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What's Good Lately
January 4, 2006
Best things I've seen lately?
- A wake-up call for geeks who have been neglecting the legislative initiatives that will affect all of us in the future.
- The latest rant against betas, which I only agree with insofar as the term "beta" has become meaningless for those of us who might want to actually make use of the term for our products.
- A consistent set of POP failures in Gmail, which have gone remarkably unreported.
- Flickr proving themselves, once again, the best lemonade-makers in the business. They've made "please try again later" seem downright friendly.
- I'll link to it again: KartMatch, the tracking app for Mario Kart DS friend codes. It's the first Ning app useful enough to make me lament the service's downtime.
- Dahlia Lithwick, the best legal writer who writes for laymen, explains why following the law is a good thing, for those who've forgotten.
- The NY Times explains the tyranny of cute, an effect we probably already would have known if we could watch TypePad's server logs since the launch of Cute Overload.
- Just for myself, the post I wrote on the company website about Fortune 500 companies using Six Apart tools. There's actually at least a dozen more that aren't listed, but I always forget most people don't know about these.
- And finally, Fark Photoshop Monitor. It's a trap!
More to come later, including (hopefully) a wrapup of my trip to Taiwan.
Previously: Off to Taipei
JD on [TBD]
Anti-beta comments?: Anti-beta comments? At Publish, Stephen Bryant had an op/ed decrying the number of beta applications on the web. I think much of this is arguing over a label, rather than a thing, but am opening up this blog item here to collect comments from anyone wh... read more »Chris Anderson
Anil,
If you know of other public Fortune 500 blogs, please add them to the Wiki you mentioned. Or are the ones you’re thinking of just internal blogs?
Chris
Anil Dash 
Most of the ones I’m thinking of are internal blogs. It’s a really interesting space, but unfortunately one that not a lot of companies are willing to talk about now, since it’s in the early stages for almost everyone.
Hashim
KartMatch? You must have never played http://deadrapper.ning.com
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