Re: Mar 09 by choonkeat

Get Satisfaction, Or Else... - (37signals)

Google searches for “[COMPANY NAME ] support” will end up linking people to a Get Satisfaction page. If that’s not the offical support home for that company, who winds up winning? It’s not the company. It’s not the customer. It’s really only in the best interest of Get Satisfaction. ^{link »}

We shouldn’t be forced to scour the internet finding sites that claim they are doing support for us when th ey’re not. ^{link »}

Lastly, if you don’t want your competitor’s ads showing up on your (un)official Get Satisfaction support page, that’ll cost you a minimum of $1200/year . ^{link »}

Gosh, we messed up on the wording of that badge and are changing it pronto. ^{link »}

This was just unfortunate phrasing (one small part of an ongoing redesign effort), and doesn’t reflect our values ^{link »}

PEP 374 -- Migrating from svn to a distributed VCS

PEP: 374 Title: Migrating from svn to a distributed VCS ^{link »}

ProjectPlan - unladen-swallow - Plans for optimizing Python - Google Code

Brandon Aaron : Special Events

Why is Git so Fast?

People make fun of those with NIH Syndrome , but my observation is that folks who suffer from this disorder tend to create faster software, even if they also tend to ship everything late. :-) ^{link »}

The Technium: 1,000 True Fans

Fundable is a web-based enterprise which allows anyone to raise a fixed amount of money for a project, while reassuring the backers the project will happen. Fundable withholds the money until the full amount is collected. They return the money if the minimum is not reached. ^{link »}

Twitter / Jesse Newland: set :repository, '.' set ...

My Manhattan Project

BetaWorks Raises Around $2M for Bit.ly, Spins It Out

Betaworks has been actively building and or investing in Twitter-specific products; it sold the Twitter-focused search engine, Summize, to Twitter last year . Since then Betaworks has invested in Tweetdeck , a Twitter client built with Adobe AIR. ^{link »}

Hash Train ~ Rails and SSL

50 Extremely Useful And Powerful CSS Tools | CSS | Smashing Magazine

Streaming games players emerging from the clouds | Tech News on ZDNet

Ap parently he was planning on holding out until E3. Gaikai offers a similar service, except without the MicroConsole aspect that OnLive has(or at least until Perry says they have a little box as well). GaiKai calls their service Streaming Worlds and it only requires a web browser with Flash installed. ^{link »}