Internet’s been down all night. I had my cable company.
Heading home.
Google announces App Engine, a wonderful-looking set of tools and APIs that lets you run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure. Nice. What’s more? It’s entirely written in Python, and Python is also the first supported language for App Engine apps (more are coming down the road). What’s even more? App Engine includes Django. That is to say, Google wants you to use Django to write your applications, just like they use it to write many of theirs. If that’s not a good endorsement, I don’t know what is. Visit site »
Haha. Cute video by Heather and the folks at Flickr, soft-announcing the addition of video. I’ve been waiting for this! Flip video, here I come! Visit site »
Best. Muxtape. EVAR! http://jayhawk.muxtape.com/
OMG I hate CSS Naked Day.
40,000 people on Massachusetts street between 7th and 11th — in a town of 80,000. Awesome. Via Nathan. Visit site »
I guess it’s public info now: Brian Fling (and his awesome wife Cyndi) have left Blue Flavor. They’ve launched their new venture, Fling Media, with a sweet new site. Congrats, you two — good luck! Visit site »
Heading into the office.
EveryBlock takes over A List Apart for an issue, with Wilson Miner’s awesome piece on using web standards to create data visualizations like bar charts and sparklines, and Paul Smith showing you how to roll your own custom mapping interface. Great issue. Visit site »
