Today’s interesting links: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude [TechCrunch] Classic geek video [Scripting News] Shel Israel Gets Schooled [1938 Media] What’s 6 Million Between Friends [1938 Media] App Engine Community Update [Google App Engine Blog] Simpsons map for Quake III Arena [Boing Boing]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Links for 2008–06–22
Today’s interesting links: Evolution of Gmail chat [Official Gmail Blog] Our favorite homeschooled Facebook user [Clips] [Valleywag] Introducing TechNews, Based On Reddit’s Open Source Project [TechCrunch] Build Your Own Reddit With Reddit [ReadWriteWeb] Announcing MonitManager [Jeffrey Gelens’ blog feed] Reddit social news site goes transparent, open source [Ars Technica] Google App Engine Goes Down andContinue reading “Links for 2008–06–22”
Links for 2008–06–15
Today’s interesting links: How it Happened [xkcd.com] Purity [xkcd.com] iPhone 3G’s true cost is $1,237 [Apple] [Valleywag] Geoducks: the world’s weirdest clams [Boing Boing] The New York Times API: All the News That’s Fit to Mix [ProgrammableWeb] Game Over. Hulu Wins. They Have The Daily Show. And Colbert. [TechCrunch] We Made It! [Twitter Blog]
Driving Drunk
Damien Katz (of CouchDB fame): Static typing is like giving a drunk a bunch of breath mints and saying “Don’t drive drunk. But if you must, use these breath mints in case you get pulled over.”
Links for 2008–06–08
Today’s interesting links: An interview with 280 North on Objective-J and Cappuccino [Ajaxian] William Vambenepe’s blog » Blog Archive » Emulating a long-running process (and a scheduler) in Google App Engine [stage.vambenepe.com] The Evolution of Pre-Launch Gmail In Screenshots [TechCrunch] Introducing Gmail Labs [Official Gmail Blog] Gmail Labs: A Public Stage for Googlers’ 20% Time [TechCrunch] CookiesContinue reading “Links for 2008–06–08”
Playing with Gmail Labs
I’m playing with Gmail Labs, a new playground for Google employees to build and test new Gmail features. It’s being rolled out to all users who either use the US or UK english version of Gmail (contrary to what TechCrunch reports, that means also Dutch, German, Polish and Ukranians can get this feature). Right nowContinue reading “Playing with Gmail Labs”
Links for 2008–06–01
Today’s interesting links: Hey Twitter I Have A Few Questions Too [TechCrunch] Wikipedia 3.0: You can now edit any page on Mahalo [The Jason Calacanis Weblog] #98 The Ivy League [Stuff White People Like] FeedBurner Finally Rolls Out AdSense [TechCrunch] ★ Spaces in 10.5.3 [Daring Fireball]