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Why I'm Rooting For Google+
"But in a perfect world you don't want to be dependent on any single one of them. The more social platforms of scale there are, and we have a bunch now, including Twitter, Tumblr, and Foursquare, the better world it will be for developers."
Google+  FredWilson  software  webapps  Google  social  Twitter  Facebook 
july 2011 by andrewspittle
Project Reclaim
Boone Gorges is undertaking a cool project to reclaim his digital footprint.
BooneGorges  webapps  software  open  opensource 
march 2011 by andrewspittle
Javascript: Breaking the Web with hash-bangs
Gawker's new JavaScript-dependent URL structure is an utter fail.
code  webapps  publishing  software  Gawker 
march 2011 by andrewspittle
The case of the mysterious external services
"It’s worth noting Nginx handled this traffic in the most performant manner as possible; unfortunately, it doesn’t help all that much when your web application launches a denial-of-service attack on itself."
DanielBachhuber  webapps  software  debugging  code  Nginx 
february 2011 by andrewspittle
Princeton Student Reveals Way to Access Students' Personal Data
"A Princeton University student whose Web site revealed the breadth of student information publicly available on Princeton servers has drawn criticism from the university and support from some students who say privacy safeguards should be tightened."
education  school  webapps  security  privacy 
february 2011 by andrewspittle
Smiley goes public: Now everyone can see how our customers feel about our customer support
37signals has made the results from their smiley app public. Pretty cool piece of software.
customerservice  support  happiness  37Signals  software  webapps 
february 2011 by andrewspittle
If Zucks hadn’t created it, someone of my generation would have made Facebook
"If Mark Zuckerburg hadn’t invented Facebook or Tom Whats-his-name hadn’t invented Myspace, someone would have created them anyway and a very similar product would have resulted because that is the natural progression of the web."
LaurenRabaino  webapps  software  Facebook 
february 2011 by andrewspittle
Why I was wrong about Quora as a blogging service
Robert Scoble writes about the problems with Quora as a blogging service.
RobertScoble  Quora  software  webapps 
february 2011 by andrewspittle
Explanations Worth Reading
Khoi Vinh writes about the use of instructional screens in web apps.
software  webapps  inspiration  KhoiVinh  design 
february 2011 by andrewspittle
Mom and Pop, At Web Scale
"Lifestyle businesses" on the web no longer need to feel limited in how many users they can scale to.
AnilDash  startups  webapps  software 
january 2011 by andrewspittle
How should a White House Quora Work?
The White House wants to build a question-answer community on the web. Anil Dash offers a few thoughts and a call to action for all.
AnilDash  politics  software  webapps  Quora 
january 2011 by andrewspittle
What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking
"I know that in 2010 it seems ridiculous to say anything other than “Facebook has won – the war is over” and I know that it feels that way right now. Facebook is so dominant it is astounding. In a complete return to where we all began with AOL – the world is “closed” again as Facebook has become this generation’s walled garden. When you’re on Facebook you’re not on the Internet – you’re on the InterNOT."
Facebook  webapps  software  business 
january 2011 by andrewspittle
Everything is dead
"But they fail to notice that everything is dead the same way RSS is, including their employers, their jobs, their way of life, etc etc. Because things change, and first visions of new things, even things that become wildly popular, are usually wrong."
DaveWiner  ScriptingNews  RSS  reading  webapps  software 
january 2011 by andrewspittle
All Media Is Social*
"All media is social because human beings are social. The only difference is that it happens much, much, much faster now. We’ve sped up the refresh rate in our mediated conversations so much that the previous version looks like it’s not moving at all."
DerekPowazek  software  webapps 
january 2011 by andrewspittle
Delivery As A Service
Anil Dash sees opportunity for a startup that provides delivery services for other companies. Urban Airship is a prime example.
webapps  software  code  AnilDash  startups 
january 2011 by andrewspittle
5 Ways to Debug WordPress
Andrew Nacin's tips for debugging WordPress development.
WordPress  code  software  webapps  AndrewNacin 
january 2011 by andrewspittle
The Dirty Truth About Web Passwords
"I'm not here to criticize Gawker. On the contrary, I'd like to thank them for illustrating in broad, bold relief the dirty truth about website passwords: we're all better off without them. If you'd like to see a future web free of Gawker style password compromises -- stop trusting every random internet site with a unique username and password! Demand that they allow you to use your internet driver's license -- that is, your existing Twitter, Facebook, Google, or OpenID credentials -- to log into their website."
security  Gawker  JeffAtwood  webapps 
december 2010 by andrewspittle
Why a Day of Tumblr Down Time Matters to the Entire Web & World
Marshall Kirkpatick writes a great piece about what it means for the web that Tumblr went down for almost 24 hours.
Tumblr  MarshallKirkpatrick  ReadWriteWeb  webapps  software 
december 2010 by andrewspittle
Get Started with Git
The basics of getting started with Git for version control.
software  webapps  alistapart 
december 2010 by andrewspittle
Challenges in quitting Twitter and Facebook
Daniel reflects on some of the challenges in leaving Twitter and Facebook behind.
Facebook  Twitter  danielbachhuber  software  webapps 
december 2010 by andrewspittle
The Implications Of Blogging
"Similarly, it's likely that the future of blogging -- and the future spread of knowledge -- will reflect the characteristics of whatever blog platform achieves dominance. Increasingly it appears that the winner will be WordPress."
wordpress  blogging  writing  software  webapps 
november 2010 by andrewspittle
RoR
Instead of complaining about how hard it is to find technical co-founders Kate Ray argues that it can be easier to just learn the skills yourself.
KateRay  Kommons  software  webapps  learning 
november 2010 by andrewspittle
Gov 2.0 goes local
A quick summary and look at ongoing Gov 2.0 projects.
politics  software  webapps  data  oreilly  information 
october 2010 by andrewspittle
Escaping the News Hall of Mirrors
"I want software that is smart enough to parse the anarchy of the web and tell me what is a reflection and what is not, and I want everyone else to have this software too."
journalism  software  webapps 
october 2010 by andrewspittle
Hey guys, whatcha doing?
Benjamin Stein wonders whether alpha geeks have moved on to new technology or whether they now using consumer tech.
software  webapps 
october 2010 by andrewspittle
Why It Might Not Be Easy to Fix Digg
"I think the site's gameability, though, generated what our own John Gould calls "microhate." Casual users still visited the site but they were frequently mildly annoyed. Users knew that they were practically excluded from participating actively in the site. Or worse, their contributions were worthless, despite the site's nominal "democratic" voting methods."
Digg  theatlantic  software  webapps  design 
october 2010 by andrewspittle
Someone Could Make a Lot of Money with Personal Finance Software
Khoi Vinh's ideas for finance software.
finance  khoivinh  design  webapps  software 
october 2010 by andrewspittle
Why Johnny Can't Program: A New Medium Requires A New Literacy
"For me, however, our inability and refusal to contend with the underlying biases of the programs and networks we all use is less a threat to our military or economic superiority than to our experience and autonomy as people. I can't think of a time when we seemed so ready to accept such a passive relationship to a medium or technology."
education  software  webapps 
october 2010 by andrewspittle
The Twitter Brand and What Comes Next
Khoi Vinh's thoughts on the future of the Twitter brand.
twitter  khoivinh  webapps  software  design 
october 2010 by andrewspittle
Future Searching
"I've written before on how great it would be if you could easily search for a shared car ride, or for a group of people to play a pickup soccer game in an hour. All of these functions are in some form of existence or evolution, but imagine a world in which the types of searches I described are easy and common."
ScottAdams  search  webapps 
september 2010 by andrewspittle
using notational velocity
One interesting way of using Notational Velocity.
NotationalVelocity  webapps  software  writing 
september 2010 by andrewspittle
What is a (news) CMS?
Max Cutler's ideas about a new project, and a new way of managing news content.
wordpress  MaxCutler  journalism  webapps  software 
september 2010 by andrewspittle
Web services should be both federated and extensible
Wise words on the future of web services from Chris Dixon.
chrisdixon  webapps  software 
september 2010 by andrewspittle
The Very Last Thing I’ll Write About Twitter
"Some time ago, I circulated a document internally with a straightforward thesis: Twitter needs to decentralize or it will die. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not even in a decade, but it was (and, I think, remains) my belief that all communications media will inevitably be decentralized, and that all businesses who build walled gardens will eventually see them torn down."
twitter  alexpayne  webapps  dataintegrity  information 
september 2010 by andrewspittle
Announcing Kommons Beta
Cody Brown launches the beta for kommons. It's absolutely blowing my mind.
CodyBrown  webapps  software  kommons 
september 2010 by andrewspittle
How to reboot RSS
Dave Winer's ideas for how to reboot RSS.
davewiner  scriptingnews  rss  webapps  software 
september 2010 by andrewspittle
With a Little Help From His Friends
"At 19, Sean Parker helped create Napster. At 24, he was founding president of Facebook. At 30, he’s the hard-partying, press-shy genius of social networking, a budding billionaire, and about to be famous—played by Justin Timberlake in David Fincher’s new film, The Social Network."
SeanParker  Facebook  Napster  webapps  software  VanityFair 
september 2010 by andrewspittle
Tumblr2WordPress: Export Your Tumblr To WordPress
An export tool to get content from Tumblr into WordPress.
wordpress  tumblr  webapps 
september 2010 by andrewspittle
All You Need is Simplenote
Shawn Blanc's review of Simplenote.
apps  tools  writing  shawnblanc  webapps 
august 2010 by andrewspittle
Good Help is Hard to Find
Good advice on documentation, user support, and making sure software and websites are displaying content in a user-friendly manner.
alistapart  design  webapps  support 
august 2010 by andrewspittle
Idea Shaping
One idea at a time. Preferably one you love.
spencerfry  webapps  startups  business 
august 2010 by andrewspittle
How to boot a federated social network, now
Dave Winer's thoughts on how to boot a social network now.
davewiner  scriptingnews  webapps  social 
august 2010 by andrewspittle
Cookie Madness!
Jeff Jarvis critiques the recent Wall Street Journal article about cookies and news sites.
webapps  jeffjarvis  buzzmachine  privacy  security 
august 2010 by andrewspittle
Reports of blogging's death have been greatly exaggerated
"When blogging was the easiest, most prominent way to produce short, informal, thinking-aloud pieces for the net, we all blogged. Now that we have Twitter, social media platforms and all the other tools that continue to emerge, many of us are finding that the material we used to save for our blogs has a better home somewhere else. And some of us are discovering that we weren't bloggers after all – but blogging was good enough until something more suited to us came along."
blogging  writing  webapps  CoryDoctorow 
august 2010 by andrewspittle
Graphs
"A graph consists of a set of nodes connected by edges. The original internet graph is the web itself, where webpages are nodes and links are edges. In social graphs, the nodes are people and the edges friendship."
chrisdixon  Facebook  Google  Hunch  webapps 
august 2010 by andrewspittle
Why didn't Google Wave boot up?
Dave Winer's take on why Google Wave never booted up into a significantly successful platform.
Google  davewiner  scriptingnews  webapps  software 
august 2010 by andrewspittle
Media Companies Try Getting Social With Tumblr
Or yet another example of "It's not the tool stupid." The same can be accomplished with many tools, it's the mindset of a news organization that needs to change.
tumblr  nytimes  journalism  webapps  design 
august 2010 by andrewspittle
Rackspace ends cloud lock-in
Rackspace makes a bold move by open sourcing its core tech.
RobertScoble  webapps  software  opensource 
july 2010 by andrewspittle
How Not To Be Seen
"History never repeats, but it does rhyme.  We share everything now; we worry that we overshare.  Now it’s time to take our sharing to the next level.  We need a social2.0, something that reflects what we’ve learned in the past half-dozen years."
MarkPesce  privacy  knowledgesystems  webapps  software  Facebook 
july 2010 by andrewspittle
Can Posterous be all things to all people? It's trying
Interesting analysis: "It's far easier to create and extract value from a platform's power users, yet Posterous seems to think that it can do okay by getting other platforms' 'weakest hands' to fold."
Posterous  WordPress  software  webapps  business 
july 2010 by andrewspittle
People hosting their own servers
Dave Winer discusses how Scripting2 will be set up to provide a turn-key solution for bloggers.
blogging  software  webapps  davewiner  scriptingnews 
july 2010 by andrewspittle
Airbnb
Interesting model for finding rooms to stay in for the night. h/t @laurenmichell
travel  webapps 
july 2010 by andrewspittle
Zootool
Interesting service for creating a linkroll of images, video, documents, and pages that are worthy of saving.
tools  webapps  knowledgesystems 
june 2010 by andrewspittle
Googlethink
Nicholas Carr is getting a bit paranoid about Google and web services.
Google  theatlantic  security  privacy  webapps 
june 2010 by andrewspittle
Closing the Digital Frontier
What happens to the relative openness of the web that we've grown accustomed to in an era when apps come to dominate content and interaction?
theatlantic  webapps  software  iPhone 
june 2010 by andrewspittle
Pivoting
"Ask yourself: if you started over today, would you build the same product?  If not, consider significant changes to what you are building."
webapps  software  business  chrisdixon  strategy  startups 
june 2010 by andrewspittle
Everything you need to know about the internet
A surprisingly good primer on the 9 central aspects of the web and internet.
webapps  TheGuardian 
june 2010 by andrewspittle
More thoughts on URL shorteners.
Everything you want to know about URL shorteners and what they potentially mean for the web.
webapps  software  Twitter  Google 
june 2010 by andrewspittle
Misreading Tehran: The Twitter Devolution
Perhaps Twitter didn't have as large as role as we like to think in Iran.
Iran  Twitter  webapps  politics  world 
june 2010 by andrewspittle
Web Services as Governments
A somewhat useful metaphor for thinking of web services as governments.
software  webapps  startups  venturecapital 
june 2010 by andrewspittle
Goodbye, headaches. Hello, menus!
Justin Tadlock's thorough examination of how to integrate the new custom menus functionality of WordPress 3.0 into a theme.
WordPress  webapps  software  design 
june 2010 by andrewspittle
Flock Switches From Mozilla To Chromium For New Browser, But Is That Enough?
Flock has relaunched based upon Chromium and is also now no longer open source. Will be interesting to see if it gains any traction.
webapps  software  browsers 
june 2010 by andrewspittle
Downtime
Transparency is a good thing. Particularly when you're dealing with millions of blogs.
WordPress  MattMullenweg  webapps  software 
june 2010 by andrewspittle
Publish2’s Ryan Sholin: “We did not set out to kill the Associated Press”
Ryan Sholin answers some questions about Publish2's News Exchange and their presentation at TechCrunch Disrupt.
journalism  webapps  RyanSholin  Publish2  software 
june 2010 by andrewspittle
Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks
John Gruber rants agains Tynt, a company that attaches an attribution link to all copied text.
JohnGruber  DaringFireball  software  webapps  writing 
june 2010 by andrewspittle
Under the Radar
Why it is sometimes better to not have impressive tech coverage.
SpencerFry  webapps  software  startups 
june 2010 by andrewspittle
Hovers (and power users) still have a healthy future
Ryan from 37Signals explains why non-touch methods of interaction still have a future in the UI of webapps.
webapps  37signals  design  UI 
june 2010 by andrewspittle
The Real “Open Like”: New Link-sharing Protocol Gets Big Names on Board
Interesting new protocol being released for an open and distributed link-sharing system. Already has the likes of Google, Instapaper, and Digg on board.
Google  social  dataintegrity  webapps  Facebook  GigaOm 
june 2010 by andrewspittle
In praise of continuous deployment: The WordPress.com story
Toni Schneider discusses the mindset behind featured deployment on WordPress.com.
WordPress  webapps  software  ToniSchneider 
may 2010 by andrewspittle
A Canonical Identifier
Matt Pearson's idea for canonical identifiers for everything on the web. The idea: have one identifier that works for all services.
webapps  knowledgesystems 
may 2010 by andrewspittle
In WordPress, prefix everything
Andrew Nacin's tips on prefixing functions in WordPress.
WordPress  webapps  AndrewNacin  design 
may 2010 by andrewspittle
Understand The Web
A brilliant exposé of the problems inherent in thinking about cross-platform, open apps. Ben Ward rails against Adobe, Apple, etc. and proclaims the power of the web.
webapps  software  open  Adobe  Apple 
may 2010 by andrewspittle
What's missing in realtime.
"So in summary: I need to be able to isntall my own Twitter and move my presence to my own server, easily. And I need control over the look and feel of my site."
ScriptingNews  DaveWiner  real-time  Twitter  Facebook  WordPress  webapps  dataintegrity 
may 2010 by andrewspittle
Google Pitches a Web-Centric Future
At Google I/O Google announced its vision of a web-centric future filled with webapps that make heavy use of HTML5.
webapps  Google  software  NYTimes 
may 2010 by andrewspittle
Google Seeks to Hire “Head of Social”
Google is looking to hire a "Head of Social" to help it plan out a more effective presence on the social web.
Google  webapps 
may 2010 by andrewspittle
Tracking my book reading
Frustrations with the current systems of tracking reading habits. I would love to have a system that allows me to track information in a non-proprietary standard.
books  reading  ebooks  webapps  software 
may 2010 by andrewspittle
Decentralize the web with Diaspora
The Diaspora team gives their pitch for funding on Kickstarter. The idea for a decentralized, individually owned social network is great.
privacy  webapps  software  dataintegrity  identity 
may 2010 by andrewspittle
The toxic coral reef.
Dave Winer's concerns over the demise of certain coral reefs.
webapps  software  DaveWiner  Twitter  Facebook 
may 2010 by andrewspittle
The Basic Unit of Information
"More often than not, information architects are tasked with bringing out the best in an existing pile of content they have no control over. But in the news industry, we can reinvent both how our content should be stored/codified to bring out its potential and what that content should look like in the first place if it is to have any future at all."
knowledgesystems  metadata  journalism  webapps 
may 2010 by andrewspittle
BCNI Philly: APM’s Public Insight Network
Summary of American Public Media's new initiative to bring their audience deeper into the reporting process.
journalism  webapps  identity  DanielBachhuber 
may 2010 by andrewspittle
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