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2012 | 282 posts

December 2012 | 23 posts

The Copyright Monopoly Stands In Direct Opposition To Property Rights - Falkvinge on Infopolicy #copyrights

RethinkDB - an open-source distributed database built with love #db #devel

Meet the World’s Cheapest Venture Capitalist | Wired Business | Wired.com #startups #vc

# #github

Interactive Guide to Blog Typography #howto #design #css

The Pirate Bay Is The World’s Most Efficient Public Library - Falkvinge on Infopolicy

The Copyright Monopoly Is A Market Distortion, Not A Birthright #copyrights

Zeitgeist 2012: Year In Review (by Google)

Is fitness the new app ecosystem? Nike launches startup accelerator | The Verge #startups #fitness #nike

Open Source Guilt & Passion by Nick of 37signals #open source

RYNO Motors Full Story (by Chris Hoffmann)

The Complete Guide to Accept Bitcoins Without Fees #bitcoin

The Raspberry Pi Web Server Speed Test - Jeremy's .NET Blog #raspberry pi

Google's Lost Social Network

The Finest Bird Song of 1890 (by 69mechanik)

We’re announcing today that Bitcoin-Central.net is getting, through a partnership with Aqoba and the Credit Mutuel, allowed to ... #bitcoin #banking

Twitter Loses Ability to Properly Display Instagram Photos - NYTimes.com #instagram #twitter #facebook

adam brault: I quit Twitter for a month and it completely changed my thinking about mostly everything. #social media #twitter

No VC: Why Techmeme's Gabe Rivera Resists Investors - Bloomberg #startups #enterpreneurship

How 4 Microsoft engineers proved that the “darknet” would defeat DRM | Ars Technica #drm #copyrights

November 2012 | 23 posts

Don't be a Petraeus: A Tutorial on Anonymous Email Accounts | Electronic Frontier Foundation #howto #privacy

The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed? #startups

# #history

# #geeky #raspberry pi

O sweet spontaneous - e.e. cummings #copyrights

Getting weather via your command line | Hacker News #howto

Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking: Amazon.co.uk: E. Gabriella Coleman: Books #hackers #books

# #howto #wallpaper

# #art

Cisco Acquires Enterprise Wi-Fi Startup Meraki For $1.2 Billion In Cash

We colo your RPi free of charge #raspberry pi #hosting

The Quiet Ones - NYTimes.com

The Legacy of Linus Torvalds: Linux, Git, and One Giant Flamethrower | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com #linus

Jekyll and other static site generators are, currently, harmful to the free, open source software movement

Pay Another Way: Bitcoin #bitcoin #wordpress

Using OTE’s 11888 to provide fast CLID data for FreePBX/Asterisk #freepbx #asterisk

# #origami

It is Now Illegal to Break DRM on E-Books in Canada! #drm #copyrights #ebooks

The US election was a wake up call for data illiterate journalists | Online Journalism Blog #journalism #big data #politics #elections

OpenHack - Code together. #openhack #hackers #makers

Why you should click 'Show comments removed as spam.... #comments #blogging

Static commenting #static blogs

Russia's internet-filtering law goes into effect, clears the way for nationwide surveillance #digital rights #russia

October 2012 | 20 posts

# #history

Outlawed by Amazon DRM #drm #amazon

An academic paper from law professor Colleen Chien of Santa Clara University looks more closely at the challenges patents pose for ... #patents

Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew #xcode #homebrew #osx

http://essayist.mndj.me/mwanji.tent.is/essay/qqcfm8 #tent

Joy Division’s graphic designer explains the ‘Unknown Pleasures’ album cover (by VISUALIZED)

Managing home .dotfiles with git and GitHub - Sursolid #github #git

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos calls for governments to end patent wars like Apple v Samsung #bezos #amazon #patents

# #ubuntu #ubuntu one #osx #cloud storage

Top Rackspace lawyer: “We’d love to get rid of software patents” | Ars Technica #patents

Data attributes rock – as both CSS and JavaScript know them | Christian Heilmann #html5

# #maps

A patent is a government-sanctioned monopoly, and we should be very cautious about handing those out. —Tim O’Reilly #patents

It’s Time To Debunk The Myth That Copyright Is Needed To Make Money – Or That It Even Makes Money | TorrentFreak #copyrights

Why is it Dark at Night? (by minutephysics) #science

The “Lost” Steve Jobs Speech from 1983; Foreshadowing Wireless Networking, the iPad, and the App Store #steve jobs #history

# #art #kickstarter #crowdfund

Google rebooting content micropayments initiative under Wallet — paidContent #micropayments #google

All of this is by way of saying that the right way to energize social media isn’t to try to find people to tout your products. ... #social media #tim o'reilly

# #bitcoin

September 2012 | 8 posts

Rest In Peace, Charles Alfred Eldon: A Pioneer Of Silicon Valley, A Role Model For This New Generation | TechCrunch #history #silicon valley

Large Investment in OpenStreetMap from Knight Foundation | MapBox #openstreetmap #maps

Startup = Growth #startups

# #osx #command line #howto

An Introduction to Content Security Policy - HTML5 Rocks #html5 #development #security

Giant 3D Printer Builds Homes in 20 Hours #3d printer #housing

# #makers #ipad

August 2012 | 11 posts

37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady #entrepreneurship #business

# #funny

Imagine that we were just developing spoken language for the first time. And someone came up with a new word to describe an action, thought ... #digital rights #copyrights

Black Hat hacker gains access to 4 million hotel rooms with Arduino microcontroller #hackers #hotels #arduino

Usenet – what have you become? | 90 Percent of Everything #usenet #internet

The Next Battle for Internet Freedom Could Be Over 3D Printing #digital rights #3d printers

dan price: my tiny house #house #simple living

Cory Doctorow: “The Coming Civil War over General-purpose Computing”, Talks at Google (by AtGoogleTalks) #doctorow #digital rights #drm

The fall of Angry Birds, what is next? #games #business

SublimeVideo - HTML5 Video Player - Features #html5 #video player #devel

Managing long-term digital archiving is a challenge for almost every company. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier, IT organizations now ... #storage #amazon #amazon glacier

July 2012 | 9 posts

NReduce incubator

Twitter Revokes Find Friends Access for Instagram #twitter #instagram #api

# #3d printers

# #raspberry pi #hackers #makers

Scripting News: The story of podcasting #podcasting #history

How LinkedIn Makes TWENTY Times More Money Per User Than Facebook #linkedin #social networks #business

Raspbmc #raspberry pi

PageSpeed Tools #developer #tools #chrome

June 2012 | 9 posts

Google vs everyone: an epic war on many fronts

Twitter / timoreilly: More than 1 million content partners on YouTube #video #content #youtube

Boxopus Downloads Torrents Directly to Your Dropbox #dropbox #bittorrent

Scripting News: What comes after blogging? #blogging #dave winer

# #games #mobile #greek #enterpreneurship

How To Animate Your Twitter Avatar #twitter #howto

Etsy Funds Hacker School in Order to Create More Female EngineersAllThingsD #etsy #hackers #makers #female

facebook for wordpress (plugin) #wordpress #facebook

The good guys win in the end | the drachma startup #startups #greece

May 2012 | 11 posts

I Was a Member of Centropy, The World’s Leading Movie Piracy Group | TorrentFreak

# #facebook #ipo #user value

IconsParadise - Download Free Icons, Icon sets, Desktop Icons #icons #design

Seattle Rex vs. Apple: The Verdict Is In | Seattle Rex

The Geeks Who Saved Prince of Persia's Source Code From Digital Death | Game|Life | Wired.com

Going from $0 to $500k in 1 Year with no VC Money

How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet #flickr #yahoo #startups

Judge: An IP-Address Doesn’t Identify a Person (or BitTorrent Pirate) | TorrentFreak #bittorent #digital rights

Why Flickr & Pinterest Need Each Other #flickr #pinterest

Detroit Lives – Johnny Knoxville explores the new D | Documentary.net - Watch the best free documentaries online #urban #makers

YQL and The Pirate Bay | Terence Eden has a Blog #thepiratebay #torrents

April 2012 | 18 posts

Automattic Grows Up: The Company Behind WordPress.com Shares Revenue Numbers and Hires Execs - Liz Gannes - News - AllThingsD #automattic #wordpress #open source #business

# #printers #tiny-printer #hacks

A stylesheet author's guide to terminal colors - Journal #command line

The IPA is a new way to do patent assignment that keeps control in the hands of engineers and designers. It is a commitment from Twitter to ... #patents #twitter #ipa

CloudFactory: Online Work for One Million People #startups #cloudfactory

Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin #google #open web #facebook #apple #government

Academic spring: how an angry maths blog sparked a scientific revolution | Science | The Guardian

Firebase - A scalable real-time backend for your website #firebase #db #cloud

Caine’s Arcade (by Nirvan Mullick). A 9 year old boy - who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto part store - is ... #makers

Setting up a virtual pbx with Twilio, OpenVBX and PHP Fog #pbx #openvbx #twilio

Computer Legend and Gaming Pioneer Jack Tramiel Dies at Age 83 — www.forbes.com — Readability #peoplr #jack tramiel #commodore #atari

Viacom v. YouTube ruling is a bummer for Google and the UGC community #youtube #viacom #legal #digital rights #ugc

Pica Pic | retro handheld games collection #retro #games #handheld

Tor traffic disguised as Skype video calls to fool repressive governments #activism #digital rights #skype

Trying to Inject Entrepreneurship Into the Greek Economy - NYTimes.com #greece #startups

Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and _why: The disappearance of one of the world’s most beloved computer programmers. - Slate Magazine #infosuicide

Twitter hoaxer comes clean and says: I did it to expose weak media | Technology | guardian.co.uk #social media #news #twitter

Google Maps 8-bit for NES - April Fools 2012 #april1

March 2012 | 49 posts

Richard Clarke on Who Was Behind the Stuxnet Attack #cyberwar #usa #iran

Battlemesh V5 is starting! (by Saverio Proto) #hackers #battlemesh

curator's ǝpoɔ #web #ethics #curation

Are conversations better when they are open or closed? — Tech News and Analysis #comments #blogging #branch

Pair Hits 50K Downloads, 1M Messages in 4 Days #social networks #pair

Eightbit.Me is 8-Bit Foursquare: Link Would Have Checked In Ganon’s Castle | Official .ME Registry blog #location #retro #8-bit

The Secret Magic of Alonnisos - Teaser (by Costas Kalogiannis) #greece #video

"The Future of Work": A cross-country quest aboard the RVIP by Thor Muller & Lane Becker — Kickstarter #future #work #makers #innovators #startups

Google Docs Dumps the Dictionary for the Whole Web #google #spell checking

Picnik is closing on April 19, 2012. - Picnik Help #picknik #closing

# #scalability #amazon #google

# #hacks #makers #arduino #eye-fi

Rogers’ “Cybersecurity” Bill Is Broad Enough to Use Against WikiLeaks and The Pirate Bay | Electronic Frontier Foundation #digital rights #wikileaks #thepiratebay

How The Copyright Industry Drives A Big Brother Dystopia | TorrentFreak #copyrights

Did you know that vital parts of the US law are secret, and you’re only allowed to read them if you pay a standards body thousands of ... #law #copyright #rights #democracy

Ninja Blocks | Building blocks for the Internet of Things #hardware #makers #open source #ninja blocks

A new target for tech patent trolls: cash-strapped American cities

The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) | Threat Level | Wired.com

# #makers

$3 Million Kickstarter Campaign Breaks Fundraising Records #kickstarter #crowdfunding #games

I Hope Yahoo Crushes Facebook in its Patent Suit #patents #yahoo #facebook

Android Design - Typography

Paper Apps (by Uniform) —via TNW. #ideas #innovation #paper

Posterous is Joining the Flock at Twitter - The Official Posterous Space #posterous #twitter

PirateBox Takes File-Sharing Off The Radar and Offline, For Next To Nothing | TorrentFreak #file sharing

# #makers

Kinect Makes Yelling At Mass Effect 3 Actually Work (by wired) #gaming #ui #kinect

It's The Battle Of The Read It Later Apps!

Flickr is breaking the web | Dominic Sayers #flickr #dmca #links #web

Daily Secret Raises $1.85 Million from U.S. Backers #startups #dailysecret

P2P Dropbox Competitor Space Monkey Wins Launch, Has Already Raised $750K #cloud #storage #dropbox

Open Source Speakers find Homes in Mason Jars #makers

Jonas' Tumblr: Apple iPhoto maps use OpenStreetMap and public domain data #openstreetmap

The Story of Keep Calm and Carry On (by BarterBooksLtd) #history #design

Web Intents #web #api

SoundCloud Moves Toward Email Marketing With Its Latest Labs Feature #music

Clearly people care about Facebook; they care about the platform that connects them to people they love: their friends and their ... #facebook

# #security #hackers

my Path (February - work in progress) (by Constantin Pilavios) #creators #pilavios

Greek Artist Uses Path to Remember #pilavios #creators

How We're Going to Fix Online Identity and Reputation #hypothes.is #ideas

Introducing Journey – The Unofficial Path Client for OS X #path #osx

The League of Moveable Type #typography

Censorship is inseparable from surveillance | Technology | guardian.co.uk #privacy #cory doctorow #digital rights

Morris.js #javascript #graphs #open source

Foursquare Says Farewell to Google Maps, Joins OpenStreetMaps Movement #maps #foursquare #openstreetmap

Reddit switching to Transifex for agile localization #transifex #startups #reddit

Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years #insects

Free your technical aesthetic from the 2010s: A rejection of the rejection of the 1970s. #history #developers

February 2012 | 101 posts

Kauffman Sketchbook - “Make It Happen” (by KauffmanFoundation) #makers

Venture Capital for the 99% #startups #croudfunding

23 Beautiful Examples of Web Site Archives #design

The Raspberry Pi Launch #rasberry pi #hardware #makers

How Red Hat killed its core product—and became a billion-dollar business #redhat #linux #business

Like Instapaper, but for Developers #instapaper #api #clear read

Meet Hekyll, Markdown Presentations for Hackers #impress.js #jekyll #presentations

Scripting News: Another look at Dropbox #dropbox #cloud

Yahoo Stabs Facebook In The Back, Says Pay For Its Patents Or Get Sued | TechCrunch #patent wars #patents

Dropbox Can Now Automatically Sync Your Android Photos (And It Has More Up Its Sleeve) | TechCrunch #dropbox #cloud #sync

Pinterest Becomes Top Traffic Driver for Women's Magazines #pinterest #social media

Telefonica working with Mozilla to build open Web-centric smartphone #mozilla #telefonica #mobile #open

EFF to European Parliament: Protect Coders’ Rights | Electronic Frontier Foundation #digital rights #eff #hacking #eu

2 New Platforms Offer Alternative to Apple's Textbook-Authoring Software - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education #ebook

Facebook Shakes Hardware World With Own Storage Gear | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com #hardware #facebook #open compute

We’ll Handle Google And Apple, Mr. President; You Worry About SOPA, PCFIPA, ACTA, And Big Media | TechCrunch #sopa #pipa #acta #digital rights

HTTP Status Codes #http

Michael Geist - Why Canada Does Not Belong on the U.S. Piracy Watchlist #copyrights

# #robots

Dirty words of 1811 - Boing Boing #retro

Ubuntu Desktop Running On Android #android #ubuntu #mobile #linux

"Unethical" HTML video copy protection proposal draws criticism from W3C reps #html5 #drm #google #microsoft #netflix

Who Can Profit from Selling 1-Cent Books on Amazon? Robots. - Business - GOOD #amazon #bots #inspiration

The Transifex Joint: Selected for PyCon Startup Row #transifex

# #mobile #android #ubuntu #open source

The Story Behind the Olympus Scandal - Businessweek

How Wikimedia Uses Nimsoft to Keep Track of Uptime

Trans-Pacific Partnership Proposes Copyright Suppression of Price Competition #copyrights #acta

Yandex, Google’s Russian Rival, Is Twitter’s New Real-Time Search Partner | TechCrunch #twitter #yandex

The cloud in numbers. Plotted. – Qloudstat #cloud #s3 #rackspace #akamai #analytics

Hurdles Remain Before College Classrooms Go Completely Digital #education

ACTA is part of a multi-decade, worldwide copyright campaign

How A Computer Scientist Tried To Save Greece : Planet Money : NPR #greece #politics #economy

How-To: Automated incremental daily backups to Amazon S3 using Duplicity | cenolan.com #howto #backup #s3

Google Says 62% of Restaurant Searches Were Mobile on Valentine's Day #mobile #stats

BRAIN SCAN: How to make (almost) anything | The Economist #makers #3d priniting

One Per Cent: Twitter shows chatting doesn't have to be political

BrailleTouch keyboard allows typing on a phone without looking #ui #braille #mobile

The DIY 'Maker Movement' Meets the VCs - Businessweek

Cinemagram - a fun and beautiful way to animate your photos. #ios app

The New Interface Is There Is No interface #ui #mobile

YES! Congress isn’t killing white spaces broadband before it’s born — Broadband News and Analysis

How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did

Everything is a Remix Part 4 (by Kirby Ferguson) Our system of law doesn’t acknowledge the derivative nature of creativity. Instead, ideas ...

Gnip Is First Authorized Reseller of Historical Twitter Data

Twitter Begins Self-Serve Ad Sign-Ups, Offers $100 In Free Advertising | TechCrunch

It was totally predictable that Apple would move in the direction they’re moving. And of course it was predicted here, to which Apple ... #open web #digital rights

However, this is all temporary, something to smooth us over. In Mac OS X 10.9, the master switch and force-install will be ever harder to ... #osx #digital rights

Facebook Launches Verified Accounts and Pseudonyms

Tipue Search, a jQuery site search engine

asciiflow - a WYSIWYG editor to draw ASCII diagrams and drawings on the web

Metrica

Apple PR’s dirty little secret | ZDNet

The problem is that most “exciting new company” lore is intermingled with that of Startup Culture™. This means it’s hard to find your ...

BRYCE DOT VC: Rise of the Independents

DuckDuckGo received over 1 million direct searches for the first time

HackFwd Blog: Europe Embraces Entrepreneurship

Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing

EFF: Tens of thousands of websites' SSL "offers effectively no security" - Boing Boing

Michael sez, “The Open 3DP lab at UW has been doing some amazing things with 3D printing. More amazingly, they have prioritized ...

Last Monday, I sat down to hack. After a few hours, I open sourced the code. By the end of the week, it had 1,000 watchers and 70 forks on ...

Pinterest: Everything You Wanted to Know About 2012's Hottest Startup

Glisse.js is a simple, responsive and fully customizable jQuery photo viewer. You’ll like the transitions between two pictures ...

My opinion is that caps make little technical sense, and I believe that the fundamental reason for capping is to prevent disruption of the ...

It’s too late for Dave Winer and John Battelle to save the common web — Scobleizer

MAKE | Soapbox: The {Unspoken} Rules of Open Source Hardware

MakiBox A6 $300 Desktop 3D Printer | Dangerous Prototypes

Kindle Touch breakthrough: Startup debuts handwriting recognition in puzzle book - GeekWire

Scripting News: The tech press is alive!

How to create a visualization - O'Reilly Radar

In the latest roundup of data from job site Dice.com, based on survey responses from employers, Linux skills are emerging as one of the ...

telnet "towel.blinkenlights.nl" # Crowded at the movies tonight? Take your sweetheart to see Star Wars instead. Do it in IPv6. #source:twitter

PressBooks: online δημιουργία ebooks και τυπωμένων βιβλίων με βάση το #WordPress http://t.co/Nm3vzW7S #ebookgr @hughmcguire #source:twitter

Soon The Pirate Bay will stop linking to .torrent files. Instead, the world’s largest BitTorrent site will only list so-called magnet ...

A way to print Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips right onto paper has been discovered by a team of scientists from University of ...

WePay is growing by 30 percent each month and says it has a multimillion dollar run rate, though it won’t share specific numbers on its ...

Google confirmed today that its users in Iran are being blocked by a new regulation against access to secure browsing, or HTTPS websites. ...

STBI 4Square WiFi video by buliding43

If you missed it ☞ Amazing vintage children's book by Umberto Eco explores semiotics through abstract symbols http://t.co/EBVnOpfv #source:twitter

The Pirate Bay To Delete BitTorrents Feb. 29 - New York News - Runnin' Scared

curl is the ultimate Swiss Army Knife for HTTP. Switchboard aims to be the same for XMPP.

Tinycon - Favicon Alert Bubbles

Did you make something the world should know about? Share the tutorial on the Make: Projects wiki. http://t.co/Sk77UlJz #source:twitter

Iran Blocks HTTPS, Cutting Off Gmail, Yahoo and Other Major Sites

A Proposal to Fix Online Identity: http://t.co/fL7REJQT #source:twitter

"Why would VEVO pirate content? Because it was easier than getting it legally." http://t.co/c1Ot8KTA #source:twitter

Cathode: A terminal app for mac that looks really cool: http://t.co/CceLT5x7 #source:twitter

A new academic paper by researchers from the University of Minnesota and Wellesley College has examined the link between BitTorrent ...

Origami Robots Run Only on Air | Wired Science | Wired.com

Zynga partners with toy maker Hasbro

I’m writing this to report the serious troubles we have regarding accessing Internet in Iran at the moment. Since Thursday Iranian ...

GitHub Wants to Teach Kids to Code with the First US CoderDojo http://t.co/0WKuG9lY #source:twitter

Αγάπη και θαυμασμός στο Twitter

Ouch! W3C: Apple & Google causing open web crisis http://t.co/9LnK6wIC #html5 #chrome #safari #html5 #css3 http://t.co/cH03BT1X #source:twitter

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