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New info on upcoming Ibis Reader from @liza's threepress -- another books-in-cloud model
By Andrew SavikasNovember 2, 2009
Our part of this open ecosystem is Ibis Reader, an in-development digital reading system for a range of internet devices that provides access to books both online and offline....
Four short links: 23 September 2009
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 22, 2009
Projections (YouTube) -- the incredible video projection onto an old English manor house by Kiwi Foo Camp alums The Dark Room. Where Will Synthetic Biology Lead Us? (NYTimes) -- a thoughtful article about the possibilities and cautions of synthetic biology. . “A house pet is a domesticated parasite,” he noted. “ It is evolved to have an interaction with...
Four short links: 21 September 2009
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 21, 2009
Dan Brown's 20 Worst Sentences -- awful awful writing, and glorious glorious mockery of it. Deception Point, chapter 8: Overhanging her precarious body was a jaundiced face whose skin resembled a sheet of parchment paper punctured by two emotionless eyes. It’s not clear what Brown thinks ‘precarious’ means here. From Australia to the World: The Story of Google Maps...
Four short links: 16 September 2009
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 16, 2009
Data Sharing: Empty Archives (Nature) -- asking and answering the question "why don't researchers share their data?" San Francisco Health Visual Dashboard -- Health Matters in San Francisco is a one-stop source of non-biased data and information about community health in the City, and healthy communities in general. It is intended to help planners, policy makers, and community members...
Four short links: 11 September 2009
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 10, 2009
Healthspottr Fellow -- outstanding entrepreneurs will be awarded prizes of up to $250,000 to accelerate their innovative endeavours. Think MacArthur Genius Grant for healthcare. (via Gov 2.0 Summit) jsMath -- Javascript for embedding Math in web pages. (via Hacker News) Google's Undocumented Embeddable PDF Viewer -- Google Docs offers an undocumented feature that lets you embed PDF files and...
Four short links: 7 September 2009
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 7, 2009
App Engine Now Supports XMPP (Jabber) -- messaging servers, whether XMPP or PubSubHubBub, are becoming an increasingly important way to loosely join the small pieces. Google's incorporation of XMPP into GAE reflects this (and the fact that Wave is built on XMPP). (via StPeter on Twitter) Snakes on the Web (Jacob Kaplan-Moss) -- The best way to predict the...
Four short links: 18 August 2009
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 18, 2009
The Making of the NPR News iPhone App -- interesting behind-the-scenes look, with sketches and all. Station streams, however, presented a larger challenge. To begin with, NPR didn't have direct stream links for any of its stations, so we built a Web spider that identified and captured more than 300 iPhone-compatible station streams. After that first pass, we worked...
Nine Essential Truths for Entrepreneurial Success
By Mark SigalJune 24, 2009
Leveraging the pattern recognition of others is one of the best ways to build upon best practices, while sidestepping avoidable mistakes. What follows is a primer of nine key lessons learned from doing eight startups (four as co-founder, four liquidity events). Read on...
Four short links: 4 June 2009
By Nat TorkingtonJune 3, 2009
Wave Robot Ruby Client -- Sam Ruby ported the Wave Robot Python Client library to Ruby. He found that the wire protocol is full of Java classnames, and says, Overall, I feel that this Google Wave could benefit from earlier and wider reviews. In the comments, a Google employee replies The Java API was implemented first... We are working...
Four short links: 2 June 2009
By Nat TorkingtonJune 2, 2009
TypeKit -- Jeff Veen's new startup, making typography on the web fail to suck. Every major browser is about to support the ability to link to a font. That means you can write a bit of CSS, include a URL to a font file, and have your page display with the typography you expect. While it’s technically quite easy...
Four short links: 15 May 2009
By Nat TorkingtonMay 15, 2009
Whither Sockets? -- ACM Queue article on how sockets as a model for network programming have become an obstacle to where networking is going. All of these calls have one thing in common: the calling program must repeatedly ask for data to be delivered. In the world of client/server computing these constant requests make perfect sense, because the server...
Web2Open: An Exciting Experiment
By Sarah MilsteinMarch 30, 2009
As I've written here recently, we've got some amazing sessions scheduled for Web2Open--the free unconference hosted by Web 2.0 Expo in SF this week. One that I'm particularly excited about is a new experiment, "Practice Your Customer Pitch." We're bringing in five startups who will get two minutes each to give their customer pitch (not their VC pitch), as if...
Four short links: 17 Mar 2009
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 17, 2009
Startups, databases, iPhone app marketplace, and how to launch: Weary of Looking for Work, Some Create Their Own (NY Times) -- a story about a new tide of entrepreneurs forced into it by the economic times. The goal for many entrepreneurs nowadays is not to create a company that will someday make billions but to come up with an idea...
Four short links: 23 Feb 2009
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 23, 2009
Work in Small Batches -- I'm obsessed by the pursuit of quality, but at human scale and not in the stultifying ISO9001 process. The ever-wonderful Startup Lessons Learned blog ties together Toyota Quality, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment, with good explanations of why it works. (I'm reminded of "yes it works in practice, but can it work in theory?")...
Four short links: 29 Jan 2009
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 29, 2009
Luck, craft, coding, and strategy today on Four Short Links: Because -- After a NZ big-money low-success e-tailer closed, there was widespread "ha! about time!" in the blogosphere. This post, by one of New Zealand's most successful web entrepreneurs, is a fantastically humble reality check. "Build it and they won’t necessarily come, no matter how good you think it is...
Interview with David Heinemeier Hansson: Rails Culture, Scaling Basecamp, and Building Successful Companies
By Timothy M. O'BrienAugust 22, 2008
In this video interview, DHH discusses the current state of Ruby on Rails adoption. Who is using Rails? How was the culture changed over the past five years? Hansson also comments on the technologies that are catching his attention and how they might affect Rails in the months to come. Hansson also comments on his Startup School presentation, and why he thinks Chicago is an ideal environment for technology and innovation.
Automated Infrastructure Podcast on IT Conversations
By Jesse RobbinsMay 14, 2008
Adam Jacob and I did an IT Conversations podcast with Phil Windley last week, which I really enjoyed. We started with a summary of Adam's excellent Web2.0 Expo session, covered the phases of startup growth using virtual infrastructures like EC2 and 3tera, and discussed how Puppet shifts us to "Infrastructure as Code". We even got into the challenges and opportunities...
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