// Internet Duct Tape

RSS feeds are like cookies (that are good enough for me). Best of Feeds is a weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet this week. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together on Saturdays. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.

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• [SOFTWARE] Lifehacker’s 2007 Guide to Free Software and Webapps
  • Huge list of free software
  • (software, freeware)
  • (lifehacker.com, 1763 saves, 100 inbound links, diggs)
• [STARTUPS] Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea
  • from the guy who brought use blogger and twitter
  • (business, startup, strategy, product, evaluation)
  • (evhead.com, 808 saves, 100 inbound links, diggs)
• [RAILS] Secrets of the Rails Console Ninjas
  • tips for making the console part of your workflow
  • (rails, console, rubyonrails)
  • (slash7.com, 485 saves, 45 inbound links, 25 diggs)
• [MOVIES] A special “Where’s WALL-E” edition of Why For?
  • A look at how Pixar reuses their characters between movies… things you’ve never noticed
  • (pixar, movies, animation, eastereggs)
  • (jimhillmedia.com, 365 saves, 100 inbound links, 666 diggs)
• [GIFTS] Lifehacker Gift Guide 2007
  • Some gift ideas
  • (shopping, gifts, guide, lifehacker)
  • (lifehacker.com, 274 saves, 49 inbound links, 91 diggs)
• [SOCIALNETWORKING] The Next Social Network: WordPress
  • Blogs as social network hubs
  • (blogging, socialnetworking, wordpress)
  • (gigaom.com, 231 saves, 100 inbound links, 539 diggs)
• [PHOTOS] NWYH Stock Image Library
  • Royalty free business related stock photos…. with a twist
  • (photo, free, business, photography, stock)
  • (nwyhstockimages.com, 186 saves, 75 inbound links, 38 diggs)
• [CAREER] You Are Self-Employed
  • Even if your an employee, you’re still working for You, Inc.
  • (career)
  • (stevepavlina.com, 184 saves, 42 inbound links)
• [XMAS] Pagan Orgies to Human Sacrifice: The Bizarre Origins of Christmas
  • It’s not the birth of Christ, it was to distract pagans from having orgies.
  • (history, christmas, pagan)
  • (cracked.com, 78 saves, 39 inbound links, diggs)
• [XKCD] Authors@Google: Randall Munroe
  • A video talk by the guy who does XKCD
  • (xkcd, youtube)
  • (youtube.com, 66 saves, 89 inbound links, 10 diggs)
• [COPYRIGHT] Why Lane Hartwell is wrong
  • Photographer gets popular viral video taken down after her photo appears for 1 sec.
  • (copyright, photography)
  • (mathewingram.com, 7 saves, 63 inbound links)
• [FACEBOOK] Do Facebook Groups Mean Anything?
  • Are facebook groups a valid way of measuring interest in… well.. anything?
  • (facebook)
  • (web1979.com, 4 saves, 3 inbound links)
• [COMICS] Passive Depressive
  • New web site for passive depressive
  • (comics, webcomics, passivedepressive)
  • (passive-depressive.com, 3 inbound links)

Legend

• saves – number of people who bookmarked on http://del.icio.us
• inbound links – number of blogs who linked to it (max 100)
• diggs – number of people who dugg on http://digg.com

Tags: business, photography