by Andy Brudtkuhl on September 18, 2008
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The Current TV-Twitter Deal
Melding the online and broadcast experience is really at the center of this Twitter/Current debate initiative, and it’s sort of a Phase I for what we refer to as building out a set of APIs for online content and communities in regards to television.
tags: getanewbrowser, twitter, current
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Jason Fried – Things We’ve Learned at 37Signals
Going to range from collaboration to design, hiring, lots of things without diving into too much detail. 20-25 minutes of talking and then Q&A.
tags: 37signals, software, design, getanewbrowser
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10 Smart Javascript Techniques to Improve Your UI
Javascript is typically used as an aesthetic language in web development. This means that web developers should almost always be using Javascript for one thing only: Improving the visitor’s experience. There are many clever and useful ways to improve a site from the user interface perspective. A developer can find nearly any snippet of Javascript to achieve what he or she wants to accomplish.
tags: javascript, webdesign, getanewbrowser
by Andy Brudtkuhl on September 18, 2008
Current is doing something very cool with the upcoming presidential debates. Instead of the traditional stuffy political commentary that coincides with the impending boredom and scripted fluff answers that is presidential debates, Current will be broadcasting “Hack the Debate” – which will show the real-time twitter conversation in parallel.
Current & Twitter have teamed up for the very first time to integrate real-time Twitter messages (aka “tweets”) over major portions of a live television broadcast.
Hack the debate by adding your Twitter posts to our live broadcast of the 2008 Presidential Debates.
We will broadcast as many of your debate tweets as possible right over Obama & McCain, in real time, on our live broadcast.
Want to participate?
Follow #current on Twitter search or follow @current on Twitter for additional details. Or, check out the site for more details on how YOU can participate.
UPDATE:
“current: @abrudtkuhl tweets will be filtered to meet broadcast standards. i answer some of this here if you’d like to link: http://tinyurl.com/4ujmmg” – twitter
- Great interview here.
by Andy Brudtkuhl on September 18, 2008
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is getting ready to launch a new Content Delivery Service. While there have been little technical details let out they do say the new service will be delivered before the end of the year. This is a natural progression for the Amazon Web Services team as these CDS/CDN’s are growing in popularity as companies figure out how to scale heavy multimedia requirements – from video to podcasts to mobile content.
This new service will provide you a high performance method of distributing content to end users, giving your customers low latency and high data transfer rates when they access your objects. The initial release will help developers and businesses who need to deliver popular, publicly readable content over HTTP connections. Our goal is to create a content delivery service that:
- Lets developers and businesses get started easily – there are no minimum fees and no commitments. You will only pay for what you actually use.
- Is simple and easy to use – a single, simple API call is all that is needed to get started delivering your content.
- Works seamlessly with Amazon S3 – this gives you durable storage for the original, definitive versions of your files while making the content delivery service easier to use.
- Has a global presence – we use a global network of edge locations on three continents to deliver your content from the most appropriate location.
I like that they are building this new service on top of their existing S3 storage infrastructure. Although I am a little confused as of yet what kind of value this brings over just hosting your content on S3 publicly (which is what we do).
Technorati Tags: amazon web services, content delivery network
by Andy Brudtkuhl on September 17, 2008
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Social Media Dashboard – Bloomberg for Social Media
This morning started off thinking about Bloomberg’s wonderful but hideously expensive terminal, and how it gives you insight and also a dashboard to instantly know what’s going on in the markets. I thought, wouldn’t it be interesting to have a Bloomberg for social media? Sure enough, a platform exists to manage all your social media in one place, and that’s iGoogle.
tags: socialmedia, dashboard, getanewbrowser
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Google s Android Mobile Platform to Launch Sept 23
If nothing else, Android offer some of the first real competition for the iPhone and may well force Apple to relinquish a little control in the interests of innovation.
tags: google, android, getanewbrowser
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To Feds: I want my bailout
On behalf of the estimated 25 million small businesses existing in the USA (that includes the non-employer, solo-preneurs), I’d like to request a bailout. We don’t have all of the baggage of firing 10′s of thousands of workers, paying severances, and honestly, I think many of us are worth more than some of the firms you’ve helped.
tags: business, bailout, getanewbrowser
by Andy Brudtkuhl on September 17, 2008
It’s official – Google’s Android platform will be launching next week – with the first phone (HTC Dream) to be coming sometime in October. It will be interesting to see this go head to head against the iPhone. I’m guessing the first version will be less than stellar but a good step forward.
My AT&T contract expires in November. If Sprint can get an HTC Touch Pro ready on Android I am likely to switch. If not it’s off to iPhone land for me.
image from WebMonkey
