I do my own stunts
10 of my sxsw picks
- Permanence on the Web
- Coding for Pleasure: Developing Killer Spare-Time Apps
- You Developed the Content. Now Build The Hardware.
- Mother F*cking Zombies Are Real… Case Study: LOSTZOMBIES.com
- Challenging Flash Video with HTML5
- Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? Donations 2.0
- OpenID: Identity Is the Platform
- Awesome Web Graphics: SVG, HTML5 Canvas and More
- What If Your Phone Had 5 Senses?
- Don’t Stop Believin: Why Karaoke WILL Change the World
Nice little red ridning hood animation!
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Girl Talk is so last year… Kutiman is the new shit!
It’s still March and this artist already has my vote for Best Release of the Year:
Check out some of the tracks he assembled using youtube videos.
Brilliant move from Amazon!
Instead of entering on a legal battle with the dicks of the Author’s Guild (that fail to represent authors interests completely), they will simply give the option to opt-out text-to-speech feature and let the market give it’s message.
Since almost no author will care about the tts version and release their work with it enabled anyways, and the very few that do choose to release a book with the restriction will be bombarded by bad reviews from the consumers, much like what happened with Spore. They save legal hassle and turn the bad publicity to who deserves it in the first place: the greedy cock-suckers from Author’s Guild.
Just brilliant. I couldnt have done better.
How much does Twitter robots.txt worth?
That is the question.
So John Batelle has made some predictions about the future of Twitter… He argues, and I agree that Google may soon try to acquire Twitter, because of it’s most valuable asset: a huge network of people generating live updates and how this is important to have if you want to dominate the real time search area.
He also argues that Twitter is in a position where they can refuse offers as they already did with Facebook, so this potential buying offer from Google would be some ridiculous amount of money, much like what happened with Youtube.
The problem is, Google does not need to spend any money on Twitter to have real time conversational search. All it takes to have tweets figuring out on search results is for Google to start indexing Twitter by doing a “little evil”, which means ignore their robots.txt file and maybe the nofollow attributes too.
From Twitter’s robot.txt:
# Every bot that might possibly read and respect this file. User-agent: * Disallow: /*? Disallow: /*/with_friends
So, the way I see it Google has 2 options: A- play it cool and come to a deal with Twitter either by acquiring it or through some other kind of partnership, and B- forget it and crawl it anyways, like they did with book search and street maps, after all they are a search company and can worry about potential legal consequences later :)
One way or another, it will be interesting to see what it will gonna be, and the price tags involved.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Hysteric
This album is going to be goooooood. Lots of good stuff on Hype Machine today.