☯ @zeb
“That is a kind of cultural shift. It’s not ‘I love to read the Style section,’ it’s ‘I love all the LOL stuff.’”
—Jonah Peretti, in Taking Web Humor Seriously, Sort Of - NYTimes.com (via rickwebb) (via lolzllc)
September 2010
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Google has created a new image format called WebP →
blog.chromium.org
Compression is based on the same VP8 video codec that Google bought and open sourced back in May. They claim a 39% reduction in file sizes without a noticeable drop in quality. They’re working on a patch to bring native support to WebKit and will add alpha channel transparency later.
Certainly sounds promising.
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Stoked for @runkeeper to get @foursquare badges #qs #gamely →
blog.foursquare.com
We love when people tweet about dragging themselves to the gym to earn the Gym Rat badge, or about trying a new restaurant hoping to unlock the Pizzaiolo badge. Encouraging real-world actions is a big part of the mission behind foursquare. We’re also aware that some of those behaviors…
listening to "Punches - Feeling Right" →
blip.fm
Diggin’ this track
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The Donettes - Shut Your Mouth
The Donettes
Listening to The Donettes - Shut Your Mouth
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foursquare: Introducing foursquare 2.0: Tips + To-Dos + Add to foursquare + More! →
blog.foursquare.com
UPDATE: Whoa guys! Servers are melting from all the excitement. We’ll be rolling out the new 2.0 features over the coming days.
When we started foursquare, we dreamed it would be much more than check-ins. We really wanted to build tools that would help people collect and share their real-world…
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