Mashups are hot at the moment so I thought I would share on of my favorites with you. Its called: Spell with Flickr.
Essentially, what this mashup does is let you spell words with pictures of letters that can be found on flickr. Its pretty cool because when you get letters you [...]
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eBay Identity Thieves Are Out There
Google isnt the only tech company that needs to watch out for fraud. Check out something we all knew was happening on eBay. It seems funny though that with all the phishing going on that we dont here more about this.
It was a six-man gang, they sent e-mails claiming to [...]
Is the DaVinci Code Plagiarism?
Dan Brown goes to court tomorrow to defend himself against claims of plagiarism. It is alleged that Brown stole his plot for the DaVinci Code from a non-fiction work called The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail written by two British historians.
Normally, Im not so interested in novels but this is one of the [...]
Emily Chang Gets It!
If you havent had a chance to read Emily Changs post entitled: Design 2.0: Minimalism, Transparency, and You then you need to. In it she does an amazing job identifying and outlining the historical significance of what she calls Design 2.0. My favorite part of her post is where she amalgamates all [...]
Bloggers Seem to Like Vision
Here is what bloggers have been saying about Vision…
Shopify is a new e-commerce framework that, I believe, will put all the others to shame immediately after itâs launched â itâs that amazing. Shopify is based on Ruby on Rails and has the most extensible theming system Iâve ever seen on any web application before, [...]
Vision is Great for Business…
Today Jaded Pixel released Vision and if youre a web-designer you really should be involved in this…
Vision is a downloadable tool which runs a virtual instance of Shopify right on your computer. Its strength is that it lets you create themes without all the hassles of having to install web and database servers [...]
Digglicious – I digg it!
If your a fan of digg.com or del.icio.us you should check out DiggLicious.com. Essentially this site pits both Digg and del.icio.us against each other showing a live feed of cross-references of items from both sites. Its pretty cool.
Google Dumps Pop-up
I wrote about Google’s annoying chat popup in an earlier post and today they finally fixed it. One has to wonder how a company that smart can make a mistake that big. Lets hope it was just one of those things. You can read more about it on Googling Google.
Great Friday Night (No Tech Required)
Yesterday, I took two friends from NYC cross-country skiing up to Keogan Cabin in Gatineau Park. How this usually works is on a friday or saturday night people cross-country ski into the woods about 3km to an cabin that only has a wood stove. Once you arrive, you pick a table then proceed to [...]
Jaded Pixel Caught Up in Media Frenzy
Jaded Pixel got some serious ink in the Ottawa Citizen’s Tech Weekly section today. In total, its a three page story detailing Tobi’s success with Typo and other open source projects, as well as the work we are doing with Jaded Pixel. If you’d like to read the whole story you can check it out [...]
Canada's Hockey Blogs
If your as addicted to Canadian Olympic Hockey as I am you are going to love this. CBC is sponsoring live blogging of all Team Canada Games (Men and Women). Unfortunately they were not smart enough to have a link to a single page that lists all the blogs, instead you have to go [...]
Sexy Blog Nation – It's Whats Hot Now!
Ok, so what if this article has been mentioned by every blogger in the world by now, it’s still a great look at the world of blogging. The article is entitled: Blogs to Riches: The Haves and Have-Nots of the Blogging Boom and it is in this week’s issue of New York Magazine (see [...]
Congressmen Kicks Internet Giants Asses
Rep. Tom Lantos, the co-chairman of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus put the boots to Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and Cisco today during Congressional hearings into those companie’s business practices in China. The transcript of the session proves to be great reading and none of the companies involved come off looking that good. [...]
Battelle's Views on the "Whole China Thing"
John Battelle just posted a great article regarding the whole Google, Yahoo, Microsoft issue with China and the US Congress. It’s entitled Never Poke a Dragon While It’s Eating and I highly recommend reading it. I also highly recommend his book “The Search” if you haven’t read it yet.
Yahoo and Starbucks Both Want Into China – But at What Price?
Sorry but this doesn’t make much sense to me. On one side, Yahoo is making strong statements in support of an unrestricted internet just prior to their apperance in front US Congressional hearing. On the other side, Yahoo is accused of providing information to Chinese authorities that led to the jailing of two [...]
The Best Google News this Year
OK for anyone who has had Google talk “turned on” on in Gmail this week you will thank me for this post. Now, with Gmail Talk turned on, every time you hover your mouse over someone’s name in your inbox, you get an ANNOYING pop-up menu that asks you if you want to chat [...]
Showdown at Ning…
I read in Wiredblogs that Marc Andressen of Netscape fame has gotten himself into some trouble with the local militant bloggers in California, after making the following comments regarding his dislike for customers of his company Ning.
“Ideally we’ll never meet any of our customers. We actually had to take the sign down from our front [...]
Next OGRE Meeting is Feb. 22nd at 7pm…
The format of this month’s Ottawa Group of Ruby Enthusiasts meeting will be a little different.
This month the meeting will start the jaded Pixel offices where Craig Fitzpatrick from Devshop.com will be giving us a sneak peak at a his new web-based project management tool that is being launched this summer. Craig’s big bold claim [...]
Why is Everyone Out to Get Mike Arrington?
If you’re an avid reader of TechCrunch or Crunchnotes you’ll know what I’m talking about. Doesn’t it seem like everyone is out to get Mike Arrington these days.
First, there were the scathing comments that followed his review of Tello’s communications strategy entitled: “Tello – Good Product, Dumb Strategy?” To give you an example, here [...]
Amazing Weekend at Art on Ice
This past weekend was the annual Art on Ice exhibit that happens on the Rideau Canal. For those of you that don’t know, the Rideau Canal freezes every winter and becomes the longest skating rink in the world. In any case, every year Christopher Griffin organizes this great art show and he did [...]