Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO · Matt Cutts
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The Morning News - Headlines
December 20, 2011: Afternoon
U.S. rated the world’s most charitable country in 2011. Mark Thoma demonstrates with a simple game why the great economic divide makes everyone poorer. Lehrer: Our theories about cause and effect are inherently perceptual, infected by all the sensory cheats of vision. “A slice of soapsuds is a carnival of 120-degree…
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I had a great time attending and speaking at re:build 2011 in...
I had a great time attending and speaking at re:build 2011 in Indianapolis earlier this year. My talk is up now. It’s titled Bit Depth, and it’s about working on projects of varying depth and complexity. Enjoy it!
MailChimp Email Marketing Blog · Ben
The Email Person at Amazon Web Services is Really, Really Excited
Quick Sprout · Neil Patel
10 SEO Trends You Can’t Ignore If You Want High Rankings
... My heart’s in Accra · Ethan
My new quest – replacing QR codes with tartan
Quantified Self · Chukwuma Onyeije
Fenn Lipkowitz and his Amazing Lifelog
Quantified Self · Alexandra Carmichael
On Minimalism and Sustainability
Quantified Self · Alexandra Carmichael
Catherine Hooper on Hour Tracking for Priority Optimization
Quick Sprout · Neil Patel
What I learned about you through 5 redesigns
Observations on film art · bordwellblog
HUGO: Scorsese’s birthday present to Georges Méliès
Marco.org
→ Elevation Dock passes $1 million on Kickstarter
Amazing (previously). This shows two things: How good their design and implementation appear to be from the video. Just how inexcusably bad Apple’s $29 docks are, and how much demand therefore exists for a good alternative. ∞ Permalink
Marco.org
→ TextMate 2.0 Alpha
It’s important to stress though that being an alpha release; it is not complete. It has reached a point where it may suit some early adopters and provide some relief to those who have been questioning TextMate’s future. It really happened. My doubt that this day would ever come is one of those things that I’m very…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
How to Properly Use Apple’s Guidance to Accurately Forecast Earnings
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Third-Party iPhone Twitter Clients Benefitting From Twitter’s New App
Blog | Ushahidi · Erik Hersman
SwiftRiver Throws a Lifeline to People Drowning in Information
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
360° Gyroscope-Enabled Panoramic Photo of Grand Central Apple Store
The Art of Non-Conformity » 3×5 · Chris Guillebeau
2011 Annual Review: The Beginning
Marco.org
The Cosmonaut stylus for touchscreens
Studio Neat, known for the Glif iPhone stand, recently finished their second product: the Cosmonaut wide-grip stylus for “touchscreens”. They’re trying to be inclusive, but I think it’s obvious that this is designed for the iPad, so I photographed mine in its natural habitat: They explained the design on Kickstarter:…
Cognition by Happy Cog · Joe Rinaldi
Buying Wins
Investing in business development is like investing in anything else; you have a finite amount of resources to invest in a wide variety of options. In retail, the success of an enterprise often hinges entirely upon managing inventory. The difference between a successful and an unsuccessful venture often rests in the…
Expert Labs · Clay Johnson
Feedback on the U.S. Open Government National Action Plan
Bustr Bensn
The interface to our subconscious
You know how sometimes you’re hungry and you start wondering to yourself, “What am I in the mood for?” This process of one part of the brain asking another part of the brain a question is something we all do a lot, and it struck me the other day that there was actually something really interesting and beautiful about…
Bobulate
Lessons according to salt
In the kitchen where I grew up in a non-popular town in Pennsylvania — the kitchen where my parents still live and cook and all important Danzico Family Conversations take place — there is a saltbox. It hangs just to the right of the stove, a handmade walnut wooden box, made for my grandmother by my grandfather, who…
The Art of Less Doing · [email protected] (Ari Meisel)
How To Become A Google Calendar Power User
So this is going to sound like the opposite of efficiency but I have seven calendars in my Google Calendar and as far as I'm concerned, the more the merrier. How can this possibly be efficient you say? Each calendar is related to a very specific aspect of my life. I have my main calendar and then I have several…
Schneier on Security · schneier
DARPA Unshredding Contest
DARPA held an unshredding contest, and there's a winner: "Lots of experts were skeptical that a solution could be produced at all let alone within the short time frame," said Dan Kaufman, director, DARPA Information Innovation Office. "The most effective approaches were not purely computational or crowd-sourced, but…
ParisLemon
Bicycles For Our Minds by Michael Mulvey
Bicycles For Our Minds by Michael Mulvey: Steve Jobs’ talk comparing computers to “a bicycle for our minds” is definitely one of my favorites. Apparently, Michael Mulvey feels the same way, as he launched a Kickstarter project to create a graphic and prints of the quote. If he can raise $4,000 in the next few weeks,…
kottke.org · Jason Kottke
Water-powered jet pack lets you swim like a dolphin
Subtraction.com
Why You Should Move That Button 3px to the Left
Over at the newish blog Design Staff, Braden Kowitz makes a cogent case for why fit-and-finish is important enough for a designer to fight for, even in the face of indifference from peers on a product team (a situation that I’ve encountered many times throughout my career). Kowitz lays out a few useful arguments and…
The Art of Non-Conformity » 3×5 · Chris Guillebeau
Life In the Tower, Somaliland Edition
Little Green Dot
Directory Update
Hi! I just received word that Choose, an eco-friendly shop listed in my directory, has moved location! If you were thinking of checking them out, or picking up any of the goodies that you may have seen on my Christmas Guide - do call them first for more information. I’ll keep you up-to-date! Have a great day!
Bustr Bensn
"Neoteny, one of my favorite words, means the retention of childlike attributions in adulthood...."
“Neoteny, one of my favorite words, means the retention of childlike attributions in adulthood. Childlike attributes include learning, idealism, experimentation, wonder, and creativity. In our rapidly changing world, not only do we need to continue to behave more like children - we can teach our children to retain…
Bjango Articles · Marc Edwards
PNG compression and iOS apps
I’m going to come straight out and say it—if you’re spending any effort compressing or optimising your PNG images for iOS app development, you’re wasting your time.
Habit Labs · ameliagreenhall
From Chris DeVore: Software With Soul
From Chris DeVore: Software With Soul: The explicit goal of the creative minds behind these projects is to develop an authentic, sustained, empathetic relationship with the end-user — to make their customers feel powerful, magical and cared for by their software.
bunnie's blog · bunnie
On Counterfeit Chips in US Military Hardware
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks $13 Billion Undisclosed to Congress
Neil Gaiman's Journal · [email protected] (Neil)
It's beginning to look a lot like a Christmas Card out there
I went to Chicago on Friday and took part in the recording of the "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me... Royal Pain In The Year" 2011 Special. It airs on BBC America (TV) and on Public Radio on December the 23rd. I was the "Not my job" guest, and answered three questions. Whether or not I got any of them right, you will have to…
timoni.org
5 Ways to Be Persuasive in Your UX Work
5 Ways to Be Persuasive in Your UX Work: The best, most practical rundown of ways to get your point across in a work environment. Especially number one.
Raz's Blog · Roland Turner
The world’s most expensive airline ticket?
The Morning News - Headlines
December 2, 2011: Afternoon
Anders Breivik was cold and calculating, but calling him insane lets him off easy. #opinions Western governments should open up to trade rather than just dish out aid. On Africa’s real chance to follow in Asia’s footsteps. Change in Libyan leadership doesn’t mean 200-year-old remains of American sailors closer to…
Instagram Engineering
What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies
One of the questions we always get asked at meet-ups and conversations with other engineers is, “what’s your stack?” We thought it would be fun to give a sense of all the systems that power Instagram, at a high-level; you can look forward to more in-depth descriptions of some of these systems in the future. This is…