December 2010
22 posts
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8 Keys to Deliberate Practice →
You should also read “10,000 hours” in “Outliers” by Malcom Gladwell. It will be a good read in addition to this.
Updates: Here’s a relevant HBR article on practice being the key to excellence.
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The Progress Bar Illusion →
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How David Blaine Held His Breath →
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What Does a Copywriter Actually Do? →
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Why Yahoo! Should Move To Singapore →
Very interesting idea. Makes a lot sense to me though. Strategize and consolidate all (or more of) their efforts to focus on the Asia population.
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HTML 5 Draft: Hyperlink Auditing and how it will... →
In the proposed draft of HTML 5, hyperlink auditing allows you to “attach” resources to a link which, when clicked, will ping a source(s). This enables the click to be tracked via the desired method e.g. dropping a cookie or sending a HTTP request.
Here’s the link to what’s Hyperlink Auditing in the working draft by WHATWG
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The Best HTML5 Game Yet →
A tower defense strategy game, built purely from HTML5. Neat.
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Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know →
For the geeks out there. You can actually skip to hack #6 instead. The first 5 are pretty standard and trivial.
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Today you.... tomorrow me →
If you haven’t already read this, take a minute and read it.
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Chrome for a Cause →
Another awesome initiative from Google.
Install this chrome extension. Continue your usual browsing activities. Every tab you open raises money for charity. Can’t be any simpler.
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Linking to a specific timestamp of a YouTube video →
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20 OS X Keyboard Shortcuts You Might Not Know →
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“And that’s kind of the crux of our problem with Android in its current...”
– Joshua Topolsky on the issue of inconsistency of copy and paste in his Nexus S review
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Chrome OS PC: More About Personal, Less About... →
The device you use it on is beginning to matter less and less because to some degree, your soul — that is, your personal data — is already living in the cloud.
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The iOS and Android App Economies →
Gruber nails it again:
The differences between the iOS App Store and Android Market are a microcosm of the differences between Apple and Google. Apple is a retailer, a purveyor of well-crafted goods that people will line up to purchase. Google is an advertising company that builds popular services that command large audiences.
There’s a difference in culture — from the platform creators, from...
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Truly Decentralized BitTorrent Downloading Has... →
Tribler’s cutting edge technology allows users to search for torrents and download files without the need for any central server. A revolution, not only for BitTorrent but for P2P in general.
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Chrome Web Store →
An one-stop online marketplace where chrome users can find apps, extensions and themes. This is not exactly very different from the original place where you get your chrome extensions previously. They’ve since gave the place a new cleaner layout, and included an apps section, which are essentially regular webapps or in some cases, regular websites (not exactly optimized for use in Chrome or...
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Facebook’s grand plan for the future →
Another obligatory read on Facebook.
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Viber →
Another VOIP app for the iPhone. But my initial impression of it is that it’s really easy and quick to setup, and making a call is almost brainless. Almost zero, or zero learning curve required. If you know how to use iPhone, you already know how to use Viber. I believe the team behind Viber intentionally made the user interactions and interface closely similar to the regular Phone app, so...