Today the new “Programming Q&A” site Stack Overflow launches. With the large tech crowd that follows founders Joel Spolsky (Joel on Software) and Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror), this new site should have no problem building an audience of its own. According to the About page: Stack Overflow is a programming Q & A site that’s free. Free to ask questions, free to answer questions, free to read, free to index, built with plain old HTML, no fake rot13 text on the home page, no scammy google-cloaking tactics, no salespeople, no JavaScript windows dropping down in front of the answer asking…
IMG_5117-01 Originally uploaded by pbernosky. Girl Talk performed to an eager crowd at this year’s open hackday: Open Hack 2008. (Look for tag openhack08). Speaking of hacking, check out Any Baio’s analysis of Girl Talk’s latest album: Girl Turk: Mechanical Turk Meets Girl Talk’s “Feed the Animals”. He uses Amazon’s Mechanical Turk in an interesting way to analyze the track contents.
This coming September 12-13, Yahoo! is hosting its second open Hack Day at the main campus in Sunnyvale. This year’s title is “Open Hack 2008“. If you’re interested, check out the teaser video and sign up on the Hack Day site.
Today Yahoo! launched version 2.0 of the Delicious bookmarking service: The new Delicious is just like the old del.icio.us, only faster, easier to learn, and hopefully more delightful to use and to look at. The major changes touted are improved speed, more powerful search, and a brand new UI design. They are also making “delicious.com” the primary domain (switching from the original “del.icio.us”). So far I find the UI changes pretty decent and the speed does seem better. As with many UI overhauls, there’s a bit of the “who moved my cheese?” aspect to it as I discover where everything…
From Nate’s blog, I discovered an excellent photographic news blog on Boston.com: The Big Picture: The Big Picture is a photo blog for the Boston Globe/boston.com, compiled semi-regularly by Alan Taylor. Inspired by publications like Life Magazine (of old), National Geographic, and online experiences like MSNBC.com’s Picture Stories galleries and Brian Storm’s MediaStorm, The Big Picture is intended to highlight high-quality, amazing imagery – with a focus on current events, lesser-known stories and, well, just about anything that comes across the wire that looks really interesting. Online news sites seem to be shrinking their images (Yahoo! News had larger images…