Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 05 2007 | social software
Seems like an obvious thing.
Quoted: Think of the most successful social sites out there. They usually focus on a single thing. YouTube (video), Netflix (movies), eBay (auctions), MySpace (friends), Flickr (photos), Del.icio.us (bookmarks) and most of the social features on those sites are aimed at making that one activity better.
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - 2 days ago | google
Quoted: Thomas Stromberg, a Google engineer based in Belgium, created Namebench, a piece of software to find the fastest DNS server available for you to use. The program is available for OS X, Windows, and Linux, and the entire thing has been open sourced by Stromberg.
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - 3 days ago | technology, apple, facebook
Quoted: Five companies we heard a lot about in 2009, and some predictions of what we might expect from them over the next 365 days.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - 4 days ago | google
Quoted: So by overhyping Wave, failing to communicate how to use it, and inviting the public in too early, Google bungled its own dream here. To quote Nelson from The Simpsons, “Ha ha.”
ShareViewed: 1 Time - Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - 24 days ago | imdb
An IMDb iPhone app ... finally!
Quoted: After all, there are very few Web sites that are better suited to having a mobile app or a mobile Web site than IMDb. Fortunately, our friends at TUAW have pointed us to the new official IMDb app [iTunes link] for the iPhone and the iPod touch.
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - 26 days ago | .net, asp.net, gzip
Quoted: As a quick review to create GZip content on the server generically I created a couple simple static utility functions that can be called from anywhere to dynamically encode dynamic ASP.NET content:
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - 27 days ago | SpaceShipTwo
Quoted: The official unveiling is tonight, but we have the first images of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo now, attached to its mothership, Eve. SpaceShipTwo is the first commercial passenger spacecraft in history, and it is oh-so-beautiful.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 03 2009 | black hole, disney
Quoted: Disney is revving up to remake one of its most expensive science-fiction endeavors, The Black Hole. The minds behind Tron Legacy are involved, but can they duplicate the PG-rated terror of the original?
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 03 2009 | cliqset
Quoted: Called Cliqset FeedProxy, the service consumes user activity feeds from more than 70 online services like Twitter, WordPress, Tumblr, Last.fm, Yelp and LibraryThing and then produces an outbound feed that's compliant with the ActivityStreams standard format.
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 15 2009 | seattle
Damn hippies.
Quoted: Staffers for Mike McGinn, Seattle's mayor-elect, have asked the city's technology department to explore the possibility of switching the mayor's office from Windows PCs to Macs to let them stick with the technology they've been using, according to a post by Eli Sanders of the Stranger.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 20 2009 | beatles, rock band
Quoted: The Fab Four did not set the video game world on fire with the launch of The Beatles Rock Band. The game was one of the most overhyped in game history, with a buildup that was similar to last year’s Spore, which sold millions of units but was still a disappointment.
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