Internet funnyman Dave Hill tells Boing Boing: Recently my friends David Rakoff, Martha Plimpton, Chris Schneider, Miles Kahn, and I made this video chronicling mine and Davids attempts at forming the worlds greatest two-man percussive dance theatre troupe, like, ever.
BB community member Takeshi brought this lovely video to our attention. And for that, I am eternally grateful. Animal Friendship Between Different Species (YouTube)...
Archaeologists report that the remains of an old farmhouse theyve spent three years digging up is the childhood home of George Washington. What a deeeelightful pre-July 4 announcement. The excavation, on the Rappahannock River, was the last of three likely
Steven Vandervate and Deron Wright modded a 1960s kids pedal car into this killer hot rod ride for Wrights son. From Vandervates Kischkrieg blog: The body is a standard 60s vintage pedal car with an incredible candy tangerine job by
Andrew Brandou, one of my favorite pop surrealist painters, has a show of new work opening tomorrow at the Milieu Galerie/Artspace in Bern, Switzerland. Regular BB readers may remember that last year, Brandou showed a provocative collection of paintings based
The image of above depicts Golden Rays in the Gulf of Mexico during their migration from Florida to the Yucatan. Its part of a marvelous larger shot taken along with several others by Sandra Critelli, an amateur photog who was
Simply Audiobooks -- an excellent audiobook retailer in Toronto -- has launched an online store selling all of Random Houses DRM-free downloadable titles. Random House is one of the many audiobook publishers that wants to give up on DRM, but
Over at Cryptomundo, Loren Coleman reports on some Sasquatch sightings at JoeCon 2008, the official G.I. Joe Collectors Convention held last weekend in Frisco, Texas. Southern Fried Bigfoot found the limited edition Search for the Sasquatch set above left, for
Kyle from Bumperactive sez, I wanted to do something to graphically illustrate the way Obama is a new kind of candidate, so Ive launched the 50 Ways To Vote Obama project, where Im designing a different Barack Bumper Sticker for
: Last week, the Boing Boing tv crew was in San Francisco shooting a few upcoming episodes, and our friends at Virgin America (BBtv is shown on the in-flight entertainment system) invited us to come wander around behind security, and
Back in April, I told you about the new Shepard Fairey cover designs for Penguins reissue of Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. Theyve just gone on sale!Link to Nineteen Eighty-Four,Link to Animal Farm
Kyle from Bumperactive sez, I wanted to do something to graphically illustrate the way Obama is a new kind of candidate, so Ive launched the 50 Ways To Vote Obama project, where Im designing a different Barack Bumper
: Last week, the Boing Boing tv crew was in San Francisco shooting a few upcoming episodes, and our friends at Virgin America (BBtv is shown on the in-flight entertainment system) invited us to come wander around behind security, and
Back in April, I told you about the new Shepard Fairey cover designs for Penguins reissue of Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. Theyve just gone on sale! Link to Nineteen Eighty-Four, Link to Animal Farm...
Senses Five magazine has an interview with Lauren McLaughlin, a new young adult writer whose debut novel, Cycler, will be published in September. Ive known Lauren for some years now and she inevitably says the smartest stuff about writing in
Beeswax - Mind Your Own BeeswaxWow, this looks like a really interesting project to watch — a GNU-licensed, command line productivity app that finds inspiration in a bona fide classic:Beeswax is an information management system inspired
Make It Stop! Crushed by Too Many E-Mails : NPR - I think somebody on Massachusetts Ave. must have called “Oy Vey, Email!” Week at NPR. Here’s another one on email overwhelm, including tips and technology on “email organization.” How
Lost in E-Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast - NYTimes.comIs Information Overload a Billion Drag on the Economy? - Bits - Technology - New York Times BlogIf you’ve seen the video of my
Linda Stone: Is it Time to Retire the Never-Ending List?Linda Stone — who coined the phrase “continuous partial attention” — makes a thoughtful distinction between managing time and attention, deflating the misconception that making long lists and then overscheduling your
How to nap - Boston.comI’m a big fan of napping and often evangelize the transformative power of a quick Pzizz. If you’re new to the nap habit — or if you buy the propaganda that naps
How to nap - Boston.comI’m a big fan of napping and often evangelize the transformative power of a quick Pzizz. If you’re new to the nap habit — or if you buy the propaganda that naps
Make It Stop! Crushed by Too Many E-Mails : NPR - I think somebody on Massachusetts Ave. must have called “Oy Vey, Email!” Week at NPR. Here’s another one on email overwhelm, including tips and technology on “email organization.” How
Make It Stop! Crushed by Too Many E-Mails : NPR - I think somebody on Massachusetts Ave. must have called “Oy Vey, Email!” Week at NPR. Here’s another one on email overwhelm, including tips and technology on “email organization.” How
Lost in E-Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast - NYTimes.comIs Information Overload a Billion Drag on the Economy? - Bits - Technology - New York Times BlogIf you’ve seen the video of my
Linda Stone: Is it Time to Retire the Never-Ending List?Linda Stone — who coined the phrase “continuous partial attention” — makes a thoughtful distinction between managing time and attention, deflating the misconception that making long lists and then overscheduling your
How to Be a Productive Procrastinator : NPR (Talk of the Nation)The Talk of the Nation that’s on right now (available for streaming later) is on the topic of procrastination. Why do today what you can do the day after
How to Be a Productive Procrastinator : NPR (Talk of the Nation)The Talk of the Nation that’s on right now (available for streaming later) is on the topic of procrastination. Why do today what you can do the day after
The Omni Group - OmniFocus for iPhone and iPod touchOh, man. It’s so nice to lift the veil on this one. It’s been like I knew you guys were getting the big Lego Millennium Falcon for Christmas, but I couldn’t
The Omni Group - OmniFocus for iPhone and iPod touchOh, man. It’s so nice to lift the veil on this one. It’s been like I knew you guys were getting the big Lego Millennium Falcon for Christmas, but I couldn’t
Apple - MobileMeThere’s lots to digest from today’s WWDC Stevenote — not least of which was the dramatic announcement of a 3G iPhone for only $199. But you’ll be hearing lots about that
Apple - MobileMeThere’s lots to digest from today’s WWDC Stevenote — not least of which was the dramatic announcement of a 3G iPhone for only $199. But you’ll be hearing lots about that
My pick of the week on the latest episode of MacBreak Weekly wasn’t so much my new Kindle (which I do like a lot), but rather a few services that make it easier to find and download free books you
My pick of the week on the latest episode of MacBreak Weekly wasn’t so much my new Kindle (which I do like a lot), but rather a few services that make it easier to find and download free books you
Best. Paper. Ever. - Miss Conduct’s Blog - Advice column with manners and etiquette information - Boston.com - “Thus, when we conclude someone is ‘simply a bastard,’ we feel both relief (because we have finally hit on a way of
The aptly named Positivity Blog recently had a rather compelling overview of Bruce Lee, Productivity Guru.Like our own dear Merlin, Mr. Lee was from the Bay Area and took a lifelong interest in the fundamental rules underlying
The recent court order directing Google to hand over data to Viacom about every YouTube video ever watched strikes many people as an absurd overreach of the law into the privacy of anyone who has ever used YouTube (i.e., almost
We’ve seen a number of music sites like Seeqpod and Grooveshark that leverage user-uploaded music scattered across the web to offer free, on-demand jukeboxes. These services manage to skirt legal repercussions by only serving content that is hosted on other
While at Dyson HQ, I had the pleasure, once again, of <a href=”http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/04/10/video-crunchgear-interviews-james-dyson/”>interviewing</a> the man himself. I had to ask what his thoughts were on the iPhone, and James’ answers were both entertaining and interesting.<blockquote>I have an iPhone and a
Even back in January when Microsoft agreed to pay $1.2 billion for enterprise search company Fast Search & Transfer, it was mired in an accounting scandal and trading in its stock had been suspended. Its aggressive accounting for phantom deals
In this post, guest author Ryan Carson goes through some of the lessons learned from building a Web app in four days. Carson is the co-founder of Carsonified, a web shop in Bath, UK. They’ve built four web apps, created
Just as The Governator tries to pursue green policies, like keeping Tesla’s electric production car local, you’ll now also be able to hand out full-sized “green” business cards with Flickr images, courtesy of the same guys who brought us those
Europe is a hotbed of mobile startups right now, so appropriately enough the Mobile 2.0 event which started in San Francisco is putting on a one-day international event tomorrow in Barcelona which focuses on mobile startups, dubbed Mobile 2.0 Europe.
Google has announced an iPhone version of Google Talk which is simply an iPhone-ized browser-formatted version of the Google’s text chat application. This means you can’t talk over the Interwebs but you can tap out halting messages to your friends
What you see above is not a video or a slide show, it is a Flowgram. If you click on it, you will be taken to a full-screen player with what appears to be a screencast with a voiceover. Except
The ongoing Google/YouTube-Viacom litigation has now officially spilled over to users with a court order requiring Google to turn over massive amounts of user data to Viacom. If the data is actually released, the consequences could be far more serious
Many of the startups we come across are “beta” in name only - they’re feature complete, with thousands of users and only a few (if any) bugs. Combo, a new startup that is looking to offer users a central hub
Massively Me, a stealth gaming company, has announced the upcoming launch of it’s MMOG for kids and young teenagers, Kiwi Heroes. Scheduled for release later this year, Kiwi Heroes will be a Flash-based game that attempts to strike a balance
It turns out the battle for control of Twitter rests almost exclusively in the unique value proposition of XMPP-served track. As Twitter strips away various features of its service to rebuild a scalable fail-whale -proof version, the one remaining hurdle
Yelp, a user-generated database of customer reviews of local businesses, first launched in October 2004. Users rate and leave reviews for local businesses, participate in forums, and can generally get social around local businesses.Yelp almost immediately caught on organically in
We’re one week away from the debut of the 3G iPhone, and the question on everyone’s mind seems to be, “What’s going to happen to the six million first-gen iPhones that are on the fast track to obsolescence?” The iPhone
Just because the Internet makes it possible to offer a near-infinite inventory of goods for sale does not mean that consumers will start wanting more obscure items in any great numbers. That is the conclusion Harvard Business School associate professor
First off, if you love Baseball, skip this post for a minute and go claim one of the 1,000 beta accounts we have for Baseball Boss - click “register” on the top left and use the code “techcrunch” to get
Blogged, the blog directory that we introduced last February, has launched a news portal that aspires to hand-pick the most interesting stories from across the blogosphere. The company has employed a team of editors to identify trends and popular stories
We are releasing the next batch of 200 tickets to the 3rd annual August Capital MeetUp on Friday, July 25, 2008, in Menlo Park, California. Our last release of tickets sold out in less than 15 minutes, so we recommend
There is nothing more annoying than trying to use up your hard-earned frequent-flyer miles only to be told that the flight you want has no frequent flier seats available. Many airlines block out seats and dates for frequent-flyer eligibility. And
For those of you in the U.S. celebrating Independence Day tomorrow, dont forget to brush up on your Fourth of July skills. First, heres one way to make a yummy-looking holiday strawberry daiquiri...
Windows only: Freeware application CostOfSmoking helps you understand just how much money youve lost to smoking over the lifetime of your habit. The end goal of your improved understanding of the...
CNN reports that a third of companies offering health insurance to employees also provide a wellness program, including fitness, weight-loss, and stop-smoking programs. The article focuses on...
The plastic card cable organizer manages cords under or behind your desk and keeps cords—like your iPod charging cord—from falling off your desk when unplugged. The idea behind the card...
Mac OS X only: Freeware application Organized is a Dashboard widget that integrates with your system notes, events, and to-dos, providing you with quick access to all of your activities. Made by the...
You download, create, delete, and move around countless files and endless piles of data on your PC every day. While your PC would ideally handle all of this data for you, it doesnt take long before...
One of the lesser-known useful things about Gmails filters is that they work on email you send as well as email you receive. So you can do things like label all messages you send with the word...
Posticas a latecomer to the free online sticky notes arena, but it carries with it a few neat features that set it apart. First and foremost is the ability to attach any kind of file (up to 5 MB) to...
Designer Vijayakrishnan gives us a tour of his gorgeous Windows multi-desktop, which makes you look at it three times to figure out what operating system hes using. With a Mac style and a few free...
Margaret Garcia at the Wise Bread blog shares her stories of consumer product woe and notes that in three separate cases, phone calls and emails led to half-hearted apologies, but ink-on-paper...
Windows Mobile/Windows CE/Palm OS: Although development has halted on the project, The Core Pocket Media Player (TCPMP) remains a robust option for media playback on Windows and Palm-based mobile...
Food writer and uber-cook Mark Bittman keeps it timely with 101 picnic-friendly dishes that can be made, he claims, in 20 minutes or less. As with his other 101-item lists of 20-minute party...
Linux.com writes up a helpful guide to creating your own custom system recovery boot disc using an Ubuntu 8.04 CD image, a little command line work, and a few recommended emergency tools, including...
Google just launched an iPhone-friendly interface for its web-based Google Talk client—point your mobile Safari to google.com/talk to see it in action. Firefox users, this also means, as the...
Firefox with Stylish or Greasemonkey: The talented designers who redesigned your Gmail are back with that similar look for Google Calendar. The Google Calendar Redesigned user style is now available...
Just posted an update to the Better Gmail 2 Firefox Extension which updates the gorgeous Redesigned skin to its latest and greatest version. Download version 0.5.1 here.
Mozilla officially announced today that Firefox 3 set the Guinness World Record for most software downloads in 24 hours, totaling at an impressive 8,002,530 downloads. Now that its official, dont...
Windows/Mac only: Freeware application and web service Dropbox instantaneously backs up and syncs your files over the internet and to any computer. After you install the application, it will create a...
Web site Swurl aggregates your online activity in a simple blog-like format. From del.icio.us bookmarks and favorite YouTube videos to Twitter posts and Flickr photos, Swurl pulls it all into a...
Web site Flipswap makes it easy to sell, donate, or recycle your old cell phone or iPod. Weve highlighted similar services in the past, like previously mentioned Celltrade, but Flipswap has a few...
Some days I walk to my mailbox excited to see the new secrets only to open the door and discover that the mail has not been delivered yet.I know how disappointing that can
Some days I walk to my mailbox excited to see the new secrets only to open the door and discover its empty.I know how disappointing that can be.My flight from Nevada arrived at
Filed under: Cellphones, HandheldsIt looks like Motorola and Verizon are getting ready to take a third crack at the Q9 form factor, following up the Q9m and Q9c -- and this time around,
Filed under: CellphonesWe could tell by looking that RIM wouldnt think of charging too many hundies for its still unannounced BlackBerry KickStart, but $49.99? CrackBerry has it that said flip phone will be
Filed under: Desktops, GamingIt only launched a few weeks ago, but it looks like NVIDA could already be set to cut the price of its top-end GeForce GTX 280 graphics card -- a
Filed under: LaptopsGiven that Gateway just pushed out a round of updates including the relatively ginormous P Series, we reckon it was only logical to expect a review shortly. To be frank, the
Filed under: AnnouncementsRemember how when we launched Engadget Poland a couple weeks ago we said that we were just getting started rolling out new international versions of the site? Well, today were announcing
Filed under: LaptopsHP has already busted out a bundle of Puma-based laptops and tablets, but it looks like its not done with AMDs latest platform just yet, with it now rolling out a
Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home EntertainmentIn case you didnt get the message, Sonys due sooner-rather-than-later 27-inch OLED is going to be priced for the Mark Cubans, Bill Gates and other people not
Filed under: Cellphones, HandheldsThough the Sprint version is the most well-scooped CDMA variant thus far, Telus is actually becoming the first carrier round these parts to announce the Touch Diamond imbued with a
Filed under: Digital Cameras Pentaxs K200D has been out and about for a little while now, but if youre still undecided about taking the plunge on the mid-range DSLR, you may want to
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsScientists may have discovered a new way to combat the global energy crisis -- and theyre calling it the Anaconda (well give you a moment to purge your mind of
Filed under: LaptopsWhile some of the benefits of SSDs may be in question these days, it looks like those still itching to take the plunge on an SSD-equipped Macbook Air can now at
Filed under: Cellphones, HandheldsJuly 4 was the date, but hey, whats the harm in opening up the floodgates just a handful of hours early? Get past the lack of 3G, EDGE, camera, and
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsEver walk through Times Square and wonder how much electricity all those flashy billboards are soaking up? No? Well, Ricoh has, and now theyre doing something about it.
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsWhile its not nearly exciting as their Space Cycle (but really, what is?), the National Space Biomedical Research Institutes new brain scanner here looks to fill in a niche of
Filed under: CellphonesFired up to capitalize on some of the hype Sprint has managed to drum up for the Instinct down in the States, Samsungs taking its iPhone fighter north of the border
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsApparently someone at Apple HQ got a little trigger happy on shipments of MobileMe. According to reports, the company mistakenly mailed boxes of the all-syncing, ever-loving software to at least
Filed under: StorageNanowires being used for memory is hardly a new idea, but a group of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania seem confident that theyve found a way to leapfrog the
Filed under: CellphonesIts been a long, long time since weve heard from Germanys Future Store -- the ultra-futuristic German grocery store that might have sprung directly from the Sprawl trilogy -- but theyve
Filed under: GamingAccording to a report in the Economic Times, Sony will be introducing a slimmer (well, slimer if you want the direct quote), sleeker, and more suave version of the PS2 in
Filed under: StorageIf you were shaken to your very core at the recent report that SSDs may not be as power-friendly as youd been led to believe, driver-maker STEC wants to talk you
Google yesterday added a significant feature to Google Trends. You can now enter in URLs and get back rather rich site traffic data. Barry Schwartz has a great rundown. I will have more to say about this shortly as I
I consume a lot of information - all of it, digitally. In fact, I recently completed the transition a 100% media green state. I continue to use Gmail as a nerve center - my primary capture system. But sometimes, I
DipityDipity is the easiest way to make and share interactive timelines about the people and things you care about.(tags: timeline tools)The Microfame Game and the New Rules of Internet Celebrity -- New York MagazineThere???s a new class of celebrity powered
Study: Having 6,141 friends you dont know may be beneficialStudents using social networking sites are actually practicing the kinds of 21st-century skills we want them to develop to be successful today,(tags: SocialNetworking culture teens research Stats)Were connecting - and wasting
The following is also my column in Advertising Age next week.As I write this column, all the talk is about the recession. There were nearly 40,000 stories in Google News in the last week mentioning the R-word. In addition, a
Photo: Abandoned farm shed by serendipitypeace2007, modified under a Creative Commons license.Anyone looking for a place to live invariably needs to first answer this question: should I rent or buy? Each has pros and cons. If you rent
The following is also my column in Advertising Age next week.As I write this column, all the talk is about the recession. There were nearly 40,000 stories in Google News in the last week mentioning the R-word. In addition, a
Photo: Abandoned farm shed by serendipitypeace2007, modified under a Creative Commons license.Anyone looking for a place to live invariably needs to first answer this question: should I rent or buy? Each has pros and cons. If you rent
Study: Having 6,141 friends you dont know may be beneficialStudents using social networking sites are actually practicing the kinds of 21st-century skills we want them to develop to be successful today,(tags: SocialNetworking culture teens research Stats)Were connecting - and wasting
DipityDipity is the easiest way to make and share interactive timelines about the people and things you care about.(tags: timeline tools)The Microfame Game and the New Rules of Internet Celebrity -- New York MagazineThere’s a new class of celebrity powered
I consume a lot of information - all of it, digitally. In fact, I recently completed the transition a 100% media green state. I continue to use Gmail as a nerve center - my primary capture system. But sometimes, I
Google yesterday added a significant feature to Google Trends. You can now enter in URLs and get back rather rich site traffic data. Barry Schwartz has a great rundown. I will have more to say about this shortly as I
This is the first in a series of posts. The introduction and links to the entire series can be found here. This installment is also my column in next weeks AdAge.Hi. My name is Steve and I suffer from Shiny
This is the first in a series of posts. The introduction and links to the entire series can be found here. This installment is also my column in next weeks AdAge.Hi. My name is Steve and I suffer from Shiny
If it feels quiet here and even on my Twitter stream you are right. It has been. The reason is Friendfeed. I have become hopelessly addicted to the site. I am sharing a lot of links there that I dont
If it feels quiet here and even on my Twitter stream you are right. It has been. The reason is Friendfeed. I have become hopelessly addicted to the site. I am sharing a lot of links there that I dont
RSS Advertising Shows Signs of Life - ClickZA mounting body of evidence suggests in-feed ad delivery is a growing opportunity for marketers and publishers alike(tags: rss Advertising Stats)European Online Ad Spend Gains on U.S. - ClickZOnline ad spend in Europe
RSS Advertising Shows Signs of Life - ClickZA mounting body of evidence suggests in-feed ad delivery is a growing opportunity for marketers and publishers alike(tags: rss Advertising Stats)European Online Ad Spend Gains on U.S. - ClickZOnline ad spend in Europe
The annals of technology history show us that typically a market takes hold when there are at least two conditions present: a) users who embrace a particular device, platform or tool and b) an open system that allows
The annals of technology history show us that typically a market takes hold when there are at least two conditions present: a) users who embrace a particular device, platform or tool and b) an open system that allows developers to
Managing subcontractors and distributed projects is easy and fun. No wait, thats a lie. Luckily, a good version control may be just what you need to keep your projects on track. Hide Your Shame: The A List Apart Store and
Every wonder who you really are? Congratulations! You have a lot in common with JavaScript. Learn once and for all how to train your JavaScript to remember who it is and what its doing. Hide Your Shame: The A List
The rise of Ajax and rich internet applications has thrown the limitations of traditional wireframing into painful relief. When you leave the world of page-based interactions, how do you document all but the simplest interactions? Flowcharts and diagrams don’t work.
CSS layout is awesome, except when your layout calls for a header, a footer, and columns in between. Use float, and content changes can cause columns to wrap. Use absolute positioning, and your footer can crash into your columns. Add
Ideas are at the heart of every creative process. However, coming up with them can be hard work. Mark Boulton arms us with tools to meet this challenge. Hide Your Shame: The A List Apart Store and T-Shirt Emporium is
Ever designed or developed a beautiful interface only to find your hard work ruined months later by gaudy graphics or invalid markup? With proper documentation youll have a better chance at seeing your interface stay beautiful. Jina Bolton guides us
Clients love to write copy. Well, they love to plan to write it, anyhow. On most web design projects, content is the last thing to be considered (and almost always the last thing to be delivered). We’ll spend hours, weeks,
Landing a new job or client is difficult in this economic climate. Undelivered contractual promises and work environment shortcomings can transform that challenge into a long-term nightmare. Keith LaFerriere shows how to get paid what youre worth; how to fight
Q. What technology do you need to build the next Flickr? A. Trick question. What you need to build the next Flickr is people. George Oates, a key member of the core team that shaped the Flickr community, shares lessons
Just because a design convention exists doesnt mean it works. Our field runneth over with design patterns, but is low on evidence of their utility. Jessica Enders drops some science on the widespread belief that zebra stripes aid the reader
The why of Ruby on Rails comes down to productivity, says Michael Slater. Web applications that share three characteristics—theyre database-driven, theyre new, and they have needs not well met by a typical CMS—can be built much more quickly with Ruby
The how of Ruby on Rails: Hivelogics Dan Benjamin prepares non-Rails developers, designers, and other creative professionals for their first foray into Rails. Learn what Ruby on Rails is (and isnt), and where it fits into the spectrum of web
When designing interfaces for browsing data-driven sites, creating navigation elements that are also visualization tools helps the user make better decisions. Wilson Miner demonstrates three techniques for incorporating data visualization into standards-based navigation patterns. Hide Your Shame: The A List
It is now possible to replicate Google Maps’ functionality with open source software and produce high-quality mapping applications tailored to your design goals. Paul Smith shows how. Hide Your Shame: The A List Apart Store and T-Shirt Emporium is back.
Findability is to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) as web standards is to table layouts. In a web whose vastness exceeds comprehension, sites with findable content win. The good news is that everyone on your team can help make your site
You load a new web service, eager to dive in and start engaging, and what’s the first thing that greets you? A sign-up form. We can do better, says Luke Wroblewski, author of Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks.
As designers, were wrongly perceived as custodians and exponents of creativity. This matters because business currently overvalues creativity. To avoid the inevitable backlash, we must lead our clients perceptions. Hide Your Shame: The A List Apart Store and T-Shirt Emporium
Stop worrying about how good a designer you are, and start worrying about the myriad tiny details that can elevate your work from passable to near-perfect. Hide Your Shame: The A List Apart Store and T-Shirt Emporium is back. Hot
Version targeting shakes our browser-agnostic faith. Its default behavior runs counter to our expectations, and seems wrong. Yet to offer true DOM support without bringing JScript-authored sites to their knees, version targeting must work the way Microsoft proposes, argues Jeffrey
IE8s version targeting will allowing Microsoft to reach new heights of standards compliance where CSS and (especially) scripting are concerned. But to benefit from it, developers must explicitly opt in. That’s just not right, says Jeremy Keith. Hide Your Shame:
Sweaty Betty. Though Im not quite their target market, I love this brand. They have a store next door to one of my regular London watering holes, which is how I first came across them. From the second I...
BACKSTORY: A year and a half ago, I created the Blue Monster cartoon, which with the help of Microsofts Steve Clayton, took on a life of its own inside the Microsoft Corp. It was fun, interesting, Steve and I...
38. Meaning Scales, People Dont. From my blog: Meaning Scales. February, 2005:As Buddha says, there is no one road to Nirvana. Enlightenment is a house with 6 billion doors. While were alive,...
37. When your dreams become reality, they are no longer your dreams. If you are successful, itll never come from the direction you predicted. Same is true if you fail. A Brief...
Download the Podcast Podcast RSS feed Johnnie Moore, Mark Earls, Rabbi Pinny and myself all met the other week and talked for 70 minutes. It was fun. It was rambling. It was all good. Hope you have a listen...
When I met Esther Dyson briefly in San Francisco the other day, I gave her the following cartoon, which I had drawn there, right on the spot. It was, of course, inspired by her classic maxim, Always make new...
The Puck. Pencil on paper, approx. 16 x 21 inches. Aim for where the puck is headed, not for where it is, was a line that my friend, Fred Wilson turned me on to. Rock on....
Well, Fred 45 is coming along, slowly. Approx 15 x 21 inches, ink & pencil on paper. Last time I blogged it, it was just a pencil grid. All this traveling Ive been...
The relatively small, southern French province of Languedoc produces more wine than the entire State of California. Thousands and thousands and thousands of vineyards. Italy alone boasts 500,000 vineyards, and 50,000 individual wine brands. Thats roughly one vineyard for...
1. Reconciling the huge gap between how interesting and important you tell your clients it all is, versus how interesting and important you actually find it all yourself. 2. The endless train of online armchair quarterbacks endlessly trying to...
Started on Fred 45 this afternoon. So far its just a pencil grid on paper, approx 15 x 21 inches. I have a pretty neat idea where this is headed. Watch this space....
…is Tim Ferriss, author of the 4-Hour Workweek. and he’ll be on WorkFastTV this morning at 10 a.m. Pacific Time (in about 30 minutes from the time I’m posting this post — come watch live and talk to us in
Upcoming.org just updated with a major redesign. I think it’s going to accelerate the movement of people to Facebook to keep track of their favorite events (a trend that’s been accelerating lately). It’s sad, too, because this is one of
Upcoming.org just updated with a major redesign. I think it’s going to accelerate the movement of people to Facebook to keep track of their favorite events (a trend that’s been accelerating lately). It’s sad, too, because this is one of
Interesting, this is probably why I don’t try to do news reporting anymore. I was briefed a few days ago on the Adobe/Google news, but already it’s being discussed on hundreds of blogs. There is no longer much value in
Who is winning the race to get more traffic?This 14-year-old kid, Fred. He’s gotten MILLIONS of views! 45 million at last count.This is what happens when you try to simply be entertaining.If traffic is your goal, here’s the formula. Do
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, which US Presidential Candidate has the best tech policy?I went off to Google to answer that question. Here’s the searches I did:McCain tech policyObama tech policyWell, assuming that they both have a tech policy (I
My Tesla post gathered two comments here. 13 comments and 12 “Likes” over on FriendFeed.Let’s just stick a fork in it. Comments are dead.And I won’t even tell you about all the spam I just had to delete. Sigh.Of course
In about two years I’ll be ready for a new car. But here’s why I’m putting down some cash to get a new Tesla Sedan, which was just announced and will be ready in about two years. TechCrunch has the
Interesting, this is probably why I don’t try to do news reporting anymore. I was briefed a few days ago on the Adobe/Google news, but already it’s being discussed on hundreds of blogs. There is no longer much value in
Who is winning the race to get more traffic?This 14-year-old kid, Fred. He’s gotten MILLIONS of views! 45 million at last count.This is what happens when you try to simply be entertaining.If traffic is your goal, here’s the formula. Do
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, which US Presidential Candidate has the best tech policy?I went off to Google to answer that question. Here’s the searches I did:McCain tech policyObama tech policyWell, assuming that they both have a tech policy (I
My Tesla post gathered two comments here. 13 comments and 12 “Likes” over on FriendFeed.Let’s just stick a fork in it. Comments are dead.And I won’t even tell you about all the spam I just had to delete. Sigh.Of course
In about two years I’ll be ready for a new car. But here’s why I’m putting down some cash to get a new Tesla Sedan, which was just announced and will be ready in about two years. TechCrunch has the
Every week we film a live WorkFastTV show at the Revision 3 studios in San Francisco as part of our FastCompanyTV family of shows. It’s where we cover how work is changing thanks to the Internet. Last week we had
Every week we film a live WorkFastTV show at the Revision 3 studios in San Francisco as part of our FastCompanyTV family of shows. It’s where we cover how work is changing thanks to the Internet. Last week we had
One thing that came out of last week’s meetings with lots of elected officials is that their attention is on the advertising industry and that means our attention should be on it too. One interview in particular, with Representative Ed
Dogster is one of those Web 2.0 businesses that isn’t Web 2.0. For instance, they are making money.I interviewed Dogster.com’s founder, Ted Rheingold, to find out why and to hear how he’ll expand his business. Hint, dogs are just the
One thing that came out of last week’s meetings with lots of elected officials is that their attention is on the advertising industry and that means our attention should be on it too. One interview in particular, with Representative Ed
Dogster is one of those Web 2.0 businesses that isn’t Web 2.0. For instance, they are making money.I interviewed Dogster.com’s founder, Ted Rheingold, to find out why and to hear how he’ll expand his business. Hint, dogs are just the
We shot most of the interviews on our two HD camcorders, but they are a lot harder to work, especially when we had to do five interviews in one day, like we did on Wednesday. We now have a new
At 5pm Pacific time today (10am Melbourne time) I’m being interviewed by Wayne Hurlbert (his blog) on Blog Talk Radio.If you’re around and have the time it should be a fun interview. I’m told there will be downloadable recording of
Yesterday I announced the re-launch of the ProBlogger Newsletter (there have been 500+ new subscribers added to the list from last time bringing it to a total of around 16,000 - the first newsletter will come out next week) and
One of the innovative new affiliate networks to hit the market in the last 6 months is Pepperjam Network - and today they are offering you $10 as a signup bonus for becoming one of their publishers.If you want to
@tcdzomba (on Twitter) asked me - “Do u have a post up about how many blog posts to keep on the front page of the blog?”It’s not a topic that I’ve written about specifically before so let me write on
Today I’m pleased to announce that the ProBlogger Newsletter is Back! You can sign up today and get a 1 hour podcast with me for free here:Add Your Email Address Here to Subscribe Early on in the life of ProBlogger
Today Chrissy Scivicque from OfficeArrow continues her two part series of posts on Blogging Your Way to a New Career.Previously, I shared my story with you. I told you all about how my blog was purchased by a start-up website
Steve Rubel has a thought provoking post today asking the question - should you rent or buy social real estate?In it he explores the idea of using a service like Twitter (where you ‘rent’ and build up a community on
Today AdSense announced that they are drawing their ‘Referrals’ program to a close and are relaunching a new Google affiliate network. In actual effect the new affiliate network is not ‘new’ - but a rebranded version of DoubleClick’s Performics Affiliate
Today Chrissy Scivicque from OfficeArrow.com shares her story of building up her blog, selling it and then being hired to keep developing it - many bloggers dream.There’s no denying it: blogging is now considered a legitimate way to launch the
Over the last week I’ve run some Crazy Egg heat map tracking on two posts on Digital Photography School (both of which got to the front page of Digg and got a lot of traffic) that both highlight to me
Over the last two weeks I’ve been running a 10 part series here at ProBlogger on 10 ways that you can let your blog go and what you should do about them. The series is now complete with the following
A couple of weeks ago I had an email from Terry Ng from Kineda (a great fashion site) telling me about how they’d been using WordPress and bbPress together to create an innovative site. I asked Terry if she’d tell
Today Yaro Starak from Entrepreneurs Journey and the Blog Mastermind Mentoring Program has written this post on Selling from your blog.When I say the words “product launch” do you cringe and think of over-hyped Internet marketing product launches? Or maybe
In this post Eric from Photography Bay examines the Long Tail as it applies to blogging.Content is king. Yawn . . . right? You know this tired phrase is the gospel of blogging, but did you ever wonder why content
Today I want to share one last way to let your blog go to round off our 10 part series. It’s something that has at times almost brought my own blogging to a grinding halt - taking on too many
Amrit Hallan from Content Blog writes today about how improving your writing can improve the performance of your blog - Image by The Trial.Why are writers banned and persecuted in undemocratic countries? Because the written word is stronger than the
One of the most common ways that I see a blog ‘go under’ is when the blogger gets distracted from the overall task of blogging by one single aspect of blogging.Here’s the thing - for a blog to become successful
Today Lightening talks us through the process of deciding whether to monetize her blog and how she involved her readers in that process.I recently went through the process of deciding whether or not to monetize my personal blog Lightening Online.
This week we’ve been looking at a variety of ways that bloggers let their blogs degenerate. Today I want to talk about something that has the potential to kill a blog very quickly - the lack of original content or
Two Australian AdSense team members, Mel Ann and Tim, have put together a good introductory guide to optimizing AdSense.It’s not advanced but if you’re just starting out with AdSense it’s worth a watch.Share This
As you already know, today was the launch of the limited-edition Marty McFly-inspired Nike Hyperdunk sneakers. 350 pairs were sold almost instantly (some are now for sale in eBay for as much as...
With an unpopular war going on, an unpopular president in the White House and an economy in crisis, sometimes we struggle to remember what makes this country great. July 4th should be a time to...
Im OCD about my desktop. I keep exactly six icons on it, tucked in the upper left hand corner. So Dells OS X wannabe dock—actually made by Stardock and licensed to Dell, but lets not pretend its...
newVideoPlayer(/delldock.flv, 506, 423,); Im OCD about my desktop. I keep exactly six icons on it, tucked in the upper left hand corner. So Dells OS X wannabe dock—actually made by Stardock and...
Although various GPS units already have the ability to display the current speed limit (theyre pre-programmed in) of the road youre on, this Vauxhall Motors invention seems even better. Theres a...
This bobble head Darth Vader is designed for you monitor, where he can look down on you in shame. What has disgusted him so? You. Slob. I mean, you were the chosen one! Yes, you! You always knew it,...
This week at Uncrate: We hit the road and the seas in the Terra Wind Amphibious RV, go green with the Greasecar Vegetable Oil Conversion System, and light up our worlds with the Dear Ingo Lamp. We...
Googles brand new Gtalk webapp for the iPhone is as crappy as I expected it would be. It has a nice design, and sending messages was easy, but at the end of the day its still running in...
Asus is jumping on the bandwagon led by Panasonic and HP and releasing the B51, a super strong ruggedized laptop. The B51 is Mil-Spec 810F tough, can survive three-foot drops and has a keyboard...
Apple just ripped $500 off the price tag of their Solid State Drive-based MacBook Airs, which are now $2598, down from $3098. AppleInsider says the cuts came from two components, the 1.8GHz Core 2...
The limited edition Back to the Futures Nike basketball sneakers are available now. You can get yours now on eBay, where prices are going from $600 to $2,000. That is serious dollar gigawattage for...
You can already do a handful of gestures on the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pros trackpad, but Apples going in and patenting a whole bunch more. Not only are there gestures in this application that...
Heres an interesting fact about Microsoft Points—the fake currency used in the Xbox 360 and Zune Marketplaces—that we just learned yesterday: points expire. If youve got promotional, contest, or...
Artist Etienne Meneau has made these amazing sculptural wine decanters, applying some fractal-ness to the design. As a result, they look pretty anatomical when you fill them with red wine: rather...
AT&T is nixing the agreement theyve had with Dish TV since 2003 to sell their satellite TV service as part of a triple play bundle with internet and voice. Some are speculating its because AT&T is...
Think Intels breakthrough 45-nanometer chips are impressive stuff? Intel thought at one time dipping below 100nm would be miraculous, but Intel exec Pat Gelsinger says that today we see a clear way...
Weve just added a good bit of information to our iPhone FAQ, including more AT&T details, launch date info, and iTunes details. See all the new stuff below, or just go to the FAQ to see the monster...
newVideoPlayer(/constellation2_gizmodo.flv, 478, 290,); The NASA 2009 Astronaut Candidate Class recruitment—for the first mission to the Moon in four decades—may be over, but if you didnt send...
Sonys latest PlayStation 3 firmware update 2.4 brought what the fanboys have been crying about since the consoles inception—in-game access to the consoles Cross Media Bar (XMB). But Ill tell you...
Posted by Peter Foo, Associate Webmaster and Mark Lucovsky, Technical DirectorPolitical participation isnt just about casting your vote; everyone should be able to become an informed participant instantly. When Americans want to learn about candidates and issues using Google, we
Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User ExperienceLate one night in the summer of 2000, I found myself answering user support emails in response to two new features we had just released, Advanced Search and Preferences (at the
Posted by Elizabeth Yin & Min Li Chan, Google Developer ProgramsMay and June were exciting months for our developer team. Not only is it the start of summer in the Bay Area, but also the start of Google I/O and
Posted by Roberto Solimene, Enterprise Director, EMEAWith Google Apps nearing the venerable age of 17 months, we have already seen more than 500,000 organizations adopt Apps as part of their business, with another 3,000 signing up every day. Many of
Posted by Ron Adler and Janis Stipins, Software EngineersGoogle has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, weve improved the performance
Posted by Kristen Holway, Account Executive, Media Sales Over the summer solstice weekend, Seattle/Kirkland Googlers posed this question to people attending the Fremont Fair: How would you make our world, or our city, better? The goal of the Fremont Fair
Posted by Jonathan Rochelle, Product Manager, Google Docs TeamWe love hearing stories about how our products help people, and lets face it -- weddings are one time when help is needed. For many couples, planning a wedding can be an
Posted by Matt Cutts, Software EngineerThis post is the latest in an ongoing series about how we harness the data we collect to improve our products and services for our users. - Ed.As the head of the webspam team at
Posted by Jon Stona, Product Marketing TeamThree of our most useful products for website owners are Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics, and Google Website Optimizer. On July 8, were joining forces to bring you a free webinar about all of
Posted by Liz Eraker, Policy AnalystIn the spirit of National Internet Safety Month, we welcomed Ernie Allen, co-founder and president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to the Googleplex last week to discuss child protection issues.For
Posted by Matt Simmons, Market Data GnomeWere excited to let you know were adding more real-time market data to Google Finance, Google.com and other Google properties. Starting today, youll have access to real-time, last sale prices from the New York
Posted by Maureen Schumacher, Regional Sales Director, AtlantaOur Atlanta office recently teamed up with the Parks, Recreation and Historic Sites Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to support an initiative called Get Outdoors Georgia (GO Georgia). An effort
Posted by Bartholomew Furrow, 20% Tech Lead for Google Code JamIf youre a great sprinter, youve probably been in a few races. And if youre a great chess player, youve probably had your share of matches. But what do you
Posted by Bob Boorstin, Washington Director of Policy CommunicationsDays after the close of the U.S. presidential primaries, political pundits, campaign strategists, journalists, technologists, and others gathered at our Washington office to discuss how the first 21st century campaign is changing
Posted by Michael Terrell, Program Manager, Google.orgLast week Google.org and the Brookings Institution hosted a two-day conference in Washington to showcase plug-in electric vehicles
Posted by Omid Kordestani, Senior VP, Global Sales and Business DevelopmentToday, we announced a non-exclusive advertising agreement that will provide Yahoo! with access to our AdSense for search and AdSense for content advertising programs on their U.S. and Canadian web
Posted by Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager, Search and Adam Westall, Software EngineerWhen you search on Google, we often offer you related search suggestions to help you find what youre looking for more quickly. We identify related search queries by
Posted by Heej Hwang, Google Trends teamThe latest version of Google Trends is now live! If youve used it in the past, you know that Google Trends can be used to see how popular certain search terms are across geographic
Posted by Rajas Moonka, Senior Business Project ManagerAbout a month ago, we announced that we certified a number of third-party ad servers, rich media ad agencies, and research firms to serve and track display ads on the Google content network.
Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience, and Micheal Lopez, Web DesignerYou may have noticed that Google has a new favicon, the small icon you see in your browser next to the URL or in your bookmarks
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