February 2012
29 posts
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★ @mikeloukides: Incredible IP and grab in France: state can seize rights to any book published before 2001 http://t.co/R2ZJZ6Eo
Feb 29th
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★ @GOOD: GOOD design daily: The world’s best-designed newspaper http://t.co/OMsvHtUg
Feb 28th
“What makes me sad is that the pinnacle of our computing power, the massive...”
– Reginald Braithwaite
Feb 25th
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★ @ccgus: It looks like “returned” MAS apps keep on working after refund. This might explain why I get 20x more returns via MAS than direct.
Feb 23rd
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★ @NathanBowers: Google, nobody wants you to do social. We want a Chinese Wall between our public selves and our searches for medical issues, porn, etc.
Feb 23rd
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★ @hackernewsbot: Cogs bad: what’s wrong with web servers 2.0… http://t.co/r8Wd8WxI
Feb 22nd
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★ @GammaCounter: Gender-recognition advertising: street ads only women can see at London bus stops: http://t.co/unszipqZ via @AdFreak @sa_poptart
Feb 22nd
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Feb 21st
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★ @ID_AA_Carmack: In ASCII, every word you hear, speak, read or write over your entire life would fit on a single DVD.
Feb 21st
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★ @hackernewsbot: Stop Paying Your jQuery Tax… http://t.co/YoqrtmM4
Feb 17th
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★ @rands: If you treat design as a service, design becomes an afterthought.
Feb 17th
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★ @Pinboard: Principle of Most Time: The most elegant and simple solution to any design problem will be the one that requires the most developer effort
Feb 16th
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★ @Lessien: Things really get tough for competing OS that are mobile device only. Single platform, multi-device, single experience is table-stakes now.
Feb 16th
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★ @adage: Apple Slashes iAd Pricing Again as Mobile Ad Share Declines http://t.co/oNHS8YWT
Feb 14th
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★ @mpanzarino: An easy test to see if your phone is too big: Can you reach every corner with your thumb comfortably? If not, you’ve got a tablet.
Feb 11th
Feb 11th
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Feb 11th
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Feb 10th
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Feb 10th
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★ @hackernewsbot: The dirty secret of IP calling, and how it will change the phone industry… http://t.co/scxbRtnm
Feb 10th
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★ @wired: Texas jury strikes down a patent troll’s claim to own the interactive web http://t.co/p8zb3zH4
Feb 10th
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★ @brentsimmons: Three little words that I would ban: “After the jump…”
Feb 9th
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★ @iamleeg: On privacy, hashing, and your customers. http://t.co/w8XAu59D
Feb 9th
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Responsive Images: Some Comments
Discussion regarding a more Responsive Web has really heated up. In the latest A List Apart, Mat Marquis delves into responsive images. I had two longish comments on the subject, quoted below for posterity (and Google): Prefetch, Prerender, and Sites’ Rights Mat’s essay mentions that the work-around hacks by his team and others fails when ‘newer’ (and unmentioned) browsers may, upon...
Feb 9th
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★ @mikeloukides: Next-gen LED light technology: http://t.co/cSbj2xN0
Feb 9th
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★ @beverloo: Microsoft and Mozilla feel forced to implement certain -webkit- prefixed CSS properties. “Zero is no longer an option”. http://t.co/pXyNPq82
Feb 8th
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Feb 4th
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★ @UXYoda: Not just from the design team creativity must flow, if great products you are to build.
Feb 3rd