Friday Link Roundup: Twitter, Energy, Web Apps, Wars and the Milky Way

Dinu | Tuesday, 19th May 2009 | 2 Comments

This week's link roundup

#1

Fail Whale

Twitter's Business Model

Twitter takes a new approach to monetizing by ruling out ads and working on useful tools for users. I'm guessing they're working on a collection of tools which would replace those 3rd party ones.

#2

Zen Habits

55 Ways to Boost Your Energy

If you're like me you tend to burn out from time to time. This post on ZenHabits.net gives some very useful tips on retaining your energy level so that you can improve productivity and your quality of life simultaneously.

#3

Web App Fail

Launch a Business, not a Side Project

Ryan Carson challenges the idea brought around by 37Signals that you should launch a product as a side project and let it grow. Insighful read if you are working on side projects at the moment.

#4

Anti American Ads

Anti-American History Channel Ads

Here's some anti-American ads created for the History channel in South Africa by Ogilvy.

#5

Galaxy Core

Time Lapse Photography of the Galactic Core of the Milky Way

Watch in awe at this gorgeous video compilation of shots taken every 20 seconds for nine hours at a star party in Fort Davis, Texas

Comments (2)

I hadn't seen that galactic core vid before, it's awesome. A real eye opener.

Andy Avatar Andy | 22nd May 2009

Yup, that's some amazing stuff. I rarely see a starry sky from this urban jungle I live in.

Dinu Avatar Dinu | 23rd May 2009

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