Schneier on Security · schneier
Sam Harris on Self-Defense
I thought this was very interesting. His three principles are: Avoid dangerous people and dangerous places. Do not defend your property. Respond immediately and escape.
Links
Articles, ideas, and references I want to find again.
LukeW | Digital Product Design + Strategy · Luke Wroblewski
Multi-Device Web Design: An Evolution
As mobile devices have continued to evolve and spread, so has the process of designing and developing Web sites and services that work across a diverse range of devices. From responsive Web design to future friendly thinking, here's how I've seen things evolve over the past year and a half.If you haven't been keeping…
iRevolution · Patrick Meier
Time-Critical Crowdsourcing for Social Mobilization and Crowd-Solving
iRevolution · Patrick Meier
Microtasking Advocacy and Humanitarian Response in Somalia
Quick Sprout · Neil Patel
How to Create a Company That Can Run without You
ElectronPlumber · El Plumber (admin)
Affiliate Site Analysis – Thisiswhyimbroke.com
Smarterware · Gina Trapani
ThinkUp Archives and Analyzes Your Social Media Life
Pinboard - bookmarking for introverts · [email protected] (Maciej Ceglowski)
Import from Google Reader
I've made it possible to import all your shared or starred articles from Google Reader into Pinboard. You can find step-by-step instructions for this on the import page,
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report · Jeffrey Zeldman
New MobiUs Browser For iOS Makes Mobile Web Apps Act More Like Native Apps
Seth's Blog · Seth Godin
Lifetime value of a customer/cost per customer
Instagram Engineering
Instagram Engineering Challenge: The Unshredder
In our office, we have a pretty amazing paper shredder. Seriously, the thing shreds just about anything. It even has a special slot for credit cards (why anyone would want to regularly shred credit cards is beyond me, but I digress…). One day, after shredding some paper, I thought to myself: shredding paper is a…
Waxy.org Links
Mixel
Khoi Vinh's collaborative drawing and remixing app for iPad; his thoughts on the app
Uncrunched · Michael Arrington
Make Your Art With Mixel On The iPad
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Not Just Mobile: Adobe Is Abandoning Flash on TVs as Well
WebAppers · Ray Cheung
Pingdom Full Page Test v2.0 Released
Instagram Engineering
Simplifying EC2 SSH Connections
Here at Instagram, we run our infrastructure on Amazon Web Services, running instances on their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Since we’re often spinning up new machines and changing details of our infrastructure, there’s an ever-growing list of machines that we SSH into. To authenticate with our instances, we use…
Inside Facebook · Sara Inés Calderón
Featured Facebook Campaigns: Pepsi and SavingStar, Banana Republic, Tabasco, Nokia, Honda and More
Google+ Developers Blog · Emily Wood
Grow your audience with Google+
Waxy.org Links
Skinemax
"Koyaanisqatsi for a generation raised on late night television and B-movie VHS tapes"
Quantified Self · Rajiv Mehta
Toolmaker Talk: Nicholas Gammell (GAIN Fitness)
Waxy.org
Supercut: Anatomy of a Meme
I spent last weekend revisiting the "supercut" meme, with a talk at WFMU's Radiovision conference in New York and my new Wired column, which you can read below. To cap it off, I spent a night revamping Supercut.org into a comprehensive, browsable database of supercut videos, with the help of Twitter's Bootstrap CSS…
Signal vs. Noise · Jason F.
Quick little UI feedback tip
Sometimes when I’m giving feedback on a UI, and I’m pointing out a spacing detail, I upload a little screenshot to Basecamp or Campfire to help make sure the feedback is clear. I wanted to share a little tweak to the feedback which I think is ultimately more useful. In this example I’m pointing out that the space…
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Crosby Grant
PPC Shop Tools: The Permutator
WorkHappy.net: killer resources for entrepreneurs · Carson
Launch Effect
WebAppers · Ray Cheung
Compile Your LESS CSS Code with SimpLESS
Habit Labs · centraldogma
Startup Toolkit: How to Rock an Investor Update
Your first investors have to love you, *really* love you, warts and all, to open their wallets. At Habit Labs we’ve got an amazing, committed team of investors who embody the phrase “value add.” Yep - they’re written us checks. But investors should put up more than just money. Ideally they should contribute other…
KK Lifestream
Steam-Engine-Time
Originally posted in The Technium This long revealing interview with William Gibson is a gold mine. In addition to being a gifted writer, Gibson is one of the best conversationalists I've encountered. I could listen to him all day. (This interview in The Paris Review reminds me how great interviews can be when you…
Google LatLong · Vanessa Schneider
A new way to get information about real-world places
Facebook Developer Blog
Introducing HTML5 Resource Center
information aesthetics
Showing Geo-Located Points with the 'HexBin' Method
Cartographer Zachary Forest Johnson has presented a novel way of representing a large number of geo-located points on a map. He took inspiration from the original 'hexbin' visualization method, short for hexagonal binning (PDF!), which originally is meant to aggregate scatterplotted points into an hexagonal grid, of…
Smarterware · Gina Trapani
Clay Johnson’s Information Diet
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Trond Lyngbø