My Faves for Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Hutchison leads in new county exec poll, Constantine second

Wow. Susan Hutchison is polling VERY HIGH for King County executive - and we're just two weeks from getting our ballots in the mail.

I'm friends with both Susan Hutchison and Ross Hunter. Though I would say, Ross has much more relevant government/political experience. We love him as our state rep - and he's become one of the top leaders there. It pains me that he's down at 6% (at the bottom of the pack).

Quoted: Former KIRO-TV news anchor Susan Hutchison holds onto lead in latest SurveyUSA poll for King 5 news.

[tags: seattle, king county, politics, ross hunter, susan hutchison]

Scalien - Keyspace

A key-value replicated/distributed database.

[tags: replication, database, keys, distributed systems, open source]

Project Tuva: Enhanced Video Player Home - Microsoft Research

Awesome lectures by Feynman - now online using Silvertlight (Microsoft Research hosted site)

Quoted: Microsoft Research’s Project Tuva explores core scientific concepts and theories through presenting timeless videos with transcripts, relevant links and references, and interactive extras.

Git - Fast Version Control System

Quoted: Home of the Git Version Control System and Friends

[tags: git, source control, svn, cvs]

YouTube - Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git

I actually didn't know that GIT was Linus's project. Cool!

Quoted: Linus Torvalds visits Google to share his thoughts on git, the source control management system he created two years ago.

[tags: git, source control, linus torvalds]

Glympse attempts to stand out among location-based services - TechFlash: Seattle's Technology News Source

TechFlash article about Glympse - from May 2009.

[tags: location, mobile, seattle, startups]

Glympse - Share Your Where

New mobile location service (tell people where you are) - first out for Android G1 (t-mobile).

Quoted: Founded in 2008 by Microsoft veterans Bryan Trussel, CEO, Steve Miller, chief architect, and Jeremy Mercer, VP of Engineering.

23515 NE Novelty Hill Road
Suite B221-395
Redmond, WA 98053

[tags: mobile, location, android, g1, seattle, startups]

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My Faves for Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Third-party Python Libraries - Google App Engine - Google Code

Here's how to use Django 1.0 from AppEngine.

from google.appengine.dist import use_library
use_library('django', '1.0')

[tags: django, python, appengine]

app-engine-patch - Google Code

Another django port - supports the django admin interface.

[tags: appengine, django]

EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing

An online real-time multi-user document editor - you can create documents without signing in. Very nicely done.

[tags: collaboration, documents, editing, web services]

Memristor minds: The future of artificial intelligence - tech - 08 July 2009 - New Scientist

An interesting article about the discovery of a new type of electrical device. Based on the equations relating charge and magnetism, Leon Chua deduced that the mathematics of electric circuits was missing an element (one that directly relates charge to magnetic flux) - he dubbed the missing element a memristor.

Now scientists believe they have found a physical device that has this effect ... at nanoscales. The device could have some amazing applications for computation.

Quoted: What connects human intelligence to the unsung cunning of slime moulds? An electric component that no one thought existed, explains Justin Mullins

[tags: science, electronics, memristor, physics, resistor, capacitor, inductor]

Llewtube | British Video Podcast

Robert Llewellyn interviews guests in his car on his commute. It's actually a cool looking show (under 30 minutes each week) - with multiple cameras high quality audio recording.

Smart guests too!

[tags: podcasts, video, car pool]

Aviary - Screen Capture

Aviary is a pretty amazing service. Just type "aviary.com/" in front of any URL in your browser. They will visit that page, and take a screen capture for you. You can then edit it, etc.

They also have a firefox plugin for making screen captures locally.

I don't know if they have an API - which would be really cool to use this from other services.

[tags: screen capture, web services]

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My Faves for Monday, July 13, 2009

Web Analytics in Real Time | Clicky

Quoted: Clicky Web Analytics is simply the best way to monitor, analyze, and react to your blog or web site's traffic in real time.

[tags: realtime, analytics]

Heroku | How it Works

A multi-tenant application platform, much like AppEngine, for Rails applications.

[tags: rails, ruby, hosting, appengine]

Bernie Utz Hats - Downtown - Seattle, WA

The best men's hat store in Seattle.

[tags: seattle, hats]

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My Faves for Sunday, July 12, 2009

Recipes « ActiveState Code

A bunch of code samples (in a variety of languages).

[tags: python, programming]

Utility Mill - Makes Utilities

Run small snippets of Python code through a hosted RESTful API.

Quoted: Rapid application development for web utilities using Python

[tags: python, utilities, hosted]

AppJet Inc.

A server-side javascript framework

[tags: javascript, framework, etherpad, mitch kapor]

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My Faves for Friday, July 10, 2009

deconcept » You’ve got your good thing, and I’ve got mine » SWFObject: Javascript Flash Player detection and embed script

Quoted: SWFObject is a small Javascript file used for embedding Adobe Flash content. The script can detect the Flash plug-in in all major web browsers (on Mac and PC) and is designed to make embedding Flash movies as easy as possible. It is also very search engine friendly, degrades gracefully, can be used in valid HTML and XHTML 1.0 documents*, and is forward compatible, so it should work for years to come.

[tags: flash, javascript, embed]

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My Faves for Thursday, July 09, 2009

TheFunded.com: The Resource for Entrepreneurs.

Quoted: TheFunded.com allows entrepreneurs to research, rate, and review venture capital sources worldwide.

[tags: entrepreneur, angel, vc, startups]

Online Invitations, party planning and event management from pingg

Looks like a great alternative to eVite.

Quoted: pingg offers consumers, professional and businesses stylish online invitation creation, event management, guest list creation and event reporting services. With pingg you get the look and feel of traditional print invitations with the convenience and utility of an online invitation and event management service.

[tags: invitations, design, web services]

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My Faves for Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Logotournament.com

Quoted: Get the logo that you really want by choosing from 50-200+ custom designs, instead of settling on a design from a handful of options that a traditional design firm provides.

[tags: design, marketing, logo, outsourcing]

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