RSS Readers Prldr: RSS Meets Design and Everybody Wins Ever skip a headline in your RSS reader because you don't feel like investigating whether it's worth your time? It sounds lazy, but time is scarce and the proliferation of content on the Web means that vaguely intriguing headline could turn out to be a waste of a minute (or more!) that you could have spent looking at something awesome. Today a… Adrianne Jeffries View comments
Social Networks 30 Days of Online Branding Advice from Seesmic's Loic Le Meur With the ability to reach billions of people for the price of a few keystrokes and clicks, the Web has become the way many of us make our first impressions. These days, I might know a person from their blog or Twitter account before I ever know them in real-life. If they made poor personal branding choices, perhaps I'll never want to actually… Social Chris Cameron View comments
E-Books Oxford English Dictionary May Never Be Published Again The definitive dictionary of the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary, may well never see the light of day again, only the light of a monitor. Nigel Portwood, chief executive of Oxford University Press, which publishes the OED, told the London Sunday Times that dictionaries sales have been falling off at a rate greater than 10% a year… Curt Hopkins View comments
Architecture How Facebook Scales with Open Source When it comes to having to scale your service to handle ever-increasing data demands, there may be no better example to look at than Facebook. The social networking giant has grown from a service for Harvard students to some 500 million users. But that number doesn't adequately capture the company's scaling and storage demands. So here are a… Infrastructure Audrey Watters View comments
Augmented Reality Re-imagining the Interface of Mobile Augmented Reality The mobile augmented reality (AR) industry has seen a tremendous amount of growth over the last year. No longer are we simply holding our phones up looking around for nearby coffee shops - now our magical pocket computers can recognize images and augment them in real-time with 3D graphics. Mobile AR browsers like junaio and Layar have begun to… Play Chris Cameron View comments