A Whole Lotta Nothing · mathowie
The Eye-Fi mobi card is the real deal
Back in 2006, I was an avid user of Flickr and was asked to help test a new camera card that was going to offer uploading via WiFi. At the...
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Feed: stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
The iPhone 6: From Louis Vuitton to Chanel
Yves Carcelle, who, in the words of the New York Times “transformed Louis Vuitton from a staid French maker of handbags and travel trunks into one of the world’s most recognizable luxury brands” died over the weekend. I have a short note in today’s Daily Update (members only) that compared Louis Viutton to Apple:…
ParisLemon
The Soderberghian style, sex, and settings of 'Out Of Sight'
The Soderberghian style, sex, and settings of 'Out Of Sight': Noel Murray: We should acknowledge how great George Clooney is in this movie. Jennifer Lopez is wonderful too—so much so that it’s a shame she didn’t stay the course as a movie star, rather than focusing so much of her energy on pop music—but Clooney has…
Yoast · Joost de Valk
WordPress SEO Tutorial Videos
One of the returning questions we get from customers is for better tutorial videos for our SEO plugin. That’s no “simple” thing as we quite regularly update the plugin and add new features to it, changing the interface. So we’ve teamed up with Shawn Hesketh, from WP101, who has created (and will continue to update)…
Yoast · Willemien Hallebeek
Clean up your site structure: how to reorganize your website
At a certain point, your website can grow to a monstrous collection of pages. You may realize that you have too many items in your menu and that the coherence of your website is nowhere to be found. Time to clean this mess up! But where to start? It’s a tough job, and sometimes it […] The post Clean up your site…
Assembla Blog · andy@assembla.com (Andy Singleton)
Make Fast IT work for you
Fast IT projects are Web sites, mobile apps, digital marketing, SaaS integrations, and other projects that need monthly or weekly planning. We find a lot of these projects on Assembla. The Fast IT concept has been helpful for our customers who are trying to manage these projects with increasing professionalism. We…
ThinkUp Blog · michellej
"Have you heard of evaporative social cooling? It says the people who provide the most value to a..."
“Have you heard of evaporative social cooling? It says the people who provide the most value to a social group or organization eventually burn out and leave, undermining the stability and progress of the group. Most of my internet friends have been on Twitter since 2008, so they probably fall into this group. How…
Asymco · Horace Dediu
Apparel is next
If software can be injected into an industry’s product it will bend to the will of the software writers. This theory expands on Marc Andreessen’s observation that “software is eating the world”. The evidence is that software, coupled with microprocessors, sensors, batteries and networking becomes applicable to an…
timoni.org
"Ever seen Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs? Forget about it. Marketers still learn it in school,..."
“Ever seen Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs? Forget about it. Marketers still learn it in school, but psychologists left it behind a long time ago. There are 14 things that humans will always be motivated to gain or protect: Avoiding death, avoiding pain, air, water, food, homeostasis (bodily functions), sleep, sex,…
Marco.org
The Wirecutter’s Headphones
Lauren Dragan’s guide at The Wirecutter, The Best $300 Over-Ear Headphones, was updated yesterday, the same day I published my similar mega-review.1 We agree on a lot: our opinions are very close on the PSB M4U 1 (their top pick), B&O H6, and B&W P7. We only have a few major disagreements: They dismissed my…
ParisLemon
"The sick thing is that these companies are selling to those who are less fortunate. I really think..."
“The sick thing is that these companies are selling to those who are less fortunate. I really think that manufacturing a product that you know is killing people should be against the law and that you should prosecute those who do it. It’s murder like anything else.” - Michael Bloomberg, talking to The New York Times…
Inside Facebook · Mary Long
Inspiration is the new currency for Facebook likes
The Facebook marketing free ride is over (in case you haven’t heard), and brands are scrambling to find a free way to interact with potential clients. So what is the new currency for Facebook likes? When thinking of...
Pinboard - bookmarking for introverts · maciej@pinboard.in (Maciej Ceglowski)
Sunsetting Delicious
Since the birth of the site, Pinboard has always offered a Delicious sync feature. You could enter your Delicious username on the settings page, and the site would periodically poll your public Delicious feed and add any new bookmarks it found. Because Delicious appears to be in a terminal coma, and because working…
The Morning News - Headlines
August 19, 2014
Ferguson PD—95% white in a city that’s two-thirds black—needs more black officers and fewer heavy weapons. Ta-Nehisi Coates on America’s history of total police control over black bodies. No longer Invisible Man: Jordan Casteel’s paintings of black men. This is how the sun sees you. UV light reveals otherwise…
davetrott · Dave Trott
PURPOSE BEYOND PROFIT
A J Lovewins was living on the streets of Seattle for five years. He managed to get off the streets by helping run a soup kitchen. For people, like himself, who just needed a break. Read more on PURPOSE BEYOND PROFIT…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
If Police in Ferguson Treat Journalists Like This, Imagine How They Treat Residents
David Simon · David Simon
The endgame for American civic responsibility. Pt. I
I’m going to write something fresh about Ferguson, Missouri, and the once-extraordinary notion that law enforcement officers — uniquely authorized, trained and armed as they are to use lethal force against American civilians in peacetime as is necessary to serve the commonweal — need not be identified when they have…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Links for 2014-08-14
BAI says Mooney Show was wrong to broadcast programme supporting same-sex marriage This is a terrible decision. As Fintan O’Toole wrote afterwards: [The] ‘BAI decision actually makes the point: a gay couple is a political “issue”; a straight couple is just a couple’ (tags: ireland law bai radio derek-mooney…
Inside Facebook · Justin Lafferty
Why are passion pages so popular on Facebook?
There’s a group of pages that achieve loads of organic reach, with little Facebook advertising involved. How are they doing it? Through passion. Passion pages — like “Architecture & Engineering,” or “Welcome to the Internet,” —...
Google Webmaster Central Blog · Google Webmaster Central
HTTPS as a ranking signal
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Apple Publishes Employee Diversity Numbers
Anil Dash · Anil
The Semiotics of Like
We don't do nearly enough to examine what it means when we perform common actions on our social networks. These aren't just guttural, reflexive responses!...
Schneier on Security · schneier
Irrational Fear of Risks Against Our Children
A List Apart: The Full Feed
The Most Dangerous Word In Software Development
“Just put it up on a server somewhere.” “Just add a favorite button to the right side of the item.” “Just add [insert complex option here] to the settings screen.” Usage of the word “just” points to a lot of assumptions being made. A few months ago, Brad Frost shared some thoughts on how the word applies to…
timoni.org
"Speaking during an Eid el-Fitr meeting on July 28, [State Ministers of Turkey and Vice-Prime..."
“Speaking during an Eid el-Fitr meeting on July 28, [State Ministers of Turkey and Vice-Prime Minister Bülent] Arınç described his ideal of the chaste man or woman, saying they should both have a sense of shame and honor. “Chastity is so important. It is not only a name. It is an ornament for both women and men.…
Kalzumeus Software · Patrick
Harry Potter And The Cryptocurrency of Stars
If you’re wondering why my blog suddenly has Harry Potter fanfic click this to show the spoiler otherwise it might be more fun to dive right in. Recently, a new cryptocurrency called Stellar was announced. This happens on a daily basis these days, and the vast majority of them amount to nothing. Stellar, on the […]
timoni.org
"“When people perceive someone as low in competence and easily misled, they assume the person will..."
““When people perceive someone as low in competence and easily misled, they assume the person will not scrutinize lies, and that you can get away with [lying],” says Kray. Participants were asked to report how likely they thought other people would be to take advantage of a male or female buyer, and the participants…
grinding.be · m1k3y
welcome to the grim meathook present
My saddest photo yet. From #ISS we can actually see explosions and rockets flying over #Gaza & #Israel pic.twitter.com/jNGWxHilSy — Alexander Gerst (@Astro_Alex) July 23, 2014 The Red Alert: Israel platform (for iOS and Android) “has turned into a way for people throughout Israel and around the world to show…
Both Sides of the Table · Mark Suster
The Changing Structure of the VC Industry
There has been much discussion in the past few years of […]
Rands in Repose · rands
The internet is still at the beginning of its beginning
From Kevin Kelly on Medium: But, but…here is the thing. In terms of the internet, nothing has happened yet. The internet is still at the beginning of its beginning. If we could climb into a time machine and journey 30 years into the future, and from that vantage look back to today, we’d realize that… More#
timoni.org
"he Hunger Games has this same feminist problem. Other than the initial volunteering to replace her..."
“he Hunger Games has this same feminist problem. Other than the initial volunteering to replace her younger sister, Katniss never makes any decisions of her own, never acts with consequence— but her life is constructed to appear that she makes important decisions. She has free will, of course, like any five year old…
BBH Labs · Mel Exon
Wearables And the Peak of Inflated Expectations
Another in our occasional repostings of our monthly tech column written for Marketing Magazine. This one on wearables and why Nike’s decision to ditch development of Fuelband is a course correction, not a category bail-out. The original article appeared here on 02.06.14. The news in April that Nike may be…
Cognition by Happy Cog · Cat Farman
Grunt Plugins Reviewed
The movement towards designing with performance budgets in mind has inspired more fist pumps and vuvuzela bleating in this developer than the recent World Cup. Thinking through the ramifications of design choices for site performance makes it easier for me to build a fast website when development begins. But when it…
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Stoney deGeyter
The World’s Quickest (Authentic) SEO & Marketing Audit In 12+1 Steps
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Jim Yu
Three SEO Personas – Are You One Of Them?
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Barry Schwartz
Google’s Quality Rating Guide Leaked Again; Here Is Version Five
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
George Orwell: ‘Politics and the English Language’
Blogs | design mind · Andrew Haskin
Google’s Material Design Video Recreated in Keynote
During this year’s annual I/O conference, Google revealed Material Design, a responsive design language that aims to unify all their products, platforms, and devices. Google's promotional video amplifies the compelling theory of a rationalized space and system of motion found in Material. Videos like this are common…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Links for 2014-07-16
Calendar Hacks Some great tips on managing a busy calendar, from Etsy’s managers. Block out time; refuse double-booked meetings by default; rely on apps; office hours. Thankfully I have a pretty slim calendar these days, but bookmarking for future use… (tags: calendar etsy via:kellan google google-calendar…
MailChimp Email Marketing Blog · John
Insights from MailChimp’s Send Time Optimization System
Late last year, MailChimp rolled out our Send Time Optimization feature. Built on the Email Genome Project, which powers many of our other products, Send Time Optimization does just what you’d think: It suggests to users when they should send their campaigns. "So," you might be thinking, "when is the optimal time to…
ParisLemon
"The iPad of Vacuums"
"The iPad of Vacuums": Yes, I’m linking to the Farhad Manjoo vacuum piece again. But I find it interesting: Your phone can’t do as much as your computer, but because it’s right there in your pocket and starts up in a flash, you might spend a lot more time on it than on your PC. The DC59 offers the same wonderful…
Google Webmaster Central Blog · Google Webmaster Central