August 2010
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June 2010
5 posts
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hbookmarker of the week: @lakshindy
Today, our hbookmarker of the week comes from India and is called Lakshmi Narayana, who tweets at @lakshindy.
If you’re interested in anything related to digital media, head straight away to his hbookmark account, you’ll get your daily dose of fresh links on the subject, curated just for you.
Thanks @lashindy for sharing these interesting links (and by the way, you should put our...
“You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to...”
– Steve Jobs
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hbookmarker of the week: @jbrogley
Another week, another hbookmarker of the week :)
Let us introduce you to Jessica Brogley (hbookmarks, twitter account, website), a High School English and Speech Teacher. Jessica “loves using Technology in her classroom whenever she can” (her own words according to her twitter profile).
So if you’re a teacher, student, or just interested in learning how technology can...
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“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.”
– Denis Diderot
May 2010
7 posts
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hbookmarker of the week: @JoshHalliday
Since we’re now starting to achieve critical mass in terms of users, we thought it would be fun to start what we’ll call the “hbookmarker of the week”.
This week’s hbookmarker is: Josh Halliday.
His bookmarks are here, and his twitter account is there.
From his bio (and his hbookmark tag-cloud), Josh is very much into Journalism and Technology. The links Josh...
Why Scoble sucks at sharing links
Anyone following the tech sphere knows who Robert Scoble is.
Robert is everywhere on the web, as you can see from his google profile: he’s got a blog, accounts at twitter, facebook, flickr… you name it.
Following Robert on twitter can be very enlightening for anyone looking to understand trends, get the scoop on new tech, follow conferences. He’s probably one of the most...
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Just added callbacks to our API
Following a number of requests from developers, we’ve added the ability to specify a callback parameter (cb) to all our api methods.
If this parameter is supplied, the response will use the JSONP format with a callback of the given name.
Example: http://hbookmark.com/api/bookmarks?user=hbookmark&cb=display
This should be useful to developers looking to do pure javascript client-side...
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Why Twitter Is the Future of News →
Interesting research and conclusion, worth a #bm bookmark
“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
April 2010
14 posts
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Opening in a few hours...
So this is it. Thousands of lines of code later, hours of pondering on the right logo / design, days spent chasing the last few naughty bugs, we’re finally there. This little idea we had a few months ago is now materialised, and ready to be shown to the public.
This moment where you and your co-founders are the only one browsing your baby-website before the gates open is always peculiar....
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It's been a long week at #bm headquarters
hbookmark is not the first startup we’re launching, but it always comes as a surprise when you realise how much time and attention needs to be spent on the last few details and bugs of your product before launching.
Once again, we have experienced the theory according to which you spend 80% of your time on 20% of the code or features (the split could even be 90/10 in our case).
We’ve...
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“There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t...”
– Jeremy S. Anderson - so true!
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Working hard on the optimal server set-up
hbookmark is entirely built around our api, so we need to take extra care about scaling issues. There’s not that much literature around the web giving concrete examples of server architecture for real-time, asynchronous web apps like ours. Note to self: write a blog post explaining how we chose our servers set-up, and dealt with scalability and redundancy issues once we’re happy with...
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“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
– Pablo Picasso
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One line fixed it all
sysctl vm.overcommit_memory=1
Server configuration is such a joy ;)
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“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People...”
– Steve J. ;)
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Choosing the right logo
We’ve spent the past 72 hours browsing through more than 160 iterations of our potential logo.
How the hell are we supposed to decide ?!