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When all you care about is free lunch for all, don't be astonished when you're served shit
1/10/2010 4:17:36 PM
When all you care about is free lunch for all, don't be astonished when you're served shit. This may sound harsh, but if you think the Android Market is going to pressure Apple to relax its iron fist around its App Store walled garden, don't hold your breath.
via padawan.info
What a fantastic quote.
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After graduation, students are doomed to a life of Java coding /via @avibryant
1/10/2010 4:02:29 PM
via vimeo.com
"Students sometimes get the impression that after graduation, they're doomed to a life of Java coding" — Andrew Louis
Avi talks about "career advice" at the Canadian University Software Engineering Conference (CUSEC). The title of the talk is actually "Bad Hackers Copy, Great Hackers Steal".
I spent the latter half of 2009 talking/thinking a bit about Canadian universities, what is being taught to CompSci / SWEng students, and how to connect that to what web startups actually need.
The next CUSEC is coming up in a couple of weeks.
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Learn how not to blog /via @kevinmarks
1/10/2010 3:03:51 PM
If you want to learn how not to blog, look at the big "industrial"-produced blogs -Gizmodo, Engadget, TUAW, TechCrunch, and even BoingBoing. Also Google "problogger", "problogging" and "problog" and read. All that stuff is just cancerous noise. Either use it as inspiration for how not to blog or just cut it out of your life altogether.
If you want to add more depth to a piece,link. You can keep the clutter, but my making it so that it sits hidden behind a whole load of hyperlinks, you have made it optional.
Both snippets via tommorris.org
This connects back to an earlier discussion in part kicked off by (ironically) Arrington's The End of Hand Crafted Content. Search algorithms and revenue from ads have reached the point where lots of optimized content is showing up highly, and we're losing "the best" content that Google used to promise us. Local Vancouver company Suite101 has been surfing this wave to record profits. I feel like they should be investing in quality now while they still have the revenue - I can foresee a time when search engines start dropping such content en-masse.
Personally, I've really been enjoying a return to quote-and-comment blogging that posterous has enabled for me, with Twitter links as a more direct and instant way to circulate a piece for feedback and commentary. I'm going to try and tune my writing
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The Apple Tablet is a RAT says @Ihnatko /via @gruber
1/8/2010 4:50:46 PM
My course is clear. My airfare is non-refundable. During the final week of January, I hope to be sitting in an auditorium at Yerba Buena Gardens learning about the Apple Tablet.
If I fly out there and Apple doesn't hold their rumored launch event, then I'll drive down to Cupertino. I'll stand outside the Apple campus in a trenchcoat holding a boombox over my head, playing a Peter Gabriel song up at the upper windows until Steve Jobs is so touched by this romantic gesture that he sends me away with an engineering sample.
via suntimes.com
It is so so SO fun to read Andy Ihnatko, in part because he's a great writer, and in part because he's been prognosticating about Apple for a very long time.
And so, we wait :P
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Mapzen POI Collector - easy open map data for small biz? /via @dankarran
1/7/2010 6:21:48 PM
All of the information is based on the OpenStreetMap project and Wikipedia, so you can add your information yourself. The easiest way to edit is using the free Mapzen POI collector app for the iPhone, but if you're not comfortable, just drop me an email and I'll happily add your details in to OpenStreetMap for you, for free, and you should get into the guide the next time it gets refreshed.
via dankarran.com
Dan's article is actually about Offmaps, an iPhone app, and how his home town Isle of Man businesses can add themselves.
And that's where it gets interesting. I love open data, and OpenStreetMap is the premier geo-focused example of open data. The Mapzen POI Collector app does seem like it's simple enough for anyone with an iPhone to add their small business.
Cloudmade, makers of Mapzen, are an interesting company with tools for users and developers that I'm digging into deeper.
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