Articles, ideas, and references I want to find again.
ignorethecode.net
Now that my book has been out for a while, I’ve seen a number of reviews on the web. Here are the ones I’ve found so far.1 Luiz A D R Marques: I highlighted tons of the book while reading on a Kindle (which has awfully slow highlighting!), because so much of it seemed useful. Si Dunn: There’s no code inside this…
LukeW | Digital Product Design + Strategy · Luke Wroblewski
In preparation for an online panel about Creating Sustainable Innovation, I've been thinking about what is really needed for innovation to thrive within an organization. Here's a few short but sweet quotes that summarize my current thinking.Innovation is in the hands of the hands-on. -Alan CooperStop avoiding risk…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
The Morning News - Headlines
Anwar al-Awlaki is the U.S.‘s first due-process-free citizen assassination. Details of the two-year al-Awlaki manhunt, which also led to death of al Qaeda’s magazine editor. Bahrain’s vicious crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators requires U.S. to cease arms sales. #opinions An overestimated economist and an…
A Whole Lotta Nothing · Matt Haughey
Flocations
via webintravel.com Thack event! The Flocations team is signed up to the Web In Travel and Tnooz 24 Hour Hackathon taking place on October 16! In anticipation of the WIT Conference, the Flocations team has signed up to drink beer and throw together some travel hacks... except for Tudor, he will probably just be…
timoni.org
“You can always feel when product/market fit isn’t happening. The customers aren’t quite getting value out of the product, word of mouth isn’t spreading, usage isn’t growing that fast, press reviews are kind of “blah”, the sales cycle takes too long, and lots of deals never close.” - The Pmarca Guide to Startups,…
Web Performance Today · Josh Bixby
The KISSmetrics Marketing Blog · Kristi Hines
Cardinal Path » Blog · Ani Lopez
KK Lifestream
Originally posted in The Technium The central argument of Jaron Lanier's intelligent and argumentative book, You Are Not a Gadget, is that technology wants us to become more like technology itself -- and this is a bad thing. Jaron believes that as technology advances humans tend to make themselves more machine-like…
The Art of Non-Conformity » 3×5 · Chris Guillebeau
Facebook Developer Blog
Marco.org
This talk by John Gruber and Merlin Mann at SXSW 2009 came up again from John’s link to a fan video, and it was a great reminder to redownload the audio and listen again. It has become much more famous than I imagine John or Merlin expected at the time, but I’m particularly fond of it because of my experience in the…
White African · admin
You want to see some quotes from the movie Avatar? Check out this cool resource – it’s a big list of Avatar quotes and it has all the highlights from the movie! I don’t know if you’ve seen Avatar but basically it’s the best movie that has been released over the last five years. Avatar [...]
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Adam Audette
Calvin Cheng at Odeon · Calvin Cheng
SpecificationByExample.com is a very good read with real-life examples of software projects executed by agile software development teams.The ProblemThe author, Gojko Adzic, explains why software projects fail. Software projects often fail as a result of a lacking of understanding of business goals by the software…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
ParisLemon
Tumblr's Dual Citizenship: bijan: The more I spend time on tumblr and pay attention to my own interactions, the more they are in sync with the data & metrics we see in the boardroom and on quantcast. The vast majority of interaction and engagement happens in the Tumblr feed which is called the Tumblr Dashboard.…
LukeW | Digital Product Design + Strategy · Luke Wroblewski
For the second time in a row, the Breaking Development conference brought together the latest thinking in mobile Web design and development. In case you missed it, here's my notes from all the sessions with links to each presenter's slides.There Is No Mobile WebJeremy Keith outlined why Web designers and developers…
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Dax Hamman
CNNGo All - All RSS Feeds · cfang
Travel agents may soon be out of a job with the beta launch of travel planning tool Qiito in October. Pronounced as "Key-Tow", the acronym stands for Quick, Interesting, Interactive, Travel Organizer. Positioned as an intuitive and conducive environment for travelers to plan trips with their buddies, the free service…
Both Sides of the Table · Mark Suster
Quantified Self · Alexandra Carmichael
Signal vs. Noise · Will Jessop
Christmas 2010 I had the idea to make a video of the 37signals homepage. I’d recently gained access to the relevant source code repositories and It seemed like a fun thing to do over a weekend. The result is the video below. It’s a timelapse of the 37signals.com homepage between March 2009 and January 2011. Enjoy!…
dullneon.com - random notes, links and pixels · jaffry
The Morning News - Headlines
Putin in action: looking at leopards, arm-wrestling, etc. #photos Psychologist Daniel Kahneman on how posters influence generosity and the impact of “vomit.” Carrots’ orange color began as a Dutch political tactic. via Doctors observe characters in famous paintings, diagnose them with STDs, rare diseases. Mysterious…
Assembla Blog · Adam Feber
Repository Updates: Triple Redundant Servers: Last weeks blog post covered the move of subversion repositories to the new triple redundant datacenter. There were a few network proxy errors, but we have fixed those and are monitoring traffic. This week we will continue to finish up the move that includes Git and…
Think Vitamin · Keir Whitaker
The KISSmetrics Marketing Blog · Sean Work
Cardinal Path » Blog · Alex Tomin