[18:21:38] <HairyFotr> _chatty-botko_ we desire to hear moar of you’re infinite wisdom [18:21:38] <_chatty-botko_> know it broken ? _chatty-botko_ doesn’t though gets IRC might seem quaint and outdated, but for keeping in touch with a group of friends it beats Twitter, Facebook and Google+ hands down. There’s a bunch of others on those things. With IRC [...]
On October 5th, 2010, Instagram launched We’re really excited to launch our first version of Instagram today, free in the App Store. Instagram makes mobile photos fast, simple, & beautiful. When we sat down three months ago to start designing our product, we looked at digital photos and realized very few exciting things had happened in the [...]
Blogspire is a great suggestion tool – go sign up – but when a topic doesn’t come from within the process to coming up with a post is a lot more complicated. Even when the idea is yours, there is a lot that goes into coming up with a decent post. Let me describe the two ways [...]
There are 845 million active users on facebook. There are 500 million twitter accounts. There are 100 million users on Google+. Of all those people only one is Swizec. Three other profiles do show up when searching for “Swizec”, but they don’t have the account name registered. Nor the domain name. In Slovenia, there are [...]
A whole industry is actively conning us. But they get away with it, because we can’t get away from them. No, I’m not talking about Facebook or Google or Microsoft or Apple. That’s child’s play in comparison. Nope, not copyright and patent trolls either. I’m talking about the business model used by the razor blade, [...]
There is a stack of books on my desk waiting to be read. They’re not bad books. Some are considered the height of classical literature, some are downright useful. And yet, they linger, waiting for months upon months, some for years. I’ll get to them … eventually. I used to be a voracious reader, going [...]
In lieu of a proper blogpost today you get three cool things, because I have to pass two exams an hour apart. 1) Arrivals Arrivals is an incredibly cool Foursquare app – probably the best I have ever seen. The idea is simple, take your foursquare data, turn your friends into aeroplanes, make an arrivals [...]
On Thursday I published my most popular post to date Why programmers work at night. After writing I was certain it wasn’t that interesting, sure it might be HN frontpage worthy – it never got there – but other than that I felt it wasn’t a very informative post, just musings of a hacker who has [...]
Ever since I started using twitter people have been accusing me that I talk too much. In the early days pretty much everyone told me this whenever we would meet in person, as more and more slovenians poured onto twitter and the whole thing has become a bit more mainstream it’s not that big a [...]
Sunday saw the eighth TEDxevent in Ljubljana and through immense luck I was able to attend despite forgetting to reserve a ticket. Twitter is kind of cool like that, you ask if there’s any way to sneak into a sold out event happening the next day, somebody says they don’t need their ticket and then [...]
