Notes"Kevin Rose takes full advantage of the Internet’s Cult of Personality by throwing himself in the media spotlight while Joshua is more of a behind the scenes master of technology."FeedUnfurl
NotesCan we have LensFlare.js next please? "Corner.js 1.0 allows you to add corners to images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean."Unfurl
Notes"The lure of Twitter—as well as its Achilles heel—is its simplicity. You "twitter" (yes, it's a verb) by answering the question "What are you doing?" in 140 characters or less."Unfurl
Notes'We'll laugh all the way to the billion-dollar buyout. And when the dust settles and it's time to make the fuck-you money say "fuck you," we'll see who looks stupid.'Unfurl
Notes"The best reason to always build out APIs for your product is that it makes it easier for the rest of the world to extend your product or service rather than start competitors."FeedUnfurl
Notes"A ficlet is a short story that enables you to collaborate with the world. Once you’ve written and shared your ficlet, any other user can pick up the narrative thread by adding a prequel or sequel."Unfurl
Notes"Users get very passionate about the tools they use. If you change them and alter them radically, they get upset. We want to only make steps that make sense for everybody."Unfurl
Notes'Digg is a great site and a great service, and someday it may be worth a big pile of actual dollars, and many of those dollars may end up in Kevin Rose's pocket. But until then he has simply not "made" millions of dollars.'Unfurl
NotesMy next idea for a startup - 'I wonder when the two-dot-ohers are going to discover fanfic and declare it a new thing, throwing in the word "social" for good measure.'Unfurl
Notes"Will controversy tarnish the shiny O'Reilly image, or will the publisher recover the community's goodwill once the event fades from memory?"Unfurl
Notes"While we stand by the principle that we need to protect our "Web 2.0" mark from unauthorized use in the context of conferences, we apologize for the way we initially handled the issue with IT@Cork."Unfurl
Notes"Pretty much everything (good) in web 2.0 is really a playing out, in one form or another, of things those people were saying around 8-10 years ago."Unfurl
Notes"The server-side blink tag works by using a timed AJAX request, to let a Web 2.1 compatible server update the client document so that the blinking text is turned invisible."Unfurl
Notes"blocks of interchangeable software components are proliferating on the Web and developers are joining them together to create a potentially infinite array of useful new programs."Unfurl
Notes"Superpatron Ed Vielmetti has been quietly assembling a fantastic group of people to attend the first ever Library Campan "unconference" which follows open-space guidelines."Unfurl
Notes"As the computing world becomes more and more decentralised, people are realising more and more ways to free themselves from a single PC, work socially, and live a life online."Unfurl
Notes'Amazon Mechanical Turk provides a web services API for computers to integrate "artificial, artificial intelligence" directly into their processing by making requests of humans.'Unfurl
Notes"The neutrality of the entry is disputed, but it gives an example of how groups are trying to steer the direction of the discussion to benefit one technology over another (in this case Ajax over Flash)."Unfurl
Why Digg is More Popular than Del.icio.us… Or is it?
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