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April 17, 2005
— continuing his amazing work; I’m curious about the United Arab Emirates’ insular adoption of the site via Nelson Minar #
— anyone know the backstory here? I thought they were doing well #
— this one fooled the blog world, including me via museumofhoaxes.com #
— location-specific social network websites, only viewable by people within range of a single wifi access point #
— we use it on Upcoming.org, and I designed the logo; read more about its creation #
— I’d been beta-testing it, but their features aren’t notably better than Bloglines via Delicious #
April 16, 2005
— kinda like Greasemonkey for Safari #
April 15, 2005
— essential read with great advice for building a web app with a small team via Nelson Minar #
— like Flickr for audio clips, all with waveforms and CC licenses #
— Boing Boing will be its first property via Delicious #
— even better: first-person cameraphone photos of the fight, from the guy in this photo #
— generate a freestyle flow from the text of any webpage via Kottke #
April 14, 2005
— Matt comments that Eric Osterhoudt is the first death he’s aware of #
— very clever via Delicious #
— unusual visualization of search engine crawling; compare to their original approach for URIs #
— also: the edited version of Fuck Tha Police is a long 42 seconds via Delicious #
— using Ruby on Rails, too; this should be interesting via Delicious #
— from last Christmas, their massive mashup of Bohemian Rhapsody covers #
— requires a GBA flash cart and specific wireless cart; this is the start of the homebrew DS scene via themodgods.com #
— someone at Amazon has tag-envy #
April 13, 2005
— not true on-demand like the Bookmobile, though #
— they’re trying to develop an open-source platform for painlessly distributing and watching high-quality video online, built on Blog Torrent via downhillbattle.org #
— just launched minutes ago; read more about the video program and Windows uploader via Delicious #
— also, Whedonesque just switched to Upcoming because of Meetup’s new fees #
— art installation that scans your fingerprint and turns it into a 3D maze via Kottke #
April 12, 2005
— if you have a fast PC and a good video card, try this; it just blew my mind #
— event organizers will pay $19/month to arrange meetups via Sean Bonner #
— Stereogum offers up some composite predictions #
— sharable online outlines, like OmniOutliner for the web via Populicio.us #
— music, TV, radio, newspaper sales all down; movies, videogames, web all up via feeds.feedburner.com #
— cute comparison between the N64p and the DS via Joystiq #
— visualizing frequency and relationships between locations in Google News international via Populicio.us #
— it’s getting massive; read Jeremy’s long update about moving it to Userscript.org #
— from their vintage cartoons collection via Delicious #
— I’d love to see someone adapt this to phpBB #
— from the creator of Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, and co-creator of Day of the Tentacle #
April 11, 2005
— I’d love to see a language-agnostic Rails, but this feels wrong via Delicious #
— working on a secretive startup, which should be interesting #
— is it just me, or are all new web apps borrowing heavily from Flickr? #
— unanimously, too via filmrot.com #
— tons of obscure ones I’ve never heard of via Simon Carless #
— I had no idea this was possible via Leonard Lin #
— this is not fake; I have the video mirrored locally #
— very weird; is Keyhole stitching together images by intelligently cutting around buildings? #
— a curious list of search terms, but mind the ads and popups via Populicio.us #
— send a wi-fi signal from your PC to the DS to trick it into running homebrew code off the GBA slot #
— it’s a VC dream team and Joshua maintains a majority stake, to boot! via Delicious #
— Grand Theft Auto-inspired silliness via feeds.feedburner.com #
— design a virulent meme website, win thousands of dollars #
— listing Bloglines and Del.icio.us citations inline on every page; brilliant, but raises some questions on etiquette #
