March 2009
65 posts
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“It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue,...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via affremblequotes)
kortina’s bit: woah.
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The Bit.ly Magic, via RWW
Show us a service that can report in real time how many people are visiting millions of pages around the web and what those pages are about, that exposes that data in an API, and we’ll show you a platform we’re very excited to see work.
via http://bit.ly/YalWs
kortina’s bit: Bit.ly’s kind of like an EKG for the entire web, monitoring pulse and vital activity in real...
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Playing with the bit.ly Plaintext API
The bit.ly plaintext API is just this url:
http://api.bit.ly/shorten?format=text&history=1&version=2.0.1&longUrl=http://cnn.com&login=bitlyapidemo&apiKey=R_0da49e0a9118ff35f52f629d2d71bf07
“format=text” will make the API return just a string instead of the full JSON response. The above call returns:
http://bit.ly/15DlK
JSON api is handier in most places, but I...
Akron/Family - Last Year
Closing song from the...
Widespread Panic Jam Cover
Roamin and WoopWoop...
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“If it is not connected, connect it. As a first step, every employee of an...”
– New Rules for the New Economy (via numenity)
Habib Koite - Batoumambe
How to power payments for Twitter Applications...
giantrobotlasers:
Tipjoy has opened up an API which can power payments for Twitter applications. There are are lots of exciting ways to use it; here are some ideas to get you started:
E-commerce over twitter - sell your content: mp3s, videos, text, whatever
p $1 http://music-site.com/good-song.mp3 because I love this band
Premium content and premium services
p $2 @tweetie to get your...
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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
It wasn’t until people started thinking of this as a vast civic surplus, one they could design for rather than just dissipate, that we started to get what we think of now as an industrial society.
Another interesting bit:
So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project—every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language...
““The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
(so don’t...”
– Plutarch (via alimentary)
kortina’s bit: ie, keep a low information diet.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. —Albert Einstein
James Gang - Stop
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newspeedwayboogie:
Bonnie Prince Billy - I See A...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-22) →
Stevie Wonder (73)
Angélique Kidjo (27)
Sam Cooke (4)
Youngblood Brass Band (3)
D’Angelo (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“Don’t bullshit, build shit.”
– This will be the motto for the next build and bake.
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WatchPattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech via http://bit.ly/alzOM via Nav, CC, and Jenny (lots of people sent this amazing vid to me)
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Unsolicited "I'm doing X" Sentences Are Suspect
For quite some time I have been subconciously tuning out when conversations begin with “I’m doing X” or “I’ve started this new routine.” I just recently figured this out.
When conversations begin in such declaritive fashion, they tend to be bullshit. Telling someone about your new strategy for diet or productivity is great for public accountability and goal...
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WatchRemote Control Dog via Laan Labs http://bit.ly/dfwL
Also, I just read nice review of Light Writer here: http://bit.ly/UZ8TR
Keep building fun stuff, guys.
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Fela Kuti - Gentleman
I had to re-encode 4 times...
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Talib Kweli - A Game
I am just hearing this song...
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“Adulthood in the past meant that you finished learning most of what you needed...”
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Joi Ito
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I was watching* Tim Brown’s TED talk on creativity and play and he mentioned the word neoteny and I remembered that Joi Ito’s company was called Neoteny but I never knew why he named it that, until now.
Neoteny (IPA: /niːˈɒtɨniː/), also called juvenilization, is the retention, by...
Too Bad You Can't Scrobble Life
too bad you can’t scrobble life… —- Jenny Kortina Originally posted as a comment by jennykortina on blog.kortina.net using Disqus.
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WatchSXSW Keynote from Tony Hirsh, Zappos CEO. Highlights:
The telephone is one of the best branding devices of all time. (Zappos actually moved their HQ to Las Vegas because it was the best place to run a call center.)
“People may not remember exactly what you did or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel.”
Your culture is your brand. Don’t try to be...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-15) →
Lupe Fiasco (12)
Youngblood Brass Band (6)
Stevie Wonder (3)
Daft Punk (2)
Antony and the Johnsons (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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WatchTEDTalks : Why we think it’s OK to cheat and steal (sometimes) - Dan Ariely (2009) http://bit.ly/kBImF
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Watchbluetooth iphone to iphone action via http://bit.ly/dmcoz
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Breeding Rats to Trade Stocks
Scientist used competition / selection to breed rats adapted to better predict stock prices ( http://bit.ly/14usri ):
The first part of the experiment had to be the generation of so called ticker tracks; I used tick data from various futures and foreign exchange markets in order to generate sound in accordance to the real time price data…. The sound was modulated in correlation wih the...
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Daft Punk na własną rękę →
(via przecier)
kortina’s bit: OK, I love this little mix boards but this one is f-ing amazing. Get ready to spend an hour making music.
“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched...”
– Reid Hoffman (via entrepreneurwisdom) (via hiten) (via rafer)
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Joel on Program Manager
The best programmers are notoriously brilliant, and have some trouble imagining what it must be like not to be able to memorize 16 one-letter command line arguments.
Lolz. Good post on designing / managing software: http://bit.ly/MHsD
NYT app exchange could be a cool way to outsource...
I’ve found the iphone marketplace quite inspiring and interesting. I wonder if the platform can be bundled with a marketplace solution to incentivize developers. EG, I make a widget for publishers, and they subscribe to it for like $1/mo or buy it for $10. Perhaps my widget helps drive traffic or engage users, or perhaps it helps publishers make money (eg, tipjoy could make a widget and...
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Easy Dirty Data Input
http://your.flowingdata.com ( http://flowingdata.com/2009/03/10/yourflowingdata-collect-data-about-yourself-via-twitter/ ) is a cool service a friend just showed me for taking data from your Twitter stream and trying present it in a clean and useful way to you. My email response got long so I figured I’d share here:
* see update below.
Very good presentation of data. I was thinking about a...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-8) →
John Legend (42)
Orchestra Baobab (34)
D’Angelo (28)
Van Morrison (6)
The Budos Band (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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The EconoMining Project
The comment about “lightning fast delivery” can enhance a seller’s reputation and thus allow the seller to increase the price of the listed items by a few cents, without losing any sales.
Prof. Panos delivered an amazing presentation at NYTM last night about correlating phrases in product reviews to prices/purchases to explain differences in market prices for identical products....
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What do I want to do with what I have
alimentary:
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So, I think that my line of inquiry should be modified from “what do I want to do” to “what do I want to do with what I have”. This addendum will force me to continually assess my current state and then use that information to guide future actions. The question “what do I want to do” is useful for acting upon your desires, but the best answer to that question could be “I...
Heiferman poetry
but attention doesn’t scale consumption doesn’t scale these days the people ain’t buying the winner isn’t the ad-drunk stuff-sellers it’s the people who wake up in their max’d credit haze to having less to needing less ignoring ads when they don’t want them not needing to buy to be happy finding their worth outside the satisfaction of stuff more smiles...
“My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I’ve always suffered...”
– Evan Williams (via entrepreneurwisdom)
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“See, the people who populate Facebook are largely from Generation Open. They...”
– Chris Messina on “Generation Open” (via betaworks) (via whitneymcn)
kortina’s bit: yes. I have drunk deeply of this openness idea, and am pretty liberal with the amount of data I share and care little about being served better ads based on pretty much any action I take on the internet.
Of...