June 2008
May 2008
Scribkin Stats →
I’ve never done a stats update, and I haven’t refined my tools at all, so this post will be a little rough. First, let’s start with the good news: For the first time, scribkin has over…
Watchwolfstale: Gametrailers.com - Resident Evil 5 Simply mouth watering!
Watch(via bgolub) Dean Kamen on DEKA’s prosthetic arm technology.
Valve Announces Steam Cloud, Network to Store... →
Valve today announced Steam Cloud, a new system in Steam that will retain gamers’ saved games and configuration files indefinitely.
thelisashow: Yellow - Coldplay I’ve been...
My Pre-Pre-Pre-Alpha FriendFeed Compatibility... →
Earlier this week in my FriendFeed article, I mentioned an aspiring developer or and statistician named Yuvi Panda, or The StatBot. In the last couple of days, he has been playing with the FriendFeed API and has come up with an interesting stat: the FriendFeed Compatibility Index. Essentially, this algorithm looks at the articles that a certain person has liked (currently the the latest...
How to Save 83% of the World's Coral Reef Species →
Coral reefs provide the world with goods and services worth US$375 billion annually, but scientists estimate that 70% of all corals reefs could be lost by 2050. Now a new initiative aims to conserve…
Deceptive Marketing - Who's Buying It and Why? →
Deceptive marketing focuses on the oat bran and hopes you won’t notice that they’re really selling junk food. It’s big business, raking in huge profits, but those profits come at our expense.
Thursday update
twitterstatus: Wanted to provide an update on where we are in restoring services. The partial pagination fix we deployed appears stable. Some folks are still going to be missing Older links but we’re working to restore those. IM remains offline today but we completed the testing of an important technology fix. Getting IM back for all users remains the top service we need to restore; we’re...
“This is the 35th FriendFeed post I have read in the past week!”
– [scribkin] YAAOF - Yet Another Article on FriendFeed (via suwaowalog) LMAO. I’ve been quoted!
Friendfeed Like Factor and the Gender Divide
itafroma: Based on Hutch Carpenter’s post today regarding the Friendfeed ‘Likes’ Compatibility Index, and the resulting discussion on the possible Friendfeed gender gap, I decided to check out my own stats. I used Hutch Carpenter’s same methodology, with one addition: I added the number of stories I liked that nobody else did. Based on my last 50 stories that I’ve marked as liking, there were...
Experience Better Mobile Web Browsing with Skyfire →
Skyfire, the mobile web browser that allows users to experience the web as they would on a PC, has secured $13 Million in Series B Funding. The application has a waiting list that amounts to the…
YAAOF - Yet Another Article on FriendFeed →
I know what you are thinking… This is the 35th FriendFeed post I have read in the past week! And you are absolutely correct. I Need A Fix FriendFeed has been a big news item for a while and especially recently as a result of Twitter downtime. Apparently, when (to use a crude metaphor) the heroin runs out, people start glumly looking at methadone, but not with any real sense of excitement. ...
“I just assume everyone who reads my blog is a dumbass. And that generates 80% of...”
– Matthew Lyon: Tweets - Overheard.it
Ars Technica System Guide: May 2008 Edition →
Latest updates to the ever popular Ars Technica System Guide!
7 Ways to Use Evernote →
Giving Twitter a Break:A Look at the Alternatives... →
With all the frustration, confusion, and support going towards Twitter this week, a break from Twitter might be just want the doctor ordered. This weekend users have been asking for alternatives to…
Anothr - Real-time News Tracker →
When it comes to staying up-to-date on the news, RSS is the best thing that could have ever happened to the web. You’ve probably subscribed to a ton of feeds by now through services such as Google…
Victims of Science - The Device Has Been Modified...
triciaward: bonobo. flutter. i’m officially...
Bookmarklets Galore →
I was just reading an article from Louis Gray about how to use the very cool and capable FriendFeed bookmarklet. That got me thinking about just how many bookmarklets I have gathered in the past couple of months, and what they all do.
“Twitter is probably the least interesting feed I see on FriendFeed. - Adam...”
– Blame FriendFeed - FriendFeed
“Sorry, but your comment has been flagged by the spam filter running on this...”
– http://www.blogherald.com/wp-comments-post.php Apparently I am now a spammer.
It is with sadness that I must say that I'm...
smalltime: It is with sadness that I must say that I’m leaving Google. My last day will be May 30, 2008. Google changed my life. A lot of people have said that same thing (employees and non-employees), and I believe them when they say it. But for me, every single thing changed in my life when Google hired me in August of 2003. Nothing was left untouched. …
First Look: Zemanta →
Image by Tom Raftery via Flickr Today I noticed an interesting new multi-browser plugin calledZemanta. Having both Firefox installed and a WordPress blog, I decided I would give it a spin and see what it could dig up for me with itself as the topic. So far, it found a nice screenshot and a few good related articles. Plus, it scans the articles for words it can make link-able with anchor tags,...
Watch Zemanta Wordpress Plugin Teaser on Vimeo (via Vimeo) I’m totally going to integrate this.
