Given that it’s the day after Thanksgiving, most of the team is still dusting off a turkey hangover and because of that we’re a bit short on links.
We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and we’ll be back next week!
Given that it’s the day after Thanksgiving, most of the team is still dusting off a turkey hangover and because of that we’re a bit short on links.
We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and we’ll be back next week!
It’s Friday and we have links! Grab some coffee (or a beer) because some of these are going to be a time sink.
Enliven your creative projects with millions of unlimited downloadable content at the touch of a mouse on VideoBlocks.com. Check it out >
A small command-line program, youtube-dl lets users download videos from Youtube and other sites. The only requirement though is Python interpreter. Grab it now >
At the re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this year, James Hamilton, vice president and distinguished engineer for Amazon Web Services (AWS), gave conference attendees a broad but insightful glimpse at the size and scope of AWS cloud. For example, Hamilton goes into detail on the ins and outs of the network AWS built from scratch. For more on the story, keep reading >
In October of this year, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) officially recommended HTML5. For citizens of the Internet who aren’t familiar with the matter and want to know more about it, this article goes back in time, providing an in-depth history on how the Web, the W3C, and HTML5 came to exist. Keep reading >
Last week, Firefox announced that it will be changing its strategy for Firefox search partnerships. In the announcement, it will no longer have a single global default search provider which was formerly held by Google. Instead, Firefox has chosen to promote choice and innovation on the Internet by partnering with local search providers, becoming the default search experience rather than Google, in every country. Keep reading >
In case you missed some, we’ve got a run down of some of the crazy stuff from last week! The Europeans landed on a comet, Microsoft is open sourcing .NET, and there’s a new variety of Firefox just for developers. Oh and we found an awesome list of UI kits!
For the first time in history a lander, called Philae, successfully landed on the surface of P67, a 2.5-mile-wide comet, on Wednesday (November 12) at approximately 11:00 A.M. EST. For more details on this historic landing keep reading >
.NET has announced that .NET Core stack will be open sourced on GitHub, which includes the runtime and framework libraries. To learn the reasoning behind this decision and what it will entail keep reading >
Firefox recently turned 10 this week and as a birthday present to the world, Mozilla has launched the Firefox Developer Edition. A new version of Firefox, the developer edition is of course designed for developers and places all the browser’s developer tools in front instead of previously being available only as add-ons. To check out the tools available in this edition keep reading >
Welcome to the weekend! We’ve rounded up some interesting reading to carry you through the till Monday. Fire up your iPad, grab some cider, and snuggle up with a blanket:
As members of MCX, a group of retailers hoping to create an alternate payment solution, CVS and Rite Aid are blocking Apple Pay in hopes of slowing its adoption. Unfortunately for the MCX consortium, numerous disagreements about the system’s foundational premises has made it almost impossible for it to launch after 4 years of development. Keep reading >
Apple in recent years have changed the way industries appear and operate. It has done so in three ways. The first is it builds tightly integrated products. The second is a major drive to partner with companies who can fill in the gaps that it lacks. Third, while a partnership with apple may look great, apple has a tendency to move an entire industry into software. And so the question left is: what’s next for Apple and Apple Pay? Keep reading >
Contrary to what you think, contacting a sales representative actually brings in more revenue than free trials can. Here is why and how you can capitalize on this. Keep reading >
For you future VC’s out there, there are 7 essential insider tips you need to know to take on the VC world by storm. Key takeaway? You should consider each investment as a marriage without the easy divorce option. Keep reading >
In its effort to make both sides happy in the fierce battle over net neutrality, the FCC is considering a plan that would separate broadband into two services, one as retail and another for back-end. Unfortunately for them, instead of the plan satisfying both sides as it should, it has only fueled more outrage. Keep reading >
It’s been a long week but you’ve made it, it’s Friday! Nothing goes better with Fridays than a couple of fresh links for your ride home and of course a cold beer. We can’t help you with that beer but we’ve got you covered on those links. A slew of new wearable health products were released this week and here they are:
The new Google Fit is a new app that lets you track your daily activities and progress towards your fitness goals. You already use 2 other fitness apps? No problem! Google Fit compiles the data from all the apps you’re using into one simple easy application. Keep reading >
The latest Microsoft product has finally come out. Microsoft Health and Microsoft Band are the company’s new fitness service and gear that gives you insights on your health in real time and provides appropriate actions to take to reach your fitness goals. You can get the latest news, texts, weather, e-mails, reminders, and of course your daily physical activities right to your wrist. Keep reading >
Meet the newest additions to the Fitbit family: Charge, Charge HR, and Surge. These stylish but innovative fitness gears have everything you need to reach your fitness goals. They feature all day activity tracking, Fitbit’s own PurePulse technology for 24/7 heart rate monitoring, built in GPS, and caller ID to name a few. Keep reading >
Planning on picking up a fitness tracker? Let us know in the comments!