Adam Kazwell is...somewhat concerned

links for 2006-07-31

• India rejects One Laptop Per Child
  so much for hitting the target market...ps - has India not heard "the children are our future" song??
  (tags: education business design)
• Caterina Fake on how the value of a metric changes depending on the type of service/product being offered
  Make no mistake, user numbers are *always* significant -- but they tell different stories for different services.
  (tags: flickr business socialnetworking yahoo strategy)
• Thoughts on Flickr and Yahoo by Jeremy Zawodny
  oldie but goodie. trying to really grok what makes Flickr special, beyond "it's developer friendly, user friendly, and is a web site as well as a "platform" all at once." Hint - the "one thing" that Flickr does well isn't necessarily tied to Photos
  (tags: business strategy startups yahoo flickr quotes)
• Every web service should have a "How to Get the most out of X" section
  in addition to a simple/quick/entertaining tour
  (tags: flickr startups webapps)
• The animated Yahoo Mail soccer guy (aka Liam)
  (tags: graphics yahoo soccer)
• 30 Boxes plugin for Y! Messenger
  did i mention the new messenger allows for sending up to 1GB of files?
  (tags: tools yahoo)
• The Net of R&D
  If you were of a grouchy frame of mind as a long-suffering shareholder, you could use this slide to argue that Microsoft overspends on R&D and investors would be better off off if it spent way, way less.
  (tags: business strategy microsoft google apple)
• Sort Yahoo image search by Color, B&W, Wallpaper size, etc...
  simple, but nice to have feature
  (tags: search yahoo photography)
• Run DMC Puppet Show
  (tags: funny hiphop flickr)

links for 2006-07-30

• Comic Life software for Macs
  oh man, i could lose a whole weekend with this
  (tags: apple mac comics design graphics software)
• The Budget Traveller's Guide to Sleeping in Airports
  (tags: sleep hacks reference travel)
• The Long Now talk with Will Wright and Brian Eno
  pissed I missed this (sick) but i think the MP3 captures it well enough (especially the last quarter when Eno starts to discuss working as a producer and how he defines culture)
  (tags: games music creativity)

links for 2006-07-29

• Distraction free writing with WriteRoom
  it's the anti-Microsoft word (especially in full screen mode)
  (tags: software productivity writing apple)
• Top 10 IT Conversations
  (tags: podcasts tech)
• Adam Carolla takes a call from Ann Coulter
  (tags: funny politics radio)
• Web 2.0 explained on a t-shirt
  32 bucks??
  (tags: tshirts web tech)
• Turn your blog into a book
  (tags: blogs books design)

links for 2006-07-28

• The more aerodynamic Steve Nash
  (tags: sports basketball)
• Questions related to Floyd Landis' upcoming situation
  Unfortunately my first thought after hearing he came from 11th to 3rd in one stage was: Boy, someone must have taken an extra shot of roids this morning.
  (tags: sports cycling espn)

links for 2006-07-27

• What's next for MySpace? (hint - think as lame as possible)
  A peer recommendation system!! No, seriously "for leads on everything and anything: the best children's playgrounds in Los Angeles to the best concert seats in Madison Square Garden to the best steakhouse in Dallas."
  (tags: business socialnetworking strategy)

links for 2006-07-26

• Carlos Zambrano is a switch hitter??
  (tags: sports baseball chicago)
• What to do when your web service goes down
  Just ask WWFD? F = Flickr
  (tags: flickr creativity business UX)
• Some great comments on this Searchblog post on YouTube's worth
  Moral of the story, when building a business start with the buyer in mind and also start with a business model. You Tube is not a must have, it's a nice to have and nice to have's aren't worth a billion dollars.
  (tags: busines strategy webapps)

links for 2006-07-25

• Why Yahoo and MSN cannot compete
  The experience of the net as a whole should serve as a lesson to those building the next gen of community-powered websites. At scale, it is no longer about aggregating knowledge, it is about filtering crap. We need seek the signal in the noise and pull th
  (tags: google yahoo microsoft busines strategy)
• Addictive little dig-dug-esque game
  (tags: flash game videogames)

links for 2006-07-23

• The Top 10 Questions Investors Asked Us
  (tags: startups webapps)
• SF as a diorama
  (tags: photography travel california)
• Outside magazine interview with (soon to be) Tour de France winner Floyd Landis
  seems very un-Lance-like (see the pic on page 4 to get an idea)
  (tags: sports cycling interviews)
• More Daily Show on Net Neutrality
  (tags: funny politics tv video)
• Software from Twisted Melon that allows you to customize the controls of the Apple Remote
  (tags: apple design software)

links for 2006-07-22

• Why social networking sites are hurting on-line dating sites
  1) their churn is lower 2) their growth is coming from the most valuable customers of traditional dating sites 3) they're free 4) they're more interactive/engaging
  (tags: personals business socialnetworking)
• Infographic for countries that support immediate ceasefire in the Middle East
  (tags: kottke design graphics media politics)
• Create your own pair of Air Max '95 with the Nike ID product
  browse under the "Sports Culture" footwear category...can also customize Dunks, Shox NZ, and the original Air Max
  (tags: nike shoes design remixculture)

links for 2006-07-21

• Dealspl.us - a sort of Digg for shopping (ie - the best deals get pushed to the front page)
  (tags: shopping web aggregation)
• Jeff Bezos Invests in 37Signals
  huh...wonder what'll happen with the extra cash - a 37sig web OS perhaps?
  (tags: 37signals amazon)
• How Disney almost f-ed up Pirates of the Caribbean - along with an interesting look at the upcoming challenges for Hollywood
  'The first scene I did with Johnny, I was like, What the f--- are you doing?'' Knightley says. ''None of us knew if it was going to work.''
  (tags: marketing branding movie business)

links for 2006-07-20

• An amazing new game set to ship with Half Life 2
  graphics are amazing, but that portal weapon really opens up a lot of new options
  (tags: videogames creativity)
• Calacanis offers to buy out digg users
  if the people accept his offer (and I'm guessing at least some will) it's a win win for both - calacanis gets a cheap price for people posting to Netscape, and the posters get paid for something they'd be doing for free anyway
  (tags: trends informationoverload business)
• Bootleg Books in Cambodia and Vietnam (and India)
  best to buy in cambodia or india, cause they're full price in Thailand (also - magazines are hella expensive abroad because they can't be copied)
  (tags: books magazines travel piracy)
• Jimmy Kimmel's Unnessary Censorship
  (hopefully you won't have to see one of the worst banner ads in history, for something called Zap)
  (tags: funny video)

links for 2006-07-19

• Yahoo! entering fast food market?
  (tags: funny yahoo travel)
• The Yahoo Mail Subject-o-Matique
  the Mail team isn't short on personality
  (tags: yahoo funny webapps)
• Great interview by Chuck Klosterman of DJ Dangermouse (aka Brian Burton) in the New York Times
  When the "St. Elsewhere" songs are performed live, they sound a bit like funk songs; when I mentioned that to Burton, he got a little bummed...("Yeah, I know," he said, mildly annoyed. "We kept saying: 'Too funky. This is too funky.' It's a problem.")
  (tags: interviews nyt music remixculture hiphop)

links for 2006-07-18

• A 15 minute tour of the Hotwired Archives
  way ahead of it's time - doesn't seem like anyone's currently pushing the envelope as much as Hotwired did back in the day (although pushing the envelope isn't always a good thing - I remember how hard some of that stuff was to read)
  (tags: wired retro video)

links for 2006-07-17

• The Stanford Prison Experiment on Google Video
  (tags: video)
• SF Neighborhoods
  (tags: california local)
• Added a bunch of new photo sets to Flickr
  including: View from 32K, From The Streets, Germany 2006, Amsterdam 2006, San Francisco, My Apartment - and updated Worldwide, Stateside, and Humor in Photos
  (tags: photography flickr travel)

links for 2006-07-16

• Earth Science Picture of the Day - the Black Sun in Denmark
  must travel to the marshlands of western Denmark, sometime between March and the ides of April.
  (tags: photography travel)

links for 2006-07-15

• Part 1 of an interesting interview with Vint Cerf by John Batelle
  nice intro into how f-ed up this whole net neutrality BS is
  (tags: interviews search business web)

links for 2006-07-13

• What would your Brazillian soccer name be?
  Mine would be Adiano (with my lastname first)
  (tags: soccer language sports tshirts funny)
• Looking back at the design evolution of Hotwired
  What an amazing job they did (and what an amazing job to have)
  (tags: design web retro veen)
• Multi-player asteroids
  addictive! - how can I want to kill people I don't even know so badly?
  (tags: retro videogames web)

links for 2006-07-10

• Douglas Coupland on meetings, creativity, and life.
  "Here’s my theory about meetings and life; the three things you can’t fake are erections, competence and creativity. That’s why meetings become toxic"
  (tags: quotes 37signals)
• Materazzi...ie - the guy that Zidane headbutted
  guess he had it coming
  (tags: soccer video)
• As Goes the Housing Market, So Goes Advertising (ie - the Internet industry)
  (tags: advertising investing)
• Some great thoughts on the internet's role in the music industry by a member of Okkervil River
  and also this gem: "How many hundreds of bored hours have you spent mechanically poring through web pages not knowing what you’re looking for, or knowing what you’re looking for but not feeling satisfied when you find it? You hunger but you’re not f
  (tags: copyright music quotes)

links for 2006-07-09

• What's the best birthday gift?
  via the Dilbert blog
  (tags: funny dilbert)

links for 2006-07-08

• A 720 degree dunk?? performed by the Air Up There from that famed bastion of fundamentals, the And*1 Tour.
  scroll down for the link about a quarter of the way thru
  (tags: video espn basketball)
• It's Juggling...in a Cone
  (tags: video juggling)
• Steve Novak outplays #1 pick Bargnani in Vegas debut
  (tags: marquette basketball sports)
• Steve Novak is Ripping the Nets in Vegas
  " Coach Crean had a kind of a pro offense up there and I think the way we're playing there's not much of a learning curve for him."
  (tags: sports marquette basketball quotes)
• NBA players as soccer players instead
  "can you imagine anyone being a better goalie than Shawn Marion? It would be like having a 6-foot-9 human octopus in the net."
  (tags: sports soccer basketball sportsguy kottke)

links for 2006-07-07

• The Evolution of "Crazy" via "Music for kids who can't read good"
  complete with original samples and covers
  (tags: music hiphop remixculture)
• New Dutch windmills
  for reals?
  (tags: design travel photography)
• The benefits of Wizard School vs college
  "It's still honorable to get a Ph.D. But it's no guarantee of a job. Not a high-paying one, anyway, not at a company with a bright future."
  (tags: education programming amazon quotes)
• (Not) Managing Software Developers
  "Leadership stems from having a clear vision, strong convictions, and enough drive and talent to get your ideas and goals across to a diverse group of people who can help you achieve them."
  (tags: quotes business career management productivity)

links for 2006-07-06

• How to sum every other cell in Excel
  (tags: excel hacks howto)

links for 2006-07-04

• Turn your $60 router into a $600 router - Lifehacker
  to try when I'm not stealing from the neighbors
  (tags: howto hacks gadgets wifi)
• TEDTalks (audio, video)
  (tags: conferences inspiration podcasts video)
• Why Google failed with auctioned ads in print publications
  "Google has not created the world's greatest all-purpose advertising machine. Rather, it has created the world's greatest yellow pages directory. There is a big difference."
  (tags: advertising google)

links for 2006-07-02

• Dan's laser etched powerbook
  (tags: apple art design powerbook)