"I'm not an engineer, so I don't know how technically realistic this is, but I've always thought that conceptually, companies should build APIs before they build their own interface. That way, they ensure that all the APIs needed to replicate the experience are already in place. The company's front-end engineers simply become part of their own API developer community."
- Joe Lazarus
@beach @BestAt tracks a bunch of funny people and monitors what they think is funny - through their "favorites" and other voting criteria
1,000,000 Followers
My funny (and occasionally off-color) Twitter bot, @BestAt, passed 1 million followers today. Huge thanks to all the peeps following those retweets. - http://joelaz.com/post...
"That's possible, but unfortunately, I don't have the time to make that version myself. The Yahoo! Pipes page has a "clone" button, which lets anyone copy what I made. They could then edit the Pipe to list songs instead of artists."
- Joe Lazarus
"Nice! I love the idea of dynamically generated lists. It would be cool if the tool weren't specific to @ replies, but was more general... sort of like Smart Playlists for iTunes, where you could specify what criteria defines the list (@ replies, favorites, posts containing links, etc). Here's a comment I made on Fred's blog a few weeks ago about the concept... http://www.avc.com/a_vc......"
- Joe Lazarus