Bat-Signal Heralds Launch of Internet Defense League. Proud to be a supporter.
Mike Hendrickson, Roger Magoulas, and Tim O’Reilly have a new report on the Economic Impact of Open Source Software, which included one of their findings that “WordPress is a far more important open source product than most people give it credit for. In the SMB hosting market, it is as widely used as MySQL and PHP, far ahead of Joomla and Drupal, the other leading content management systems.”
23 Air Travel Tips From Super Frequent Fliers by Elise Hu, includes two from me.
Thumbs Up: Digg Wasn’t A Failure, It Was A Beginning, by Aubrey Sabala.
In Europe, the Court Shuts Down WordPress Based Pirate Bay Proxy that was running RePress.
An oldie but a goodie: Your New TV Ruins Movies. I’ve been known to do this to TVs of friends and family without telling them.
By selling tickets directly and putting restrictions on them Louis C.K. drops scalping by 96%. This guy is on the very edge, just like VHX is making video sales and distribution available to everyone someone will do the same with this ticketing platform. It’s impressive what a creative mind paired with just a bit of technology can do.
Matt McAlister writes on the The Generosity Strategy after our conversation in London last week.
Well that’s a twist: Megaupload Search Warrants Ruled Illegal by High Court.
Interesting note: WordPress Comes To Chinese Users Via Sina.com’s New Cloud Service, costs CNY1 a month.
Final day in Eygalières
Just puttering around the house and dinner.
Aix-en-Provence
Touring around Aix-en-Provence
Eygalières and Aix-en-Provence
Some biking around Eygalières and dinner in Aix-en-Provence.
Jack Chenge writes on The Slow Web Movement.
Heading to Marseilles and Eygalières
The flight to Marsailles, and touring around that area, finally heading to Eygalières.
It’s a week for coming out of stealth: Livestar, An App For Trusted Recommendations and much more just launched, (an Audrey company). Congrats to Fritz and the team!
I’ve been going retina-happy. It’ll be tricky to do the main graphics of this site (might just be easier to do a new design) but if you visit any of the photos on ma.tt on a retina display you should get double-resolution images, it really shines on photos like this one from South Africa, this one from Napa Valley, or this one from Ethiopia.
VHX has come out of stealth about their funding, it’s a new startup that aims to democratize video distribution, through methods much like Louis CK and Aziz Ansari did those recent online-only special. VHX is an Audrey company.
Some sites, like WordPress, where I’m typing this right now, pushed out retina upgrades right away. The result is amazing. I’m typing this, and it looks like I’m typing out printed words. Text is so crisp.
From MG’s review of the new Retina Macbook Pro. There is more news on the retina-WP front coming soon. My review of the Macbook Pro Retina: best computer I’ve ever used. Amazing screen, great speakers, I’m willing to put up with the extra size and weight after being on 13″ or smaller laptops for… 8 years I think.