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Ideacodes Launches Save the North Shore
Save the North Shore is a volunteer, non-profit website devoted to preserving the environment and culture of the North Shore, O’ahu, and raising awareness about the proposed expansion plans. This site was…
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Twitterverse Mentioned on Wired
In Idea To Execution: The Team Behind Twitterverse at Wired’s Epicenter blog, Adario Strange writes: “Snooping around the web I found this interesting early idea sketch from the creators of Twitterverse (see…
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“Breakthrough” – A Photo Exhibit
The San Francisco Art Commission (SFAC) and JPG Magazine have teamed up for a show called “Breakthrough: An Amateur Photography Revolution.” Every photo submitted to our Breakthrough theme will be displayed in…
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Emily Chang at Web 2.0 Expo
Ideacodes co-founder Emily Chang will be part of The Hybrid Designer panel at the Web 2.0 Expo, April 15-18, in San Francisco. The Web 2.0 Expo is “an annual gathering of technical,…
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Twitterverse Launches
Ideacodes is pleased to launch our first release of Twitterverse, a mashup and a visualization layer that mines and archives the public timeline of Twitter and provides a visualization of the most…
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Low-budget Mac
“The breakthrough is done, OS X runs on Apple TV!” wrote “Semthex,” the anonymous hacker responsible for the mod, at his website. “Now we got (the) low-budget Mac we ever wanted.” (via…
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EmilyChang.com Reaches Over 25,000 Daily RSS Subscribers
EmilyChang.com, launched in September 2005, has now reached a combined RSS feed total of over 25,000 daily readers. To grab your own feeds from this site, please visit the subscribe page.
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Twitter: Is Brevity The Next Big Thing?
Jack Dorsey has long been obsessed with status. [I’M WRITING THE LEAD TO MY COLUMN] Not in the snob-appeal sense, but status as in “where are you and what are you doing.”…
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Blogger’s code of conduct
In a discussion the other night at O’Reilly’s ETech conference, we came up with a few ideas about what such a code of conduct might entail. These thoughts are just a work…
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Powercast’s technology cuts the electric cord
Powercast and its first major partner, electronics giant Philips, are set to launch their first device powered by electricity broadcast through the air. Powercast’s technology cuts the electric cord
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Keep the Internet neutral, fair and free
Most Americans believe that if you play fair and work hard, you’ll get ahead. But this notion is threatened by legislation passed Thursday night by the U.S. House of Representatives that would…
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Justin.tv
Eleven days ago, 23-year-old Justin Kan was just another no-name startup guy with big dreams of the small screen. Then he and his friends launched Justin.tv, an Internet reality show chronicling their…
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Why to Not Not Start a Startup
We’ve now been doing Y Combinator long enough to have some data about success rates. Our first batch, in the summer of 2005, had eight startups in it. Of those eight, it…
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U.S. “No Longer Technology King”
The US is now ranked seventh in the body’s league table measuring the impact of technology on the development of nations. A deterioration of the political and regulatory environment in the US…
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Top 40 sites according to FeedBurner stats
Thanks to FranticIndustries for including both EmilyChang.com and eHub on his list. FeedBurner is a popular RSS feed manager, with over 600.000 feeds in their roster. One of the advantages it offers…
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Emily Chang at SXSW
Emily Chang is speaking on the Using RSS for Marketing panel at SXSW Interactive on March 11, along with Tom Markiewicz of EvolvePoint, Bill Flitter of Pheedo, John Jantsch of Duct Tape…
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Twitter
The early days of Twitter.
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Business 2.0
Meeting with Josh Quittner and Owen Thomas to discuss a new project.
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One California Street
Meeting with a new client.
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Flickr Turns 3
It’s hard to believe Flickr has only been around for a few years. It seems like I’ve been using it much, much longer than three years. That’s testament to its lure, success,…
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Thoughtful Reduction and the Miniaturization of Expression
As I was designing for a client web application today, I kept living through John Maeda’s first law of simplicity: thoughtful reduction. The goal was to design a new comments system for…
