31 7 / 2012
I almost had an allergic reaction to them when I first saw them air during the Olympics opening ceremony on Friday.
23 7 / 2012
Can Facebook woo the Madmen?
Facebook, for all its “software first, advertising second” ethos, needs to make money to show wall street it is on the right path. Whether it will succeed or not rests on its software which, in part, tracks user’s internet habits on other sites to more accurately present adverts.
09 7 / 2012
A programming language for kids
Every daddy coders dream - get the kids into code before it’s too late
03 7 / 2012
Poker tweet
Ian Chan is tweeting his poker games at the WSOP. The Twitter engineer started playing poker in 2002 and is currently ranked in the top five players in the tournament.
26 6 / 2012
Work as play
A great post by Vinicius Vacanti on launching an experiment rather than a startup. Looking at something as an experiment gives you the freedom to play, learn, grow and change. An experiment lets you test hypotheses. Ultimately that’s going to allow you to achieve success more than a fixed idea that is, as yet, completely unproven and untested. Derek Sivers expresses a similar opinion in his article Why you need your own company. The url to Sivers’ post is telling - sivers.org/laboratory. Sivers treats his companies as laboratories. Places to try things and see what happens.
But, by thinking of it as a quick experiment, that fear tends to go away. The beautiful thing about experiments is that disproving your hypothesis isn’t thought of as a failure. It’s thought of as progress
Go experiment, treat work as play, build something small and fluid.
25 6 / 2012
The antique alien like sound of a dial-up modem slowed by 700%.
(Source: noisemademedoit.com)
22 6 / 2012
Javascript based mini charts
Neat little jQuery library that creates mini-charts using the canvas element. Neat stuff
