Zappos, that customer relationship poster boy, started out as a droppshipper

Middlemen not to be confused with MiddleMan is on US release today. No sign of UK date yet

relevant: how to sleep outside for free

good tool for testing the new Facebook javascript SDK – when they get round to making the SDK work…

nice resource on influential blogs by subject (weird choice of sub-subjects mind)

…and from that list of the living, to a dead blog that impressed – Ghosts of Alexander – conflict and society in Central Asia

radical economics: question – does radical economics always equal socialist economics? Is that not what we have?

pretty HTML5 app & optimisation

a depression is colourless and odourless. When things go boom, it has already filled the room

Who doesn’t want to become win at this game. Generating good buzz too, Techcrunch & Edge…

crowdsourcing ideas for crowdsourcing Q&A sites.

poker in zero-sec

overused phrase but… actual legends

Belfast needs one of these #bigsociety

different strokes for different folks, but open stack vs hadoop anyone?

nice disconnected article

“Think of the modern Lib Dems as the new Liberal Unionists, or the equivalent of the Scottish Unionists who emerged from the ruins of the old Liberal Party”

an evening with utoob…

IDF presents Rock the Casbah. Yes, worth watching again

old scool!

more retro – great times but unbelieveable fps fog

And that’s me going disconnected for a few weeks, save a few choice heartbeat tweets telling y’all how great a mix of sun and alcohol and islands and mountains and football is. Chowder!

image courtesy daninho_ibk

Agree?

I just got me some contrast

true UI innovation – prefab

should billing solutions be this expensive? is whacking a paypal badge on your site not free and relatively painless?

nice – google analytics now asynchronous

some nice stuff on python especially it’s meta-classing capabilities

street fighting mathematics

the markets of Eve and a discussion from the game’s top economist

quality pointers on what makes good web design

python’s potential role in derivatives contract audit

Mastercard’s Emerging Markets City Index – where do you fancy working? Ankara, Santiago or St Petersburg for me

Command Line Amazon

Paper Cobra

It be happening again

Strange user survey – why would any programmer have a credible grasp of all those frameworks?

Tyrannis paves the way for DUST 514 and an ‘all encompassing sci-fi simulator‘

“Don’t work like me unless you’re crazy too” The creator explains Super Mario Crossover

Beating justgiving: Commission free charity payments

seed bomb dispenser

rkill and ComboFix saved my Windows from Alureon rootkit – via a suspected java exploit btw

too cool – the entire Level 1-1 of Super Mario Bros as a desktop background

odds on Jobs secretly locking himself in a cupboard whilst tied up in a gimp suit at weekends: 1/3 ON

nice to read a genuinely insightful interview every once in a while – the future for google docs

Adventures with html5’s audio tag

The Eve modus operandi

We’ve been EMP’ed!

whatever happened to http://datatables.org/

Deadlock immunity is a new paradigm in autonomous software mimicking natural systems: An equipped machine records a deadlock pattern, uploads this vaccine to the cloud and pending staged verification the entire network benefits from it. Dimmunix is an open source implementation.

any Belfastards report to the 2009 Feltron effort?

EVE catchup

year old FT article about tech bootstrapping

TicketStumbler founder Davis on creating usable filtering aggregates

Widely read Dave McClure article on how to win at online payment and following that, the paypal mafia

Never Stop Relaxing^TM

personal manufacturing

facebook analytics. Like a lot of their stuff this is merely copying existing web functionality onto the Facebook platform. Capturing content. The value is also debatable seeing as the newstream model means a post will be rendered many times in the same user’s browser.

great processing.js html5 drawing canvas

windows 7 speech api

recycling old routers

underboobs – the new cleavage? I prefer a healthy combination of both

a rum for my personal qualities? =)

very cool rich html copy n paste support for sites. Yeah unfortunately uses small bit of flash

how to mark up your content for rich snippet display on google search results

Future Proof is a machinima developed using Unreal 3 Engine for the space MMORPG Eve Online. In HD

I liked remote farming , also signed up as a spotter

In a counter-counter-culture rage, I bought two t-shirts @ https://shop.conservatives.com/

Searching “Belfast Telegraph startup” on Google brings back a BT article about the startups in Dublin. Just another reason why NI needs another national newspaper

Emerging markets & Stamps were the best performing investments of the past decade

using your own brand weight to increase sales

lots of new (Apple iTablet-inspired?) remixes for computers coming online

Yahoo says Adobe cross-platform products to be malware’s vector of choice in 2010 – no shit – I reckon the 0-day exploit described in the article was what hit me a few weeks back – also true say regarding end-users not keeping adobe stuff up to date.

nice comparison of posterous & tumblr: sold me on posterous

just how much of the world’s web traffic does bit.ly (and the others) capture? Infinite marketing possibilities here I feel

the internet’s simplest article on css centring

Never realised there were so many euro battlegroups. Note although their EU badging, constituent nations neither have to be a member of the EU nor are EU member states required to sign up.

4v4v4v4 deathmatch

clever

I was one of those who commented on Google’s ‘Meaning of Open’ blogpost and then they went on to lock it, deleting all contributions. Open?

“up and to the right” was cool though

Making money from other people’s work – Banksy’s graffiti is public domain, so it’s a bit cheeky to profit from it. Not that I wouldn’t, but you know, jus’ sayin’

is this anything more than a tagging engine?

The Soothing Green Light

I initially thought this was going to be a ridiculous article. 5 paragraphs later I was proved wrong. Rings very true but does this mean we’re now going to be inundated with sites imploring us to level up?

how to concatenate strings efficiently in Python – shame cStringIO doesn’t support unicode though

webspiders with a cause

< It's taken me 3 years to discover that clicking options
gets me emailed alerts >






icanhascheezburger.com grew organically. Revenue generation then expansion. Partly I presume because they couldn’t pitch cats to angel investors. Puts ’serious’ tech to shame though.

patterns in randomness

Tactical Nuclear Penguin and more great individualistic beers no doubt – but they look like they’re fighting for attention from under that monolithic typeface

4 points on growing a web community

double shotgun dude is a dog rapist

thought this comparison was revealing

WakeMate is a mobile phone accessory that allows you to get the most refreshing sleep possible. It’s also y-combinator sourced. hat tip to @paulmckeever

ponies with pink flower hooves or, Socotra.

picked this up late – you can now delete your GAE apps

the great big massive ’subscribe via email’ at the top of Boris Johnson’s blog tells me feeds might still just be a data muncher thing

“Can we just look at what the local market is, instead of dreaming of a large spaceship coming here from Japan and giving us some hi-tech employment.” Local businessman’s opinion on the money being splashed out in the regional development agencies race for ‘hi-tech’

get rich or die tryin’

The thing is, nanotechnology has been buzzed about for a good decade now and I still haven’t seen any life enhancing products drop out of the sky from it yet. Still, 20 years to immortality apparently

old but weird but cool

current phots from the medics’ perspective on the Helmand frontline

oh for fuck sake

Ist bin ein Berliner? Surely Twitter is one thing that’ll never be quite that big in Germany?

riveting story in this month’s UK wired

virality in 2.5 pages

these people get how web marketing works so fucking well

if I have my google cookie set & go to gmail.google.com I am presented with my inbox. If I go to analytics.google.com I am presented with an ‘access analytics’ button. Er, why?

Thought SwarmDoc’s original name was a bit of a joke http://notoair.com/

Snapshots-infected pages annoy me – can they not just require a click to prevent popup spam

so who’s gonna reserve their Cantonese domain name?

google adwords keyword tool is interesting

nice example of instant virality on FB (redirects to their new mafia game)

freemarket questioned

This review made me wish I was there

chrome: more work required

why atom is superior to RSS

phrase of the week: digital triumphalism << the lording over people who don't grok has got to stop. Especially on Twitter

M$ celebrate launch of Windows 7 with pre-installed zombie mode

looking for a new typeface for the web but don’t want to force the user to download new fonts or waste bandwidth on fugly images? The 80s has your answer my friend

stackoverflow gives amazingly quick answer turnaround times. Shows the power of adding rich community features to a site.

gamers are thee-most opinionated web surfers period

how I felt this week. Seriously, can anyone do this right?

ctl-space to remove formatting, embedded web forms in spreadsheets, google docs you’re my hero

gadzooks

black gold and it’s derivatives

the good informations

when will google translate directly from the one box? And why is it’s english to french translation broken?

Israel hit Gaza with an air strike – though no comment on whether the appearance of Nick Griffin on the BBC was being used as cover

a choice quote that I can’t resist: “Question Time is scheduled for 10.35pm tonight and will be a milestone in the indomitable march of the British National Party towards saving our country” Nick Griffin perhaps overstating the importance of David Dimbleby’s Current Affairs show

Hmm two linkdumps in succession, I’ve broken one of my internal checks and balances. Normal service will be resumed

best site tagline

look just build a fucking football stadium on it

strewth!

cool retro branding but way too much web2.0 nicey nicey fuck you thricey metaphor use

I like the way Gumtree asks if you want to bump your ad by premium sms – a micropayment service everyone has & is familiar with. Was extremely tempted whereas with online payment it would have been ‘no chance’ straight off the bat

old but laughed out loud

the law’s an ass. no really

Not impressed by this carry on

Going out and doing it

$38 netbook

creating a framerate profiler from the top

using logic analysers and such for cool shit

commanded ‘from’ not ‘by’ actually

I would be extremely surprised if this succeeds in anything more than enforcing ‘letter of the law’ marking. What about creative writing?

Only noticed last month!

required reading for Google App Engine folks

this article is good idea juice

biggest criticism of Google yet I reckon

insightful article into traditional media, paywalls & ad-supported sites

America the new Japan?

hope to bid for this domain

tidal wave of pre-built competition for iphone devs?

“hack the press“: I like

the worst away end in football

Worrying developments, When I criss-crossed the Tajik-Afghani border last month the tense atmosphere was palpable. Tajiks largely ignored what went on 100metres across the river – or pretended to at least.

8bit choons

javascript game engine

Yahoo Pipes outputs serialised php. All they need to do now is open up the pipe creation process to an api and we’re in business.

hired guns goons

Google businesses like to release their developments in clumps:
I want to produce a monetized vidyo
YouTube – the net’s home cinema?

instant virality…

ddos: A money spinner for both white & black hats

Alternate Reality theme parks

a renaissance in the InfoSec sector?

security technocrats see rewiring the web as another moneyspinner security risk

open source is a viral production phenomenon

I like frameworks like this. minimal.

these figures seem really high

Google takes valid problem (broken web) and shoehorns in unrelated fix

flash no longer required #492 & #493

Elite is 25: Randomising Elite’s universe with the Fibonacci sequence

the cloud isn’t so transparent

My first design lesson

html5. lots to think about. Can’t help but wonder how long the wait will be though

And Ebay kills my Google Chrome for some reason.

better than paypal for micropayments?

facebook cpc click fraud controversy – reading the WickedFire board was fun

cool tool

jealous

didn’t know this could be done

this group should be seeing loads more activity

HTML5 discussion at /. including an open letter railing against the evils of javascript in manipulating html5 structs. Thankfully they all lived happily ever after [corrected original article], although surely a sign of the difficulties involved & simultaneous innovation & standardisation?

just noticed that links in Google docs don’t extend automatically when you continue typing after the url gets pasted – Google docs dev team next target: world peace

The piecemeal trading of design interests me. How does such stuff standardise on architecture? jquery, plugins, commenting systems, it isn’t just ephemeral cool squiggles and colours anymore – it’s whole user experiences with the wires ready to plug in to your engine of choice. Er, I assume. Anyway I want to have a blast at it sometime. More from a “yeah I’ve got a portfolio at blah.com” sort of a way than anything else admittedly but there you go.

#findoutwhetherIlikethis

looked at CSS event selectors and hummed a bit. But I don’t need to use CSS style to separate events from markup?

wtf -> “Memorable Web Addresses for Profile, Page or Group – Go directly to xyz’s page from anywhere…” Eh, you mean like a hyperlink??? And I guess that’s one 3rd party dev project FB has killed off http://profile.to

now i get the whole affiliate linkers / adwords thing

“It’s like the sky filling up with pilots.” Chris Taylor, Gas Powered Games on competition

fucking hell!

Mafia Wars now has a lotto – do you think they’re running out of money grabbing ideas?

First to get all the skeleton’s out of the interweb closet: I contribute to 4chan

Mulitplayer Snes!

looking forward to opening up the silk road

virtual participation

microtransactions & 100meg file sharing in beta @ yahoo mail – when’s gmail going to give us this? Come to think of it, when are we going to be allowed develop apps for webmail systems?

getting back on the machine readable theme: initially US employment & volume reports, fairly black and white processing involved (binary result) but it’s a sign of commercial viability

Interesting article on Digg buying

A while back I wrote about Google Wave and how it appeared to be their take on Facebook’s news stream. That doesn’t appear to be a coincidence

128 a side battles the day before Modern Warfare 2 hits shops

Can’t believe I missed this

Just like a real bank! with real-life pretend solutions too!

has ANYONE managed to get their hands on this? Japanese Outlook SKU perhaps? no…

first iphone app I’ve thought was cool

This is a masterstroke – not because it’s great or anything but because Arrington could sell anything with that brand