Guido van Rossum unveiled his first Google project, Mondrian — and it’s Django-powered. Rails at Amazon, Django at Google — who still insn’t convinced that these frameworks are for real? Visit site »
Here’s your funny and beautiful holiday cards. Merry fucking christmas. Visit site »
Wow. There are a lot of killer new features in Parallels. This is one seriously ambitious release. Can’t wait to give it a shot. Visit site »
Useful. Visit site »
Gruber’s right: Caterina should totally be the CEO of Yahoo. Visit site »
The mini-site for Mark Boulton’s upcoming self-published PDF book gets you a $5 discount on the $20 price of the book. This should be a great read, especially for us web designers who haven’t been formally trained in graphic design. Visit site »
is done beating up on bots in UT2004. Now going to bed.
100% correct on every point. Simple, direct, and accurate. Love it. Visit site »
First, they’ll kill off the print version and go 100% digital. Then, they’ve be aggressively local — “try to be the town Yahoo.” Then, they’d wonder openly about what happens to certain big-city newspapers that fancy themselves national papers as much as local papers. Interesting question. It seems like trying to compete with every other national news source is futile. I think it boils down to two choices: give up being so national or be hyper-topical instead. For example, become known for your super-deep politics coverage. It seems like the key is narrow-focused, hyper-level content. Visit site »
First, I”m not sure Yahoo really is backing away from RSS. But if they are, there’s a perfectly good reason for it: RSS, as popular as it is with us geeks, is still not on the radar of most average Internet users. Most people simply don’t use it, or even sound very interested when you explain it to them. If, like Yahoo, you’re launching sites targeted at non-geeks, they may not be worth the hassle (or the lost pageviews). Visit site »
A video of a guy doing several things that look stupid when they’re done outside of a pool. Surprisingly, quite funny. Visit site »
Luke’s got some great tips here on design strategy. Number Seven: “Everyone wants to be an armchair design ‘quarterback’- let them play fantasy football by helping them make better decisions. ” Visit site »
Classic (Warning: geek joke ahead). Visit site »
Playing Unreal Tournament 2004, which is really the only game I ever play on my Mac.