This guy thinks Ffffound made a mistake by staying in perpetual closed beta. Will be interesting to see what kind of images come from the unfiltered crowd tho, considering the depressing crap-to-cool ratio even in the walled garden of Ffffound.
"Other "social media optimization" sites can only advise their clients on ways to design their sites for Digg and StumbleUpon. Subvert and Profit actually gets you the votes, and for cheap!"
Explanation of how to create a Facebook application with Rails. How to use the Facebook Ruby gem. "The use of dl tags for forms is not a facebook thing. It’s just the way I rock it."
"The IM method is much better - but it almost never works. So I ended up making another method - the CLI method. Or twittering using the Command Line." Short answer: just use Curl.
"So you have to “test” in your own head, purely as a thought experiment, against a bunch of standards documents which you probably never read and couldn’t completely understand even if you did."
"Initially, we plan to support a number of microformats, including hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom, and XFN." In other words, the new Yahoo! crawler can recognize semantic markup.
One step of the experiment setup is to install segments of script into your test and conversion pages. You will need to coordinate with whoever manages the website code for this step. The script segments accomplish three main tasks: (1) they identify the
"We geeks might not be able to intuit the subtext of a facial expression or a casual phrase, but give us a behavioral algorithm and human interactions become a data stream... a simple game that was an elegant weapon from a more civilized age."
Jamy: "a lengthy in-depth piece exploring the contemporary art and culture of magic, entitled "The Real Work," and written by Adam Gopnik. Gopnik is an award-winning journalist and veteran New Yorker writer who has spent more than a year researching
Finds all the anagrams in the Scrabble dictionary! Get a list of words contained in the letters of a phrase, then see anagrams containing words you like. On Windows you must use double quotes, although the doc shows single quotes.