It's all about context
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A comment by Lane Becker on Scott Rosenberg's blog... "I've been using Winer's nytimesriver on my iPhone screen for weeks now, and it&#185;s far and away the best interface when you're reading on a mobile device." "Which is the point: it's all about context. It's not either/or, and it's not just different readers wanting different things. sometimes it's the same reader wanting different things at different times, in different situations." Exactly right. I use nytimesriver on my iPhone or Blackberry, but I don't use it on my desktop, where I prefer an interface with more controls. The small screen of a mobile device demands something simpler.  Slowly the word is getting out. I'd like to do it faster. It would be great if the TImes itself looked at this. If they can write about installation art in their lobby, why not tell their readers about a new way of reading Times news on a mobile device?  The Times was a leader in RSS too, but never reported on it. Perhaps there's a blind spot.
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Deconstructing a pretty good joke, and the investment lesson held within.
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com. At Interactive Advertising World in New York City on Monday, ContextWeb Inc. announced the launch of ContextAd, a fully automated, real-time contextual advertising solution.
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Many useful programs take arguments and configuration options. It's easy to add one or two, but as your program grows, the difficulty of allowing configuration concisely and intelligently also grows. Jon Allen demonstrates how to unify argument and configuration processing in a way that lets you write good code and your users get on with their work.
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It offers more than you might have thought.
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Instant messages. Text messages. E-mail. Voicemail. Blogs. Online social networks. And the good old cellphone. If you thought there were enough ways to communicate with others and express yourself, think again.
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The complicated etiquette of saying "Get lost" online.
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What does it all mean, anyway? Some analytics to lay over the Globes.
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Hyperbole is the poetry of marketing. It is designed to capture your attention and tickle your imagination -- to seduce you.
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What you don't say can be as important as what you report. It's all in the delivery.
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A collection of sites with first-person accounts and photos
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What they continue to demonstrate, more than anything else, is an impeccable sense of timing. When to run. When to hit. When to start playing like a tried-and-true
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Plus: Mashups for the masses and HD Video in a Digital Camera.
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By MAY WONG  Instant messages. Text messages. E-mail. Voicemail. Blogs. Online social networks. And the good ol' cell phone. If you thought there were enough ways to communicate with others and express yourself, think again.
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On the SitePoint PHP blog today, Troels Knak-Nielsen has written up an article that talks about dependencies in your applications - those little interconnections your code relies on to do more with less.   In lack of better words, I'll call this compositional programming style. It's a style which is usually more prevalent with experienced programmers. [...] There is, however, a dark side to composition - dependencies.   He starts with a definition to bring everyone up to a level field then moves on to how their used (through a "global symbol" or directly passed in) and how they can "leak" if you're not careful.    To help protect you and your code from any kind of damage down the line, Troels suggests making a container to keep objects where they need to be. He even includes an example with namespace support to make things even easier down the road.
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Here's one way to sort a real growth story from a flash in the pan.
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Opinion Stepping in and taking charge