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The middle version really doesn't look worse. Perhaps you are just conditioned to read the US version and so your aesthetics have been changed by the familiarity with the US format…

App.net was a great refuge away from all the spammers, and I'm totally happy to pay to keep them out. Very disappointed in this change of policy.

Word. That reminds me, I need delete my LinkedIn account - spammy as hell, and wilfully obstructive when it comes to offering levers to opt out of stuff. Update : Done!

Yes, that's me. And no, I don't watch terrestrial TV, or read magazines. Yes, I use Twitter now, but I'd like to move away from it, especially if it continues to move in the direct…

Apart from the fact that it's extremely early days for App.net right now, this article assumes that Twitter will remain as it is now, and not deteriorate further with significantly…

It delivers a personalized curated news feed which is informed by complex data analysis, recommendation, semantic-filtering and machine learning algorithms that use your elected in…

Prismatic. http://getprismatic.com/ (Although, strictly speaking, it's much more than that)

When I viewed the link (from the UK) I got presented with a popup asking me to understand and accept the new cookie policy. Perhaps you viewed the link from outside the EU? I imagi…

Maybe it is a new UI concept, but should we deny Loren the use of drop-down menus, scroll bars, split-buttons, sliders and all the other UI elements in use today? Patenting this is…

There are no doubt a lot of users like me: I don't have a Facebook account, and I will _never_ have a Facebook account. The result of my personal policy and utter dislike of Facebo…

My development work is a polyglot split across Linux, Mac and Windows/.NET projects. I also use both Vim and Vim keyboard bindings (in other editors) on Unix. Whilst I prefer *nix,…

Another interesting fact about polar bears: They have black skin, but layered with fur comprised of fibre-optic-like hairs which allows them to soak up heat radiation from the sun.…

My understanding of TFS is that the only reason it exists is to sell more SQL Server licenses.

I was surprised that 4Clojure wasn't mentioned. It's a great little site that poses Clojure problems in easily digestible chunks. http://www.4clojure.com/

This is _exactly_ what I'm looking for. I've been using MacVim and Janus with good results, but this has so much promise. Looks like Visual Block Mode isn't yet supported... did an…

Whilst the figure is without doubt impressive, I can't help but wonder how much of this figure is money lost by the poor customers that bought costly, overly complex and hard to cu…