April 20, 2005
Rogers Cadenhead bought BenedictXVI.com weeks ago
— he hedged his bets by buying six domains, and guessed correctly #
Trackerbt, a distributed BitTorrent tracker
— redundant trackers all aware of peers participating in the download (via) #
Snap search engine statistics
— they're extremely transparent, listing their revenue, advertisers, and more (via) #
Tag clouds are the new mullets
— I'm convinced there are better ways of displaying top tags than this #
Blogger adds Captcha for new blog creation
— hopefully, this will slow the mass creation of spam blogs (via) #
McDonald's employee hassles McCafe photographer
— there are even more McCafe photos on Flickr; here's a review of the first store in 2003 (via) #
Flickr upgrades free accounts, drops price of Pro accounts
— and they gave me another year of Pro service and two extra Pro invites for free #
Kottke rounds up blog responses to the Adobe-Macromedia deal
— some great thoughts from Om Malik, Dave Shea, and others #
Chicago transit map overlay on Google Maps
— a brilliant hack; I'd love to see this for all major metros #
MovableType 3.16 released
— a big point release with hundreds of bug fixes and tweaks, including removing the nav-commenters.gif #
Upcoming.org libraries for Perl, PHP, and Drupal
— also: 43 Things' neat Upcoming integration, and some groups switching from Meetup #
More details on Will Wright's Spore game
— very drool-worthy playspace for gamers with a God complex (via) #
TiVo in talks with Yahoo, Google
— maybe for recording web-based video searches, but also some buyout rumors (via) #
Gamestop buys Electronics Boutique
— another huge merger, for $1.4 billion in cash and stock (via) #
1up's roundup of nextgen console details
— what we know, so far, about each upcoming console (via) #
Flickr network analysis, March 2005
— continuing his amazing work; I'm curious about the United Arab Emirates' insular adoption of the site (via) #
Freetag, an open-source tagging/folksonomy framework for PHP/MySQL
— we use it on Upcoming.org, and I designed the logo; read more about its creation #
Rojo feedreader goes out of beta
— I'd been beta-testing it, but their features aren't notably better than Bloglines (via) #
Marc Hedlund's notes on building CodeZoo
— essential read with great advice for building a web app with a small team (via) #
FM Publishing, John Battelle's new blog publishing company
— Boing Boing will be its first property (via) #
Yankees' Gary Sheffield scuffles with Boston fan
— even better: first-person cameraphone photos of the fight, from the guy in this photo #
Binary Search Engine tracking
— unusual visualization of search engine crawling; compare to their original approach for URIs #
MP3: NWA's "Straight Outta Compton," with everything except profanities removed
— also: the edited version of Fuck Tha Police is a long 42 seconds (via) #
Michael Buffington working on a secret project with Adaptive Path
— using Ruby on Rails, too; this should be interesting (via) #
Great tutorial to wirelessly load homebrew code onto your Nintendo DS
— requires a GBA flash cart and specific wireless cart; this is the start of the homebrew DS scene (via) #
NYT on Amazon's expansion into on-demand book printing
— not true on-demand like the Bookmobile, though #
Downhill Battle's new DTV and Broadcast Machine projects
— they're trying to develop an open-source platform for painlessly distributing and watching high-quality video online, built on Blog Torrent (via) #
Google Video Upload Program
— just launched minutes ago; read more about the video program and Windows uploader (via) #
Robot Co-Op adds Upcoming.org support on 43 Things
— also, Whedonesque just switched to Upcoming because of Meetup's new fees #