http://shawn.medero.net An Online Notebook Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:20:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://shawn.medero.net/2010/02/19/daily-brief-february-19th-2010-morning-edition/ http://shawn.medero.net/2010/02/19/daily-brief-february-19th-2010-morning-edition/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:09:23 +0000 Shawn Medero http://shawn.medero.net/?p=243

Adobe Photoshop turns 20

Window’s users in the European Union will soon be given a choice of web browsers

Hopeful British interns pay up to $5700 for work experience at dying publishing institution Condé Nast. The Guardian has some additional details

Apple’s AppStore is taking off the pasties

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Microsoft discontinues Xbox LIVE support for original Xbox consoles and Xbox 1 games playable on the Xbox 360. Probably unlikely, but it seems like a good candidate for letting the community take over via an open-source or standards effort.

How a Superbowl ad featuring Jay Leno, David Letterman and Oprah Winfrey came together.

Choire Sicha, the popular former Gawker editor, interviews Paul Ford about his work at Harper’s Magazine.

Twitter releases open-source libraries for Java & Ruby that will handle parsing Tweets. Covers features such as @username|mention|replies, #hashtags, and extracting URLs. Additionally they released a YAML-based conformance testing suite to help those who want to develop libraries in other languages. This is a gold mine of test data and a stellar approach to opening up their platform.

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