"attaboys" entries

I love this remix of Apple's "Here's to the Crazy Ones" ad over a scrolling display of third-party iPhone apps: (Found here, which also has the original ad.) Apple has previously hinted that they went after Hymn and similar iTunes-hacking projects not because they cared themselves, but because they were contractually obliged to by the studios providing them with music….

Mark Finkle has been pushing out builds of WebRunner, a Mozilla-based tool for running a standalone application with a single web site in it (a.k.a, a "Site-Specific Browser"), for some time now, but WebRunner 0.7, released today for Windows, Mac, and Linux, is ready for its close-up. I use WebRunner for Google Reader. I double-click a .webapp file which launches…

Jason Kottke seems to have decided this week to empty a full clip of silver bullets into the just-stilled heart of the New York Times' ill-conceived TimesSelect subscription service. He's been digging through the now-free archives of the Times, finding treasures and blogging the hell out of them. Earlier this week, he celebrated the first day of free archive access…

Google had an interesting blogging problem last week. A post to the Google Health Advertising blog by Lauren Turner stirred up a lot of backlash when it claimed Michael Moore’s new movie Sicko "portrays the industry as money and marketing driven, and fails to show healthcare’s interest in patient well-being and care"–and then went on to solicit Google ads to…

Jackson Fish Market, which I've mentioned on Radar before, has just launched They're Beautiful, a virtual flower delivery service where the flowers slowly die if you don't water them. Here's their write-up about the new project. I've thought that virtual, degrading objects are interesting for a while now. While I was working on starwars.com, it was always frustrating to me…

I've really been liking the blog over at Satisfaction, the as-yet-unlaunched new company from Adaptive Path veteran Lane Becker and others. I liked what they had to say today about the Digg Revolt: Beware of business decisions that masquerade as legal issues. You’ll be tempted to defer to your lawyer’s advice. And it’s a good bet your lawyer’s instincts will…

Matt Haughey of Metafilter fame has just launched fortuitous, a site about everything he's learned setting up and running a business around his blogging empire. I'm biased in favor of Matt since he's a friend and a great guy, but he's also incredibly thoughtful and forthright — his 2003 essay Blogging for Dollars, for instance, was so good it became…

FeedBurner CEO Dick Costolo's new blog, Ask the Wizard, is turning into a fantastic resource for entrepreneurs. If you're an entrepreneur or thinking about becoming one, go read the whole thing and subscribe. Nice work, Dick!…

Apropos of NOTHING AT ALL, you can now get Bay Area earthquake information through Twitter by following sfearthquakes. Nice, Coda! (Coda's had a busy week — he also backed up a righteous beat-down with code to fix it. I like working with people who are hilarious and right at the same time.) One of my favorite business model suggestions for…

Mark Fletcher, founder of Bloglines (now owned by Ask) and OneList (now owned by Yahoo, as Yahoo Groups) has just launched Startupping, a community site for entrepreneurs. The site has blog posts, forums, and a wiki for entrepreneurs to share information about starting a company and what to do next. To kick the site off, Mark has asked a bunch…