Lau-Labs

An interesting take on how GitHub may be killing the OpenSource mantra – http://t-machine.org/index.php/2012/01/13/2012-the-year-of-uncollaborative-development-or-when-github-kills-open-source/

A good way to improve authenticity without building your own authentication methods…

Find Your Match on Hitch.me, the Dating Site for LinkedIn Professionals – http://mashable.com/2012/01/12/hitch-me-linkedin-dating-site/

Why Google’s Social Search Is Too Much, Too Soon – http://mashable.com/2012/01/13/google-social-search-too-much-too-soon/ – and the even scarier – How Google’s Social Search Shift Will Impact Your Brand’s SEO – http://mashable.com/2012/01/13/google-search-plus-your-world-seo/

2 for the price of one!

With SimpleGeo’s Shutdown Imminent, Parse Swoops In With A Life Preserver – http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/13/with-simplegeos-shutdown-imminent-parse-swoops-in-with-a-life-preserver/ – and – Urban Airship To Shutter SimpleGeo Services In March, With Factual Picking Up The Slack – http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/12/urban-airship-to-shutter-simplegeo-services-in-march-with-factual-picking-up-the-slack/

From where and in what context…?

Microsoft, with all their money have done it again – they’ve somehow convinced me that the next IE is going to be the bees knees by introducing me to a HTML5 version of cut-the-ropes – http://www.cuttherope.ie/ – then backed it up with a developer page – http://origin.cuttherope.ie/dev/ – which is making me consider whether or not to now download IE10 and be fooled all over again….

Very useful method for creating the layout of PODS – http://www.3x4grid.com/

Check-out http://cuepoint.org/

Looking forward to the day MongoPress development gets as (potentially) complicated as WordPress has become – http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/dev-chat-notes-01042012/

Nice presentation introducing the technicalities of activity streams – http://www.slideshare.net/danmckinley/etsy-activity-feeds-architecture

Speaking of TechStars, two of their projects just got some serious funding:
US$6.5 Million for Next Big Sound http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/03/next-big-sound-raises-6-5-million/
US$1.2 Million for Vizify – http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/03/vizify-raises-1-2-million-to-help-you-make-a-great-first-impression-online/

A good write-up by someone who was at first sceptical about the TechStars program – http://kevinprentiss.com/?p=156

MongoDB Pagination – http://sourceforge.net/projects/mongopagination/ and MongoQueue – https://github.com/lunaru/mongoqueue – are both seemingly useful add-on classes for PHP – the queue will be useful for MongoMail, but as for the pagination – will have to let @ali take a closer look…

As might this – http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/30/angelpad-looks-back-37-companies-31-funded-25-million-raised/

Seems we might have a new RSS parser (much simpler and fully JS) – http://www.jquery-plugins.net/FeedEK/FeedEK.html

jQuery UI (boot-strapped) – very useful if using Bootstrap – http://addyosmani.github.com/jquery-ui-bootstrap/

Just what the doctor ordered – A Responsive Design Approach for Complex, Multicolumn Data Tables – http://filamentgroup.com/lab/responsive_design_approach_for_complex_multicolumn_data_tables/

It’s hard to admit, but ever so true – ”Stop whining and start employing remote workers” – http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3064-stop-whining-and-start-hiring-remote-workers

Super sexy simple ”teaser page” design – http://themes.okaythemes.com/deploy/

Roundabout is better than a kick-in-the-teeth – http://fredhq.com/projects/roundabout/