Archive for August, 2009
Chit – a useful ruby util
I found an interesting ruby util – chit. it can retrieve cheat sheets from repositories powered by git!
http://wiki.github.com/robin/chit/user-s-guide
so far I haven’t found any especially useful cheat sheets there. but it looks interesting and promising.
what’s the difference between a cheat sheet and a man page? man pages spend too much effort to define options formally. cheat [...]
Teenagers do not use Twitter
It is not news. NYTimes just published an article Who’s Driving Twitter’s Popularity? Not Teens.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/technology/internet/26twitter.html?_r=1
some interesting points
“Though Twitter’s founders originally conceived of the site as a way to stay in touch with acquaintances, it turns out that it is better for broadcasting ideas or questions and answers to the outside world or for marketing a [...]
sina will launch its microblogging service
sina will launch a twitter-like microblogging service. when chinese clone products, usually no detail will be missed. it even only allows 140 characters too. actually i hope yahoo can clone other products in this no-brainer way, since it turns out most features yahoo missed in the beginning will be eventually added anyway. it is more [...]
