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Above 5000 ft, on a business trip with our ”jet”.

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:33:40 -0400

Above 5000 ft, on a business trip with our ”jet”.

Vietnamese today, spring rolls.

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:24:39 -0400

Vietnamese today, spring rolls.

hbookmarker of the week: @lakshindy

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:48:41 -0400

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 widget on your blog, it’s very easy!)

"You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you..."

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:45:33 -0400

“You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.”

- Steve Jobs

hbookmarker of the week: @jbrogley

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:23:59 -0400

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 concretely benefit this space, we really encourage you to follow Jessica and browse her hbookmarks.

We’re really happy with the way hbookmark’s community is growing: it is very diversified, and we are discovering new online ressources on various topics every day :)

"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things."

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:20:11 -0400

“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.”

- Denis Diderot

hbookmarker of the week: @JoshHalliday

Thu, 27 May 2010 12:35:00 -0400

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 shares are both very interesting, and not the same as the ones everyone tend to tweet (think Mashable / Techcrunch retweets…).

Well done Josh, and please keep bookmarking, we like what you share!

Why Scoble sucks at sharing links

Tue, 25 May 2010 11:18:36 -0400

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 enthusiastic journalists in tech, and his building43 video interviews are really interesting to watch.

But Scoble sucks big time at one thing: sharing links.

Sure, he’s tweeting interesting links all the time, but that’s the problem:

How do you browse links he’s tweeted a while ago ?
How do you find all of @scobleizer’s links related to a specific topic ?
How do you see patterns in what Scoble has been sharing recently ?
How does Scoble himself keep track of the links he shares ?
Wouldn’t that make sense to see his links somewhere in his blog’s sidebar ?

No way to do this easily.

I can hear you say he’s surely got a delicious account - well sort of. His latest bookmark dates back from 11th Feb 06… Why is that ? Because it’s a pain to bookmark something in delicious when you’re (over)sharing like Robert does. He would have to tweet (as he usually does), then use the delicious website or bookmarklet to tag every single link manually. We agree, this is painful…

This is why we created hbookmark - so that Robert Scoble finally starts to use the #bm hashtag when tweeting important links, and that all his important links can be stored and sorted automatically for him (and us!) at http://hbookmark.com/scobleizer - no manual input other than this little hashtag, and hbookmark will automatically tag the link.

Robert could even use our widget to display his links in his blog’s sidebar!

If you’re sharing links like Robert does, this post applies to you, too ;)

Twitscoop have integrated hbookmark in their web-based twitter...

Thu, 13 May 2010 06:41:01 -0400

Twitscoop have integrated hbookmark in their web-based twitter client and buzz tracking tool - awesome :)
If you’re a developer, you can do the same, start by reading our api documentation!

Just added callbacks to our API

Tue, 11 May 2010 03:52:09 -0400

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 coding based on our api. Our api documentation has been updated accordingly.
Enjoy!

Our first hbookmark screencast. Doesn’t show every...

Sat, 08 May 2010 10:10:38 -0400

Our first hbookmark screencast. Doesn’t show every functionalities, but we tried to make it short and snappy. Could probably be improved a lot!

Why Twitter Is the Future of News

Sun, 02 May 2010 05:35:41 -0400

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."

Sun, 02 May 2010 05:33:34 -0400

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Opening in a few hours...

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:27:00 -0400

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. We’re quite excited to open today, we hope you’ll like hbookmark, come and have fun with us!

It's been a long week at #bm headquarters

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:48:00 -0400

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 had an almost-ready-to-launch prototype for maybe a month now, along with a fully working api (we built it first as it’s the core of our product). However, the last few days have been exhausting, trying to nail down naughty bugs hidden in thousands of lines of codes, and it is always at this point that it is extremely important to keep ultra focused and motivated. Everyone here is eager to launch, but even if launching early and iterating quickly is key for a web startup’s success, it is also crucial to launch a near-perfect product (at least in terms of the initial features which have been agreed on).

After all, you only get one chance to have some decent coverage, and users only try a new product once, maybe twice. If you fail, then good luck to get this user back. That’s why hbookmark doesn’t need you to sign-up - you just need to have a twitter account - we tried from day one to come up with a product as unobtrusive and easy to adopt as possible.

I guess we’ll see in a few days if we got this part right, before then we need to iron out the last few kinks…

"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a..."

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:21:53 -0400

“There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.”

- Jeremy S. Anderson - so true!

Working hard on the optimal server set-up

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:28:42 -0400

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 what we’ve come up with… and made sure it actually works!

We like meat !

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:20:08 -0400

We like meat !

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:22:32 -0400

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”

- Pablo Picasso

One line fixed it all

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:20:11 -0400

sysctl vm.overcommit_memory=1

Server configuration is such a joy ;)