From the monthly archives:

November 2009

Stewart Alsop says dumb things, get attention

November 30, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Stewart Alsop is having many problems with his Motorola Droid: “The software (Google’s Android plus apps both from Google and from other developers) doesn’t work and is unacceptable on a mobile device.” Only thing is that these are problems that it appears no other Droid users are having – blatant, massive issues [...]

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Dumb ideas that geeks have, part 234

November 30, 2009

Twitter with a Brain — Shotton.com: “The example he [Dave Winer] used was wanting to un-follow a particular user for a day, then re-follow them automatically. It’s certainly possible to build this sort of functionality into an existing Twitter client, but I’d like to suggest something easier than herding all of the Twitter client authors [...]

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Not all traffic is born equal

November 27, 2009

Lookie Lou isnt really a customer | yelvington.com: “Once upon a time, I blocked Google from being able to index or even access Associated Press stories from our local newspapers websites. It was not a stupid thing to do, not at all. Heres why. At that time, we were not participating in any national ad [...]

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links for 2009-11-27

November 27, 2009

No Shoes, No Socks, No Service And you know this wasn't the first time he'd done this… (tags: client) Round up: iPlayer on Freesat (tags: freesat, iplayer)

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The best handheld device I’ve ever seen

November 23, 2009

Well, I thought it was funny

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links for 2009-11-23

November 23, 2009

Get Excited And Make Things! Print out a "Get excited and make things" poster for your office today! (tags: mattjones)

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There’s these great cut-down computers, right…

November 21, 2009

Daring Fireball: Maybe Instead of Two Cars, You Just Need a Car and a Bicycle: “The idea of a computer that does a lot less — leaving out even things you consider essential, because you can still do those things on your other, primary computer — is liberating. That’s the opportunity, and that’s the idea [...]

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Extremely Telling

November 20, 2009

Joe Wilcox, 10 things about Microsoft’s PDC 2009: The good, the bad and the ugly | Betanews: “It’s embarrassing for Microsoft to pitch three screens when the software and strategy around one of those screens stinks so badly. I actually felt sorry for Microsoft executives trying to make the three-screen pitch. I was embarrassed for [...]

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A short post on the conceit at the heart of Google ChromeOS

November 20, 2009

One of the prime reasons for the success of Twitter is that it has never been reliant on a single interface. Because it has cleverly exposed everything via rich APIs, it has effectively allowed a hundred interfaces to blossom. Don’t like the way that the web interface now handles retweets? Wait a few weeks and [...]

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Finally, someone gets it

November 19, 2009

Murdoch to Google: Search This: “No, what Murdoch has realized is that a newspaper is not just valuable for the individual stories or tidbits that can be culled, piecemeal, from a generic list. A newspaper provides context. It tells a story through its selection of articles for a given day, their juxtaposition, and even their [...]

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