January 2010
20 posts
“Apple has decided that openness is not a quality that’s necessary in a personal...”
– Alex Payne (developer at twitter) — Online Writing
“For years, the Mac community railed against the perceived closed nature of...”
– Peter Kirn : Create Digital Music » How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad, and the Closed Mac
RabbitMQ, Celery and Django « Happy stream of... →
A nice introduction to celery + rabbitmq
Using Geocoders with GeoDjango :: The Scoop →
More Visualization Links on Twitter →
Sunlight Labs: Blog - Imagining /open →
Since holding each agency accountable is a large part of the Open Government Directive, we’ve placed a lot of focus on those content areas. The White House, Congress and the American public should be…
“Linking is not a privilege that the recipient of the link should control – any...”
– The right to link - Jeff Jarvis « BuzzMachine
“Perhaps if Beck put his crack research staff on the case, or if Palin spent a...”
– Beck and Palin — stupid in stereo - Media Matters
3G encryption cracked in less than two hours →
Flashy Graphs Sans Flash →
The graphael library provides a layer on top of raphael to make creating graphs more obvious. Looks neat.
“With notable exceptions such as the White House visitor logs being released or...”
– Don’t Give Grades Till the End of the Class — Making Government Transparent and Accountable - Sunlight Foundation Blog
Skiff Reader →
Interesting looking e-reader.
“It might achieve a level of usability that makes tablets a viable product, but...”
– Steve Yelvington on tablets magically saving newspapers.
The year of the tablet? | yelvington.com
hNews: A better way to consume digital news →
iA » What’s Next in Web Design? →
Directed Edge →
Outsourced recommendation engine - if this is done properly, it could prove to be very interesting.
“The touch event is way overloaded. Touching the screen may start a click, a...”
– QuirksBlog: A basic usability test on ten phones
Building Android apps in Scala with sbt →
A set of instructions for building android apps in scala (thanks to @tommorris)
