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Archive: June, 2008

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06.14.2008

Scraped

Derek Powazek’s arti­cle “It’s 2008. I can’t believe we haven’t fig­ured this out.” spoke loudly to me. I’m tired of con­tent scrap­ers. I’ve had arti­cles stolen, sim­ply because they cov­ered pop­u­lar sub­jects I’m still offer­ing full text in my feed, but for Derek, that’s no longer an option. The prob­lem with splogs and spam in gen­eral … Read the rest of this item

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06.12.2008

Google Talk + Yahoo Messenger

The orig­i­nal post is now offline, but here’s the deal: Just announced today, Google and Yahoo are enter­ing into a part­ner­ship where Yahoo may offer Google paid search results as part of its search offer­ing. As part of this agree­ment, we are agree­ing to make our IM ser­vices inter­op­er­ate. From the Yahoo press release: In addi­tion, Yahoo! … Read the rest of this item

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Opera 9.5 was just released and it’s gorgeous.

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06.10.2008

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Steve Jobs’ WWDC Keynote in 60 seconds.

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Why I Still Won’t be Getting an iPhone

PCWorld offered up 5 Rea­sons to Buy the iPhone 3G and I’m here to tell you why I won’t be buy­ing into the hype. Before I go on, I should note that I own an 8GB iPod touch and use a Motorola E815 on the All­tel net­work. This arti­cle specif­i­cally addresses the points made in the PCWorld arti­cle. I rec­om­mend read­ing it first. … Read the rest of this item

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06.09.2008

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Google AJAX Feed API

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WWDC ’08

Plan on fol­low­ing the WWDC this week? Here are some sources for you to check out: MacRu­morsLive Giz­modo Engad­get* Mac Observer Mac­world I’d also sug­gest fol­low­ing @wwdc2008 on Twit­ter and track­ing on Summize.

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06.06.2008

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New Win­dows Live Writer Tech­ni­cal Pre­view avail­able for down­load. Includes new video and image pub­lish­ing enhance­ments, UI improve­ments and more.

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06.05.2008

No Photoshop vs. Photoshop

Why We Skip Pho­to­shop vs. Why We Don’t Skip Pho­to­shop — I think the les­son learned here is that teams work the way that suits them best. 37Signals has the lux­ury of being able to design for them­selves, and has estab­lished a set of design stan­dards that they can rip­ple through­out their prod­ucts. Whereas at Blue Fla­vor … Read the rest of this item

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06.02.2008

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Yahoo! Design Sten­cil Kit 1.0. These could come in handy.

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