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In the future I'm going to let all potential clients that send us an RFP read the tire kicker article in return: http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/con-men-freebies-tirekickers-and-vampires-traps-for-creative-companies/ #KarmaPolice
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An explanation of the CSS animation on Apple's iPhone 4S webpage
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List.js - Add search, sort and flexibility to plain HTML lists with #JavaScript
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Open Deals
A Drupal 7 Dristribution for building deals sites.
http://www.opendealsapp.com/
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Steve Jobs on his major mistake during Apple's troubled years: "Letting profitability outweigh passion" http://huff.to/nNHjGY #ditto (a tweet by @stevecase) struck home for me, because in the aftermath of Jobs' death I've been thinking a lot about O'Reilly, wanting to make sure that we streamline and focus on the stuff that matters most.
Here's the money quote from the article:
"My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products," Jobs told Isaacson. "[T]he products, not the profits, were the motivation. Sculley flipped these priorities to where the goal was to make money. It's a subtle difference, but it ends up meaning everything."
Jobs went on to describe the legacy he hoped he would leave behind, "a company that will still stand for something a generation or two from now."
"That's what Walt Disney did," said Jobs, "and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. They created a company to last, not just to make money. That's what I want Apple to be."
All of our greatest work at O'Reilly has been driven by passion and idealism. That includes our early forays into publishing, when we were a documentation consulting company to pay the bills but wrote documentation on the side for programs we used that didn't have any good manuals. It was those manuals, on topics that no existing tech publisher thought were important, that turned us into a tech publisher "who came out of nowhere."
In the early days of the web, we were so excited about it that +Dale Dougherty wanted to create an online magazine to celebrate the people behind it. That morphed into GNN, the Global Network Navigator, the web's first portal and first commercial ad-supported site.
In the mid-90s, realizing that no one was talking about the programs that were behind all our most successful books, I brought together a collection of free software leaders (many of whom had never met each other) to brainstorm a common story. That story redefined free software as open source, and the world hasn't been the same since. It also led to a new business for O'Reilly, as we launched our conference business to help bring visibility to these projects, which had no company marketing behind them.
Thinking deeply about open source and the internet got me thinking big ideas about the internet as operating system, and the shift of influence from software to network effects in data as the key to future applications. I was following people who at the time seemed "crazy" - but they were just living in a future that hadn't arrived for the rest of the world yet. It was around this time that I formulated our company mission of "changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators."
In 2003, in the dark days after the dot com bust, our company goal for the year was to reignite enthusiasm in the computer business. Two outcomes of that effort did just that: +Sara Winge 's creation of Foo Camp spawned a worldwide, grassroots movement of self-organizing "unconferences," and our Web 2.0 Conference told a big story about where the net was going and what distinguished the companies that survived the dotcom bust from those that preceded it.
In 2005, seeing the passion that was driving garage inventors to a new kind of hardware innovation, Dale once again wanted to launch a magazine to celebrate the passionate people behind the movement. This time, it was a magazine: Make: (http://makezine.com), and a year later, we launched Maker Faire (http://makerfaire.com) as a companion event. 150,000 people attended Maker Faires last year, and the next generation of startups is emerging from the ferment of the movement that Dale named.
Meanwhile, through those dark years after the dotcom bust, we also did a lot of publishing just to keep the company afloat. (With a small data science team at O'Reilly, we built a set of analytical tools that helped us understand the untapped opportunities in computer book publishing. We realized that we were playing in only about 2/5 of the market; moving into other areas that we had never been drawn to helped pay the bills, but never sparked the kind of creativity as the areas that we'd found by following our passion.)
It was at this time that I formulated an image that I've used many times since: profit in a business is like gas in a car. You don't want to run out of gas, but neither do you want to think that your road trip is a tour of gas stations.
When I think about the great persistence of Steve Jobs, there's a lesson for all of us in it.
What's so great about the Apple story is that Steve ended up making enormous amounts of money without making it a primary goal of the company. (Ditto Larry and Sergey at Google.) Contrast that with the folks who brought us the 2008 financial crisis, who were focused only on making money for themselves, while taking advantage of others in the process.
Making money through true value creation driven by the desire to make great things that last, and make the world a better place - that's the heart of what is best in capitalism. (See also the wonderful HBR blog post, Steve Jobs and the Purpose of the Corporation. http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/10/steve_jobs_and_the_purpose_of.html I also got a lot of perspective on this topic from +Leander Kahney's book, Inside Steve's Brain http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Steves-Brain-Leander-Kahney/dp/1591841984 )
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Eighteen Minutes with the new Lytro camera and its founder
I get a pretty good demo of the camera, then Ren Ng comes over (he's the genius who developed this technology while at Stanford -- he's been working on this for eight years) and we have a chat about the technology.
If you are interested in this camera, you'll want to check this out.
You can order yours at http://lytro.com
This is the camera that lets you refocus after you shoot images.
It also does 3D (they had a separate display that I didn't shoot where I viewed those 3D images and they are pretty damn cool) -- you will be able to decide after you shoot whether to display images in 2D or 3D, which is totally cool.
Hope you enjoy this look at this remarkable technology. Please reshare/retweet if you like this.
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BEST GOOGLE PLUS PLUGINS FOR WORDPRESS
These are the best wordpress plugins dedicated to google plus that I found so far. I hope I didn't miss other important ones, but if I did... just leave me a comment on the original post: http://goo.gl/FKz5p. Please share this to help the g+ community.
1. Google+Blog - http://goo.gl/ILvbJ
Automatically crosspost your Google+ posts to your wordpress blog
How to setup Google+Blog plugin: http://goo.gl/Ge1aV
More about this plugin from +Daniel Treadwell over here: http://goo.gl/nfa9O
2a. Google Plus Widget - http://widgetsplus.com/
Allows you to show the visitors of your blog/website your Google+ account. You can also add your Google Plus stream in it!
2b. GoogleCards - http://goo.gl/SbDvZ
Adds a google+ widget for linking to your google+ profile and showing your number of followers. Very easy to use. Upon activating the plugin, you’ll have a new widget available in your Appearance – Widgets section. You can drop that widget into a sidebar of yours, specify a title and your Google Plus profile ID. You’ll end up with a neat card displaying your name, avatar and the amount of circles you’ve been listed in.
2c. Scriptrr Google+ Profile - http://goo.gl/2mP0e
Allows users to add a widget on their blog or website to invite visitors to new Google + Profile. It shows how many followers you got and can also be customized to show your other social profiles as you have defined on your Google+ profile. Very easy to install and can be customized for color and width.
3a. Google +1 Button - http://goo.gl/2uUBO
Easily add Google’s +1 button to your posts and pages, single or lists. Has a choice of multiple languages, placement locations and button sizes, as well as whether to display the +1 count or not.
The plugin comes equipped with a function that you can use inside your theme for manual placement and even a shortcode that you can use inside your posts and pages.
3b. WP PlusOne This - http://goo.gl/lQzb0
Similar to the plugin above but requires no configuration at all. Simply install and activate the plugin and you’ll get Google’s +1 button on every post and page on your blog. You can specify further positioning of the button via CSS.
3c. Plus One - http://goo.gl/dwga9
This plugin not only adds the +1 button to your posts and pages, but also gives you a page full of settings including advanced ones, like JS callbacks and the HTML code for the button placement. Very neat for advanced users and those who’re really picky about where, how and why the button should be placed.
Other useful posts that you might like:
1. How To Import Your Facebook Photos Into G+ - http://goo.gl/nXPqZ
2. Top 25 Most Popular Chrome Extensions And Apps For Google Plus - http://goo.gl/X8bA5
3. 10 Great Tips to Help Photographers on Google+ - http://goo.gl/4wBNc
4. Google plus tips and cheat sheets - http://goo.gl/uGWCn
5. How to track your google plus statistics - http://goo.gl/X1XYY
6. Google plus id shortener - http://goo.gl/LFhtQ
In album Best G+ Plugins For Wordpres (5 photos)
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Meetings -- The Practical Alternative To Work
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Guy brings own power source to Apple line
How cool is this? The guy behind me in the iPhone 4s line, +Sean Parham, brought this bad boy. :)
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Google+Blog: Google+ posts and comments for WordPress
With the huge amount of interest surrounding my Google+ Blog concept on minimali.se, the number one request was that it be made available as a WordPress plugin. With so many people asking for it, how could I say no?
What does it do?
Google+Blog will automatically retrieve your public posts and the comments associated with them and display them as normal WordPress posts, along with all your Google+ comments. They will also include any media that you have added to your Google+ post (photos, albums, articles and video). It will update every hour or so (providing you have people going to your blog) and will not require any intervention from you whatsoever.
Can I see it?
+Colby Brown has been kind enough to help me finalise the plugin and has also integrated it into his blog. He has a separate page that just displays his G+ posts and their associated comments.
Check it out at: http://www.colbybrownphotography.com/blog/category/plusfeed/
What options does it have?
The plugin is quite configurable with the ability to easily change your API Key, Profile ID, Post History (how many historical posts are imported), WP Post Status, Categories and Tags.
How can I get it?
There are two versions available for download, one free, the other paid ($10). There is no limitation placed on the free version, but it does contain a link at the bottom of your imported posts. I have put a lot of work into this and don't believe that $10 is too much to ask for the version without a link.
The plugin can be downloaded from http://www.minimali.se/google+blog/
Usage and terms
This is only the first release of the plugin and it will be updated on a regular basis. I welcome feedback and suggestions and strongly encourage bug reports. It has undergone testing, but I am not liable for any problems that are caused by this plugin.
Once you have downloaded the plugin, add it to WordPress via the Plugins menu and activate it. Finish setting it up under 'Settings' -> 'Google+Blog Options'.
If you need further integration message me and we will see what can be worked out.
API Key
You will need to sign up for a Google+ API Key before you are able to use this extension. To get one, go here: http://code.google.com/apis/console/. If needed, create a project then flick the Google+ API switch under Services. From there your Simple API Access key will be available under 'API Access'.
+Robert Scoble +Chris Pirillo +Ade Oshineye +Louis Gray +Ryan Crowe +Christina Trapolino +Natalie Villalobos +Dave Cohen +Chris Messina +Johnathan Chung +DeWitt Clinton +Will Norris +Ahmed Zeeshan +Chris Chabot
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By popular demand, we’re rolling out a feature that lets you disable comments and lock your posts before sharing to the Google+ stream. Watch the video to see how it works, and let us know what you think in the comments!
Video Transcript
Hi! My name is Ebby and I’m an engineer on the Google+ Sharing team.
One of my favorite parts about Google+ is how circles help me control who I share things with. And if I want to go a step further, I can do things like disable comments, or lock my post to make sure no one reshares it.
We've heard from many of you that you want these disable and lock options before you share, not after. So today I'm happy to say that we're doing exactly that. Let me show you how it works.
Say I want to share this picture from my friend's party. As usual, I choose the circles I want to share with. But as I hover over the sharebox, you’ll notice I can now disable comments and lock the post -- before sharing to the Stream.
We hope these features help you feel even more secure about sharing on Google+. We'll keep listening, and rolling out more improvements in the coming weeks and months, so let us know what you think!
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