October 2007
39 posts
“I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the...”
– Thomas Edison
Nice background on Jason from 37Signals →
Official Google Blog: Free IMAP for Gmail →
Apple shipped 1,119,000 iPhones in Q4 2007
(via Engadget)
Charts And Graphs: Modern Solutions | Developer's... →
Twine: The First Mainstream Semantic Web App? →
Star Wars Television Series Moving Forward
merg717 writes “George Lucas has confirmed that work has begun on a live-action Star Wars television series. This is the companion piece to the Clone Wars animated series, focusing on entirely new characters outside of the frame of the six movies. ‘Lucas joked that the series would be about “the life of robots” but wouldn’t let any details slip about the true premise....
Adobe Intends To Move All of Its Applications...
E1ven writes “Adobe has announced their intention to transition their entire suite of software to web-based applications This includes their popular offerings Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects. ‘[Adobe Chief Executive Bruce] Chizen answered a question about whether a complete shift to Web delivery would take five or 10 years and he indicated it would be closer to a decade. Like...
“So if you want my vote in 2008, don’t tell me what you are going to add, tell me...”
– The only reasonably intelligent thing I’ve ever heard come out of Marc Cuban’s mouth.
Ubuntu 7.10 'Gutsy Gibbon' Is Out
Many readers are sending the news that Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon has been released. Download options include mirrors and torrents. Wired has a review based on the release candidate: “Gamers and hardcore media hounds may still feel left out… but we found playing music and watching movies in the new Ubuntu to be every bit as pleasant as it is under OS X or Windows… Wi-Fi, printing,...
Jobs Announces SDK
Steve Jobs has confirmed the rumor. It looks like this won’t be just widgets — it will be full, system-level native apps. It will be interesting to see how they perform this — as the iPhone stands, everything is running in ‘ring 0’. My guess is that they’re going to have to redesign the iPhone to run in multi-user mode. That is, some things will be running...
“The best work is done when there’s not enough time, not enough money to do it...”
– 37signals
The Future of Software Development →
Read/WriteWeb’s Alex Iskold takes a look at the past, present, and future of software development, concluding that we now have the programming languages, models, and infrastructure to build complex systems using just a few skilled people. “Craftsmanship has finally come to software engineering!” Anyone interested in agile dev should read this.
Does Your Building Need A Social Network? Why Not.
New York-based LifeAt wants to create a social network around your residential building. Do you need one? Nope. But maybe you’ll use it anyway. And perhaps you’ll even get to know some of your neighbors.
The building managers control the network and post information about the building itself. Residents sign up to get news about the building, interact with other users, etc. They’ll provide...
“Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent...”
– Milton Friedman
IU's Choice of Search Engine ChaCha 'Explained'
theodp sends a follow-up to the discussion here a couple of months back about Indiana University librarians and students being forced to use the ‘human-powered’ ChaCha search engine because IU’s President and one of its Trustees were business buddies of ChaCha CEO (and IU alum) Scott Jones. Don’t be ridiculous, insisted indignant IU officials. It was ChaCha’s ability...
Hoosier Hysteria Tips Off 2007-08 Men's and...
Photo GalleryIn front of a full crowd of Hoosier faithful, the Indiana men’s and women’s teams tipped off the 2007-08 season with Hoosier Hysteria on Friday, Oct. 12 in Assembly Hall. (via Trotzke’s shared items in Google Reader)
“The default font is Times New Roman. That doesn’t mean you should use...”
– Marco
Tracing An Email →
Is it really the number of features that matter? →
Jason of 37signals:
Software needs an editor like a writer needs an editor or a museum needs a curator. Someone with a critical eye and the ability to say “No, that doesn’t belong” or “There’s a better way to say this.” Physical constraints create natural limits for books and museums. Books have pages and museums have wall space. Software, on the other hand, is virtual, boundless. Anything is...
Apple iPhone Webapps are Live
Apple has created a searchable directory of mary various online web applications. The service is available at http://www.apple.com/webapps/, and offers over 200 (!) online applications. We had considered doing an online application database very early on, but we didn’t. And it now makes me happy that we didn’t, for very real. All of the iPhone application list sites are now...
Rentokil's RADAR super-mousetrap texts you when...
[Via Tech Digest]
