Pinboard: bookmarks for jimray tagged 'via:daringfireball'

"Just because a company has a huge and growing audience doesn’t mean it can find a huge revenue source." Especially when that audience is fickle college students who don't want to pay for anything and hate ads.

business money web2.0 via:daringfireball tumbl
october 2007 by jimray

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Nokia buys Navteq for $8.1B

Navteq provides all of the maps for Google, Yahoo and Live. Also, $8.1B for a company with an actual product vs. the insane valuations that have been bandied about for Facebook, which has, at best, a bunch of college kids trying to sleep with each other.

maps mobile tumbl via:daringfireball
october 2007 by jimray

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Nintendo is the number one console maker for the first time in 17 years

Has now outsold the Xbox 360, which had a one year head start. Unbelievable.

videogames wii awesome via:daringfireball tumbl
september 2007 by jimray

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Jobs offers Apple Lisa early adopters $7,000 store credit

"Sales figures from that year show that if all people who bought the computer claim the refund, Apple could be liable for almost $70,000."

apple funny via:daringfireball tumbl
september 2007 by jimray

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ISO rejects Microsoft's Open XML format

"Some critics of Microsoft blamed the company’s own aggressive lobbying for its defeat." Or maybe the fact that Open XML sucks ass.

standards xml via:daringfireball microsoft tumbl
september 2007 by jimray

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Warner Home Video set to release the Stanley Kubrick Collection at the end of October

Apparently "Eyes Wide Shut" will be the uncensored version without all those stupid graphics covering up people's naughty bits. Also, the packaging design on the box looks atrocious.

movies via:daringfireball kubrick tumbl consume
august 2007 by jimray

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SproutCore is a framework written in Javascript

An MVC framework written by Charles Jolley, who started work on the project before being hired by Apple. Nifty.

webdev javascript apple via:daringfireball tumbl
august 2007 by jimray

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The Open Library

A new, incredibly ambitious project from Aaron Swartz and Brewster Kahle, to catalog every book in existence.

books writing libraries via:daringfireball tumbl
july 2007 by jimray

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Personal finance service Wesabi releases an API

Not just for their site but for every account Wesabe supports - in other words, your bank and credit cards now have APIs. [This is good]

via:daringfireball money apis awesome tumbl
july 2007 by jimray

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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: A Letter to Optimus Prime From His GEICO Auto Insurance Agent.

"I suggest that next time you either settle things peaceably or leave your Autobot Matrix of Leadership at home so it doesn't break. GEICO does not cover Autobot Matrix of Leaderships." So. Good.

via:daringfireball funny geek parody tumbl
july 2007 by jimray

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A great high level overview of how SSL works

With a quick primer on public key cryptography for the kids!

cryptography networking webdev via:daringfireball security
june 2007 by jimray

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Beastie Boys on Flickr!

Beastie Boys! On Flickr!!

via:daringfireball flickr music awesome tumbl
june 2007 by jimray

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Hype machine indeed

The AP certainly knows hype when the see it - Apple has written six press releases about the iPhone this year, the AP has run 16 stories about said phone in the past two weeks.

funny apple media iphone tumbl via:daringfireball
june 2007 by jimray

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Rolling Stone looks at the record industry's decline
2read via:daringfireball music
june 2007 by jimray

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Fake Paul Thurrott

"Dude, I run the most popular Windows site on the planet. Have you read it?" Brilliantly executed.

funny bloggers via:daringfireball tumbl
june 2007 by jimray

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E-mail is not a platform for design

"E-mail was invented so people could quickly exchange text messages over fast or slow or really slow connections, using simple, non-processor-intensive applications on any computing platform, or using phones, or hand-held devices, or almost anything else

brilliant email design awesome via:daringfireball webdev tumbl
june 2007 by jimray

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London 2012 logo causes epileptic seizures?

I seriously thought this was a joke

design olympics branding funny? via:daringfireball marketing dumb tumbl
june 2007 by jimray

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10 reasons to love the London 2012 logo

Different, reproducable, flexible? Sure. But also ugly.

via:daringfireball branding design olympics tumbl
june 2007 by jimray

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Niall Kennedy on why every good domain name is taken

A tiny evolutionary step above spammers on the chart of "Why the internet sucks in 2007" (like DJ Shadow said, it's the money)

webdev via:daringfireball tumbl domains money
may 2007 by jimray

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Silverlight 1.1 for Macs will be Intel only

This is the version that integrates the .NET runtime. I don't have a huge problem with this as 1.1 is 6-8 months out anyway and a year or more from serious penetration.

silverlight webdev microsoft mac tumbl via:daringfireball
may 2007 by jimray

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Apple releases an open source scripting-to-Cocoa bridge framework

BridgeSupport is currently used by PyObjC and RubyCocoa

via:daringfireball mac programming cocoa ruby python tumbl
may 2007 by jimray

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Drunken Batman is back

As another of my favorite Mac bloggers might say: Namaste

awesome mac bloggers via:daringfireball
may 2007 by jimray

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Fake Steve on Murdoch buying The Journal

"But wait a minute. Isn't profit good? Shouldn't the market be allowed to work? [...] now Murdoch is offering a nearly 70% premium and you reporters are urging owners not to take it? Oh, Journal hacks, you are a bunch of frauds."

newspapers media via:daringfireball tumbl
may 2007 by jimray

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Scripting with RubyOSA

Good intro on how to control your Mac with Ruby

mac ruby programming applescript via:daringfireball
may 2007 by jimray

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Joyent releases Slingshot

Offline Rails desktop extender gets official, source code coming in a month

rubyonrails joyent webdev via:daringfireball
may 2007 by jimray

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gSpell is an OS X service that uses the Google spell check algorithm

Wicked cool because it includes all kinds of statistical anomalies and colloquialisms that the average dictionary doesn't know about. Smart!

google writing software mac tumbl via:daringfireball
april 2007 by jimray

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Steven Frank, one of the Panic devs, dishes on Coda

The integrated visual CSS editor and documentation look incredibly sweet

mac software webdev via:daringfireball
april 2007 by jimray

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When Twittering hurts

Overrated blogger Steve Rubel Twitters that he doesn't like PC Mag. They get their panties in a twist, kinda threaten to boycott Rubel's employer Edelman (for what exactly? putting out a shitty tech shill mag?) and Rubel apologizes. Feh.

twitter via:daringfireball tumbl blogging dumb
april 2007 by jimray

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Apple TV Hacks

Upgrade the hard drive, enable remote desktop, have it play XVID files, cook breakfast, pet your cat, wash the dog...

via:daringfireball hardware apple television hacks
march 2007 by jimray

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Joyent Slingshot is an virtual machine for Ruby on Rails apps

Now you can access your data from your Rails-based apps locally, offline.

brilliant software webdev rubyonrails programming awesome tumbl via:daringfireball
march 2007 by jimray

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Mark Pilgrim is going to work for Google

It's weird, I honestly thought he'd been working there for years

via:daringfireball google awesome
march 2007 by jimray

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Todd Dominey is going full time with SlideShowPro, more apps to come
design via:daringfireball tumbl photography startup
march 2007 by jimray

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Remixed TV themes from the 80's

From Fatal Farm, the guys who brought you Infinite Solutions. These are awesome, probably not safe for work.

80s funny via:daringfireball television parody video tumbl
march 2007 by jimray

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Black Sheep trailer

I hate scary movies but love scary movie parodies, this one looks like it's got potential

via:daringfireball tumbl movies funny
march 2007 by jimray

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Idiocratic Design

More background movie design, this time from Mike Judge's brilliant "Idiocracy"

via:daringfireball design movies advertising funny
february 2007 by jimray

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Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll

New York Mag piece on how kids these days are putting their entire lives online and how us old folks just don't get it (sorta)

privacy culture internet via:daringfireball
february 2007 by jimray

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What does Marsellus Wallace look like?

Brilliant typographic treatment of an iconic Pulp Fiction scene

brilliant typography movies via:daringfireball
february 2007 by jimray

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London Times redesigns

Excepting that green, looks sharp. More <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/debate/feedback/article1184076.ece">from the designers</a> and the <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/debate/feedback/article1184010.ece">IA</a>

media design newspapers via:daringfireball
february 2007 by jimray

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Fork JavaScript

JS library attempting to combine the best of YUI and Prototype with a liberal license

javascript webdev via:daringfireball
january 2007 by jimray

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Wiimote working with Mac Torque game engine
videogames via:daringfireball mac wii
december 2006 by jimray

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DarwiinRemote

Use your Wiimote with your Mac. I love this.

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december 2006 by jimray

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Wii Safety: The Missing Pages

"As demonstrated by our favorite gadget site Gizmodo."

via:daringfireball nintendo wii videogames funny
december 2006 by jimray

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New Parallels build lets you boot from your BootCamp partition

Rock. The Coherence feature looks freaking sweet as well - as Gruber says, Windows is the new Classic.

via:daringfireball mac software windows virtualization awesome
december 2006 by jimray

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Charting Answers

I sort of hate all thirdparty stat tracker apps, but it seems pretty obvious that Yahoo Answers was kicking the crap outta Google

google yahoo via:daringfireball
november 2006 by jimray

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The Windows Shutdown crapfest

When bad bureaucracy happens to good devs. This dude works at Google now...

microsoft google via:daringfireball design windows programming
november 2006 by jimray

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Google, Microsoft and Yahoo agree on unified sitemaps standard

This makes sense

google search yahoo microsoft webdev via:daringfireball
november 2006 by jimray

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Bare Bones Software : SUPPORT : YOJIMBO : Archived Release Notes : Yojimbo 1.3 Release Notes

Yojimbo now has tags, which means I will now purchase it

mac software via:daringfireball
november 2006 by jimray

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REST Web Services

This should be required reading for anyone who plans on being a web developer

books webdev rest webservices programming via:daringfireball
november 2006 by jimray

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Hex Color Picker

Use HTML hexadecimal color codes in the OS X color panel. Why isn't this built in by default?

via:daringfireball mac software webdev
october 2006 by jimray

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Apple - Support - Downloads - MacBook SMC Firmware Update 1.1

Addresses random shutdown issues

mac hardware via:daringfireball
october 2006 by jimray

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Free e-book on Cocoa/Objective-C development
via:daringfireball mac development programming objectivec cocoa
october 2006 by jimray

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Review: ZigVersion 1.0.1

Sounds awesome. $140 awesome?

subversion software mac via:daringfireball
october 2006 by jimray

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Ruby-applescript bridge

Automate your Mac with Ruby

ruby applescript mac software via:daringfireball
october 2006 by jimray

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Ruby Linguistics

English language foibiles, box.en.plural => boxes

ruby programming via:daringfireball language
october 2006 by jimray

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Limbo, an absolutely beautiful looking game

I love the atmosphere - if there were more games like this, I'd be a gamer

beautiful design videogames via:daringfireball
october 2006 by jimray

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Windows Vista has new Reduced Functionality Mode

And it's a feature! This is screaming to get hacked.

dumb microsoft windows vista via:daringfireball
october 2006 by jimray

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Wicked cool effects reel from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I like the sound of the editors whirling in the background - this is really well done

brilliant design film video via:daringfireball
october 2006 by jimray

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Free phone!

Jeremy Bogan set up a system where he can forward a telemarketer to another line, which is fed a random sampling of quotes to keep the telemarketer on the line as long as possible. Hilarity ensues.

annoyances funny via:daringfireball
august 2006 by jimray

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Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt Joins Apple’s Board of Directors

Interesting that Apple treats Google as a partner not a competitor.

apple google via:daringfireball
august 2006 by jimray

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Jason Hoffman likes Google Analytics

High praise indeed

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august 2006 by jimray

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Most Americans don't think evolution is true

"Thirty-four countries were polled, and guess what? We score 33rd - edging out Turkey for last place."