OpenX Webinar Series: Understanding OpenX Invocation Codes
Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Time: 10:00 – 11:00am PDT
The OpenX series of webinars are designed to help our community learn more about using the OpenX Ad Server. This webinar will focus on helping you better understand OpenX invocation codes including detailed use cases and helpful troubleshooting tips related to invocation codes. This webinar is geared [...]
On ‘Curated’ Computing
Kontra:
Our museums are not football-field sized warehouses where art
objects are indiscriminately dumped and our magazines and blogs
are not amorphous containers of randomly selected articles. Our
classrooms, restaurants, hospitals and indeed all our civilized
institutions are firmly reliant on curation of one kind or
another. The goal should be [...]
Life at a Foxconn Factory in China
Liu Zhiyi reports after having worked undercover for 28 days at a Chinese Foxconn factory, where Apple (and other) devices are assembled:
When chatting with them, I often struggled to respond, as I felt I
was ridiculously fortunate. They actually envied those who could
take a leave due to work injury, while casually joking [...]
‘I Want Choice, but Only if I Agree With Your Choice’
Thomas Fitzgerald responds to Ted Landau:
I think Ted’s problem, like that of many analysts/bloggers/journalists/geeks etc on the issue is that they’re confusing fundamental flaws with not liking something. People like Ted don’t like the closed nature of the App store, but that doesn’t mean it’s fundamentally flawed, or a lack of choice.
It occurs to me [...]
NEWS: WEBSITE OF THE DAY – YouTube at 5
YouTube turns five years old
Since the birth of the internet, there have been a few sites that have changed the virtual landscape.
Arguably, YouTube is one of the most significant. It showed the world that there is an insatiable appetite for all things visual – if you can film it, you can post it.
Can you believe [...]
Apple to Keep the ‘Pro’ in Final Cut Pro
Jim Dalrymple:
According to an AppleInsider report, the Final Cut Studio team has
been told to refocus its efforts “to more closely match the needs
of the majority of its customers.” That would mean Apple would
target customers moving to Final Cut Studio from the company’s
more basic iMovie application, instead of [...]
Google Storage for Developers
Now in beta — or, in Google-speak, “labs” — a service from Google to compete with Amazon S3.
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Google Font Directory
Google:
The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available
via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available
for use on your website under an open source license and served by
Google servers.
The project is in collaboration with Typekit.
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‘Undocumented’ Android APIs
Transcript of slide 34 from the “Beginner’s Guide to Android” session at Google I/O today:
Arrogance
Don’t use undocumented APIs
Seriously. Don’t use undocumented APIs
That should be easy advice to follow, since Andy Rubin told us that Android doesn’t have any private APIs:
A lot of guys have private APIs. We don’t.
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That’s Funny
Mozilla evangelist Christopher Blizzard:
The VP8 codec represents a vast improvement in quality-per-bit
over Theora and is comparable in quality to H.264.
As Arnold Kim quipped, it’s funny how companies like Mozilla are now open about how crappy Ogg Theora is now that Google has open-sourced VP8. E.g., here’s Christopher Blizzard just four months ago:
On the [...]
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