August 31, 2007
Michael Arrington's CrunchFood
— biting parody of Techcrunch style; "Fondue Joins the DeadPool" (via) #
dyeSight, $2 Multi-Touch Pad
— building a tabletop multitouch display with a plastic bag, some blue dye, and an iSight #
CBS 5 on the Faceball "Craze"
— local news visits the Flickr office, complete with goofy news anchors and weatherman (via) #
Video: Extra TV profile of The Spot from 1995
— dig that mid-'90s web design and postage stamp video clips #
The journalism that bloggers actually do
— NYU professor responds to idiotic anti-blogger op-ed citing strong examples of blogger journalism (via) #
Video: Content-Aware Image Resizing
— incredible technique to identifying seams in images and modify only the boring parts (via) #
Schulze and Webb on Olinda, their digital radio for the BBC
— not a concept piece, but a "standalone, fully operational, social, digital radio" #
Brad Fitzpatrick's Thoughts on the Social Graph
— this nicely articulates the problem and leaves me hopeful #
MIT's Scratch project
— not sure how I missed this lovely programming learning environment and community #
MovableType 4.0 released
— out of beta with native OpenID and memcached support, among other changes #
Why Did Google Answers Shut Down?
— appropriately answered by a former GA researcher, now answering on UClue #
Wired News on Wikiscanner, tracking anonymous edits by sneaky organizations
— several outstanding spin jobs were found and submitted by readers (via) #
Massive warez NFO database released publicly
— MySQL dump covering 2.6 million releases back to the '80s; mixed quality, but could be fun for data mining (via) #
Thoughts on Facebook's new Data Store API
— they may be the new AOL, but their tech is undeniably cool #