Tag Archives: software

A more realistic desktop metaphor

February 8, 2007 – 11:58 pm

The recent attention to Apple’s patents on “piles” reminds me of an entertaining conversation Ryan and I had in 2005.
We were caught up in the HDR fad, and lamented how poor iPhoto is at managing photos meant to be grouped, as when auto-bracketing exposure or shooting for panorama stitching. As I said aloud that […]

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Daily Bookmarks

February 5, 2007 – 11:45 pm

Links bookmarked on 2007-02-05

MailFollowup Home Page
Adds a Mail.app menu item to "reply" to messages in your Sent Items
My Favorite Word
A collection of favorite words, some with cheeky definitions, others with personal stories. Someone should establish an entire dictionary in this manner.

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Daily Bookmarks

January 31, 2007 – 11:45 pm

Links bookmarked on 2007-01-31

 Welcome to Cowgirls Espresso udderly the best!!
Business model of the day: coffee and cleavage. See also: how to differentiate from Starbucks.
Absinthe Films: More Trailer
Crazy snowboarding

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Steve’s dream, realized

January 9, 2007 – 10:36 pm

It’s an exciting day to be a Mac user and investor in Apple! Today Steve Ballmer’s company pre-announced Office 2008 for Mac. This includes such exciting, patent-protected innovations as the Ribbon. AAPL jumped 8.3%, enough that I could take the profit and buy 4 iMacs and still have enough for one of […]

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Social data mining

December 5, 2006 – 3:25 pm

Swivel, previewed on TechCrunch, looks to be the coolest new web service idea since Mechanical Turk. This is one of those rare ideas that illicit a reaction not of “oh, neat” but rather “if I was half as smart as I like to think, I would’ve thought of that.”

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Meat-based web services

August 25, 2006 – 3:25 pm

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is one of the most interesting new business models this year. The concept of a task-completion marketplace is not too innovative, but their model of qualifications and exposure of web services certainly piques my interest. Only time will tell if they can fill their chessboard with enough Schlumbergers to keep […]

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WordPress it is

April 9, 2006 – 7:52 pm

After some prodding from Ryan and a noteworthy adoption by Zeldman, I recently checked out the latest version of WordPress. Since my last survey, it has grown into a quite capable site management platform. Every one of my use cases is addressable through existing plugins, and there is a vibrant ecosystem centered on […]

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