AppJet, the engine behind EtherPad, has been acquired by Google.
This means EtherPad will be shut down come March. This approach to this reminds me of something the Drama 2.0 Show <a href=”http://www.drama20show.com/2008/12/03/silicon-valley-the-only-place-where-getting-a-new-job-acquisition/” rel=”nofollow” title=”‘The Only Place Where Getting a New Job = Acquisition’”, about Six Apart’s acquisition of Pownce”>said a year ago, before it became a porn site:
[A]nytime a failed startup is “acquired” and the service is shut down, you don’t have an acquisition. You have a
Silicon Valley signing bonus.
I don’t mean to suggest EtherPad failed (from the reactions this story gets, it would seem this is not the case), but I agree with Drama’s main point: when the acquired company is shut down as part of the agreement, it is not so much acquired, as the founders are hired with sign-on fees.
(Via Jacob Kaplan-Moss)
And on the topic of clothing, Simplebits have made a fine-looking T-shirt.
Wow, that is one wonderful wrist watch. I want one of those.
(Via Put This On.)
A detailed description of Backblaze’s setup, getting a lot of storage to fit in a limited budget.
This is quite old news (1 September), but I didn’t read it the first time around, and was reminded of it today via a newsletter from them.
New non-profit from American Association for the Advancement of Science, dedicated to help US Federal Government make use of the expertise of its citizens.
(Via Anil Dash, the lab’s director.)
A collection of HTML elements and CSS styling, to test a font’s usefulness on the web. Made by Tim Brown of Nice Web Type fame.
Marvellous. An entire site dedicated to shoelaces.
(Via Put This On.)
Jason Santa Maria in A List Apart on how to pair web fonts in the new world of @font-face.
Jeremy Keith has a post on a new visual cue he has developed for Huffduffer, to signal a small change. The change is akin to the visual feedback one gets in Super Mario when scoring points, and I must say, it’s quite well-executed.
‘A web series about dressing like a grownup’.
Jesse Thorn and Adam Lisagor have made this wonderful blog and small-scale tv series about how to properly dress yourself. The first episode (published 2 November) is about denim, and is very well-done. The blog is well-written, and whilst I don’t agree with all the advice (a tweed vest? No thanks), most of the advice is pretty sound.
(Also, they’re looking for funding to continue the series. Yes, I am considering turning this into a Kickstarter promotion blog.)
