Lost in the last week’s reporting around the new Apple Maps app in iOS 6 has been one salient fact: Google Maps continues to be available to all iOS users at maps.google.com . It’s the same Google Maps that iOS users have grown to know and love, with the exception of Street View. And ...
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What's with the Wolfram|Alpha Control Room? 2009-05-18 There’s no doubt about it, the launch of Wolfram|Alpha has been truly strange. There’s the technology itself. All answers get rendered as images, even when they don’t need to be . It doesn’t handle obvious errors very well . They ...
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We launched Upworthy 99 days ago on March 26. We started as a company two months earlier on January 30. There were various news stories written about us as the team was being built , as we launched , and a month after we launched . Read those if you’re not familiar with our story. Wha...
The computer on your desk. The computer in your hand. And the computer for the room. The definition of the personal computer is expanding. Ever since the first PCs appeared on the market in the 1970’s, computers have been things we put on our desks. Even the laptop, renamed the notebo...
Protect Yourself with Password Recipes 2010-12-14 Are you now more wary about your passwords after the Gawker incident? Good. The lesson is simple: if you supply a password to a website, expect it to get stolen. Malicious hackers succeed at getting user passwords all the time. And use...
Actually, Social Media Buttons Work Really Well 2012-05-31 Yesterday, an epic rant against social media buttons titled Sweep the Sleaze made its rounds on the Web. The gist: Don’t bombard your audience with buttons to share stuff on social networks. Instead, make good content that the...
Developer Happiness and MongoDB 2012-05-23 MongoDB continues to be the most popular of the NoSQL data stores, and it continues to generate disgruntled blog posts from former users. I’ve been using MongoDB since the summer of 2009, and my experiences have been consistently positive. In...
Stop Using the text-indent:-9999px CSS Trick 2010-05-25 The usage of text-indent:-9999px to display a site logo or other image while hiding text should be avoided. It’s a technique used by web spammers trying to game search engines like Google, and is considered spammy behavior. Inste...
There has been a furious storm around Google’s new Search, Plus Your World features. The hubbub is centered around a complaint by Twitter that links shared on Twitter are not surfacing in the search results. Google responded on Google+ with a terse statement: We are a bit surprised by...
