Picnik.com to close
I’m so bummed about Picnik closing.
It’s one of the few web tools that I happily paid for to get access to the extra features. I made the wedding program and menu documents using the tool. Great tool, easy to use, tons of features, and now it’s closing.
It will still be usable after it officially closes, as a feature add to Google+. Google acquired them about 2 years ago.
Thanks for fucking nothing Microsoft Google.
When is twitter going to fix this? When are we going to get that “historical” archive of all tweets and tweets that branched out from tweets and “@” reply conversations? Ever press a twitter button with a tweet count next to it, and when the page pulls up, there are no where near the amount of tweets that were shown on the number?
It’s annoying and I wish we’d all give twitter more flack for it. I feel like ever since they moved beyond the fail whale, they’ve gotten a free pass.
Oh, and I wish they would secretly cutoff Klout’s API access.
Posterous Swaps Blog Platform for Social Network
From the article, emphasis is mine:
Instead of proffering users a blogging platform or a groups product, Posterous has become its own bona fide social network — a Facebook with an emphasis on private sharing or a Google with Spaces instead of Circles, if you will. You may even see a strong resemblance to Tumblr, though Posterous might fight you on that comparison.
“We’re building this for normal users,” says Agarwal. “This is how normal users want to share.”
What does that even mean?
This is cool. Google Calender’s favicon now updates with today’s date.
Source: gmailblog.blogspot.com
Amazon Cloud Drive
I want to like it a lot more than I do.
I’ve been dying for something like this. A cloud-based music storage system that’s affordable and available anywhere. No more wondering if I saved that purchase at home or work. No more getting to work and wishing I had songs I had left at home. No more Pandora. I seriously almost dropped the $50 for 50 gigs before even testing it.
Glad I did not.
You can’t just point to a folder and have the entire folder uploaded. Same with your Windows 7 libraries. This means that all that work you did keeping your music collection organized in Artist -> Album folders means much more work as you have to navigate to every MP3 in every album to upload it.
Also, unlike Dropbox, there is no desktop software for keeping your files synchronized. Unless you buy your tracks from Amazon.com, you’ll still have to manually upload each new track you buy.
Your playlists are out too. There’s no tool to import your existing playlists, so you’ll have to re-create them in Amazon’s music player.
Finally, I’m sure the web app will work on all smartphones, but so far, the dedicated app is for Android only. I’m used to this kind of stuff though. I use WebOS. UPDATE: Your phone needs to support flash to use the player in your smartphone browser.
Anyone else check it out. Am I missing anything?
Just build something that you’d want to use today, not something you think people could use somehow.
- Paul Graham
Source: startupquote
If everything you do works, then you’re not taking many risks and probably aren’t innovating either.
- Paul Buchheit
My new excuse come our upcoming launch.
Source: startupquote
Official Google Blog: Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results - and denies it
Wow.
Edit: Y’all know that, as of late last year, Yahoo! search is powered by Bing, right?(via biorhythmist)
Double wow.
Source: everythinginthesky
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From Things Real People Don’t Say About Advertising
Thanks Thinklynsen.
Source: tpdsaa
Source: adamiss
Seriously, what is Yahoo thinking? On what planet is this cool? On what planet will this make people want to use Yahoo products more often?
Source: Yahoo!
Just noticed this. Very sweet. Nintendo.com is using 8-bit Mario as an icon.
From a practical point of view, it will be as if we are simply adding one person to the organizational hierarchy, except that one person will just happen to be a billion-dollar company that could buy and sell each and every one of you like you were office furniture.
Source: Mashable
The Webclock shows you the time alongside a piece of text taken from a random website featuring that time.
This is cool.
Source: everythinginthesky
