By Jeff Han and his team who once — a year before the iPhone arrived — blew us all away with his multitouch demos: (via jnack)
I Believe I can Fly (Flight of the Frenchies)
On Gowalla, Facebook, Instagram, Path, and Storytelling
I was meaning to write a blogpost on Gowalla 4. About how I used it less than before. But also about that when I use it (which I still do from time to time), I use it in a more engaged way. In the blogpost on Path 2, I was going to state that “Path …
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The Instagram Server Stack
This is how our system has evolved in the just-over-1-year that we’ve been live, and while there are parts we’re always re-working, this is a glimpse of how a startup with a small engineering team can scale to our 14 million+ users in a little over a year. What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens …
Facebook buys Gowalla
Sydnex Matrix Locations
Path 2
Getting Started with Sass
Great new article on A List Apart introducing on to Sass. While browsers aren’t ready for a new CSS, Catlin and Weizenbaum (the authors of SASS, ed.) realized they could go ahead and design a new style sheet syntax with features to help make their increasingly complex CSS easier to write and manage, then use …
Javascript Codec/File Format Implementations
Over the past few months, quite a few Javascript implementations to creating/displaying certain files without the need for native plugins have been created. Although some are still premature, the basic idea is there. Above that they clearly demonstrate the importance of the rendering/scripting speed improvements browser vendors have been/are implementing into their browsers. pdf.js: Rendering …
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Facebook’s Chief Privacy Officers
After having settled with the FTC over “charges that it deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public.”, Zuck’ announced two new roles at Facebook: Chief Privacy Officer, Policy and Chief Privacy Officer, Product The announcement is your rather …