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February 28, 2006
— undoubtedly why they blocked YouTube until Myspace users rebelled #
— parody of the bouncy balls ad #
— the maps arms race escalates with this crazy driving mode #
— I just found my new stereo #
February 26, 2006
— neat hack for Series 60 phones, uses cell tower IDs to infer location #
February 24, 2006
— treat web apps like Windows programs, with desktop, tray, and quickstart icons and startup launching #
— a breath of fresh air to hear this; Ian Rogers agrees #
February 23, 2006
— looks like NZB indexes and forums instead of Usenet feeds #
— blogger flunks job interview because of daily fan letters to Star Jones via Tom Coates #
— grinding and the time commitment are two big reasons why I can’t get into current MMOs via Simon Carless #
— silly 2002 April Fool’s article predicts the future #
— the parallel universe Kottke #
February 22, 2006
— Google’s Geocities 2.0 offers a simple CMS, free hosting, and 100 MB storage #
— 1,450 people donated a total of $39,900, but almost entirely in the first three weeks #
— with ground photos of the farm at the default center of Google Maps #
— they have serious momentum #
February 21, 2006
— full album of heart-breaking rarities via hype.non-standard.net #
— with new vocals by Ben Gibbard; also, the cover of Nina Simone’s “See-Line Woman” (local copy) is worth hearing via hype.non-standard.net #
— an RSS reader that never mentions RSS #
— making it drop-dead easy to subscribe, watch, and share video channels online; like a BitTorrent PVR community via Boing Boing #
— anyone familiar with the Church knows it’s religious parody and performance art #
— the Excitebike scene is lovely via Boing Boing #
February 20, 2006
— like Zillow, blows up industries by making hard-to-find information widely available #
February 19, 2006
— a Canadian couple found the Flickr fan’s camera, but won’t give it back via Andre Torrez #
— Washington Post accidentially exposes their anonymous botnet hacker with photo metadata via Delicious #
— excellent interview on the history, media coverage, and a potential followup via Simon Carless #
February 18, 2006
— a screenshot of a new message in Outlook 12 beta via Andre Torrez #
— the text may be offensive #
February 17, 2006
— biting the hand that feeds you; they should have paid for that kind of amazing promotion #
— only a fraction of a community needs to be active for everyone to benefit via tech.memeorandum.com #
— did it come from Apple? via Digg #
— the popular apps page is useful, and they’re doing a much better job of explaining what Ning is #
February 16, 2006
— the AP got a quote from Apple about it #
— there’s a character named “Waxy” in the kid’s show collage via @mylifeinbeta #
— oof, Friendster gets dissed via Delicious #
— the Russian grey-market MP3 site is great, but not long for this world #
— podcasting MP3s from bands on tour using the Eventful API; very clever mashup via techcrunch.com #
— every Mac is a powerful Unix box, so it’s inevitable that it gets targeted via Digg #
February 15, 2006
— great mashup of two famous Oprah moments #
— neat visualizations for CVS/SVN source code repositories via grumet.net #
— appropriately, A Million Little Pieces has nearly twice the edits of the next runner up via cheesedip.com #
— not bad for a daily newsletter that found its niche #
— also: Chuck’s selling his own shirts now via cheesedip.com #
— not mentioned is Jason Shiga’s Meanwhile via Eyebeam #
— group chat for distributed teams and projects via O'Reilly Radar #
February 14, 2006
— more details at Kemistry #
