links for 2008-07-23

Overall, I think Thrift wins on features and Protocol Buffers win on
documentation. Implementation-wise, they’re quite similar.

There have been 40,000 bit.ly URLs created so far with 5,000 added everyday.

LinkedIn users are now being shown personalized news targeting their industry verticals on the Business and Technology sections of NYTimes.com and will then be prompted to share those stories will professional associates.

how can we get started? Where can we get all the best iPhone Application development resources? Please have a look at the list of hand pciked iPhone resources below

LinkedIn’s Bumper Sticker app: one billion page per month Facebook Ruby on Rails application.

Apple had stacks of “iPhone 3G Gift Cards” for customers who wanted to give the gift of iPhone 3G to a friend

RWE will focus on: web standards, Ajax, CSS, JavaScript, accessibility, design, security, and web framework selection. Doug Crockford and Molly Holzschlag speaking

How it works: Notify us when a train passes: Send a text to Twitter (40404) in the following format: @WhereTheEL [Train Color] [Station] [Direction] Example: @WhereTheEL brown addison S

I’ve worked side-by-side with my three coeditors at Lifehacker.com remotely for 3 years.
The key to our placeless office: Web applications that let us all the other things that regular teams do from our home offices, hotel rooms, and Internet cafes.