In the words of Queen Christina...

“There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them”

Queen Christina of Sweden(1626-1689)

Beautiful. Found here

Flash from the past

The old Blogger logo. What's the difference?

Then: Straight bg corners
Now: Rounded bg corners

Man, it's all in the corners...

Casey likes No Fluff Just Stuff

If all conferences were this good (Casey on NFJS), the world would be a better place.

We update Nearbie

We have released our first major update to Nearbie since the official launch in March.

Browse History
Lets you browse earlier and later history through all the interconnected history on Nearbie.

New History Making Tools
Faster, easier, and more useful. You can even make history in as little as one single click

Commenting
Just like on a blog post, you can add your comments to any history item on Nearbie. Be smart, be clever, say something good!

We've also added Canadian places, and more international ones are in the pipeline.

Take the updated Nearbie for a spin!

Update: Mashable says "keep up the good work".

A guide to Twitter

The 12-Minute Definitive Guide to Twitter

Via a tweet (or a twitt... depends on who you ask) by Stowe

"What is so special about SF?"

That's a question I get ever so often. My first reaction, summarily suppressed, is to ask "Are you crazy?".

I think better of it and instead try to explain how much I love it when the sun rises and the Bay turns golden, or the crispness of the air when I walk along Crissy Fields in March. I might even talk about the calm I feel when sipping a coffee and watching the theater of life on Fillmore Street. Or how much both Tiff and I love driving back in to the city over the Bay Bridge when the sun is setting on a clear summer's evening.

But, it's hard to get the true San Francisco feeling across in just words. And I never get around to putting pix together to support my case for SF as the #1 place on the planet.

Unknowing to himself, my good friend Per has come to my rescue. Enjoy his "My Walk 2 Work" set and you'll see why San Francisco is the best place in the world to live, love, work and everything in between.

Philosophically speaking

A few lines to help explain web 2.0 and its potential impact to web 1.0 people:

"The 2.0 web world is more than just embedded technology – it is a philosophy. Companies who embrace this thinking are more flexible, agile, and innovative in their strategy and approach, but moving in this direction means rethinking structure, management style, workflow, and culture."

Found here.

Twitterverse

Twitterverse

"Twitterverse is a mashup and visualization project which mines and archives the public timeline of Twitter and provides a visualization of the most commonly used words in a given time period. "

Small apps save my day

I just realized that both my two current favorite apps are very small, functional pieces of code:
WriteRoom - Hog Bay Software's WR is the ultimate creative writing app. (I run it w black text, on a white sheet with a grey bg in case you wondered)
Twitterrific - Makes Twitter work for me

Small is more. (eh...)