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The Best Magazine Articles Ever

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:48:53 GMT

http://kk.org/cooltools/the-best-magazi.php

Pay as you go sim with data

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:58:13 GMT

This wiki aims to collect information about pay as you go mobile phone plans from all over the world. Not just any plans though, they must include decent data rates, perfect for iPhone and Android smart phone travellers.

http://paygsimwithdata.wikia.com/wiki/Pay_as_you_go_sim_with_data_Wiki

Aug 24, 2010: Auf der Maur

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:52:16 GMT

20:00–23:59 @ abart (Manessestrasse 170, Zürich)

Shortcut!

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:41:40 GMT

Shortcut!

Lunchen aan het water

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:41:10 GMT

Lunchen aan het water

Rondje Zurichsee op de fiets http://twitpic.com/25j78g

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:39:57 GMT

Rondje Zurichsee op de fiets http://twitpic.com/25j78g

Switzerland is orange today :)

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:16:08 GMT

Switzerland is orange today :)

Zürich - CouchSurfing Wiki

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:52:39 GMT

http://wiki.couchsurfing.com/en/Z%C3%BCrich

Creating cultural change

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:14:40 GMT

O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies.

At Velocity 2010, John Rauser presented four funny and powerful examples of cultural change, from a campaign at his office to get people to fill the coffee pot after taking the last cup, to an award winning advertising campaign. This talk explains how to "sneak past people's mental filters" and make things happen.

RT @ruud_j: Very cool video:

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:31:59 GMT

RT @ruud_j: Very cool video:

Zürisee http://twitpic.com/20iaq6

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:23:20 GMT

Zürisee http://twitpic.com/20iaq6

RT @ph: Slides from my #velocityconf talk on version control are up at http:/...

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:35:10 GMT

RT @ph: Slides from my #velocityconf talk on version control are up at http://phmmnd.me/vcs - looking forward to next year already

Introducing the Google Command Line Tool

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:44:23 GMT

Google Open Source Blog

Ever wanted to upload a folder full of photos to Picasa from a command prompt? We did, a lot, last summer. It made us want to say:

$ google picasa create --title "My album" ~/Photos/vacation/*.jpg

So we wrote a program to do that, and a whole lot more.

GoogleCL is a command-line utility that provides access to various Google services. It streamlines tasks such as posting to a Blogger blog...

Off to the sunny (I hope!) Southside festival.

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:29:31 GMT

Off to the sunny (I hope!) Southside festival.

The usually reserved Swiss are going nuts

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:04:55 GMT

The usually reserved Swiss are going nuts

After 15 years of practice...

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Derek Sivers

Since 14, I was determined to be a great singer. But my pitch was bad, my tone was bad, and everyone said I was just not a At 17, I started taking voice lessons, and practicing two hours every night. I'd go into a soundproof room for two hours of long-tones, scales, arpeggios, and practicing specific song phrases over and

At 18, I started touring, doing two to four shows a...

RT @the_vuvuzela: bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Goal. BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:23:47 GMT

RT @the_vuvuzela: bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Goal. BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

Soccer - Goal Blog - NYTimes.com

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:26:17 GMT

Goal, The New York Times soccer blog, will report on news and features from the world of soccer and around the Web. Times editors and reporters will follow international tournaments and leagues, provide analysis of games and interview players, coaches and notable soccer fans. Readers can discuss Major League Soccer, foreign leagues, World Cup qualifying and other issues with fellow soccer fans.

http://goal.blogs.nytimes.com/

World Cup 2010 Twitter replay

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:23:01 GMT

Follow our high-speed replay of the World Cup and find out how Twitter reacted to every game. Visualization by guardian.co.uk.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/world-cup-match-replay

Kan NOS ophouden elke scheet op Twitter te quoten? Voor mensen die graag Twee...

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:46:42 GMT

Kan NOS ophouden elke scheet op Twitter te quoten? Voor mensen die graag Tweets volgen hebben ze een bepaalde website.

Enjoying vark.com for my "new to Switzerland" questions.

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:11:00 GMT

Enjoying vark.com for my "new to Switzerland" questions.

Tomorrow: RJD2 in Zurich. Let there be horns. http://www.last.fm/music/RJD...

Sat, 22 May 2010 13:57:02 GMT

Tomorrow: RJD2 in Zurich. Let there be horns. http://www.last.fm/music/RJD2/+videos/+1-XVM4glts9FM

Search engine for Internet standards

Sat, 22 May 2010 12:01:40 GMT

http://standards.unto.net/

MicroApps from The Guardian and Google AppEngine - Both ready for business

Fri, 21 May 2010 16:53:32 GMT

Google App Engine Blog

This post is another entry in our on-going series of guest posts from App Engine developers. Today we have the Guardian reporting in on how they're using App Engine as part of their Open Platform.

There has been a lot of debate recently about the future of news online, some people like The Times of London and New York Times think paywalls are the answer, others are not so sure. At The Guardian

Want Magazine - magazine for the makers of experiences, and those who crave them

Sun, 16 May 2010 10:58:53 GMT

http://wantmag.com/

RT @natfriedman: Beautiful pre-1923 color photos from all around the world: h...

Sun, 16 May 2010 10:34:04 GMT

RT @natfriedman: Beautiful pre-1923 color photos from all around the world: http://citynoise.org/article/10598

OpenAM - open source authentication, authorization, entitlement and federation product

Sat, 15 May 2010 17:12:42 GMT

OpenAM provides core identity services to simplify the implementation of transparent single sign-on (SSO) as a security component in a network infrastructure.

http://forgerock.com/openam.html

Re-Reader - A stripped-down re-style of Google Reader

Fri, 14 May 2010 22:36:13 GMT

http://johnholdun.com/re-reader/

How open data saved $3.2 billion

Wed, 12 May 2010 07:06:13 GMT

FlowingData

This is a story of fake charities and tax shelters. In an analysis of data from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), it was found that billions of dollars in donations were collected by fraudulent organizations, with only a tiny portion going to the actual causes. In one case, only $1 out of every $100 went to helping the homeless. The rest of the money went to a tax shelter. Shameful.

All told, my...

HTTP Tracing - Export Format

Sun, 09 May 2010 16:24:04 GMT

http://groups.google.com/group/firebug-working-group/web/http-tracing---export-format?pli=1

Circonus - Performance Monitoring

Sun, 09 May 2010 16:02:24 GMT

By OmniTI

http://circonus.com/

TCP/IP Protocol Sequence Diagrams

Sat, 08 May 2010 11:02:34 GMT

http://www.eventhelix.com/realtimemantra/networking/

Jul 5, 2010: Gomez

Thu, 06 May 2010 19:23:22 GMT

20:00–23:59 @ abart (Manessestrasse 170, Zürich)

Reading http://www.nytimes.com/timesskimmer/ in a full screen browser window ...

Sun, 02 May 2010 13:33:26 GMT

Reading http://www.nytimes.com/timesskimmer/ in a full screen browser window is goodness.

RT @twitter: Twitter for Android: Robots like to share too. blog.twitter.com/...

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:32:36 GMT

RT @twitter: Twitter for Android: Robots like to share too. blog.twitter.com/...

Jun 5, 2010: Digitalism

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:28:26 GMT

23:00–23:59 @ Hive (Geroldstrasse 5, Zurich)

DIGITALISM DJ SET Digitalism

Raphaël - Javascript library for cross-browser SVG support

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:09:58 GMT

http://raphaeljs.com/

May 23, 2010: RJD2

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:37:32 GMT

22:00–23:59 @ Stall 6 (Gessnerallee 8, Zürich)

Mockingbird - Wireframes on the fly

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:08:58 GMT

Mockingbird is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application.

http://gomockingbird.com/

Ira Glass on storytelling http://youtu.be/9blgOboiGMQ

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:00:24 GMT

Ira Glass on storytelling http://youtu.be/9blgOboiGMQ