Delicious Links – 20 links – blogging, windows, codinghorror, amazon, shopping
This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. You can follow this list of links as I post them on Friend Feed or on Twitter. Or you can get the weekly update by subscribing to Internet Duct Tape using RSS or using email.
- [AMAZON] Amazon Discounts: Secret Amazon Discount Finder, deallocker.com
- Cool tool for finding discounted items at Amazon. Works in Canada. Also has a coupon blog.
- [AMAZON] Top 10 Amazon Power Shopper Tools, lifehacker.com
- If you’ve ever shopped on the Internet, then you’ve used Amazon. Here are ten tips to help you use amazon from building wishlists to finding discounts/free shipping/coupons to getting refunds for items you’ve bought.
- [BLOGGER] Jerry Springer For Programmers: Only A Matter Of Time, gilesbowkett.blogspot.com
- From the article: ” It’s awesome to get a free burrito every 11,429 times somebody decides to read your blog. But that awesomeness doesn’t translate well to full-time careers.”
- [BLOGGING] More Bloggers Raising Money. Here Come The Politics. And Here Comes My Rant., techcrunch.com
- Arrlington on the business of blogging. Very honest.
- [BLOGGING] The Art Of Heresy (Or How To Thrive Under The Benevolent Rulership Of King Gabe Rivera), chartreuse.wordpress.com
- From the article: ” If your audience can view you anytime, anywhere then you have to be good all the time.”
- [CODE] Forced To Write English Syntax Code – Simplicity or Burden?, codesqueeze.com
- How being forced to write code in English makes things simpler for non-North Americans. You almost have to appreciate the strength of his opinion about the French…
- [CODE] The Programming Style that Saved my Marriage, ourdoings.com
- Programmers get grumpy when interrupted. Functional programming is a style that handles interruptions better than procedural programming
- [COPYRIGHT] Free your mind, stevenpoole.net, via:codinghorror.com
- Copyright should be renamed to RightToEat.
- [FACEBOOK] Facebook knows who you are, and that’s worth more than you think, paulbuchheit.blogspot.com
- If you don’t think Facebook is going to be a profitable company, then you’re underestimating the value of identity.
- [FLICKR] The definitive collection of Flickr tools, plugins and API applications, flickrbits.com
- Huge list of tools for working with Flickr
- [GAMERS] Grand Theft Auto IV Activity Book For Kids, the-minusworld.com
- And they thought Mass Effect was bad…
- [GEEK] stackoverflow, stackoverflow.com
- New podcast by Jeff “Coding Horror” Atwood and Joel Spolsky FTW
- [PHP] Rails for PHP Developers, railsforphp.com
- Great idea – it looks like the PHP reference, but it shows you how to do the same task in Ruby.
- [SCREENSCRAPING] Automating Firefox for Web Application Integration, urbanhonking.com
- Controlling Firefox using Ruby with the JSSH extension for screen scraping Javascript.
- [TWITTER] Shout about the best of Houston at PlaceShout, blogs.chron.com
- Interesting, like Twitter but for location. A bit rough around the edges, needs to support non-US zip codes.
- [WEB2.0] The noise in Web 2.0 is mainly a Tech Elite problem, vanelsas.wordpress.com
- Real people don’t suffer from information overload because they can walk away from the computer.
- [WEBDEV] Web pages have ‘come alive and started breeding’, telegraph.co.uk, via:gilesbowkett.blogspot.com
- Interesting idea: the design of the web page evolves based on how people interact with it.
- [WINDOWS] Tray It, teamcti.com
- Great little free windows application that lets you minimize ANY software in the system tray.
- [WINDOWS] Upgrading from Vista to Windows XP: A Review, dotnet.org.za
- Worth reading :)
- [ZUNE] 5 reasons my Zune is dead to me, crave.cnet.com, via:raganwald.com
- Remember the Zune? Me neither.
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Delicious Links – 20 links – friendfeed, blogging, javascript, psychology, startup
This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. You can see me add them in real time on Friend Feed.
- [BITTORRENT] Protect Your Privacy When Downloading, lifehacker.com
- Two tips for not being caught as the nasty pirate that you are.
- [BLOGGING] 20 Types of Pages that Every Blogger Should Consider, problogger.net
- Great examples of how to use the WordPress page feature. I wish I didn’t have so many damn problems with it on WordPress.com (can’t remove it from my theme head, trackback prob).
- [BLOGGING] 7 Blogging Statistics Rules – There is Life After Page Views, hanselman.com, via:raganwald.com
- From the article: ” If you post a Gallery or a List or anything post with a Prime Number and the word “Rules” in the title, you’ll get traffic. You post smart, compelling content, you need to be wicked smart before folks take note.”
- [BLOGGING] A Caffeine Inspired Interview with Jeff Atwood from CodingHorror.com, caffeinatedcoder.com
- “The only difference between good and great blogs is that the good bloggers kept writing until they became great bloggers.” — Jeff Atwood
- [BLOGGING] Group Interview: What Do Online Advertisers Look For in a Website?, dailyblogtips.com
- Daniel gets the skinny on how to sell ads on your website.
- [FRIENDFEED] A Few FriendFeed Treats Out There, jeffisageek.net
- A list of the cool little hacks people have made for FF so far.
- [FRIENDFEED] Friendfeed 2018, blogoscoped.com, via:winextra.com
- The future of Friend Feed.
- [FRIENDFEED] Share that link on FriendFeed using FeedDemon, winextra.com
- Share items on FF using Feed Demon.
- [FRIENDFEE] The FriendFeed Playground, ffapps.com
- Avi put together a FF apps site for pointing to the cool apps people are building around FF.
- [GEEK] Wired’s Geekster Handbook, a Field Guide to the Nerd Underground, wired.com, via:reddit.com
- Which geek are you? I’m 1-5 but thankfully not 6.
- [GREASEMONKEY] How to play nicely with jQuery and Greasemonkey, joanpiedra.com
- Tips on accessing jQuery inside your Greasemonkey scripts.
- [JAVASCRIPT] Great JavaScript presentation by John Resig, lazycoder.com
- I started using jQuery a lot this week and its friggin awesome. I must watch this video.
- [MARKETING] Polarize Me, fastcompany.com, via:37signals.com
- The ‘Made to Stick’ guys talk about how in order to have people love you, you have to decide who will hate you. No walking the middle line.
- [SOCIALSOFTWARE] Why I will never get another date, jennifer-mccarthy.blogspot.com
- The truth of social web apps exposed.
- [STARTUPS] How To Use Perks and Rewards in Startups to Get The Best Talent, instigatorblog.com
- Anywhere could hire me away if they offered me the best-of-breed source control, chat, backup and allowed me to attend conferences.
- [STARTUPS] The Psychology of Entrepreneurial Misjudgment, part 1: Biases 1-6, blog.pmarca.com
- Long read, but the section on incentives/disincentives are particularly interesting and applicable to all aspects of your life.
- [WORDPRESS] FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin, blog.slaven.net.au
- Display the Friend Feed discussion on your WordPress blog.
- [WORKHACKS] The KJ-Technique: A Group Process for Establishing Priorities, uie.com, via:labnotes.org
- The KJ-Technique is a method for getting the ‘wisdom of the crowd’ as fast as possible without getting bogged down by borderline cases.
- [XBOX360] REST API for Xbox Gamertag Data, duncanmackenzie.net
- Public rest API for Xbox Gamertag. Gives you an XML file.
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Delicious Links – 19 links – tips, google, music, code, blogging
This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together for my blog on Internet Duct Tape.
Subscribe to Internet Duct Tape using RSS or using email.
- [BLOGGING] The Benefits of Keeping a Private Journal, doshdosh.com
- Brilliant tip and way to keep mindful of your goals.
- [BLOGGING] What’s it Like to Run a Popular Blog?, skelliewag.org
- Skelliewag talks about her meteoric success and what’s different about having 3500 readers vs the 100 or so she had just a few short months ago.
- [BOOKS] Inside Google Book Search: Your library, my library, booksearch.blogspot.com
- You can keep track of the books you’ve read with Google library, and limit your book searches to only the books you’ve already read.
- [CODE] Programmers At Work, programmersatwork.wordpress.com
- New website about the 1980’s book.
- [COMICS] Rampant Plagiarism, mightygodking.com, via:io9.com
- The rampant plagiarism of the comics industry is revealed!
- [FRIENDFEED] 10 Ways to Get More Out of Friendfeed, blogoscoped.com
- Some quick tips for the new service that everyone’s blogging about.
- [GMAIL] Gmail Tips and Tricks – 35 Cool Gmail Hacks, botw.org, via:doshdosh.com
- Yes, we’ve seen a lot of them before. But a good collection.
- [GOOGLE] The Real Story: Why ComScore’s Google Clicks are Flat, seoblackhat.com
- Google Adsense changes are why adclicks are down. Buy Google stock because the market is full of idiots.
- [HUMOR] Mobile Desktop, improveverywhere.com, via:codinghorror.com
- Improv Everywhere brings their desktop computers to Starbucks.
- [HUMOR] Stuff White People Like, stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com, via:gilesbowkett.blogspot.com
- Recursion at its best. White people like Stuff White People Like.
- [LASTFM] Build Last.fm: Extend your Last.fm experience, build.last.fm, via:del.icio.us
- Last.FM is promoting community created tools that use the service.
- [LIFEHACKS] Your Brain Is In 10 Kinds of Trouble, secretgeek.net
- No solutions, but a discussion of the information overload we’re all experiencing.
- [MUSIC] The Filter Releases New Version of Music Recommendation Software, readwriteweb.com
- Playlist generator from your iTunes library
- [SOCIALSOFTWARE] FriendFeed Changelog, changelog.friendfeed.com
- wth? A web app that publishes its new features via it’s version control changelog.Brilliant.
- [SOCIALSOFTWARE] This Psychologist Might Outsmart the Math Brains Competing for the Netflix Prize, wired.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
- Interview with the guy who is building a better recommendation engine using psychology instead of math.
- [SOFTWARE] Rethinking Recommendation Engines, readwriteweb.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
- Damn good point in this one. The human psychology behind recommendations is what makes recommendations fail. Instead of telling use what we like, just remove what we’re NOT going to like.
- [TWITTER] Nearly a million users, and no spam or trolls, russellbeattie.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
- From the article: ” Twitter, however, has almost a million members, a thriving community, lots of discussions and yet doesn’t have spam or troll issues. If you step back for a second and think about it, that’s pretty amazing.”
- [WORDPRESS] Installing WordPress Locally Under Windows XP, geeksaresexy.blogspot.com
- I don’t know why I never did this before.
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- How to Explain RSS to Normal People – 2008 Edition
- As a geek who enjoys spending too much time on the internet, I like RSS almost as much as delicious toast. As a blogger, RSS is the shiznitz because it lets you consume a lot more information and it makes it easier for other people to read your blog without having to drop by every few days to see if…
- I Can Has Ruby?
- I have a new tumblelog for ruby stuff.
- How to delete your Tumblr tumblelog with TumblrCleanr
- There’s one feature missing on Tumblr: how do you delete your Tumblr? At some point you might want to destroy all traces of your tumblr (privacy concerns, or you want to use it for something else) and there isn’t an option to do that — other than click the delete button on every individual…
- Delicious Links – 13 links – programming, lifehacks, productivity, geek, games
This Week at IDT Labs
IDT Labs is where I announce new software tools I’m working on.
- [TUMBLR] Regular Post Digest of the Last X Days
- Build a list of the last X regular posts from your Tumblr account in the past Y days. Useful for doing weekly digest posts with Yahoo Pipe Cleaner
- [TUMBLR] Delete your Tumblr with TumblrCleanr 0.0.1
- There’s one Tumblr feature that’s missing: how do you delete your Tumblr? At some point you might want to destroy all traces of your tumblr (privacy concerns, or you want to use it for something else) and there isn’t an option to do that — other than click the delete button on every…
This Week at Ruby, eh?
Ruby, eh? is where I blog/tumble about the Ruby programming language.
- Rake RDocTask with all of the options stubbed out
- http://pastie.caboo.se/159372 Rake::RDocTask.new(:rdoc) do |rd| # rd.external # run the rdoc process as an external shell # rd.main = “name” # ‘name’ will be the initial page displayed # rd.rdoc_dir = “html” # set the output directory # rd.rdoc_file = [] # List of files…
- Rake: Recursively parse a list of all the requires from a source file
- There’s probably an easier way to do this. http://pastie.caboo.se/159362 # Recursively parse a list of all the requires from a source file def local_requires(source) results = [] File.open(source,’r’).each_line do |line| if line =~ /require [‘”]([^'”]+)[‘”]/…
- I Can Has RSS?I’ve switched to FeedBurner for RSS support . And set up full feeds, thanks to Alex . (I had no idea that they were turned off!)
- Bulk updating Gem sourcegem install allison Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org I swear to god that rubyforge is actually a humongous peer to peer network made up from stealing our bandwidth when we do a gem install.
- Rake Tip: force tasks to run based on operating systemhttp://pastie.caboo.se/158812 task :windows_only do raise “Must be run from Windows, not #{RUBY_PLATFORM}” unless RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /mswin/ end task :linux_only do raise “Must be run from Linux, not #{RUBY_PLATFORM}” unless RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /linux/ end
- Rake TipBAD: s.gsub(/.rb$/,’.exe’) GOOD: File.basename(s).ext(‘exe’)
- Rails: how to delete ActiveRecords to a recycling bin
- The contenders: acts_as_paranoid – 2005-09-17 Creates a delete_at column and overrides finders to ignore columns with deleted_at set. Last release was 2005-12-20, about 1600 downloads. Around ~100 blog mentions. This guy is using it instead of acts_as_trashable Reported not working on…
- validates_presence_of and validates_length_of
- Pick one : validates_presence_of :snausages validates_length_of :snausages, :maximum => 3 OR validates_length_of :snausages, :maximum => 3, :allow_nil => true I broke my app because of not including allow_nil grep validates_length_of app/models/*.rb | grep -v allow_nil // engtech …
How to Play Downloaded Videos on Your iPod, Xbox 360, or DVD Player
I’ve been slumming through the support forums at answers.yahoo.com lately and this is a question I see come up often: how do I download a video and put it on my electronic device? More and more consumer electronics devices that can play videos, but that means we have to learn more about the big, bad scary world of video codecs.
The steps are simple:
- Find a video source (source)
- video from your camera/phone, off the Internet, or from a DVD you own
- Get the video on to your computer (source/download)
- Convert the format of the video to something your portable media player can play (convert)
- Copy the video to your portable media player (destination)
…but the devil is in the details.
What is a Codec?
Codec stands for coder-decoder. It’s a mathematical algorithm that stores the video into a file. It’s like VHS vs beta or HD-DVD vs Blu-ray — different codecs have different formats and they aren’t interchangeable. There are many different video codecs, and that’s where the headache with downloaded content comes from. Your computer can play many more codec formats that your iPod, Xbox 360 or DVD player.
What Codecs Can My iPod, Xbox 360 or DVD Player Play?
This is the hardest part, especially when you aren’t familiar with video codecs. You’re going to have to do some research and find out what your portable media player supports. This is how I find information for any electronic device I’m having problems with:
- Find the model number for the electronic device
- Go to the company who makes the product and search for the model number
- Search Google using the model number and keywords about what you want to find
Once you’ve found the information make sure to save it somewhere you can find it again. I keep a folder on my computer with PDFs of the manuals for all my electronic devices so that I can quickly find the information again later.
Here’s a list of codecs for popular devices to get you started.
- Official list of Xbox 360 supported codecs
- Official list of iPod Nano supported codecs
- Official list of iTouch supported codecs
- Official list of iPhone supported codecs

How to Copy a DVD to Your Computer
These guides will show you how to copy a DVD to your computer’s hard drive so that you can work on it with other software to change the format to something you can play on your portable media device.
How to Download Videos
I’m not going to go into detail because of the questionable legality. There are videos out there that you can legitimately download but there are even more where you would be breaking the law if you downloaded them. I’ll let my friends at Lifehacker give you the skinny on downloading videos instead:
- The Beginner’s Guide to BitTorrent
- The Intermediate Guide to BitTorrent
- How to Find BitTorrent Files
- 6 Ways to Watch TV on the Internet
- How to Download YouTube Videos
- Software to Download YouTube Videos directly to your iPod
- How to Automatically Download and Covert Video
How to Watch Any Video Format on your Computer
If you’re downloading videos from unknown sources, quite often you’re going to end up with a file that your computer doesn’t know how to play back. The solution is to use the free VLC Media Player that is available for Windows, Mac, Linux and a million other operating systems you’ve never heard of.
Quick tip: always test playing a file with VLC before you do anything else with it. If it doesn’t play in VLC, chances are you won’t be able to convert it to work with your portable media player.
When VLC doesn’t work, there’s the Combined Community Codec Pack to the rescue.
How to Tell Which Codec Format the Video Uses
The best advice I can give anyone who is downloading content from unknown sources is do not trust the file extension. Just because the file says .divx or .mp4 doesn’t mean it’s is. Use the free GSpot software to find out the real details of what codec format the file you downloaded is.
I’m not going to lie to you — GSpot isn’t the most userfriendly application I’ve ever seen. But it gives you the two pieces of essential information you need: the video codec and audio codec the file is using.
How to Convert Codec Formats
The world of video codecs is very confusing, with lots of formats that sound similar but have minor differences that will prevent them with playing on different devices. I use Any Video Converter when I need to change codec formats of a file. It has a very simple interface that requires only three clicks to convert a file:
- Add a file
- Choose the profile for the output format I want
- Encode
Any Video Converter also has pay versions with added features like easy converting to iPod, Zune, PSP. But the free version works well for converting if you set up the profile for the output file format correctly. The free version also supports YouTube.
It is often easier to find specialty software that supports the electronic device you want to play videos on. When looking for how to specific software for converting video the first thing I do is go to lifehacker.com and do a search. They often discuss free software for video converting, and the comments are full of excellent information.
Specialty Software for Converting Video
Here are some examples of software that converts specifically to the file formats you need. I haven’t tried all of them, and some of them are pay software with trial versions while others are freeware and available for multiple operating systems.
- DVDFlick converts any file format to DVD
- Handbrake is a freeware converter for DVD to MP4 (iPod)
- 3GP Converter can convert 3GP/AVI/DivX/MP4/XviD to 3GP/MP4 for iPod, Sony PSP and most cell phones
- Videora BitTorrent client that supports conversion to all iPod formats including AppleTV
- Any Video Converter supports conversion to all iPod formats
- PSPVideo9 – convert to Sony PSP
- DVD Catalyst – dvd to ipod
- Pocket DVD Wizard – dvd to any portable device
- ZuneMyTube – youtube/google video to zune
This was written as part of the Daily Blog Tips tutorials group writing project.
Best of Feeds – 19 links – blogging, inspiration, writing, design, apple
RSS feeds are like cookies (that are good enough for me). Best of Feeds is a weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet this week. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together on Saturdays. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.
Subscribe to //engtech to see this every week (or get it by email).
- [LIFEHACKS] Year in Review: The 70 Best Lifehacks of 2007 – Lifehack.org
- (lifehack.org 832 50 20 )
- [DESIGN] The Great Website Design Gallery Roundup by CSS-Tricks
- Created a blog theme? here’s some places to submit it
- (css-tricks.com 623 38 11 )
- [LIFEHACKS] RulesofThumb.org – Homepage
- Wisdom voting site
- (rulesofthumb.org 517 100 5 )
- [BLOGGING] So I Quit My Day Job – Holy Cow! I Took the Plunge
- Becoming an independent self-publisher
- (zenhabits.net 184 42 1005 )
- [GAMERS] Top 7 Geek Panties (for girls)
- seen a few of these before
- (gamegirl.com 45 56 2470 )
- [WRITING] 11 Essential Tips to Writing the Ultimate Tutorial
- This is an essential skill for anyone. At some point in your career you will have to document how to do something using a computer.
- (dailyblogtips.com 36 11 2 )
- [BLOGGING] 31 Days to Becoming a Better Blogger
- 31 small tips that can lead to great improvments
- (northxeast.com 32 11 86 )
- [DESIGN] How I Redesigned My Blog [by Ben Yoskovitz]
- the decisions you’ll face when overhauling your blog theme
- (problogger.net 25 6 3 )
- [HUMOR] BREAKINGOMFG: Apple Introduces Manila Case–The World’s Thinnest Notebook Case
- notebook cases are always overpriced.
- (gizmodo.com 24 49 )
- [BLOGGING] Fighting Scrapers With Your Left Jab
- Tips for dealing with people stealing your content.
- (problogger.net 23 11 7 )
- [BLOGGING] A Guide to Breaking Into the Technorati Top 100
- (skelliewag.org 19 7 10 )
- [BLOGGING] 52 Post Ideas to Help You Stay Inspired Throughout The Year
- natch
- (northxeast.com 19 6 34 )
- [BLOGGING] How to Get 1,100 Subscribers in Five Days
- impressive
- (skelliewag.org 11 9 9 )
- [CREATIVITY] The Content Crossroads: Supernatural Success at the Intersection of Ideas
- Seeing the intersections between different subjects can lead to creativity
- (copyblogger.com 10 8 )
- [GEEK] MacBook Air? Think Different – Buy a Bigger Envelope
- surprise surprise, life is just fine without the latest tech
- (putthingsoff.com 3 1 )
- [HD] Blu-ray Pretty Much Wins Format War
- All the major movie studios are on blu-ray now.
- (paulstamatiou.com 3 5 )
- [MUSIC] Don’t miss lessons Radiohead, Reznor offer
- Trent Reznor notes that without the music labels you have to run every aspect of the business… and that sucks.
- (crave.cnet.com 2 2 )
- [BLOGGING] Blog Struggles: Recovering From a Traffic Spike
- It’s so true. It’s hard to be motivated once you’ve hit a high that you’ll never hit again.
- (lorelle.wordpress.com 5 1 )
- [GAMERS]The “Sex-Box” Race for President::By Kevin McCullough
- This is a must read if you ever played Mass Effect. He gets it soooo wrong.
- (townhall.com 62 )
Legend
- saves – number of people who bookmarked on http://del.icio.us
- inbound links – number of blogs who linked to it (max 100)
- diggs – number of people who dugg on http://digg.com
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Best of Feeds – 30 links – programming, google, tips, agile, facebook
RSS feeds are like cookies (that are good enough for me). Best of Feeds is a weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet this week. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together on Saturdays. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.Subscribe to //engtech to see this every week (or get it by email).
- [MOVIES] Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time
- about 8 on there I haven’t seen yet
- (snarkerati.com 1227 100 2012 )
- [CODE] The Future of Software Development
- Very fluffy discussion of waterfall vs agile with the hypothesis that small teams are the future.
- (readwriteweb.com 617 54 734 )
- [DESIGN] Top 100 User-Centered Blogs
- centered around the user experience
- (virtualhosting.com 558 72 45 )
- [HIRING] 100 Resources to Attract, Retain and Utilize Rock Star Programmers
- Great list of resources for hiring programmers
- (hrworld.com 343 16 109 )
- [RUBY] 10 Reasons to Learn Ruby
- I’m drinking the koolaid.
- (cyberarmy.net 342 17 1028 )
- [RAILS] Zero to Riding the Rails in Four Months
- Experience getting started with a Rails app.
- (hackd.wordpress.com 301 17 3 )
- [BLOGGING] Top bloggers reveal how to build traffic off-blog without spending a dime
- Guest posting and building relationships are the top two ways.
- (jonathanfields.com 269 27 708 )
- [SOCIAL] NOSO
- Online web app that is focused on getting people off of their computers and interacting in meatspace.
- (nosoproject.com 227 100 6 )
- [GTD] Top 10 Distraction Stoppers
- They included my “distraction free gtd” web app pack
- (lifehacker.com 100 20 22 )
- [GAMERS] I Played Through Episode Two Holding A Goddamn Gnome (Spoilers)
- From the article: ” Who watches the watchers? The gnome does. He watches everyone, unblinkingly.”
- (kfj.f2s.com 83 35 2946 )
- [CODE] Free Programming Tips are Worth Every Penny.
- I think I’m developing a blog crush.
- (wilshipley.com 66 19 24 )
- [DESIGN] What about research, interviews, and documentation?
- Throw it at the wall and see what sticks. Good advice.
- (37signals.com 33 3 5 )
- [WORKHACKS] Remember, This Stuff Is Supposed To Be Fun
- Work should be something that you enjoy.
- (codinghorror.com 28 15 15 )
- [SEO] What if Google had to design for Google?
- What the Google homepage would look like if they had to design for SEO.
- (meangene.com 24 28 )
- [STARTUPS] ‘Un-sexy is good business,’ and other rules from Scott Rafer
- MyBlogLog founder on how to survive the market bust that’s coming in 5 months.
- (foundread.com 23 9 )
- [HALLOWEEN] Animal Halloween Costumes
- Impressive number of Star Wars costumes.
- (nynerd.com 11 6 10 )
- [BLOGGING] The First Month: Building Something From Nothing
- Skellie’s building traffic from nothing guide. Great tips in there, must read for beginner/intermediates.
- (skelliewag.org 8 3 3 )
- [SMO] Targeting StumbleUpon Users
- How to build a stumbleupon community
- (dailyblogtips.com 7 7 )
- [IPHONE] Video Game Ideas: iPhone SDK edition
- A ton of ideas for iPhone games. Really cool stuff.
- (wilshipley.com 7 8 )
- [COMICS] Missing!
- The disappearance of Calvin and Hobbs
- (clevescene.com 5 4 )
- [OCD] On Being Crazy
- From the article: ” Then I’ll have a week so dark that simply taking mail out of the mailbox seems like an epic struggle. And I remember, oh yes, right, you aren’t going away. Because you’re my brain. You’re my chemistry. You’re me.”
- (wilshipley.com 2 7 )
- [STARTUPS] The Wheels on the Bus
- Why buying a bus ticket and hanging out with REAL PEOPLE might be the best thing for your startup idea. And it’s true — normal people don’t have nearly the same problems I try to fix in my own life.
- (ricksegal.typepad.com 2 2 )
- [FACEBOOK] Inner Circle App
- Facebook application that lets you build custom groups of friends.
- (facebook.com 2 )
- [GOOGLE] Ad Blindness? How About Ad Repulsion?
- Interesting.. make the real content look like AdSense and it becomes immediately repulsive.
- (franticindustries.com 2 )
- [OPENID] Automattic,Gravatar, and the Elusive Unified Identity
- Automattic is making a move to providing single-sign-on using your wordpress.com IDs. Good business idea, but still scary considering I managed to lock myself out of sites using because of my wordpress.com openID.
- (neomeme.net)
- [FACEBOOK] Google scared of Facebook? Puh-leeze
- Matt skewers business 2.0 :)
- (mathewingram.com)
- [PATENTS] Amazon patent foiled by lone gunman
- That’s awesome.
- (mathewingram.com)
- [MICROSOFT] Ballmer to Web 2.0 Execs: You Have a Pulse? We’ll Give You At Least $50 Million For It.
- developers, developers, developers. Ballmer is such an idiot.
- (parislemon.com)
- [REDDIT] the reddit toolbar: taking social news one step closer
- Hidden setting on reddit that puts a toolbar on outgoing links… very useful for voting without using the bookmarklet.
- (muhammadsaleem.com)
- [GEEK] Star Trek Cast
- (blog.logtar.com)
Legend
- saves – number of people who bookmarked on http://del.icio.us
- inbound links – number of blogs who linked to it (max 100)
- diggs – number of people who dugg on http://digg.com
This Week at Internet Duct Tape
- How I Use Google Reader
- “How I Use” is a new series I’m starting about the software I use on a day-to-day basis. I want share tips and tricks and to learn tips and tricks from readers sharing with me in the comments. Google Reader is a web-based RSS reader. Because it’s web-based I can access my Google…
- The Attention Age: Accelerando, Software Agents, Filters and Gatekeepers
- Last night I finished reading Accelerando by Charles Stross. Like many of the books I read these days, I heard about it from another blogger. It feels like a spiritual sequel to Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, John Brunner’s the Shockwave Rider and Warren Ellis’ Transmetropolitan. It is…
- Blog Action Day: Save Paper when Readers Print Your Blog
- Today is Blog Action Day with a focus on the environment and I’m going to teach a quick CSS trick for how to save paper by reducing what gets printed when someone prints an article from your blog.
- Coworkers Considered Harmful
- I hit a realization this weekend that I’ve hit many times before. There’s an inordinate number of times when I’m in the office late not because of my own time management failures but because of the people I work with.
- Best of Feeds – 26 links – programming, webdesign, javascript, design, tips
- Tags: blogging, design, fun, javascript, lifehacks, programming, rails, tips, usability, web2.0, webdesign, writing
This Week at IDT Labs
- [WORDPRESS] Extract Comments or Trackbacks only from the Comments Feed
- I’ve created two Yahoo Pipes for building filters of the comments feed on your WordPress blog so that you can see comments only or trackbacks only.
- [RSS] Tagosphere
- Tagosphere is an example I created for Jon Udell that builds an RSS feed around a specific tag using delicious, flickr, technorati, and wordpress.com.
Tags: agile, blogging, career, facebook, funny, games, google, ideas, marketing, programming, rails, startups, tips, traffic, usability, webdesign
Best of Feeds – 26 links – programming, webdesign, javascript, design, tips
RSS feeds are like cookies (that are good enough for me). Best of Feeds is a weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet this week. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together on Saturdays. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.Subscribe to //engtech to see this every week (or get it by email).
- [JAVASCRIPT] Ext JS – JavaScript Library for Web Windows
- Interesting javascript library for doing web windows. Has a nice spreadsheet display.
- (extjs.com 3318 100 6 )
- [JAVASCRIPT] Welcome to Tablecloth
- Javascript code for doing quick table highlighting
- (cssglobe.com 1767 100 1247 )
- [WEBDESIGN] 30 Usability Issues To Be Aware Of
- common tips, good for beginners
- (smashingmagazine.com 1705 100 781 )
- [SQL] A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins
- Jeff, where were you in 1997 when I needed this!?
- (codinghorror.com 1069 67 9 )
- [DESIGN] 10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of
- (smashingmagazine.com 874 100 253 )
- [DESIGN] So you want to create WordPress themes huh?
- 16 how-tos on building a wordpress theme
- (wpdesigner.com 585 100 21 )
- [SLEEPHACKS] Top 10 Ways to Sleep Smarter and Better
- LifeHacker has the goods on beating insomnia
- (lifehacker.com 546 68 1489 )
- [JAVASCRIPT] Help! I Don’t Know JavaScript!
- Collection of intros to javascript
- (blog.mootools.net 470 10 27 )
- [GAMES] Science Museum – Launchpad Online – Launchball
- Very cool little physics simulator game.
- (sciencemuseum.org.uk 392 100 947 )
- [GIFTS] 30 Frugal Gift Ideas to Show You Appreciate Someone
- Holidays are coming up…
- (zenhabits.net 326 25 669 )
- [CODE] 10 Things Every Programmer Should Know For Their First Job
- General, but true.
- (applematters.com 172 19 4 )
- [RUBY] Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book
- Another free Ruby ebook
- (infoq.com 53 33 )
- [WEIGHTLOSS] Geek Diet and Exercise Programs
- All familiar links and photos to me, but still a good roundup.
- (codinghorror.com 44 35 46 )
- [INTERNET] The Life and Death of Jesse James
- The scariest people in the world are the lonely people, and this true story strikes it home for me with full force. This is essential reading for anyone who spends a lot of time in internet culture.
- (laweekly.com 40 18 )
- [RAILS] Two months with Ruby on Rails
- Two months checkin with what he doesn’t like about Rails
- (t-a-w.blogspot.com 39 10 )
- [BOOKS] Hard Work, No Pay: What’s the Point?
- Petzold on being an author of programming books. Response to Jeff Atwood post.
- (charlespetzold.com 30 12 )
- [TWITTER] Twitter is Paying My Rent
- Why Twitter is a great tool for a first class tech blogger.
- (marshallk.com 25 7 20 )
- [BOOKS] Expert Advice: Websites for the Book Lover
- Quite a few sites I hadn’t heard of.
- (makeuseof.com 24 4 20 )
- [DELICIOUS] Readeroo
- Simple browser extension for marking items “to be read” later and then marking them as read when you’re done.
- (monsur.com 21 5 )
- [WEB2.0] Q&A: Foul-Mouthed Blogger Ted Dziuba Tells Why Most Startups Fail
- Uncov in wired! What.the.fuck!
- (wired.com 19 31 4 )
- [WEB2.0] Tim O’Reilly – Graphing Social Patterns
- Liveblogging notes from Tim O’Reilly’s presentation.
- (allfacebook.com 9 )
- [BOOKS] When Completing a Book Depends on Someone Else
- Blogging Heroes should be in print soon. I was interviewed for the book, not sure if I made it into the final cut.
- (mikebanks.blogspot.com)
- [COPYRIGHT] Happiness In Slavery No More: Nine Inch Nails Goes Record Label Free
- Fans and artists are learning to bypass the recording industry.
- (parislemon.com)
- [FICTION] The ride home
- From the article: ” People with happy lives don’t go on quests, they lead their happy lives.”
- (beatsentropy.com 3 )
- [CODE] Getting rid of the use global contstants file
- Another post from my old friend who used to bring me subway cookies at raves.
- (dlowe-wfh.blogspot.com)
- [MARKETING] The Smart Way to Get Traffic and Links: Creating a Prospect List for Bloggers
- This is the proper way to promote yourself with other bloggers. Get on their radar before you ever approach them about anything.
- (doshdosh.com 3 )
Legend
- saves – number of people who bookmarked on http://del.icio.us
- inbound links – number of blogs who linked to it (max 100)
- diggs – number of people who dugg on http://digg.com
This Week at Internet Duct Tape
- What I’m Playing: PC, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360
- I’m on day 10 of “one of those weeks” so I haven’t had time to fully develop the usual cornucopia of rainbow-coloured blog post ideas. All of my time has been spent on work and family with a smidgen of video game playing to decompress my brain. This isn’t one of those…
- The Holiday Spread – Group Weight Loss Game
- This past weekend was Thanksgiving (aka Turkey Day) in Canada, which means seeing your family and eating a lot of food together. One of the favourite pastimes at any holiday is pointing out who’s gained weight and who hasn’t. This got me thinking: one of the principals of successful dieting…
- Best of Feeds – 34 links – programming, google, lifehacks, ruby, funny
- Tags: blogging, estimation, free, funny, google, gtd, javascript, lifehacks, productivity, programming, rails, ruby, rubyonrails, search, seo, tips
This Week at IDT Labs
- [WORDPRESS] Extract Comments or Trackbacks only from the Comments Feed
- I’ve created two Yahoo Pipes for building filters of the comments feed on your WordPress blog so that you can see comments only or trackbacks only. WordPress Comment Extractor WordPress Trackback Extractor
- [RSS] Tagosphere
- Tagosphere is an example I created for Jon Udell that builds an RSS feed around a specific tag using delicious, flickr, technorati, and wordpress.com.
- [GTD] Distraction Free GTD UpdateNow with 36 applications + fixes some problems with apps that don’t support https .
Tags: blogging, design, fun, javascript, lifehacks, programming, rails, tips, usability, web2.0, webdesign, writing
Best of Feeds – 34 links – programming, google, lifehacks, ruby, funny
RSS feeds are like cookies (that are good enough for me). Best of Feeds is a weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet this week. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together on Saturdays. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.Subscribe to Internet Duct Tape to see this every week (or get it by email).
- [LIFEHACKS] The Printable CEO
- Collection of PDFs for task/hour tracking.
- (davidseah.com 949 100 7 )
- [BOOKMARKING] toread – an email-based bookmark service
- Simple service to use to track stuff ‘to read later’. They store the top 10 for each day. It’s like having an archive of the delicious popular list.
- (toread.cc 938 100 440 )
- [RUBY] The Little Book Of Ruby
- 85 page guide to the ruby language syntax, free ebook
- (sapphiresteel.com 492 38 28 )
- [CODE] Software Is Hard
- *Excellent* article about software estimation and Rosenberg’s Dreaming in Code
- (gamearchitect.net 449 68 15 )
- [STARTUPS] The Future of Web Startups
- Paul Graham on how web startups will start to be standardized and easy to do… which will change everything.
- (paulgraham.com 443 100 671 )
- [LIFEHACKS] Top 100 Productivity Blogs
- I’m not on the list, but many there’s a lot of great finds on here.
- (whitepapers.org 440 44 53 )
- [RUBY] Ferret – full text search engine
- I’m wondering if this could be a replacement for intranet text search?
- (ferret.davebalmain.com 429 )
- [JAVASCRIPT] The Elements of JavaScript Style
- Everything you need to know about writing good javacsript.
- (javascript.crockford.com 336 30 )
- [ESTIMATION] Web Worker 101: Estimating Basics
- Nothing new, but good round-up for people who have trouble estimating.
- (webworkerdaily.com 296 36 6 )
- [JAVASCRIPT] Learning JavaScript resources
- Good collection of tutorials and links about Javascript
- (juixe.com 289 4 6 )
- [CODE] Software Branching and Parallel Universes
- One of the best explanations of software branching in revision control that I’ve ever read.
- (codinghorror.com 274 34 3 )
- [GEEK] Flo Control Cat Door
- Image recognition to prevent cat from coming inside with a mouse. Why do I enjoy every link Coding Horror sends me so much?
- (quantumpicture.com 228 80 )
- [RAILS] Rails Rumble: 92 Web Apps Created in 48 Hours
- Winners from the 48 hours Rails Rumble
- (readwriteweb.com 169 28 681 )
- [FIREFOX] A Visual Guide to the Firefox Web Browser – Learn Firefox
- via: rooster
- (learnfirefox.cybernetnews.com 167 100 17 )
- [RAILS] Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications
- Free e-book for next 60 days. Probably not as good as Agile Web Development.
- (sitepoint.com 151 100 6 )
- [VIRUS] Gathering ‘Storm’ Superworm Poses Grave Threat to PC Nets
- Your antivirus software is completely useless. This is scary.
- (schneier.com 104 62 14 )
- [CODE] Inheritance is evil, and must be destroyed: part 1
- Using the strategy pattern vs inheritance with dark jedi examples.
- (berniecode.com 76 9 )
- [IPHONE] If wishes were iPhones, then beggars would call
- If you want to hack your phone (dvd player, etc) then buy a phone that lets you hack. Don’t complain about Apple’s lockin when everything they do revolves around lockin.
- (diveintomark.org 60 61 9 )
- [LIFEHACKS] 6 Rules for Dealing With Habits vs. Tasks
- Good ideas about how to build habits
- (zenhabits.net 54 8 58 )
- [BLOGGING] Blogging is Dumb, Stupid and Successful
- Rant against blogging about blogging and ‘quick tip’ type posts.
- (cornwallseo.com 38 25 716 )
- [CODE] What I Learned From X That Made Me A Better Programmer In Y
- From the article: ” We go with Bob’s plan because Bob successfully asserted his dominance over Fred. If we’re lucky, Bob is good at making plans as well as asserting dominance, but if he’s bad at making plans but good at asserting dominance, his plan is still the plan”
- (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com 37 3 2 )
- [HUMOR] Microsoft Search
- Microsoft Press releases shows that Microsoft Live Search will finally read the state Yahoo/Google was in 7 years ago.
- (wdr1.com 25 11 )
- [LIFEHACKS] shoutingmat.ch (lifehack)
- Interesting agreggator for posts about lifehacks.
- (lifehack.shoutingmat.ch 22 10 )
- [SEO] SEOS : The Card Counters of the Internet
- From the article: ” “Google is a casino, and you are a visitor.””
- (johnon.com 19 24 19 )
- [HUMOR] Crackbook
- Facebook parody site.
- (theinternetnowinhandybookform.com 16 17 )
- [BLOGGING] The 7 Habits of Highly Defective Bloggers
- 7 habits inverted with a view on blogging — what not to do
- (lifetrainingonline.com 12 6 13 )
- [PRESENTATIONS] Keynote (The Software) Considered Harmful
- Do presentations and demos with nothing but a whiteboard. Much more interactive.
- (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com 9 )
- [SEO] How I reversed my Google ranking penalty
- More on how asking for links with specific anchor text can get your blog blacklisted by google. Contest bloggers be aware.
- (davidairey.com 6 15 14 )
- [HUMOR] 300: The Board Game
- I still enjoy the meme :)
- (defectiveyeti.com 5 4 )
- [GUESTBLOGGING] Get Your Guest-Posts Here
- Guestblogger for hire, Chris G.
- (chrisg.com 3 18 )
- [COPYRIGHT] Has And Belongs To Many: The Problem With Trademarking Rails
- From the article: ” Trademark rights are destructive to the cooperation and trust necessary for successful open source projects.”
- (gilesbowkett.blogspot.com 2 )
- [RUBY] When does ( ?? == 63 ) ?
- True dat. Successfully scared me away from Ruby :)
- (sob.apotheon.org)
- [SEO] A Google Allegory at Hamlet Batista dot Com
- Asking for links with specific anchor text can get your blog blacklisted by google. Contest bloggers be aware.
- (hamletbatista.com 8 )
- [COMMUNITY] Poisonous People
- OSCON PDF slides from the SubVersion guys. Read the poisonous people one!
- (red-bean.com 5 )
Legend
- saves – number of people who bookmarked on http://del.icio.us
- inbound links – number of blogs who linked to it (max 100)
- diggs – number of people who dugg on http://digg.com
This Week at Internet Duct Tape
- Distraction Free GTD: 32 Todo List Web Applications
- Web Runner is a tiny site-specific web application that runs using less resources than Firefox or Internet Explorer. The whole idea behind a site specific web browser is that you want to access a web application without being tempted to access other sites. You want to access a site without being…
- Magazine Review: October 2007 Issue of Inc. Magazine
- I came to a rather startling discovery in the past month: magazines are just blogs with the added luxury of being able to read them while on the toilet or in the bathtub (but hopefully not both). I picked up the October issue of Inc. magazine because Joel Spolsky of Joel On Software has joined the…
- Blog Tip: Create a Link Post in 3 Seconds
- One question I’m frequently asked is “how do you build those Best of Feeds weekly links?” The way I do it is pretty complicated, but I’ve found a much simpler way that I want to share with you all.
- Digest for September 2007
- Every month I publish a digest post collecting the best of Internet Duct Tape.
- Best of Feeds – 30 links – programming, productivity, code, socialsoftware, socialnetworking
- Tags: adsense, advice, blogging, career, code, design, development, firefox, gtd, lifehacks, productivity, programming, ruby, rubyonrails, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, tips, web2.0, webdesign
This Week at IDT Labs
- [AKISMET] Akismet Auntie Spam v2.04
- Our favorite Auntie has a new version. 2007/10/04 version 2.04 – Fixed (some) memory problems with v2.03 – Still slow, I need to get it working with a profiler, none of the hacks for Greasemonkey + Firebug seem to work.
- [DELICIOUS] Delicious Link Builder
- Build a list of links using your delicious account to bookmark them. Works great with my Yahoo Pipe Cleaner script . Example : [BOOKMARKING] toread – an email-based bookmark service Simple service to use to track stuff ‘to read later’. They store the top 10 for each day. It’s like…
- [RSS PIPE] Stupid Credit Builder
- This is a clone of Stupid Feed Rewriter that backdates the entry to January 1st, 1970. Useful for adding a credit link at the end of a list.
Tags: blogging, estimation, free, funny, google, gtd, javascript, lifehacks, productivity, programming, rails, ruby, rubyonrails, search, seo, tips
Best of Feeds – 22 links – programming, blogging, tips, javascript, rails
RSS feeds are like cookies (that are good enough for me). Best of Feeds is a weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet this week. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together on Saturdays. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.
Subscribe to //engtech to see this every week (or get it by email).
- [GTD] Tracks
- A Ruby on Rails web app that is multiplatform and ships with it’s own web server (if needed). Implements GTD.
- (rousette.org.uk 3630 100 2 )
- [CREATIVITY] how to be creative
- From the article: ” Don’t try to stand out from the crowd; avoid crowds altogether.”
- (gapingvoid.com 3159 100 )
- [DESIGN] 15 Excellent Examples of Web Typography. Part 1
- 15 screenshots and links
- (ilovetypography.com 947 68 1624 )
- [GEEK] Cory Doctorow imagines a world in which Google is evil
- Cory Doctorow short story.
- (radaronline.com 374 100 22 )
- [HUMOR] lolsecretz – LOLCATS + POSTSECRET OMG!!!!!!!
- My memes have met and multiplied.
- (lolsecretz.blogspot.com 311 100 17 )
- [GEEK] How History Repeats Itself and the Death of Gmail
- Joel recounts the death of Lotus 1-2-3 in modern terms and explains how Google and current AJAX apps will die when they don’t realize the changing SDK.
- (joelonsoftware.com 270 100 11 )
- [CODE] 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails
- Interesting take: your new code is better because your a better programmer, not because it’s a better language.
- (oreillynet.com 259 26 30 )
- [JAVASCRIPT] Code Conventions for the JavaScript Programming Language
- Good to know for writing Greasemonkey scripts.
- (javascript.crockford.com 259 24 7 )
- [INTERVIEWS] Thirteen Patterns Of Programmer Interviews
- Humorous but very on-point. I wonder what the style of interviewing you perform says about your company?
- (typicalprogrammer.com 221 15 5 )
- [WORKHACKS] Secrets to Amazon’s success
- From the article: ” People’s side projects, the one’s they follow because they are interested, are often ones where you get the most value and innovation. Never underestimate the power of wandering where you are most interested.”
- (37signals.com 176 26 3 )
- [CODE] Everything Is Fast For Small n
- Good overview of computational complexity and why you should always test with large datasets (on slow computers :) )
- (codinghorror.com 165 10 )
- [FIREFOX] Top 10 Firefox Extension-free Tabbed Browsing Techniques
- Things you didn’t know how to do with Firefox tabs.
- (lifehacker.com 83 )
- [EMAIL] Save Time With Search Folders in Outlook
- Use search folders to organize your email instead of putting them in different folders
- (howtogeek.com 42 4 )
- [SMO] Stumbleupon mathematics for stumblers
- A very interesting hypothesis about how StumbleUpon decides how much traffic to send to a site.
- (ventureskills.wordpress.com 40 19 5 )
- [EFFICIENCY] Time Saving & Automation Round-up: Let the Computer Do the Work
- Get your computer to do the heavy lifting. I can’t spell.
- (ofzenandcomputing.com 30 2 8 )
- [SMO] The Secret to Massive Digg/StumbleUpon Traffic Without Spamming
- When someone promotes your post via a social media site, SAY THANK YOU and build a relationship with them.
- (successful-blog.com 26 16 75 )
- [BOOKS] Author Robert Jordan Dies
- Robert Jordan dies at 58 of a rare blood disease. Wheel of Times books left uncompleted.
- (ap.google.com 8 100 10 )
- [BLOGGING] 4 reasons to write on the weekend and 4 posts to do it with
- Mu argues against taking the weekend off from blogging
- (muhammadsaleem.com 5 6 51 )
- [LIFEHACKS] Nurture Your Relationships with Positive Flooding
- You need 5 positive actions for every 1 negative action in marriages, 3:1 for work
- (annezelenka.com 5 3 )
- [PRIVACY] A Question of Privacy
- Good overview of online privacy, data retention, cross-referencing, etc.
- (baekdal.com 5 )
- [BLOGS] Copyright Notice
- Finally a decent copyright notice for blogs! I’m going to copy it without giving any credit back.
- (angryaussie.wordpress.com 2 )
- [TV] 5 Questions Season Two of Heroes Had Better F#@king Answer
- Great wrap up of Season 1 of Heroes.
- (cracked.com 100 )
Legend
- saves – number of people who bookmarked on http://del.icio.us
- inbound links – number of blogs who linked to it (max 100)
- diggs – number of people who dugg on http://digg.com
This Week at Internet Duct Tape
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9 Techniques to Promoting Your Social Web Application
How do you build a web app that has traction, gain users and hopefully explodes virally? I’ve been paying attention to this space for far too long and this is a round-up of the tricks and techniques successful and not-so-successful social web applications use to promote themselves.
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The Problem With Social Web Applications
This is an exciting time because unlike traditional software that runs on your computer [1], web applications are created as social software where you have a friends list, collaborate on a document with multiple people and it is easily to share information and communicate. The downside is these…
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Best of Feeds – 55 links – programming, firefox, blogging, tips, lifehacks
Tags: blogging, books, business, debugging, del.icio.us, delicious, development, digg, facebook, firefox, funny, games, geek, humor, life, lifehacks, management, organization, productivity, programming, security, smo, socialbookmarking, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, stumbleupon, tips, video
This Week at IDT Labs
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[DELICIOUS/STUMBLEUPON] Delicious Stumbles crossposting tool
Last Greasemonkey script this week :) With Delicious Stumbles I get all of the super-useful features I like about delicious (speed, recommended tags) but I also teach StumbleUpon more about what I like without having to spend all that time cutting-and-pasting between two accounts. Submit a page…
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[WORDPRESS] Comment Ninja
My WordPress Comment Ninja extension is available for beta test. Try it out and let me know what you think! Respond directly from the comment administration panel on your dashboard Respond by comment, email or both (without having to cut-and-paste your response!) Respond using your email…
Tags: blogging, inspiration, javascript, lifehacks, productivity, programming, rails, strategy, stumbleupon, tips
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