March 19, 2005

The Online Video Game Atlas — huge combined screenshots of video game maps (via) #

March 18, 2005

Livejournal adds podcasting support — this could be huge #

Funky Winkerbean character arrested for selling adult comic books — ripped from the headlines #

PyMusique, buy DRM-free songs from iTunes Music Store — DVD Jon strikes again (via) #

Six Apart's Power Tools — like Google Code, I love the trend of companies open-sourcing their internal tools (via) #

MP3: Shaun Inman's "What's the Word?" — lovely geek folk song, the guy is multi-talented (via) #

Five Questions to Verify if an Entity is a Robot — a low-tech Turing test #

Comic: The Warhol Factory Outlet Store — famous for 1500 people (via) #

Microsoft previews new screen fonts shipping with Longhorn — surprisingly tasteful, but how do they look at 9px aliased? (via) #

March 17, 2005

WSJ article on the history of yelling Free Bird at concerts — with accompanying audience clips from various concerts #

Defective Yeti's least hot followups — this made me laugh, repeatedly #

Photo tour of the Pixar offices — animators are encouraged to heavily mod their workspaces #

Chinese iPod Mini knockoff — first the fake Shuffle and now this; a sign of Apple's design influence overseas #

Make previews Odeo podcasting service — looks outstanding from the screenshots (via) #

Tag-o-Vision combines 50 Flickr photos into one average image per tag — the Python source is available, too (via) #

Google Code — just announced, centralizes their open-source projects and APIs #

Podshanking, kludge to direct copy audio from one iPod to another — using an iTalk, so slow and without metadata, but I love the spirit behind it (via) #

George wants a Firefox extension turning all popups into click fraud — evil idea of the day #

March 16, 2005

Pimp my Shuffle — hacking an iPod shuffle into a pair of headphones (via) #

Code v2.0 wiki — collaborative effort to update Lessig's essential Code book (via) #

Toyota launches record label — the music industry, flailing to find a way to survive (via) #

Washington Post on Creative Commons — some unlikely mainstream media coverage (via) #

BoingBoing Butler — Greasemonkey script to remove all non-content from BB (via) #

NYT on newspapers closing their archives — the irony is thick; they argue for pay archives throughout (via) #

Goombah — Mac app to provide music recommendations by comparing available iTunes shares; uses BitTorrent to transfer profile info around (via) #

New Dr. Who leaked online deliberately to build buzz — someone "leaked" a TV pilot recently by sending me a DV tape in an unmarked envelope #

Screenshots of Will Wright's Spore game — insanely expansive scope, simulating every scale from amoeba to galaxies (via) #

Game Gardens — build and host your own multiplayer games with a Java toolkit! from the brilliant people behind Puzzle Pirates (via) #

Comcast and TiVo finally team up — good for TiVo, but great for Comcast customers because their PVRs suck #

Hand-powered iPod shuffle — useful, if you're stranded on a deserted isle #

Flickr Postcard Browser — beautiful way of browsing images #

Butler Firefox extension rewrites Google — Mark Pilgrim's Greasemonkey add-in comments on the autolink controversy; I contend both uses are perfectly legit #

Clocky — an alarm clock that hides from you every day after hitting snooze (via) #

Yahoo 360° beta — Yahoo's entry into the blog and social networking market, without Flickr or Six Apart? (via) #

GoogleX — Google's silly little tribute to OS X (via) #

SXSW revokes press passes for Chunklet and others — for drawing attention away from SXSW with popular day parties #

March 15, 2005

Yahoo Research's Tech Buzz Game — fantasy prediction market for high-tech trends (via) #

Apple developing 2-button mouse — finally seeing the light, and making Macs even more attractive to PC users (via) #

Google Local adds business registration tools — makes perfect sense; "manage your own damn info!" (via) #

Beatallica suit dropped, band coming back — thanks to Lars Ulrich, of all people #

A9's OpenSearch — add in any third-party search service into A9 #

Amaztype, generates words from Amazon thumbnails — for example, hacks (via) #

March 14, 2005

Sifry updates his blog stats — Technorati tracks 7.8 million blogs, with 30-40k new blogs created every day #

March 13, 2005

Flickr version of the Web of Letters — edit the URL to change the letters #

ETech 2005

Posted March 11, 2005 by Andy Baio

Next week, I’ll be at the Emerging Technology conference in San Diego. I don’t usually go to conferences (too expensive, and I’m too cheap), but I was offered a free guest pass by Cory Doctorow. Humbled and honored in a very big way.

Many people I know opted to attend SXSW Interactive this year, but the SXSW panels seem to cover well-trod territory (e.g. blogging as journalism, commercial blogging, CSS hacks, online community, moblogging, podcasts, etc). Despite the great people in Austin, I think the better presentations will be in San Diego.

Looking at the list of sessions, I’m absolutely giddy. The creators and founders of amazing web applications like Flickr, 43 Things, Del.icio.us, Wikipedia, Typepad, Bloglines and Basecamp will all be talking about their experiences, as well as inspiring folks like Cory, Larry Lessig, Chris Anderson, Ev Williams, Merlin Mann, Danny O’Brien, and James Surowiecki.

Anyway, I can’t wait. If you’re attending ETech, be sure to find me and say hello.

March 11, 2005

AIM's new Terms of Service waives right to privacy — and grants AOL the unconditional right to use your conversations any way they want (via) #

Video: High-quality Legend of Zelda trailer — some of the best graphics I've ever seen (via) #

Web of Letters — generates an alphabet using Yahoo's image search API #

Video: The Contraption — excellent Rube Goldberg chain reaction, in the style of Honda's Cog commercial (via) #

A Century of Candy Bars — thesis on the history of candy bar wrapper design (via) #