Links

Finding subversives using Amazon wishlists.

Google search trends. Here is an interesting piece from my search trend. What I don’t understand is, where did thiep and amway come from?

The qualified Yes. Somewhere between saying “no” to a new project or taking on something in an open-ended type of way, be clear from the start on what you can commit in concrete terms.

So, what used to be “Sure, I’ll do your web site” is now more often “Sure, I’ll give you 10 hours and 3 calls over the next month to use however you want.” If nothing else, it helps everyone understand that time is a precious commodity, but it also gets me out of being the de facto manager for every aspect of a project I touch.

Folder Size lets you see the size of folders in Windows Explorer. Useful to find out where all the junk is hidden.

I’m awaiting AllPeers. It’s a Firefox bittorrent extension that makes it easy to share files among peers.

Retrievr. You sketch out what you want to see and it tries to make a match on Flickr.

Speed up your pages.

Summer of ’69: a line-by-line history of the song, by its writer Jim Vallance.

Google Feed API to be released soon. While on Google, there’s some rumour about Google Purchases being used for video rentals — and eventually on to micropayments, competing with Paypal. Also, William Slawski maps Google’s acquisitions.

Turning iPod into a universal remote.