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The Amazon API
Amazon moves to front line of shaping 'Web services': We're using the Amazon API on this site, so I can vouch for how cool it is. "Over the past 16 months, Amazon has inspired about 30,000 developers to invent myriad ways to extend Amazon's visibility on the Web. 'Amazon basically ...
Published: September 30, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 1000
Amazon SimpleDB
Amazon SimpleDB™- Limited Beta: Amazon has announced SimpleDB, which allows you to build a database in the cloud and query it from anywhere. It s not SQL, however, and it s not relational it s structured data. Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. ...
Published: December 14, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 993
Amazon Humor
If the library were like Amazon.com: Funny.
Published: December 9, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 989
Amazon Payment Services
Amazon Payment Services: Anil Dash has information on Amazon's push into payment services. Apparently you'll be able to use Amazon to process payments for anything on your Web site.
Published: July 18, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 984
Amazon API Taken To the Extreme
Amazon Light: This guy has taken the Amazon API and made and entire Web site out of it. Via Metafilter.
Published: August 14, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 975
Amazon's Virtual Data Center
Amazon.com Amazon Web Services Store: Amazon EC2 / Amazon Web Services: My understanding of how this works is that you can upload a disk image of a machine, and it will live at Amazon on some virtual, uber-server, and run there. Cost is $0.10 per hour (or $2.40 a day, ...
Published: August 24, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 973
Amazon and Office 2003
Amazon.com Research Services for Microsoft Office System: No more research for creating bibliographies or footnotes. The Amazon Research Pane download for Microsoft Office 2003 allows you to search for Amazon products from within Microsoft Word or Excel documents, and to insert product information and footnotes into documents and spreadsheets. The ...
Published: November 16, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 971
Amazon Unbox....evil?
Amazon Unbox to customers: Eat sh*t and die: Cory makes a pretty compelling case that Amazon Unbox (which I liked), is evil and wrong. Amazon Unbox's user agreement isn't just galling for its evilness -- it's also commercially suicidal. No sane person will agree to this. Amazon Unbox user agreement ...
Published: September 15, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 962
Amazon's New Service May Be in Trouble
Another NY Times v Tasini? Amazon's Book Search Hits a Snag: There may be a hitch with Amazon's new book search service. "...the Authors Guild is up in arms about Amazon's new book search function. [...] Amazon apparently has the agreement of the publishers to provide this feature. However, the ...
Published: October 26, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 958
Amazon S3
Amazon.com Amazon Web Services Store: Amazon S3: Huh. Neat. Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from ...
Published: March 14, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 948
Amazon Unbox
Amazon.com Unbox Video: Well, here it is: bona-fide (read: actual Hollywood movies) video rental over your PC. Is this the first real entry here? Did Amazon actually beat Netflix to the plate? For all the press Google gets these days, Amazon is tearing the house down in my view. I ...
Published: September 8, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 947
Amazon Riding High this Season
Amazon wraps up best holiday season to date: Is the coming-of-age year for online retailing? Amazon.com said Friday it finished the best holiday season in its history, capped by a single-day record in terms of units sold...The nation's largest online retailer said it set a single-day record with more than ...
Published: December 29, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 945
Hacking Amazon Excerpts
Hacking Amazon: Here are some excerpts form the O'Reilly book Amazon Hacks. Great stuff, complete with code samples, etc. I'm impressed with the "hacks" books (Google Hacks is another one) very little theory, all practical examples. A lot of developers (myself included), learn best by reverse engineering. Give me ...
Published: September 10, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 940
Amazon Films
Amazon.com: Welcome: Amazon is getting into the movie short business, much like BMW Films of yore (which I re-watched the other day still great). I watched the first film Portrait and it's cute. This holiday season Amazon.com brings you Amazon Theater, an exclusive collection of five short ...
Published: November 9, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 934
Accessing Amazon with PHP and SOAP
ONLamp.com: A PHP Web Services Client: Handy tutorial on how to write a PHP client for the Amazon Web service using PEAR's SOAP module.
Published: July 14, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 925
Amazon Dips Its Toe in the Search Pool
Amazon Plans Search Service To Drive Sales: Everybody is rushing to search these days. "Amazon.com Inc. has quietly established a beachhead in Silicon Valley to develop its own Web-search technology, a plan that could pit it more directly against Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. in an emerging battle over who ...
Published: September 25, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 921
More Obvious Amazon Patents
Can't Edit Without A License From Amazon: Nice. "...the USPTO granted another single-action ordering patent to Amazon that also covers the use of buttons to expand/collapse sections of a form, as well as the use of an EDIT button to (you guessed it!) present data to the user for editing..." ...
Published: September 2, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 920
Google and Amazon: Head-to-Head
Google, Amazon in a war of search words: Two Internet heavyweights are scrapping it out for top talent. Oh, to have a computer science degree... "Google and Amazon.com are fighting for top computer scientists on Google's home turf: search results. When Web surfers use Google to search on the name ...
Published: October 6, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 919
Amazon Grocery
After Delving Into 33 Other Lines, Amazon Finally Gets Around to Food: Anyone else think they're stretching a little thin here? I've never thought grocery stores worked well on the Web, unless they were local store serving a local customer base, and even then it's tough. Amazon introduced a grocery ...
Published: July 25, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 918
Amazon Book Search
Amazon Plan Would Allow Searching Texts of Many Books: "Executives at Amazon.com are negotiating with several of the largest book publishers about an ambitious and expensive plan to assemble a searchable online archive with the texts of tens of thousands of books of nonfiction, according to several publishing executives involved." ...
Published: July 21, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 917
Amazon's Look Inside the Book
Amazon.com: Books / Search Inside the Book: Looks like Amazon's search plan has actually come into being. Publishers weren't too happy about this when it was announced. "A significant extension of our groundbreaking Look Inside the Book feature, Search Inside the Book allows you to search millions of pages to ...
Published: October 23, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 906
Amazon Askville
Amazon Askville takes on Yahoo! Answers: first look: Amazon is heading into the Answers space with Askville. Google ended Google Answers last year. Yahoo Answers kind of sucks, for reasons I explained here. The only one I ve had a good experience with is LinkedIn Answers, a site on which Aaron ...
Published: December 4, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 906
Amazon's Most Active Wikis
Amazon.com: Most Edited Wikis: Amazon now has a little wiki embedded in their book pages (all of them? some of them? I don't know). Here are the most edited wikis on the site. The top entry in the list makes sense given its publicity of late, but there are some ...
Published: April 23, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 903
Amazon's Share the Love
I just bought a couple of books from Amazon and they have a pretty nifty "Share the love" program going on right now. You can send a list of the books you bought to any number of email addresses (I'm guessing there's no limit; though there might be), and those ...
Published: September 20, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 903
Amazon S3 Reliability
Amazon’s S3 Web Service, our #1 cause of failure: Unfortunate. Using Amazon’s S3 has about the same cost and complexity as hosting the images ourselves, but we had thought that the reliability of Amazon would be significantly higher. But that now seems wrong. [ ] S3 is supposed to be for ...
Published: July 21, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 902
Visually Search Amazon and Google
:: anacubis ::: This was certainly interesting, but couldn't get any actual value out of it. Fun to look at, but what's the point? (Then again, what's the point of Tara Reid?) "anacubis has integrated the Amazon and Google search APIs with the anacubis™ Viewer to deliver an innovative and ...
Published: September 12, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 901
Amazon's Elevators
Amazon.com Tech Jobs: Ted's Blog: I love whiteboards. Given this, I want to go work at Amazon: "The elevators here are cool. They've got whiteboards on all the walls. It means they act as fairly anonymous forums for people to converse. Sometimes there are stick figures or comments about the ...
Published: July 2, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 900
Amazon Interview
JSPWiki: AmazonInterview3: Here's a report from a guy who just interviewed with Amazon. Yikes tough questions, although whiteboards in the elevators still makes working there worth it. What would be your advice for rapid growth sites such as FriendsterDesign a web based email system. Describes pieces, components, design, large ...
Published: December 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 860
Amazon Unbox Re-visited
I tried out Amazon's Unbox service tonight. It was perfectly adequate -- I got exactly what I paid for with no drama at all. I purchased the first episode of Firefly for $1.99. I probably could have started watching it after five minutes or so, but I let it download ...
Published: September 11, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 843
Look Inside the Book II
Publishers Grudgingly Cooperate With Amazon Database Effort: Amazon wants all publishers to provide digital copies of all their nonfiction titles so customers can search for a term anywhere in the text when shopping. Publishers have issues. "Publishers cite three major concerns about the project, dubbed Look Inside the Book II. ...
Published: September 15, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 837
Gadgetopia on Kindle
Amazon.com: Gadgetopia: The Kindle Store: Due to my association with Federated Media, Gadgetopia is available for purchase at the Kindle Store (along with all the other FM blogs). For only $1.99 per month, you too can read Gadgetopia on your Kindle. What s kind of neat is that Gadgetopia now has ...
Published: November 21, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 817
Matching Book Purchases with Blogs
Amazon should run reverse affiliate links. When you search for or look at a book on Amazon, they should have a little box that says "If you like this book, you might like these blogs..." Better yet, let people upload their OPML file to their Amazon profile. Then they could ...
Published: April 20, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 816
Obidos
You know the "obidos" that you see in every Amazon URL? I've been seeing it for years, and always thought it was odd, but never knew what it was. Well, according to Joel Spolsky's book, "obidos" (little "o") is Amazon's custom-built e-commerce system that they've been laboring over since they ...
Published: November 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 810
Gates vs. Bezos: Round 1
Gates' Corbis sues Amazon over copyrights: Two of the richest men in the world are suing each other. Add this to our list of soap operas: "The suit contends the defendants, through Amazon's Web site, have been selling celebrity posters and photos that are illegal reproductions of photos copyrighted by ...
Published: July 1, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 807
Comparison Shopping via Camera Phone
Direct Link to Amazon.com for Book Price Shoppers...: How long before camera phones are banned in Barnes and Noble? "'Now, shoppers can take out their Nokia 3650 camera phone at Barnes & Noble, Border's, or just about any other book store, and just take a picture of the ISBN on ...
Published: October 2, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 795
Not So Anonymous Reviews
Amazon Glitch Unmasks War of Reviewers: Amazon accidentally posted the real names of anonymous book reviewers on their site, and in the process, revealed that the whole user-submitted review process is garbage. But even with reviewer privacy restored, many people say Amazon's pages have turned into what one writer called ...
Published: February 14, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 794
The "Standard Reference" Theory: Two Years On
It s been another year, so it s time to re-evaluate my theory that Wikipedia is becoming a standard reference and will soon be the number one hit for notable people in the world. Consider my two previous discussions here: The Formation of a Standard Reference from two years ago. The Formation ...
Published: August 13, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 778
REALLY Big Book
Amazon is selling the largest published book in the world. At a size of five by seven feet it weighs in at 133 pounds and costs $10,000. Ironically the book, Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom, is nearly as large as the country it is about. You ...
Published: January 12, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 772
K-Fed Gets Tagged
Amazon.com: Playing With Fire: Music: Kevin Federline: Amazon lets customers supply their own tags for products. It's a great idea in theory -- create a "folksonomy." Sadly, with K-Fed, all rational thought goes out the window. I especially like the tag "music to make you long for the sweet release ...
Published: November 3, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 769
Zawodny on Backing Up to S3
Replacing my home backup server with Amazon's S3: Zawodny is documenting his switch from local backups to pushing all his data out to Amazon's S3 service. He makes the economic case that shutting his computer off when he's not using it would save him money on electricity and parts. I'm ...
Published: October 4, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 764
Selling Site Thumbnails
Alexa Site Thumbnail / Amazon Web Services: This is brilliant. For $0.20, you can access 1,000 thumbnail images of Web sites from an Amazon Web service. The Alexa Site Thumbnail web service provides developers with programmatic access to thumbnail images for the home pages of web sites. It offers access ...
Published: August 4, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 755
The State of e-Books
E-books are getting a boost at BookExpo: Here's the latest update on the state of the e-book market. "To those who say it's ridiculous to read a book on computer, Nick Bogaty, who runs the Open eBook Forum trade group, retorts: 'Five years ago, you'd say I prefer getting mail ...
Published: June 3, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 751
MTurk
Amazon Mechanical Turk: I can't believe I haven't heard of this before, given that's almost a year old. Amazon's MTurk service is an API to match people up with Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) for them to complete and get paid. HIT stands for Human Intelligence Task. These are tasks that ...
Published: October 4, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 746
Someone Bought Gadgetopia on a Kindle
Amazon.com The Kindle Store Bestsellers: The most popular items in Gadgets, PCs & Consumer Electronics. : According to this page, Gadgetopia is the third-most purchased blog in its category Amazon Kindle store. There are 14 sites in this category, and Gadgetopia is ahead of sites like Scoble, Crunchgear, Techdirt, etc. ...
Published: April 16, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 739
Google's Version of Look Inside the Book
Google eyes book search: Google isn't taking this Amazon Look Inside the Book thing lying down. "Google is in talks with several publishers to build a service that would allow Web surfers to search the full text of books online, according to a report this week from Publishers Weekly's online ...
Published: October 29, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 735
Colorblindness and Usability
Colorblindness & Usability: A Case Study of Microsoft, Amazon & IBM: I didn't know colorblindness was so prevalent. I am one of the 10% of the male population who is colorblind. Approximately one million people visit Amazon.com each day. If we assume that half of these visitors are male, then ...
Published: March 10, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 734
Used Books?
My office is moving to a new building in a few days. We have at least 100 programming books of many flavors which we have accumulated and for which we have no more need. One of them, Teach Yourself Web Publishing With Html 3.2 in 14 Days by Laura Lemay, ...
Published: November 29, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 719
Udell on EC2
Amazon.com's rent-a-grid: Jon Udell tries out Amazon new S3 service and is impressed, saying "it just worked." As the blogosphere quickly noted, the EC2 rate of a dime per instance-hour works out to $72 per month for the equivalent of a 1.7Ghz Xeon CPU with 1.75GB of RAM and 160GB ...
Published: August 31, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 716
Satistically Improbable Phrases
What are Statistically Improbable Phrases?: I'm a little slow on the uptake here, but this is pretty interesting concept over at Amazon. It's essentially tagging, but generated by a computer. Amazon.com's Statistically Improbable Phrases, or "SIPs", are the most distinctive phrases in the text of books in the Search Inside! ...
Published: April 23, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 708
AudioScrobbler
I've mentioned before that when it comes to music, I really can't say what my tastes are. I know what I like when I hear it, but I can't really classify myself as being a huge fan of a certain band or a certain genre. AudioScrobbler seems to be designed ...
Published: September 1, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 696
Do we put more intellectual value on information we pay for?
Do you put more value on information you pay for? Do you pay more attention to something you paid, say $5 for, than something you read for free on the Net? A friend and I were having this conversation the other day, partly related to my post from a couple ...
Published: November 3, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 692
Shelfari Relents
Shelfari: Invitations and updates: From the official Shelfari blog, posted yesterday. We ve seen the recent emergence of complaints about Shelfari s invitations feature, and it s quite distressing. [ ] It s been about five months since we last touched our invitation design. In June we looked at a number of different designs with ...
Published: November 8, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 689
The Formation of a Standard Reference, Re-Visited
About a year ago, I opined that Wikipedia was quickly becoming a "standard reference," meaning it was a base repository of information about a subject -- the starting point. This is reflected in how high Wikipedia rates when searching for notable people. What I think this points to is the ...
Published: August 13, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 688
It's Showtime!
Apple's iTunes Music Store is down right now; all links redirect to this page. Guess that means Rob's comment is on the mark, and the heat will be turned up a bit for Amazon's Unbox. I'm thinking it'll be better than perfectly adequate.
Published: September 12, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 674
New ISBN Database
isbndb.com - free ISBN database: A thing of beauty underway here: The goal of the project is to create a multilingual database of books with well defined remote access protocols and free individual access. Think Amazon API for every book ever written. Database. Books. My two favorite words. Via ResearchBuzz.
Published: December 30, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 672
APT BookScan 1200
Kirtas Technologies, Inc: This company makes automatic book scanners that scan while turning the pages of books. This must be what Google Print and Amazon are using. There's an animated GIF on the front page that goes really far into explaining what their machine does, plus a video demo. Via ...
Published: November 18, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 669
O'Reilly Wishes On a Star
My Wired News Wishes for 2004: Some great idea here. Tim for President. I wish that the various web services data vendors (including Amazon, Google, EBay, Salesforce.com, and many others) would realize that they comprise the building blocks of a future "internet operating system", and act accordingly, engaging with each ...
Published: January 2, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 667
Link Destination Confirmation
I was on that site about Web typography, and I clicked an Amazon link. The image above is what happened, which is pretty neat. It was unobtrusive, and it set a cookie so it didn't bother me again. (I had to clear the cookie, in fact, to get the screencap.) ...
Published: December 24, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 663
A9 Yellow Pages
A9.com Search: nai sioux falls commercial: So Amazon creates their new Yellow Pages search engine, claiming: A9.com brings Yellow Pages to life by adding 20 million images I search for my company (link above), and I find the results illustrated by a dozen pictures of multi-family homes and aerial shots ...
Published: January 27, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 662
Help Me Find "The Net"
Gadgetopia readers, I come to you for your help. I am looking for a 11 x 17 movie poster of The Net the 1995 movie starring Sandra Bullock. I have looked, and been unable to find it (please don t ask why I need it all will be revealed ) ...
Published: July 15, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 662
See More in the Site You Made
I liked this article not because of the obvious (Amazon has launched an e-commerce consulting business) but because of the following observation regarding purchasing off-the-shelf online store software: "In e-commerce, the build formula is far more successful than the buy formula ... E-commerce and online transactions in general are rife ...
Published: June 10, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 653
CNet on Rails
Ruby on Rails chases simplicity in programming: CNet finally gets around to reporting on Rails. It's Hansson-worship at its most blatant, but still a good read. His goal with Ruby on Rails is not to create a sophisticated development framework that the engineers at Google or Amazon.com will flock to. ...
Published: October 31, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 650
Movable Type Licensing
movabletype.org: News: Six Apart clarifies Movable Type licensing: "...for personal, non-commercial users, Movable Type is free to download and use. We don't consider an Amazon wishlist link or a PayPal donation link to be a commercial use of your site, so you're free to update your weblog and maintain your ...
Published: July 17, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 650
Media Manager
Media Manager: This is a pretty hardcore Movable Type plugin. The Media Manager plugin allows users to manage and review a list of CDs, DVDs, Books and/or any product from Amazon's product catalog using a fully integrated, simple to use interface. It seems simple on the surface, but look at ...
Published: January 23, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 647
AllConsuming.Net: The Blog Book Tracker
All Consuming: This site trolls through RSS feeds looking for ISBN's and uses them to calculate what books are being discussed in the blogosphere. Here's our page. We've mentioned books on this site before, but the only ones that show up here are the ones we've linked to with our ...
Published: July 6, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 643
Marketers in Hot Water Over Affiliate Spam
Spam Suit Highlights Need to Police Affiliates: So, if I'm reading this right, Amazon or Google could be in trouble if I spammed a bunch of people to get them to this site so I could make money of the affiliate marketing? Or is my agency relationship with them not ...
Published: December 23, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 641
Portable Media Center Devices Arrive Today
Microsoft's Portable Media Center is set to release today. Digital Media Thoughts reports that two units, the Samsung Yepp (pictured here) and the Creative Labs Zen are already listed at Amazon. These are neat little doo-dads, but it seems like a device for a pretty small niche. You'd need to ...
Published: September 2, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 639
Watch This...
Recently I was looking around for a sport watch to replace my $10 Wal-mart disposible model that had died and on which I spent $3 on a replacement battery that was unable to resurrect it. That's a post for another day. Anyway, I ran across the Ironman Triathlon Data Link ...
Published: February 28, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 637
Personalization: Expensive, Little Return
Forget one-to-one, keep it impersonal: I never did quite understand the "personalization" craze either. I'd rather sites not know who I am, actually. The maths is simple. On one hand, though the theory assumes low costs, in practice personalisation needs more cash than most companies realise - Amazon spends many ...
Published: November 13, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 637
Army Ants
Amazing Ants Ambush Prey from Foxholes: It seems a species of ant native to the Amazon has figured out that by working together they can bring home some very large meals. Good news for the ants. Bad news for every other bug that lives in their part of the forest. ...
Published: April 20, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 636
Greasemonkey Script Library
Userscripts.org - Universal Repository: Here's a site full of Greasemonkey scripts for about everything you could ever imagine. I like this one, that automatically switches all Amazon affiliate links in the page you're viewing to your own affiliate ID. Sneaky. This one for Blogines continually checks your feeds in the ...
Published: June 28, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 635
Crooks and the Net
Crooks slither into Net's shady nooks and crannies: This is comforting. In other news, the sky will fall today. Organized crime rings and petty thieves are flocking to the Internet like start-ups in the go-go '90s, federal authorities say establishing a multibillion-dollar underground economy in just a few years. ...
Published: October 21, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 633
Al Gore Joins Kleiner Perkins
Al Gore joins Kleiner Perkins to save the planet: Al Gore is joining Kleiner-Perkins, the legendary Silicon Valley VC firm that was an early investor Google, Amazon, AOL, Netscape, etc. Kleiner-Perkins practically created Sand Hill Road. The recovering politician, environmental activist, and Nobel laureate is adding another title to his ...
Published: November 12, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 632
Flash for Embedded Video
CNN.com Specials: These new CNN commercials are hysterical, but that's not the point (but they are funny as all get out think of the ESPN SportsCenter commercials, just about CNN...) They have me wondering about the future of embedded video formats like Real, Quicktime, and Windows Media. These clips ...
Published: November 23, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 631
The Phenomenon of the GoogleNack
Google Spam Filtering Gone Bad: Funny things going on with Google. Seth Finkelstein has identified what he calls a "GoogleNack" when a Google results page trips over a spam site and removes a big chunk of the results. "The suppressed sites should be quietly removed from the items returned. ...
Published: October 10, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 630
Google Preview
If you've been following the search engine wars, the latest craze the kids are into these days is providing thumbnails of the web sites that return in search results. Google, however, sticking to the 'less is more' approach, doesn't have this feature. Chu Yeow points us to a Firefox extension ...
Published: July 26, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 626
allconsuming.net
Spending too much time reading weblogs and RSS feeds? Go to All Consuming to see what books are being talked about on the net, then go check something out from the library and take a break from your monitor. All Consuming is a website that visits recently updated weblogs every ...
Published: April 29, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 624
Mini Programming e-Books
Amazon.com e-Books & Docs: Programming: Here's an interesting trend in programming books: cheap little PDFs that show you how to do one very specific thing. Consider some of the titles on this page: Creating a DataGrid and Updating Its Records on the Fly Accessing a MySQL Database with a VB.NET ...
Published: November 1, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 623
XUL is good
In the comments on Deane's latest bit of Spolsky-worship, I had postulated that, given the idea that thick clients for the web can provide a better experience, and Firefox's increasing market share, 2006 could become the year of XUL. There was a great link posted on digg this morning that ...
Published: January 17, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 623
Zen Garden: The Book
At some point, I think every web jockey has scoped out the CSS Zen Garden for a little inspiration (I dig this one). It's a great example of the power that comes from the separation of style from content, and the proper use of semantic markup. Judging by this link ...
Published: October 6, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 622
Revenge By Font Exclusion
Macintosh OS X 10.3 Panther: no Microsoft web fonts?: Ho ho, you may build a better OS, but you can't have our fonts! Try to imagine a world without verdana, Dave, just try. "I'm not sure about this, but Apple may have stopped including the Microsoft core web fonts in ...
Published: October 29, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 621
Find New Music You Like
Sorry for wasting away your Friday, but you really should check out Pandora. Can you help me discover more music that I'll like? Those questions often evolved into great conversations. Each friend told us their favorite artists and songs, explored the music we suggested, gave us feedback, and we in ...
Published: December 9, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 621
IMDb History
Internet Movie Database - Wikipedia: An interesting few paragraphs on the history of the IMDb. The database started out in 1990 as a collection of shell scripts created by Col Needham which could be used to search the FAQs posted to the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.movies. In 1993, a centralized e-mail ...
Published: July 17, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 619
Google Print
Google Print: Amazon releases A9; Google releases Google Print. It's an arms race. To use Google Print, just do searches on Google as you normally would. Whenever a book contains content that matches your search terms, we'll show links to that book in your search results. Click on the book ...
Published: October 6, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 619
The Real Reason Why eBooks Aren't Selling?
I've been reading Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything" as an eBook in Microsoft Reader. It's been a great experience, and I'll write more about it later, but today I went looking for other eBooks at Amazon, and I was amazed at the prices. Consider: The Complete Idiot's ...
Published: July 8, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 619
PHP.net URL Shortcuts
PHP: URL Howto: This is a little known but great feature of the PHP Web site. If you write in a PHP.net URL, like http://www.php.net/links, first this URL is matched against the PHP.net pages. If there is a page named links.php, then you'll get that page immediately. This type of ...
Published: December 2, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 619
Steve's Hissy Fit
John Wiley & Sons, publisher of the infamous "For Dummies" tech books, is slated to release an unauthorized biography on Steve Jobs "iCon Steve Jobs : The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business'' and The Steve is not liking it a bit. So in retaliation Apple ...
Published: April 26, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 617
Vanity TinyURL
If you have a four-digit name (or less), there's a new pastime called "Vanity TinyURL." If you remember, TinyURL is a redirection service that cuts down any URL by keying it to a code at the root of the TinyURL site. They're up to four characters now, so you can ...
Published: December 2, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 614
4 God so luvd da world...
The Australian Bible Society has just released the SMSBible, with all 31,173 verses of the Holy Word translated to phone-speak. Some examples: Genesis 1:1 In da Bginnin God cr8ed da heavens & da earth. Da earth waz barren, wit no 4m of life; it waz unda a roaring ocean cuvred ...
Published: October 8, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 613
Defensive Design for the Web
Defensive Design for the Web: How to improve contingency design...: I read this book over the weekend. It's essentially 40 usability guidelines sorted in nine categories and supported by hundreds of screencaps of sites you've probably visited. I've done a bit of usability reading in the past, so it was ...
Published: May 17, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 612
Google Toilets
Digital revolution leaves Google feeling quite flush: Amazon may have whiteboards in their elevators, but Google has the baddest toilets on the planet. The noted Internet search engine has recently installed digital toilets at its Mountain View offices [...] And not just any old digital toilet. Japan's Toto, the world's ...
Published: December 15, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 610
Early Usenet Posts
20 Year Archive on Google Groups: Here's an oldie but a goodie that I stumbled on again today. Google mined its Usenet archive for the first mention of various events and pop culture icons. For instance, the first mention of Michael Jordan was dated to February 1993 by some guy ...
Published: April 8, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 610
Programming with Firefox
Microsoft's Worst Nightmare: Business 2.0 has a good article on the new front in the browser wars: rich client apps. Firefox has XUL, which is a language to create applications within the Firefox browser. This article explains why Microsoft should be worried about it. [...] Firefox's open platform gives it ...
Published: October 25, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 610
snapGallery
onfocus.com : snapGallery: This little gem was written by Paul Bausch author of Amazon Hacks and it demonstrates two things I've believed in for a long time: (1) the underestimated power of Windows scripting (the only people fully exploiting this are virus writers), and (2) the publishing model ...
Published: October 26, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 605
JL421 Badonkadonk
JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank: I don't know what's more odd -- that this exists at all, or that you can buy it on Amazon for $20,000 (I actually stumbled across it while browsing -- don't ask). The JL421 Badonkadonk is a completely unique, extremely rare land vehicle and battle tank. ...
Published: November 1, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 603
CopyURLPlus
mozdev.org - copyurlplus: index: This is a really handy extension. It lets you right-click on a Web page and copy the document's title and URL (on separate lines) to the clipboard. If you have text selected, it'll copy the selection too. The Copy URL extension enables you to copy to ...
Published: November 30, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 602
Computer Book Trends
I was in Barnes and Noble tonight, and I noticed a few things. There were four books on the shelves having to do with Mambo and/or Joomla (I refuse to add the exclamation point). This is the first time I've seen books on those systems in my local store. I ...
Published: July 17, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 596
Logitech X-230
Logitech: X-230: I normally don't post just to laud a product, but these speakers are amazing. My old 2.1 (two satellites and a subwoofer) setup by Altec Lansing was slowly dying. The power cord had a short, and you had to jiggle things just right to get any sound. Time ...
Published: September 27, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 594
Foxy...
The Mozilla Foundation has released the 0.8 release of my favorite browser. However, perhaps in order to escape withering criticism from owen ;-), they have yet again changed the name of the browser to Firefox. The new release marks a significant milestone on the development roadmap towards the highly anticipated ...
Published: February 9, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 593
Plausible Deniability in Software Purchasing
I just bought some really cheap software: it's $199 retail, and I got it through an Amazon reseller for $17.90 plus tax. The seller had a great feedback rating. I was still a little wary, so I emailed him before buying and asked what the catch was. No catch, he ...
Published: January 26, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 590
Defending Prime Numbers on the Radio
I don't really like radio DJs. I never have. But this morning, after I dropped my son off at school, I heard something on the local FM station, to which I just had to respond. The morning crew was going over news briefs, and the last news item of the ...
Published: December 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 582
Digitize the World
The Great Library of Amazonia: Here's a fantastic article about multiple efforts to catalog all of humankind's published knowledge, from Amazon's Search Inside the Book to Project Gutenberg to the Internet Archive. This stuff gives me goosebumps. The more specific the search, the more rewarding the experience. For instance, I've ...
Published: November 26, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 575
The Internet as Virtual California
Matt Webb has postulated a fascinating theory about the dot-com bubble, and why so much money got thrown after so many crazy ideas. A great article and a must-read for web folks. The huge influx of cash at the turn of the millennium led to the whole Web being built ...
Published: June 8, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 573
Fixing Micah's Site
Two Selections from Seth Godin: I stumbled on this e-book over at Amazon. It's a short, free, PDF from Seth Godin (Permission Marketing, Purple Cow) about an attempt to improve a specific Web site that sells CD duplication services. Godin claims that too many designers just put up a site ...
Published: November 30, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 569
Practicing Programming
Practicing Programming: This article isn't as focused as I'd like it to be, but it does reinforce the fact that software developers really don't practice at all -- we kind of just learn as we go along and learn from our mistakes. The fact is, we investigate and pick up ...
Published: April 7, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 566
Thoughts on PowerPoint
The Level of Discourse Continues to Slide: This is a short but interesting piece on the "damage" that PowerPoint has done to discourse and presentation skills in the last ten years. "Once upon a time, a party host could send dread through the room by saying, 'Let me show you ...
Published: October 26, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 563
Ego Surfing with George Clooney
Interview with George Clooney - On Career, Sex And Politics: Ever wonder what stars think about all the stuff written about them on the Internet? Well, this is one of the most simply inventive things I ve seen in a while: Esquire sat George Clooney down to surf the Web about ...
Published: March 17, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 560
The Third Era of the Web
The third era starts here: This article is a good overall introduction to where the Web is headed. It's worth reading if you think the Web is going to stay a "come-and-read-my-Web-page" affair: The programmable web is different for two main reasons. First, instead of going to look at a ...
Published: May 30, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 553
The Posting That Gave Birth To a Web Site
A long time ago, in the wee hours of the morning, I made a post to Gadgetopia entitled Fake Escrow Sites. It was a posting about how crooks use fake escrow sites to cheat people out of money. It was just one or two sentences, and it linked to a ...
Published: June 10, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 553
Questioning the Effectiveness of Keywords in URLs
There's an accepted theory in SEO: put keywords in your URLs. This is so accepted, that no one questions it and content management systems routinely have modules, extensions, and allowances for users to create keyword-rich URLs. But, does this work? Does anyone know for sure? I've been casually looking for ...
Published: December 29, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 553
Why Paying For It Is a Good Thing
Pay To Play: Fair Price for Good Community: Josh Clark nails another good post today as he discusses a new communal bike rental program in Paris. For 29 euros a year, you can check out a bike for 30 minutes whenever you need one. He discusses why the city of ...
Published: July 13, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 545
Filterblogs
I was browsing through Google Video last night (that's where the Duron post came from), and I got to thinking that there's so much good stuff in there, but there's a bunch of crap too. And none of it is really organized beyond the general search that comes with it. ...
Published: January 7, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 545
Authors: Write Shorter Books
Is comprehensive-ness a point for, or a point against, a technical book? I used it think it was an advantage the bigger, the better but as I get busier and my company accelerates, it s increasingly a liability. I ve started to be greatly attracted to smaller books or ...
Published: July 5, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 520
Shelfari: When Usability and Ethics Collide
At what point does a usability flaw become unethical? If a usability flaw continues to cause people to do something undesirable to them but very desirable to you and you know this and don t change your interface at what point do you become a massive tool? I m left ...
Published: November 6, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 456
Interview with Josh Clark
Admit it: whenever some group like 37 Signals or Six Apart comes out with a new software product, you secretly think, "I could of done that." How many of us developers thing we could build something just as good if we only put in the time? I do. Yes, I ...
Published: March 2, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 381
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