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Daily Reading from December 22, 2007
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22 Dec 2007
Links to what I’ve been reading recently.
- From the Department of Bad Ideas
- Describe Your UI in One Sentence
- Helping UK startups get ahead in San Francisco and Silicon Valley — "(For those who don’t know me, I’m a British Internet professional who moved out to San Francisco 18 months ago to work with startups and industry-leading companies out there. I currently provide consultancy to Seesmic [more on TC] and MySpace. ..."
- Erlang: A New Way to Program That’s 20 Years Old — "Geeks everywhere got excited recently when they heard that SimpleDB might be based on Erlang. Why? Is Erlang the next big thing? Probably not — it’s a 20-year-old language that some programmers find weird. But the model Erlang offers for ..."
- Study: 59% Of Teens Create Content Online — "Think that user generated content is still only the domain of a relatively small few? Well a new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that the next generation at least is switched on and producing content. ..."
- Long game in Houston — "Fernando Valenzuela at first base. Seriously? "
- Fastball, slider, changeup, curveball - an analysis — "Analysis of the four workhorses of the pitcher’s arsenal: fastball, slider, changeup and curveball. "
- Where did the intranets go?
- Photology Makes Sorting Through Photos A Snap — "If you are going to insist on still making client-only software, at least put up a Flash demo on the Web. That is what startup Enoetic just did, with this slick demo of its Photology software for organizing and searching ..."
- Silva Lining Pockets — "Thoroughly mediocre pitcher Carlos Silva just received a contract slightly above what everyone expected: 4 years, $48 million. The Mariners were the bestowers, and the deal has a couple ramifications for the Giants: * It makes the M’s less likely ..."