by contractor — even non-anonymized people lose their minds in YouTube comments #

Chatroulette Love Song — I wonder if he skipped everyone with less harmonious names (via) #

Jack Dorsey's Twttr stories — his earliest archives from Twitter's development, more on Twitter #

Horrifying first-person video as tsunami sweeps Japanese city — also: InFocus feature on the recovery efforts (via) #

Topspin opens publicly, available to every musician — powerful toolset for bands was invite-only for years; Ian writes about the change #

Matt Haughey's SXSW talk on community lessons learned from Metafilter — fasincating glimpse into the site's moderation techniques and homegrown tools; how it was recorded #

OkTrends asks, what if there weren't so many white people? — more data porn, plus guitars with knives #

Kat Hack — turn any Web page into an HTML5 Katamari Damacy (via) #

March 10, 2011

Mr. Rogers' Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1997 Emmys — don't miss Esquire's eloquent description of the moment (via) #

What if you'd bought Apple stock instead of their products? — spoiler: you'd be rich (via) #

Dreamhost CEO shares his heartbreaking, preventable homebirth story — a huge warning to anyone considering home births (via) #

Instapaper goes social with 3.0 version — sharing, editor's picks, and browsing your friends' likes (via) #

Browser DNS prefetching harmful for sites with many subdomains — a single meta tag reduced Deviant Art's DNS queries by 10 billion per month (via) #

Ushahidi launches open-source location service — roll your own Foursquare; here's the requisite SXSW example running on Crowdmap #

MIT Media Lab's new logo is a Processing sketch — identity by algorithm (via) #

Is Scoble In This Room? — breakout app of SXSW 2011 #

Bytejacker goes to GDC 2011 — great episode; interviews with the creators of Sword & Sworcery, Indie Game: The Movie, and Cave Story (via) #

The Smartest Dog in the World — Graham Annable is a genius (via) #

The Content Farm launches new website — "written by people with a passing knowledge" (via) #

Kellan predicts the year of the anti-social SXSW — software scoped to friends-only favors intimacy over serendipity #

South by Southwest Homesick Blues — "Don't need Zuckerberg to know when the bubble blows" (via) #

Chicago Tribune feature on Kickstarter and crowdfunding — some great stories about how it's impacting Chicago artists #

Clay Johnson on why he joined Expert Labs — yay, crazy excited to work with Clay; also: I made a video intro to ThinkUp #

March 9, 2011

Lanyrd releases Chrome/Firefox extension to instantly hide all SXSW tweets — if you're not in Austin, you're going to need this #

NYT on the Groupon clone cottage industry — Yipit, an aggregator of 335 daily deals sites, spawned 20 copycats itself #

Jason Kottke introduces Stellar.io — I've been playing with it for a while, and it's great for surfacing interesting stuff #

The Like Log Study — analyzing 45 million Facebook reactions to 100k+ articles from 45 news sites #

Colbert interviews Dan Sinker, the journalism professor behind @MayorEmanuel — "time vortexes are funny things"; the whole thing needs to go to print (via) #

Windows 7's Microsoft Paint executable interpreted as audio — surprisingly listenable (via) #

TIME's video feature on the indie gaming scene — nice trend piece interviews the people behind Babycastles, Area/Code, and Osmos #

Thanks for Trumpet Winsock — used the essential Windows app in the mid '90s? make it right by paying for it now #

Lanyrd adds Firefox/Chrome extensions to see SXSW sessions in Twitter — hey, that guy in the second screenshot looks familiar #

Lag — an animated tale of high latency (via) #

March 8, 2011

Anatomy of a Crushing — Maciej's entertaining postmortem of the mini-exodus from Delicious to Pinboard (via) #

Slipstream, Chrome addon hides tweets by user or keyword — not going to SXSW? you're going to need this (via) #

URL Hunter — experimental game played in the browser's location bar (via) #

Foursquare releasing 3.0 for iPhone/Android tonight — now with recommendations, an overhauled leaderboard, and new ways to explore #

Tinted Sheen, browser blocker for Chrome and Firefox — block all references to you-know-who #

Adobe's Wallaby, experimental converter from Flash to HTML5 — for Webkit browsers only; before and after (via) #

Koalas to the Max — built with d3.js #

d3.js, Javascript library for manipulating data-driven documents — some of the examples are jaw-dropping #

The Million Song Dataset — massive data dump from Echonest and Musicbrainz; this is begging for some large-scale infoviz #

moviebarcode — expanding on Jason Salavon's film averaging (via) #

The IF Theory Reader — free book collects thought-provoking writing about interactive fiction (via) #

March 7, 2011

Auto-Tune the News takes on Charlie Sheen — last two links about him ever, honest: NYT gets meta and, importantly, his history of violence against women #