links for 2007-02-27

Cool – Solar to Hydrogen to Electricity

http://www.siei.org/mainpage.html

Guy decides to take his off the grid home off of its dependence on backup diesel generator (and because it would be a cool project)

Gets some friends together

Team ties together solar panels with Electrolyzer (to convert water into 0xygen and Hydrogen), store the hydrogen in a massive tank, and then fuel a fuel cell and batteries to power the home for 14 days as a backup to the solar panels.

Tekriti Turns 2!

Ashish, Manish, Guarav and the rest of the team at Tekriti just turned 2.

These guys are rockstars developers (shipping custom code, CMSs as well as their own project with Broadband Mechanics – PeopleAggregator – and have worked with me in the past on a couple of projects).

The real question is, will Halley and I get the cool t-shirts?!?!?!?!

Happy Birthday Fellas!

What the hell is wrong with Yahoo? First Flickr and now Digg?

First Yahoo screws with the Flickr ‘old skoolers’ by requiring them to change the login and join Yahoo if they still want to access their accounts (and in the process, asking me to delete one of my accounts instead of giving me the option to merge them) and now this…

See what happens when you rip someone off

Ironically, someone posted what Yahoo did to Digg.com, and then the Digg Army got involved, making the site a pathetic embarrassment.

Not only do they rip off Digg.com, but they actually celebrate it –

That’s changing for Yahoo! — we’ve brewed up a swanky new community-based recipe for collecting feedback that’s making its way across a number of our sites. It started with Yahoo! Autos and has proliferated across 14 other properties.

We call it a Suggestion Board — you can browse suggestions from other site visitors or post your own. Digg-style voting means we can quickly discover what’s most important to users. In addition to reading feedback from other users, you’ll find responses from Yahoo! employees about the issues. Product teams regularly read and take action on your feedback. Though we aren’t always going to immediately act on it, it’s incredibly helpful to us in making the best sites we can… and we’ve even been known to reward great suggestions with some Yahoo! schwag.

Brewed up? Making the best sites you can?

Pathetic

I want this…

Working for Gizmodo – quite possibly the greatest job in the world because you can report on things like this

I want this...

Everything is neatly tucked away, including cables and compartments for peripherals. Oh, and did I mention it has a fish tank? A fish tank!

Annoying… Flickr ~ Yahoo dance

got this in the mail today:

Dear Old Skool Account-Holding Flickr Member,

On March 15th we’ll be discontinuing the old email-based
Flickr sign in system. From that point on, everyone will
have to use a Yahoo! ID to sign in to Flickr.

Now when I try to combine accounts it is giving me another problems

aaarrrrggggggghhhhh!!!!

Web Celeb 25 – batting average for bloggers is better than .500

13 out of 25 of the Web Celeb 25 are bloggers

Link to the article here

The Web Celeb 25

1. Jessica Lee Rose
2. Perez Hilton
3. Markos Moulitsas Zúniga
4. Matt Drudge
5. Seth Godin
6. Jeff Jarvis
7. Glenn Reynolds
8. Amanda Congdon
9. Robert Scoble
10. Michael Arrington
11. Hosea Frank
12. Jimmy Wales
13. Harry Knowles
14. Frank Warren
15. Cory Doctorow
16. Xeni Jardin
17. Leo Laporte
18. Merlin Mann
19. John H. Hinderaker
20. Charles Johnson
21. Kevin Sites
22. Mark Lisanti
23. Jason Calacanis
24. Om Malik
25. Violet Blue