November 2011
30 posts
Gimme Bar →
Save the Web
Don’t bookmark the web. Save it. Gimme Bar doesn’t just keep bookmarks; it stores items in your personal library in the cloud. You can even back things up to Dropbox. Organize Your Stuff
Take the content that you’ve been saving and tell a story about yourself or the world. Gimme Bar collections make great Wishlists, Favorites, Inspiration, Research. Share With the World
Make your...
The geography of toponyms →
via @litherland
bobulate:
Toponyms (the names given to places) can reveal cultural information through their etymology and patterns of use:
This map shows the distribution of the most popular generic toponyms for streams in the United States. These names vary widely across American in the etymological roots, the types of features they refer to, and their cultural patterns of use. These...
VIDEOS: How a Book is Made: From the Middle Ages... →
A brief history of the bound page and our evolving collective narrative about its craftsmanship.
“What we have witnessed over the last 50 years is the progressive shittification...”
– Boston Review — Richard Nash and Matt Runkle: Revaluing the Book
LendleBlog: It's not in our DNA to give up or... →
lendle:
Startups can react to unforeseen obstacles in one of two ways:
Oh, S**T! How does this hurt us? or…
How does this help us?
Today, Amazon announced that Prime subscribers would be able to instantly borrow (with limitations) from a selection of new titles — even those on the NYT bestsellers…
How it works – Lendle: Kindle™ Book Lending,... →
Tell us what you own
Once you sign up for Lendle, you’ll want to tell us which Kindle™ books you own. Search for your Kindle™ books using our search tool, and select “I own it” next to the titles you own. Borrow a book
Now you’re ready to borrow books. You may search for the book you’re looking for, or use our Available Now and Recommendations pages to find great books. When you find a book you’re...
Amazon Prime users can now borrow Kindle books -... →
Amazon just added a nice new feature for subscribers of its Amazon Prime service. The online retailer announced this week the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library: a feature that lets any Prime user who owns a Kindle device borrow up to one Kindle book a month for free from a list of thousands of books “including over 100 current and former New York Times Bestsellers”. Unlike borrowing...
BookLending.com - FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions... →
What is Kindle Lending? Kindle lending is a feature launched by Amazon on December 30, 2010. Any Kindle book that has lending enabled can be loaned by one Kindle user to another for 14 days. At the end of the loan period the title is automatically transferred back to the book owners Kindle. Each Kindle book you own can only be loaned once. For more information on lending, go to the Amazon page on...
Blue Virginia:: Why I Really Left Diaspora* →
Yosem’s response
Diaspora* — PayPal: Where do we go from here? →
Pretty miserable time for Diaspora* at the moment, so let’s think to the future instead and get those donations in. Create a fitting legacy for Ilya Zhitomirskiy instead of the ill informed (and in some cases, tasteless) articles now circulating.
Spotify adds 'temporary' private listening mode... →
He later tweeted: “Temporarily means that it works for this session. If you want to turn it off completely you can do so in preferences.” Earlier this week Ek was forced to clarify the deal his firm had signed with Mark Zuckerberg, a move that underscored why the Facebook supremo possesses the world’s largest social network. “I just want to clarify: some users seem to...
Formula 1 Diaries...: You know you're obsessed... →
formula1diaries:
You know you’re obsessed with Formula 1 when: • You can explain the Lotus naming dispute and make sense of it. • You take the racing line under any circumstances, such as walking up a staircase. • You stop in front of the house and expect the mechanics to push you into the garage. • Your…
They get better along the list. I am actually guilty of a few! Eeek. Yeah,...
Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies →
At first I thought it was a joke – a graduate student with too much time on their hands. But there were TWO new copies for sale, each be offered for well over a million dollars. And the two sellers seemed not only legit, but fairly big time (over 8,000 and 125,000 ratings in the last year respectively). The prices looked random – suggesting they were set by a computer. But how did they get so out...
MahTweets is over... →
MahTweets is dead. That’s not to say it doesn’t function, just development and support has ceased - infact we stopped working on it back in June. This probably doesn’t effect anybody - so why write about it at all? Closure. This project was a huge part of my life, and while I’ve not worked on it for many months now, it still is often on my mind.
PayPal Decide Diaspora*'s Money is Actually... →
Now, for the bad news… We had raised $45,000 in just a few days, and then PayPal froze our account. Even though we’ve complied with every PayPal request, including providing them with our certificate of incorporation, they still won’t give us an explanation for any of their moves. And it wasn’t buyer’s remorse: From the thousands of donations we received, we had only one complaint and refunded...
Screenfly Helps Tweak Your Site's Layout on... →
Simply enter your site’s URL in Screenfly and you can choose to view the site using displays for standard computers, (10” netbook up to 24” desktop) five tablets, eight mobile devices, and three televisions.
Download from ManyReads directly onto Kindle →
Quick Instructions - Direct Download (“Whispernet”) A walkthrough written by “iamnohs” in the Amazon Kindle users forum.
Open up the BasicWeb browser.
Enter the url http://mnybks.net
At this point you can search, browser, or enter a Book ID. Find a book you want.
KEY STEP: Click on the Mobipocket version of the book for download. ONLY THE MOBIPOCKET VERSION WILL WORK.
A...
