Amazing Brain (2)
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There are many things I love about my wife Amy, but I especially like her brain. Over the holidays, she came up with the idea for having a year of living alphabetically. As a writer, she spends a lot of time with words and – besides have one of the most amazing vocabularies I’ve ever encountered (I don’t every have to use the lookup feature on the kindle – I just should “Amy, what does ...
Increasing The Efficiency of Lawyers (3)
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I have 2,143 lawyer jokes queued up. Here’s a good one: The devil visited a lawyer’s office and made him an offer. "I can arrange some things for you, " the devil said. "I’ll increase your income five-fold. Your partners will love you; your clients will respect you; you’ll have four months of vacation each year and live to be a hundred. All I require in return is that your wife’s soul, your children’s souls, ...
A gentle introduction to video encoding, part 4: captioning (9)
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[Part of an ongoing series.] The first thing you need to know about captions and subtitles is that captions and subtitles are different. The second thing you need to know about captions and subtitles is that you can safely ignore the differences unless you’re creating your own from scratch. I’m going to use the terms interchangeably throughout this article, which will probably drive you crazy if you happen to know and care about the difference. ...
If You Thought SaaS Was Annoying, The Cloud Babies Will Piss You Off! (3)
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I’ve been enjoying a spirited exchange with some of the Enteprise Irregulars around SaaS and Big Software for the Enterprise. I won’t bore you with too many of the details, but we wound up in one of the classic cul de sacs these arguments often do. Big Software was expressing their annoyance that once again incredible magic was being claimed, “Because it was SaaS.” They were so annoyed at all the hype they percieved SaaS ...
Encouraged Commentary: Bringing Natural Conversational Dynamics to Commenting (27)
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Commenting on blogs is - by and large - broken. Designed with the hope of proffering interaction among bloggers and readers, commenting has generally devolved into a series of one-off responses with little actual conversation. Why? It's not designed to facilitate conversations. That's why you see any number of people - Intense Debate and Disqus, most notably - working to provide technology that enhances the conversational dynamic. Now, a new open source project from Jim ...
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Jarred said:
This is really cool... I hope Disqus might be able to integrate this into their system.
Rap the pain away (1)
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Eighteen-year-old Bakhtawar Bhutto raps a tribute to her murdered mum. It sounds like British Asian rap laced with Tupac. Bakhtawar studies at Edinburgh U. (thanks, Sapna)
Internet Marketing's Words That Sound too Good to be True (6)
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Words that sound good are often used in marketing by those in dire need of credibility, or those promoting a warped view of reality needed to justify their own business models. Many catch words and phrases obtain an Orwellian opposite meaning, due to such usage. Some examples? from SEOs... below radar network = huge obvious footprint ethical SEO = while the search engines are not our clients, we put them above our clients (or, we ...
Apple’s iPhoto ‘09 Integrates Facebook Connect for Easier Photo Sharing (7)
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Among the many announcements at Macworld today, Apple announced that iPhoto ‘09, part of the iLife ‘09 suite, now includes integration with Facebook through Facebook Connect. Overall, it’s a nice and simple integration with a few new features that make iPhoto ‘09 much more usable in conjunction with Facebook: Now, you can publish photos to Facebook with custom privacy settings on each of your photo albums. In addition, you can sync friend tags in photos ...
Paging General Gupta. The country needs you...STAT (2)
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By about 3:30p.m. eastern this afternoon, every South Asian American in the country (and their mother) had already heard that Sanjay Gupta was on the verge of being announced the next Surgeon General of the United States: President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of surgeon general to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the neurosurgeon and correspondent for CNN and CBS, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation.Gupta has told administration officials that he wants ...
Disqus2FF Mashes Up Fractured Conversations (17)
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Who really owned the comments... the original poster or the aggregation site that "stole them away" was one of the biggest small-time blog wars on the Web in 2008. Whether bloggers were complaining about seeing comments and conversation moved from their blog and instead taking place on FriendFeed, Socialmedian or Shyftr, or debating whether they could trust comments in the cloud, it became clear that the only consensus was that there would be no consensus. ...
Blending the link and query-click graphs (5)
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A fun paper out of Yahoo Research, "Dr. Searcher and Mr. Browser: A Unified Hyperlink-Click Graph" (PDF), looks at the value of combining two graphs that search engines typically use as part of static and dynamic ranking, the query-click bipartite graph (which shows what pages people click on immediately after searching) and the link graph (which shows hyperlinks between pages on the Web).The query-click graph is a bipartite graph with queries on one side and ...
Musing about the internet and politics (3)
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When I spent time studying change management, two aspects of the process intrigued me. One, there was a lot of talk about “sustaining” the change of the S-curve, making sure that it didn’t decay back into the original position over time. And consultants earned a lot of money advising people how to make the change sustainable. Two, there was growing evidence that there was a need for people who dealt with the “toxins” that emerged ...
The Twitter administrator hack was a dictionary attack (4)
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The Twitter administrator hack was a dictionary attack. I quoted Blaine earlier suggesting that the recent Twitter mass-hack was due to a Twitter admin password being scooped up by a rogue third party application—this was not the case, as Alex Payne explains in a comment.
Tabbed Browsing in Google Chrome (12)
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Tabbed Browsing is a prominent feature of modern browsers. We think it's one of the key elements that makes the browser a window manager for the web. Since we thought of the tab as the "container" element within which all other aspects of the browser lived, we designed the Chrome UI with the tab strip at the very top. But we didn't stop at aesthetic upheaval. As we were designing Google Chrome, we designed our ...
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Chung said:
I love the resize-on-leave behavior of Chrome tabs, less the tab-opening behavior. Once they implement anchor tab pinning/locking though, it will be perfect.
