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March 2, 2011
Hiring: Web Designer at Hobie Cat Company
This is unique opportunity, as you'll be the first in-house web designer at a company that's been around since 1950. In Oceanside, CA no less.
I owned a 14' Hobie Cat sailboat until selling it about 5 years ago. Worst decision ever. Wish I still had it today, especially now living here in Florida. Here's a pic of my sons and I in it. (We removed the mast that day in favor of a trolling motor.)
March 1, 2011
3513: A View of the Sydney Opera House
A nice time-lapse shot by Philip Bloom over one night using five cameras: Canon 5D MKII, Canon S95, iPhone 4, Panasonic GH2, and Panasonic AF101.
Placekitten
A simple service for using pictures of kittens as placeholders in your designs or code. See also the jQuery plugin on GitHub, which lets you dynamically change any or all images to kittens.
Update: How about a bookmarklet to turn all images on any site into kittens? (thx @paulroon)
February 28, 2011
Shawn Blanc Membership Drive and Giveaway
Shawn Blanc is making the leap into full-time blogging. I steal links from his link blog regularly, but Shawn does the long-read, entertaining article stuff too (see his software/hardware reviews).
Support Shawn by signing up for just $3/month and you'll be entered to a number of nice prizes: Fusion Ads Burst, prints by Jorge Quinteros, signed copies of books, a copy of my Colosseo poster, and more.
Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom: 30-Second Rule for App Success
Speaking of Instagram, this is some sharp thinking by Kevin Systrom on pairing down features for the initial stages of an app:
[Instagram] has come a long way since its first iteration, a feature-laden app called Burbn that lacked a simple value proposition. To founder and CEO Kevin Systrom, simplifying the product — paring it down into an app that enables users to share beautiful photographs quickly — was the smartest business decision his team made - and a strategy other developers should take to heart.
'Products can introduce more complexity over time, but as far as launching and introducing a new product in to the market, it's a marketing problem,' Systrom tells Fast Company. 'You have to explain everything you do, and people have to understand it, within seconds.' …
Still, there were benefits to its see-what-sticks approach: The team realized its users were gung-ho about Burbn's photo-sharing capabilities and filters. 'We did too much on purpose,' he says. 'We were trying to figure out what got people amped.'
Also notable in the same article: $7 million raised in Instagram's first round of funding.
/via Paul Mayne
Instagram Desktop Version, Built with the API
You heard about the new Instagram API, right? Well, Josh Ink has created a desktop version of Instagram using the API, and it's pretty special. You can do just about everything you can do on your iPhone — except post and take photos, of course.
/via Shawn Blanc
February 24, 2011
humans.txt
A movement to give credit to the team members who worked on a site by including their details in a simple text file. (I know, I probably missed the Twitter train on this one. But I was off speaking when it made the rounds.)
February 18, 2011
Smashing Mag: Innovative CSS Techniques & Practical Solutions
If Fridays are your day to learn a new CSS trick or two, here you go.
Leonardo da Vinci's Resume
Translated:
I can carry out sculpture in marble, bronze, or clay, and also I can do in painting whatever may be done, as well as any other, be he who he may….
And if any of the above-named things seem to anyone to be impossible or not feasible, I am most ready to make the experiment in your park, or in whatever place may please your Excellency — to whom I comment myself with the utmost humility, etc.
See also the developer's resume, da Vinci-style.
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