In Beta

In Beta 49: Battery-based Packing Scheme

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Thu, 16 May 2013 02:00:00 GMT

Google I/O 2013 is coming up, and it's supposedly all about the developers. What can Google really give them? And how far has Chrome come as an app platform?

Links for this episode:

New Android Boss Finally Reveals Plans for World's Most Popular Mobile OS | Wired Business | Wired.com

5by5 | In Beta #5: Tumbleweed Kickball

(Previous Google I/O 2012 discussion)

Google+ Sign-In: Bringing App Activities to Google Search - Google+ Developers Blog

Dots, A Minimalist iOS Game You Play by Connecting the Dots

Tower of Babel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Chrome Web Store - Pixlr Editor

Chrome Web Store - Boomerang for Gmail

ginatrapani/greasemonkey-multi-script-compiler · GitHub

Add events to Google Calendar from Gmail | Official Gmail Blog

How to Build a Chrome Extension

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In Beta 48: Draper-esque Long-view Thinking

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:45:00 GMT

Kevin & Gina discuss the gotchas and benefits of using services like TaskRabbit to hire strangers to run errands for you on the internet. Then, they cover audio transcription services versus speech-to-text apps, and Kevin's Don Draper moment.

Links for this episode:

f.lux: software to make your life better

Task & Errand Service By Awesome, Trustworthy People | TaskRabbit

Rev - Audio Transcription and Document Translation

Goodbye Typing, Hello Recording: Rev Finally Makes Transcription Painless | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

5by5 | In Beta #46: Attic of Notifications

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In Beta 47: Forks with Benefits

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Wed, 01 May 2013 16:30:00 GMT

Gina wrestles with her open-source project reaching slow, stable, less agile maturity—and then getting forked! And Kevin just finished going a week without email. Weird lessons all around.

Links for this episode:

IFTTT / Send user's tweets to a Drive doc by kevinpurdy

Todo.txt: Future-proof task tracking in a file you control

Todo.txt - Android Apps on Google Play

Simpletask - Android Apps on Google Play

ginatrapani/todo.txt-touch · GitHub

Why I quit: kernel developer Con Kolivas

Torvalds rebukes desktop critics - Techworld.com

7 days without email: Taming the tyrant | ITworld

Unroll.me

IFTTT / Turn starred emails into todo.txt items. by kevinpurdy

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In Beta 46: Attic of Notifications

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:45:00 GMT

Kevin & Gina discuss notifications: on your smartphone, desktop, from the browser, on your wrist and on your heads-up display. How do users and developers reduce noise, increase signal, and make our apps tell us what we need to know and no more? Then, Kevin describes his love affair with custom notifications thanks to IFTTT and Pushover.

Links for this episode:

HTML5 Notifications - The Adventures of Danger Cove

Get phone notifications about actually cool things with IFTTT and Pushover | ITworld

Pushover: Simple Mobile Notifications for Android and iOS

IFTTT / kevinpurdy's Shared Recipes

Notification settings - Gmail Help

Google Glass — Google Developers

Hojoki: Collaboration for Dropbox, Google Drive, Evernote, Google Calendar and 30 other productivity tools

You are not Steve Jobs — Editors' Picks — Medium

Google’s Eric Schmidt On Facebook Home-Style Android Modification: “I Think It’s Fantastic” | TechCrunch

What Marissa Mayer has to say about her work-from-home ban - Jacksonville Business Journal

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In Beta 45: The Perfection of the Drumming

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:15:00 GMT

Gina & Kevin get on the therapist couch and talk about their relationships and biases with Google, and whether there's room for improvement. Also: contributing to open source projects, and Rush.

Links for this episode:

5by5 | In Beta #1: Brevity Is a Feature (first mention of biases/goals)

Twitter / anildash (Example feedback)

The Bias of Veteran Journalists - Lane Wallace - The Atlantic

"This is part of what's so insidious about press savviness ..." - Jay Rosen

Twitter / ginatrapani: Yeah haha snarky jokes, but ...

Trust, but verify - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

ThinkUp - ThinkUp in Google Summer of Code 2013!

What can I do for Mozilla

Why I switched from iPhone to Android | Macworld

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In Beta 44: Playing Zuck's Advocate

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:15:00 GMT

Kevin and Gina discuss Facebook Home: who it's for, its impact on the Android ecosystem, what makes sense about its intentions but misses in implementation, and what the tech press often gets wrong about open source and Android.

Links for this episode:

Facebook Home

[APK Teardown Exclusive] The HTC Myst Facebook Phone - The Facebook App Is Now A Launcher, Looks Like They're Planning A Play Store Release, Too

Facebook Home review: are people more important than apps? | The Verge

Baby Boomers and Seniors Are Flocking to Facebook [STATS]

Europe Receives Complaint About Google’s Android - NYTimes.com

The HTC First: How Facebook's New Phone Ruins FairSearch's Competition Complaint Over Android

Facebook addresses privacy concerns over Facebook Home | Android Central

Google Pulls Ad-Blocking Apps From Play Store For Violating Developer Distribution Agreement | TechCrunch

Nearly 60K Low-Quality Apps Booted From Google Play Store In February, Points To Increased Spam-Fighting | TechCrunch

You Have One (1) Unread Eulogy In Your Feed - Let’s Make Mistakes - Mule Radio Syndicate

MIT App Inventor

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In Beta 43: Automatically Generate Engaging Content

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:45:00 GMT

How does a Kickstarter project, an app, or a Google prototype headset manage expectations among early adopters? And what makes for good online behavior, versus the bad/wrong/abusive we can pretty easily spot?

Links for this episode:

In Beta Sticker Request

Kickstarter Is Not a Store » The Kickstarter Blog — Kickstarter

For One Week, My Incredible Pebble Smartwatch Was All It Promised To Be--And Then It Stopped Working | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

How It Feels through Glass - Google Glass Official Promo 20/02/2013 - YouTube

ThinkUp - We're shooting for emotion, not automation

Mind Your MeTweets | Mike Industries

Twitter / GameOfThrones: May your baby Khaleesi grow ...

Perks - Twitter on Autopilot

30 Rock (nbc30rock) on Twitter

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In Beta 42: The Internet Doesn't Write an Apology

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 02:00:00 GMT

Gina and Kevin discuss what responsibility social networks have to moderate hate speech and death threats in light of the PyCon kerfuffle. Then, Kevin goes on a mission to find out exactly what it takes to leave email behind for real.

Links for this episode:

Photo - Proof of In Beta stickers

Fired SendGrid Developer Evangelist Adria Richards Speaks Out - Liz Gannes - News - AllThingsD

How Anonymous Picks Targets, Launches Attacks, and Takes Powerful Organizations Down

5by5 | In Beta #21: Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible: A. J. Jacobs: 9780743291484: Amazon.com: Books

The Filter Bubble

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In Beta 41: Follow, Subscribe, Encircle

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:30:00 GMT

Gina & Kevin talk through Facebook's recent moves to circumvent Android's rules and controls, then talk through the sad but maybe inevitable Google Reader shutdown.

Links for this episode:

Under the Hood: Dalvik patch for Facebook for Android

Facebook pushes Android update to enable silent updates (bypassing the Play Store) - Liliputing

Facebook Opens Early Adopter Club To Reignite Mobile Experimentation | TechCrunch

Facebook Opens Early Adopter Club To Reignite Mobile Experimentation

Official Blog: A second spring of cleaning

Google Reader Is Shutting Down; Here Are the Best Alternatives

(143) Google Reader Shut Down (March 2013): Why is Google killing Google Reader? - Quora

Google Reader shutting down July 1 – Marco.org

Goldeneye 64's inspirational startup story | Alex Baldwin

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In Beta 40: Bad at the Habit Zone

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:45:00 GMT

Gina and Kevin discuss Sheryl Sandberg's new book, Lean In, its backlash, and what a third wave of feminism looks like coming out of Facebook, of all places. Then, onto Turntable.fm's epic rise and fall--and what social apps have to do to keep users coming back.

Links for this episode:

Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders | Video on TED.com

Sheryl Sandberg, Barnard College Commencement 2011 - YouTube

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead: Sheryl Sandberg: Amazon.com: Kindle Store

Sheryl Sandberg pushes women to "lean in" - 60 Minutes - CBS News

Maybe You Should Read the Book: The Sheryl Sandberg Backlash : The New Yorker

Twitter / ginab: Uh, @businessinsider, thanks ...

Sheryl Sandberg & Male-Dominated Silicon Valley : The New Yorker

The Boy Kings | Book by Katherine Losse - Simon & Schuster

(33/2) User Acquisition: How has Turntable.fm grown so rapidly with no marketing? - Quora

What Killed Turntable.fm? | Nir and Far

Songza - Listen to Music Curated by Music Experts

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In Beta 39: Opaque Dome

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:30:00 GMT

Gina & Kevin explain and critique TED and its unwieldy brand, along with Marissa Mayer and the Yahoo/work-from-home controversy.

Links for this episode:

TEDActive 2013: The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered.

The Big McThink! How TED Became a Consumer Franchise | Wired Business | Wired.com

Have TED Talks Turned Ideas into an Industry? : The New Yorker

Five Key TED Talks : The New Yorker

Here's the Internal Yahoo No-Work-From-Home Memo - Kara Swisher - News - AllThingsD

Twitter / anildash: @dhh will be fun when they're ...

Don't Run A Sh*tty Company

Ex-Yahoos Confess: Marissa Mayer Is Right To Ban Working From Home - Business Insider

Best Buy ends flexible work program for its corporate employees

Marissa Mayer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Catching Sunlight: Alan Friedman at TEDxBuffalo - YouTube

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In Beta 38: Aversion to Glass

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:00:00 GMT

Dan Benjamin (standing in for Kevin) and Gina discuss why Sergey Brin says smartphones are 'emasculating', Google Glass, the lives of promiscuous likers and favoriters, and how many people it's possible to truly follow on social media.

Links for this episode:

Sergey Brin: Smartphones are 'emasculating' | CNET News

Field Trip - Android Apps on Google Play

Google Glass

All In Favor - Anil Dash

Stellar

Mixel for iPhone

Dunbar's number - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Stanford: Mr. Unincredible - Aaron Swartz

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In Beta 37: Speak Designers' Language

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:15:00 GMT

Special guest Saleh Esmaeili joins Kevin and Gina from Dubai to discuss his newly-released Android app Carbon, what it's like to build a Twitter client around API limitations, his take on Holo, and what Google has to do to attract more great design talent to Android.

Links for this episode:

Carbon for Twitter - Android Apps on Google Play

Carbon's Android Twitter app puts shame in Twitter's game | ITworld

Understanding Android's Holo language - M.Saleh Esmaeili

A word on options & settings - M.Saleh Esmaeili

Graphite for webOS, the premium Twitter experience on webOS tablet(HP Touchpad)

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In Beta 36: Yoga Pose Calibration App

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:00:00 GMT

Gina & Kevin ponder what's so great about Mailbox, the supposedly inbox-fixing Gmail/iPhone app. Related: does it pay to aim much, much higher with your projects?

Links for this episode:

Mailbox - Put Email In Its Place

Why Mailbox Won't Fix Your E-Mail | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Scheduled sending and email reminders | Boomerang for Gmail

Aaron Swartz: He wanted to save the world. Why couldn’t he save himself? - Slate Magazine

Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

Solving big problems by paying attention to small things by Matt Linderman of 37signals

Empty Your Inbox with the Trusted Trio

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In Beta 35: Hammers of the Beards

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Kevin and Gina discuss the point and the pitfalls of teaching yourself how to code using online tutorials. Then, onto what it's like when people who have large audiences decide to turn your GitHub repository (or any published work) into a punchline.

Links for this episode:

Learn to code | Codecademy

Make 2013 Your Code Year | Codecademy

Coding Horror: Please Don't Learn to Code

"My code is so bad it makes people’s eyes bleed"

What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project | Hacker News

Open Source Rocks – Follow Up «

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In Beta 34: Vine Voyeurism

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 03:00:00 GMT

Gina & Kevin dig in on a recurring topic: is Android only big because it's cheap? And can developers work with cheapness, or sometimes around it?

(Note: the audio quality is not the best on one channel, due to a recording error. We're sorry, and it won't happen next week.)

Links for this episode:

Vinepeek | Watch the world in realtime

Android Is Popular Because It's Cheap, Not Because It's Good

The Android engagement paradox | asymco

Seeking Serendipity – Are we really beyond DNS TTL, performance be damned?

» Explaining the iOS and Android mobile browser usage disparity Cloud Four Blog

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In Beta 33: Internal Resentfulness Meter

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:15:00 GMT

Kevin discusses his firsthand experience with the pitfalls of volunteering your time and tech skills for a worthy cause. Gina covers why the benefits of code review--and in general, peer review--outweigh the time it takes and potential for humbling feedback.

Links for this episode:

On Code Review

HTML5 Boilerplate: The web's most popular front-end template

Bootstrap

Initializr - Start an HTML5 Boilerplate project in 15 seconds!

The Phantom King of Buffalo - Buffalo Spree - June 2012 - Buffalo, NY

Grow TEDxBuffalo

When Patents Attack! | This American Life

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In Beta 32: Men Who "Like" Sexism

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 02:30:00 GMT

Facebook's new Graph Search and what it really does and does not accomplish, for users and for businesses. Also: how to actually help non-profits and groups that struggle with tech.

Links for this episode:

How The New Facebook Search Is Different & Unique From Google Search

Introducing Graph Search

The Trouble with Facebook's Graph Search - Datamation

These People Are Now Sharing Horrible Things About Themselves Thanks to Facebook Search

Facebook's New Search Doesn't Change Anything, Except On Facebook

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In Beta 31: Oh, Look! Charts!

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:00:00 GMT

Fresh back from Las Vegas, Kevin reports on Apple's influence at CES 2013, the Pebble smart watch, and how the Lightning connector's limitations might mean more Bluetooth and NFC compatibility. Then, Gina discusses why analytics apps that present a dashboard of charts aren't that useful.

Links for this episode:

POP - The Intersection of Charging and Design by James Siminoff — Kickstarter

Apple rules CES 2013 from 529 miles away | ITworld

All Dashboards Should be Feeds - Anil Dash

Pebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android by Pebble Technology — Kickstarter

Lightning (connector) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Apple lifts block on combo 30-pin+Lightning charging accessories | Ars Technica

ThinkUp - ThinkUp 2.0: Getting Better

Life post-Facebook, Nine Months On | Oregon Life

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In Beta 30: The Continual Cocktail Party

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:30:00 GMT

Gina & Kevin resolve to be sensible about "Going Paperless in 2013," and get deep about the overly optimistic, cocktail-party-esque nature of social media, especially for creators.

Links for this episode:

Go Paperless in 2013

The Pen Is Mightier Than The Phone: A Case For Writing Things Out | Fast Company

hand-writing pseudo-code | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Why Facebook Makes Me Feel Like A Loser | Terence Eden has a Blog

Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? - Stephen Marche - The Atlantic

FOMO and Social Media | Caterina.net

Scan Paperwork to PDF in One Step

My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student: Rebekah Nathan

Mike Elgan - Google+

Humiliation and Memoir - NYTimes.com

How to Make a Baby - The Magazine

Todo.txt for iOS and Android

The Crossover, Episode #4 Assumptions

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In Beta 29: Data Hostage Negotiations

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:15:00 GMT

Gina and Kevin discuss Twitter's new export feature, the usefulness (and lack thereof) of data liberation tools, and why today’s users are more tolerant of services that lock up your data than they were 10 years ago.

Links for this episode:

How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet

What Instagram's New Terms of Service Mean for You - NYTimes.com

Google Data Liberation Front - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Twitter has started rolling out the option to download all your tweets - The Next Web

The Web We Lost - Anil Dash

The Web We Lost - Branch

Free the Photos | Your photos are yours

Louis C.K.: "Starvation Can Be Character Building" | Vanity Fair

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In Beta 28: A Friggin Captcha?

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:45:00 GMT

Gina & Kevin revisit Chromebooks, now that they're actually cheap and getting notably good reviews, and then the realistic ways users can demand more privacy from their apps.

Links for this episode:

Aviary is Now Powering Twitter’s Photo Filters and Effects | Aviary Blog

In Beta #5: Tumbleweed Kickball (Chromebox discussion)

The big list of Chromebook work-arounds and caveats

Samsung Chromebook (Wi-Fi) - Google Play

AlternativeTo - Social Software Recommendations

Online Consumers Should Make Their Needs Known - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

FTC's Second Kids' App Report Finds Little Progress in Addressing Privacy Concerns Surrounding Mobile Applications for Children

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In Beta 27: UnSafeSubscribe

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:00:00 GMT

Forty years after its invention, Kevin and Gina discuss why email is still the killer app, and how deeply users and app developers still depend on it. Then, onto a case study on Android app performance, Gmail for iOS, and Vimium for Chrome.

Links for this episode:

Open Source Guilt & Passion by Nick of 37signals

Gmail 2.0 is a promising but ultimately flawed option for iOS users | The Verge

DevChix

New in Gmail Labs: Smart Labels | Official Gmail Blog

Android Performance Case Study, Falcon Pro

SafeSubscribe Privacy and Security from Constant Contact

Rethinking the 'Never Unsubscribe' Rule for Spam - NYTimes.com

Chrome Web Store - vimium

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In Beta 26: Glitter at the Bottom of the Page

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:30:00 GMT

What percentage of computer users have the essentials down (copy/paste, for example) and how can coders and designers help that? And what is Google up to with their geo-based Ingress game?

Links for this episode:

82% Of All Web Sharing Done Via Copy-And-Paste: Report | Fast Company

Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic

I'm getting sick of making excuses | HD mini lite (Pro)

Ingress

Ingress: What could be the purpose behind Ingress, the game by Google? - Quora

New Portal Submissions - Ingress Help

Google Maps Is Now Giving Out Profile Badges To The Most Helpful Community Members | TechCrunch

Google’s Ingress is more than a game, it's a potential data exploitation disaster

Edit like an Ace - The GitHub blog

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In Beta 25: The Essence of No

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:30:00 GMT

Kevin and Gina discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of Android's latest Jelly Bean release, then move onto the joys and sorrows of a being "content creator," as per The Oatmeal.

Links for this episode:

5 mixed-bag changes in Android 4.2

Some thoughts and musings about making things for the web - The Oatmeal

Oscar Mayer Selects Cold Cuts -- It's Yes Food - YouTube

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In Beta 24: Dirtiest Episode So Far

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:45:00 GMT

Gina & Kevin dig into the efforts required to translate and localize apps, even if you crowd-source it. Then, it's the pros and cons of Startup-Hacka-Rumble-Thon events.

Links for this episode:

Todo.txt Touch for Android Translations - Translate.todotxt.com

BabelZilla

Translations/QuickStartGuide - Ubuntu Wiki

Startup Weekend

FAQ | Startup Weekend

What are the best startups that came out of Startup Weekend? - Quora

What are the most notable companies or products that have come out of a Startup Weekend event? - Quora

Timehop: What did you do 1 year ago today?

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In Beta 23: The Post-Instagram Election

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:45:00 GMT

Kevin and Gina discuss the "social vote": Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube's effects on the outcome of Election Day. Then, onto why Kevin, a self-proclaimed non-hacker, has always used Ubuntu Linux as his primary operating system.

Links for this episode:

Social Media and Voting | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project

Facebook Stories - America Votes 2012

Twitter / #election2012

If You Want to Stay out of Jail, Don't Instagram Your Ballot - Lauren Goode - News - AllThingsD

YouTube Blog: Documenting your vote: send us your videos

Machine turns vote for Obama into one for Romney — MSNBC

Find Your Fucking Polling Place

Your Excuse Sucks

Study Shows Facebook Gets Out the Vote in Large Numbers « CBS DC

Is Nate Silver a Witch?

512 Paths to the White House - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

Terrible Linux Wallpaper (NSFW)

I introduced my 5-year-old and 2-year-old to startx and xmonad. They’re DELIGHTED! | The Changelog

The Magazine

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In Beta 22: The Legion of Markdoom

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Gina, Kevin, and guest Nick Quaranto talk about creating and fostering open source projects (without long-term guilt), RubyGems, 37Signals, and the recent Markdown hubbub.

Links for this episode:

Nick Quaranto (qrush) on Twitter

The On-Call Programmer by Nick of 37signals

RubyGems.org | your community gem host

OpenHack - Code together.

git ready » learn git one commit at a time

Coding Horror: The Future of Markdown

Twitter / codinghorror: well, no response from @gruber ...

GitHub Flavored Markdown - Introduction

Daring Fireball: Markdown

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In Beta 21: Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:45:00 GMT

Gina and Kevin discuss how Reddit's design and values helped Violentacrez thrive, and what happens when Amazon goes down--or just decides to delete your account.

Links for this episode:

Violentacrez Admits He Did It All for ‘Meaningless Internet Points’ on Anderson Cooper 360 | Betabeat

Violentacrez exposé should be taken on its own merits - Boing Boing

Who Owns My Availability?

Outlawed by Amazon DRM « Martin Bekkelund

Bootstrap’s Maintainers Leave Twitter For GitHub And Obvious Corp., Will Move It Into Its Own Organization | TechCrunch

How to permanently save and store your Kindle books

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In Beta 20: If This Then Yahoo

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:00:00 GMT

Gina & Kevin peck at the idea of Yahoo becoming a meta web-connector, and discuss some Git/GitHub tools every budding dev should know about.

Links for this episode:

Code School - Try Git

Ignoring files · github:help

Understanding Git Submodules — Fraser Speirs

Git - Book

Geek to Live: Create your master feed with Yahoo! Pipes

Automate your Dropbox

Bottlenose - Surf the Stream

GitCasts

git ready » learn git one commit at a time

Git Cheatsheet

GTrack App - Android Apps on Google Play

GTrack App Blog

github:help

Why Marissa Mayer Should Acquire IFTTT And Go All In On Yahoo! Pipes

IFTTT / Put the internet to work for you.

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In Beta 19: Don't Start Taking LSD

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:15:00 GMT

Gina and Kevin discuss that time Steve Jobs screamed at Gina's brother -- and what we can learn from Jobs' accomplishments and mistakes. Then, opting out of fancy apps and getting organized with a plain old whiteboard.

Links for this episode:

The Story of Steve Jobs: An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale? | Wired

Steve Jobs: a visionary and case study on how NOT to raise your daughters.

Steve at Home | all about Steve Jobs.com

How a Whiteboard Helped a Terrible Delegator Keep a Team On-Task

How Apple Store Seduces You With the Tilt of Its Laptops - Forbes

Helpspot (use code 5by5 for $100 off), Hover (use code DANSENTME for 10% off an order), and Sourcebits.

In Beta 18: Calling Shenanigans

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:30:00 GMT

Kevin and guest co-hosts Dan Benjamin and Haddie Cooke talk about how Apple gets it right in the "Buy WIth Your Phone" arena, and Google's strategic mobile Maps improvements.

Links for this episode:

Apple's Passbook is definitely not leading the phone-based wallet charge | ITworld

Apple Store for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store

Use cheaper cable to charge iPhone 5 - SFGate

Google Street View now available on mobile Web-based Google Maps | Ars Technica

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In Beta 17: I've Got LTE All Day

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:30:00 GMT

Kevin and special co-hosts Dan and Haddie talk about the cloud architecture and its deficiencies, Google's need to reclaim Android, and why Buffalo is not Austin.

Links for this episode:

Data Centers Waste Vast Amounts of Energy, Belying Industry Image - NYTimes.com

Saving Android From a Second-Rate Future | Wired Business | Wired.com

5by5 | Hypercritical #64: You Will Die Instantly!

Reviews: Apple iPhone 5 (16GB/32GB/64GB) | iLounge

a lot of lead bullets: a response to the new york times article on data center efficiency « diego's weblog

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In Beta 16: Vampires Nesting

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:00:00 GMT

Apple gave developers about a week to update apps for iPhone 5/iOS 6, and Gina knows what it feels like. Meanwhile, Kevin interviewed Chris Sacca and came away with some thoughts on the importance of generalists.

Links for this episode:

Developers prep for iPhone 5's screen, iOS 6 launch | Macworld

PSA: Do not release ARMv7s code until you have tested it « Wandering Coder

Twitter / stroughtonsmith: If you support iOS & Android, ...

Can't use SDK for iOS apps that support armv7s (read: iPhone 5) « Dropbox Forums

Xcode 4.5 and iOS 4.2.1 incompatibility - Stack Overflow

Interview and Q&A with investor Chris Sacca on Vimeo

Marissa Mayer Has a Secret Weapon | Wired Business | Wired.com

Proprietor | LOWERCASE capital (about Chris Sacca)

How Microsoft Lost Its Mojo: Steve Ballmer and Corporate America’s Most Spectacular Decline | Vanity Fair

Vic Gundotra - Google+ - Welcome Nik Software! Today I’m excited to welcome +Nik…

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In Beta 15: Senior Vice-President of Toilet-Cleaning

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:15:00 GMT

Valve employees decide what teams and projects they work on with zero direction. Sound like a dream? Could be a nightmare. Gina and Kevin discuss some of the pitfalls of working at a company where no one tells you what to do. Then, they tackle balancing software quality and community engagement in open source projects.

Links for this episode:

Valve, a Video Game Maker With Few Rules - NYTimes.com

Delegate or die: the self-employed trap. | Derek Sivers

The four lessons other developers can learn from the Valve employee handbook | VentureBeat

Valve: Handbook for New Employees

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In Beta 14: The Gossamer Whiteness of Early-Adopter Apps

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:00:00 GMT

Gina & Kevin talk about cultivating diversity and community in young tech projects and the inner workings of the OAuth world.

Links for this episode:

Using FileMerge as a diff command for Subversion (and Mercurial)

How White Is The New Internet?

coderwall : sign in

Urinating with Al Gore — This Happened to Me — Medium

Urinating with Bill Gates — This Happened to Me — Medium

turntable - play music together

My CodeConf Talk: Your Community Is Your Best Feature | Smarterware

Etsy Hacker Grants: Supporting Women in Technology | Etsy News BlogEtsy News Blog

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In Beta 13: Sell That HTML

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:30:00 GMT

Kevin and Gina discuss the best tools for getting news online, from old-school RSS readers to newfangled social apps. Then, they discuss the digital tools they use to get their jobs done: writing online and open source software development.

Links for this episode:

Information Diet | Home

News.me

Prismatic

ginatrapani on GitHub

Eclipse - The Eclipse Foundation open source community website.

TextMate — The Missing Editor for Mac OS X

Travis CI - Hosted Continuous Integration for the Open Source Community

SimpleTest - Unit Testing for PHP

SchemaSpy

Website wireframes: Mockingbird

Overview — Sphinx 1.1.3 documentation

ThinkUp: A Social Media Insights Engine — ThinkUp 1.0.8.1 documentation

Pulse

Markdown Web Dingus

Twitter Blocks Tumblr From Your Friends List

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In Beta 12: Team Better Copy Writers

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:45:00 GMT

Gina & Kevin tackle the changes to Twitter's API and what it really means for developers and the service in the near future.

Links for this episode:

Matrix | Unsuck It

Timehop: What did you do 1 year ago today?

Changes coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter API | Twitter Developers

Chromebooks and Chrome OS: Coming Soon to Chrome OS: Auto 2-Step Verification via Bluetooth

Boid for Twitter (Beta) - Android Apps on Google Play

Interpreting some of Twitter’s API changes – Marco.org

DON’T PANIC — Tapbots Blog

ThinkUp: Social Media Insights Platform

Display Guidelines | Twitter Developers

Daring Fireball Linked List: Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead

What Twitter's API Announcement Could Have Said - Anil Dash

Readme Driven Development

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In Beta 11: Postpartum Release Depression

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:30:00 GMT

Kevin and Gina discuss when to hire a professional designer versus when (and how) you can DIY it, then onto perfectionism, beta culture, and shipping version 1.0.

Links for this episode:

Amazon.com: The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses (9780307887894): Eric Ries: Books

Minimum viable product - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Todo.txt Touch - Android Apps on Google Play

iPhone 5 leaks: What all of the leaked photos tell us about Apple’s latest device. - Slate Magazine

Kevin Purdy - Google+ - Make LastPass more convenient on Android<b...

The Beginning | Simple Blog

Semantic Versioning 2.0.0-rc.1

Amazon.com: Non-Designer's Design Book, The (3rd Edition) (9780321534040): Robin Williams: Books

Todo.txt: Future-proof task tracking in a file you control

Twitter Bootstrap

Working Backwards - All Things Distributed

What is Amazon's approach to product development and product management? - Quora

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In Beta 10: Wave Your Dongle Here

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 20:45:00 GMT

How one might fend off a big-time personal hack, even if Apple and Amazon seem to make it easy, and how hard it is for Google Wallet to gain traction.

Links for this episode:

How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Emptyage (Mat Honan) — Yes, I was hacked. Hard.

Palin E-Mail Hacker Says It Was Easy | Threat Level | Wired.com

Matt Cutts: Please turn on two-factor authentication

LastPass - Password Manager, Form Filler, Password Management

KeePass Password Safe

KeePassX

Lifehacker: Instant disposable Gmail addresses

Lifehacker: Choose Memorable Answers to Security Questions

Google Wallet is a real thing now—here comes the competition | ITworld

MasterCard PayPass Merchant Locations | MasterCard®

Hover.com (10% off everything you buy with code DANSENTME), Squarespace (10% off with code DANSENTME8), and Flixel

In Beta 9: The 2.3%

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 01:00:00 GMT

Gina and Kevin discuss the Olympics, geek tunnel vision, and designing for the 99%. How awful is the Olympics coverage situation really? Then, onto how to start a new career in tech writing.

Links for this episode:

NBCOlympics’ Opening Ceremony Tape Delay: Stupid, Stupid, Stupid | TechCrunch

Reporter critical of NBC Olympics has Twitter account suspended | Fox News

Heavy Hangs The Bandwidth That Torrents The Crown – Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA)

Lanyrd no longer requires write access to your Twitter account | The Lanyrd Blog

How an American Can Stream the BBC's Official Olympics Coverage and Overcome #NBCFail

Is it really #NBCfail? - CNN.com

Twitter / cjoh: I wonder if nbcnews will wait ...

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In Beta 8: Serious For Loop Shizazzle

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 01:00:00 GMT

Gina and Kevin talk about user guides, documentation, and other writing that's hard to keep current with fast-changing sites and software, and the advantages of DIY code education versus schooling.

Links for this episode:

Building Your First App | Android Developers

How Steve Wozniak Became the Genius Who Invented the Personal Computer

Overview — Sphinx 1.1.3 documentation

Best Android Apps (Amazon)

The Complete Android Guide (Android App)

Google+: The Missing Manual (Amazon)

Codeacademy

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In Beta 7: A Flickr of Hope

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:45:00 GMT

Gina and Dan (standing in for Kevin) discuss how newly appointed CEO Marissa Mayer is Yahoo's new hope, how to stop compulsively checking your phone while you're on vacation, and the Android device we've all been waiting for: the Nexus 7.

Links for this episode:

We're Pulling for You, Chief Mayer; Now Do Something Radical - Alexis Madrigal - The Atlantic

Ten Questions for New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer (This Won't Hurt a Bit!) - Kara Swisher - News - AllThingsD

Why do people still work at Yahoo!? - Quora

How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet

Dear Marissa Mayer

Gender Bias in Leader Selection

My war on phone distraction | tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog

Out of Curiosity Comes Everything | Smarterware

The Ultimate Googler Is Yahoo's Ideal CEO | Wired Business | Wired.com

Doug Bowman on Twitter

An iPad Lover’s Take On The Nexus 7

The Paradox of Choice

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In Beta 6: Truck-Proofing Your App

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:45:00 GMT

Are plug-ins for someone else's app worth developing, given their break-ability and poor aging? Then, navigating an open-source app into less all-or-nothing app stores.

Links for this episode:

The Effects of “Share Alike” | Smarterware

How to Stop Being Paranoid About App Annie | Smarterware

Open Source (Almost) Everything

VLC app removed from App Store | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Why I don't use the GPL

The 23 Best iTunes Add-ons

Scheduled sending and email reminders | Boomerang for Gmail

Better Gmail 2 Firefox Extension for New Gmail

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In Beta 5: Tumbleweed Kickball

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:00:00 GMT

Is Twitter turning its back on developers--and openness in general? Then, why the Chromebox was Google I/O's least popular giveaway.

Links for this episode:

Delivering a consistent Twitter experience | Twitter Developers

Why Your Complaint About Twitter Is Wrong - Anil Dash

LinkedIn Blog » Sharing Professional Content on LinkedIn and Twitter

notes on "twitter hindsight"

What Twitter could have been by Dalton Caldwell

Google Launches Chromebook Retail Push via Best Buy | PCWorld

Chrome & Apps @ Google I/O: Your web, everywhere | Official Google Blog

Google Plugs GDrive Into Chrome OS, iPhones, iPads | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

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In Beta 4: Bear-Lovin' Mothers

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Gina & Kevin discuss two recent and notable community-funded "projects": one to give a bus monitor a needed break, the other to mock a crummy lawyer. Then it's on to Android tablets and their hopes for what Google will announce at this week's I/O conference.

Links for this episode:

Bullied bus monitor Karen Klein 'to retire on $600,000 in donations' as boys FINALLY apologize for their behavior | Mail Online

Lets Give Karen -The bus monitor- H Klein A Vacation! -- Indiegogo

BearLove Good. Cancer Bad. -- Indiegogo

This May Be Google’s New Nexus 7 Tablet

'Star Wars Kid' Gets Bucks From Blogs

Community Guidelines — Kickstarter

Pinboard: social bookmarking for introverts

Don't Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog)

Twitter / mbloomstein: (Re: Amazon Prime)

Only 3.8 Million Honeycomb Tablets Sold So Far | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

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In Beta 3: Hate S'mores

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:00:00 GMT

Kevin and Gina discuss reflexive Microsoft hate and the Surface announcement. Then, the user's perpetual dilemma: what sensitive data are you willing to share for the convenience a great app offers?

Links for this episode:

LastPass

OAuth

Why I Stopped Being Paranoid and Started Using Mint

My First 23 Questions About Microsoft’s ‘Surface’ Windows 8 Tablet | Techland | TIME.com

Microsoft Surface with Windows RT hands-on pictures and video

App Annie - App Store Analytics and Market Intelligence

If You Already Hate Windows 8 Then You Hate Technology

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In Beta 2: Free Bacon and Tight T-Shirts

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Gina and Kevin discuss the nature of the modern tech conference: big, unwieldy, and demanding of a Big Reveal, whether it's real or not. Then it's on to apps that change and "train" users on using them the developer's way.

Links for this episode:

How the TED Conference Started An Intellectual Movement -- New York Magazine

Apple - Apple Events - Apple Special Event June 2012

Pocket’s Tips for Aspiring Android Developers: It’s Not Really Terrifying, and In Fact Quite Enjoyable « Pocket Blog

The #allnew4sq is here. Download it now! | Foursquare Blog

10 Timeframes | Contents Magazine

Video: Raunchy dance routine a PR nightmare for Microsoft (Norwegian Developer Conference)

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In Beta 1: Brevity Is a Feature

Gina Trapani & Kevin Purdy — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:30:00 GMT

In the premier episode of In Beta, Gina and Kevin introduce themselves and the show, noodle on what being "in beta" means, and discuss why and how previously iOS-only mobile apps are making their way onto Android.

Links for this episode: