@mattmcalister
- just added video assets, homepage lineup, editor's picks and more new features to the @openplatform Content API: http://bit.ly/cWvBi7 4 hrs ago
- celebrating our youngest's 1st bday. the baby years are finally coming to a close for us all. very happy. 5 days ago
- Time's Top 50: 'as other British newspapers go behind paywalls, the Guardian opens up its content for developers' http://is.gd/eDIUy 6 days ago
- inspiring essay on purpose in business by Gary Hamel http://instapaper.com/zkmpos51n 1 week ago
- gave my blog a refresh while fixing security holes. now need a good picture for the header. http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/ 1 week ago
- congrats, Don! “@donlbe: just joined @typekit.” 1 week ago
- tweaked my twitter lists a bit to see how paper.li will react. this is becoming a good read now http://paper.li/mattmcalister/noticers 1 week ago
- good fun yesterday w guardian tech team at Bletchley Park and then Inception. thanks @leftback! 1 week ago
- turning diminishing returns into increasing returns and other great insights by @jhagel on new ways of working http://bit.ly/azZ8yU 2 weeks ago
- the web is more like an awkward teenager with cuter younger sibblings than something fading into oblivion: http://bit.ly/aMLHBy 2 weeks ago
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- Captivating Arcade Fire video shows what HTML5 can do
- Understanding your behaviors to prioritize your inbox
- Paper.li: Guardian Technology – now available as a newspaper, online!
- Video highlights from Activate 2010
- How to hail a London cabbie using Twitter
- Republishing articles from ProPublica
- Behind the scenes of the Open Platform’s evolution
- Socially linked data
- Positioning real-time web platforms
- The thinking behind the Activate Summit event
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Monthly Archives: October 2006
Indicators of the Ruby on Rails trend
Here’s a fascinating market indicator. I was looking for a Ruby book on Amazon, something for lightweight coders, perhaps a beginner’s guide to Ruby on Rails. What did I find? I found a total of 23 books. 9 of them … Continue reading
Everyone’s a media brand on the Internet
My oldest brother is a teacher and a buddhist, and also a buddhist teacher. He has formed a small nonprofit organization called InfiniteSmile.org that helps people understand practical ways to adopt spiritual lessons into their daily lives. Mike figured out … Continue reading
Write and hear your own presidential speech
I’m not much for browsing the web for the sake of browsing, but the recent coverage of StumbleUpon inspired me to try it again. It paid off immediately. My second click took me to this site. Watch how I put … Continue reading
Posted in audio, funny, screencast, video
Tagged audio snippets, president bush, presidential speech, sake
3 Comments
Scaffolding web sites with Ruby on Rails
I started messing around with Ruby on Rails for the first time on Sunday. This was after spending all day Saturday tearing down kitchen cupboards, tiled sinks and entire walls for a friend who is remodeling his house, so I … Continue reading
The strategic role of high quality editorial
Quality editorial is not a growth position for a media company. It may be a competitive advantage. And it will surely be a brand differentiator. But it won’t by nature expand audience or increase revenues. It’s not necessarily even a … Continue reading
Blind optimism and paranoia in online media
About two years ago now, from my seat as the business owner of an online b-to-b publication, I started freaking out about becoming irrelevant. I don’t mean me personally, though the people still working there may disagree. I mean the … Continue reading
Posted in longtail, media, startup
Tagged 1 billion dollars, business owner, chris anderson, dotcom, gold hunt, hollywood studios, new model, old model, quality editorial, revenue models
2 Comments
[STARTUP] gets acquired by [BIGDOTCOM] for $[LOTSOFMONEY]
When that deadline hits, you’ve got to post a story quickly. Use this simple dotcom acquisition news story form to generate your article without having to make any calls. A Dotcom Startup Competitor #1 Competitor #2 Name of co-founder #1 … Continue reading
Posted in All
Tagged acquisition news, acquisition price, buzzword, co founder, dotcom, favorite band, high school yearbook, noun, silicon valley, silicon valley location
8 Comments
How we made the BBAuth screencast
The news that seemed to get overlooked by the amazingness that became Hack Day was the release of a login API, BBAuth, or Browser-based Authentication. This new service allows any web site or web application to identify a user who … Continue reading
Posted in authentication, how to, screencast, video, yahoo
Tagged jumpcut, mpeg4 format, output quality, output settings, theurer, video file, video sharing sites, visuals, yahoo id, youtube
4 Comments
The new confidence of Yahoo!
Let’s call it YAB, Yahoo! After Beck. Or maybe it should be the Hack Day Revolution. Whatever it is, something transformative happened at Yahoo! last week. Photo: Yodel Anecdotal If a year ago someone told me that Yahoo! would support … Continue reading
Posted in beck, hack day, yahoo
Tagged bradley horowitz, coders, creating art, creating music, launchpad, new variations, self confidence, stock price, time musician, yodel
4 Comments