May 2008
48 posts
The Ultimate Yahoo! Pipes Creations List →
Yahoo! Pipes is one of the coolest ways to mashup the RSS feeds of various sites and sources to get the data you want. Since our coverage of Yahoo! Pipes, thousands of creations are now…
Semantic Search: The Myth and Reality →
For a few years now people have been talking about semantic search.
Any technology that stands a chance to dethrone Google is of great interest
to all of us, particularly one that takes advantage…
Buzz-Monitoring Platform TruCast Launches New... →
In our recent article “When User-Generated Content Goes Bad,” we highlighted the challenges that companies face today when delving into marketing campaigns that revolve around user-generated…
Don't fly RyanAir →
Have a little self-respect and avoid these cowboys.
WhatTheFont : MyFonts →
Upload a font and it’ll tell you what it is.
Mac OS X 10.5.3: sync Google Contacts →
By Mike Morton, Google Mac Team We’re happy to tell you that starting today, it’s easier to sync up your contact lists. The Address Book application in Mac OS X 10.5.3 now lets iPhone users sync…
Padded link targets for better mousing →
Among the minor tweaks we introduced with the new Basecamp project switcher are some larger link targets at the top of the screen. Since then I’ve been paying extra attention to link target size….
passive-aggressive (and just plain aggressive)... →
Ever left a note for someone to express your displeasure with them? That’s what this blog is all about.
If You Want To Get Away With Murder… Buy A Car →
Page from the end section of Rumble Strip, Woodrow Phoenix’s new comic book
Rumble Strip, the latest offering from acclaimed comic artist and writer Woodrow Phoenix is an illustrated…
It's like a meme within a meme within a meme...
Weezer’s new internet-viral stuffed new video versus Will it blend?
42 awesome business cards - great fun and memorable (which is surely the idea?), but a bit of a pain to fit in a business card holder…
twitter.zappos.com →
Online shoe store, Zappos, info about how they use twitter as an organisation. Could be an interesting approach to organisational transparency online.
GreenYour.com | Your guide to green anything. →
How to Use Social Media for Social Change →
Did you participate in the Twit-Out yesterday? Do you even know what that is? To get you up to speed, a handful of Twitter users, fed up with the regular outages of their favorite service,…
“I can’t stand the fact that I leave an unquestioning vapour-trail of ROI behind...”
– Ian Tait: http://www.crackunit.com/2008/05/20/dont-count-me-dot-com/
“Where corduroy is involved, the word ‘crotch’ becomes sort of poetically...”
– Dean Allen: http://twitter.com/textism/statuses/816361590
Attention all news organizations: From now until... →
You know, I wonder how far from the truth this is… So our leak to Gizmodo worked like a charm, and they’ve posted the news about the 3G iPhone drop here. Big date is June…
BBC - Radio Labs - Helping machines play with... →
BBC Radio Labs reveal programme and other metadata through RDF. More of this please, it makes me feel even better about paying my license fee.
The Hidden Inefficiency of the Prius →
Don’t Buy That New Prius! Test-Drive a Used Car Instead: Wired Magazine argues that buying a used car is vastly more energy efficient than buying a new Prius. Making a Prius consumes 113…
Bug Labs →
Lego-esque gadget building blocks. Cheeky!
Favrd. Trickle-down egonomics for the twitter... →
Rands In Repose: N.A.D.D. →
Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick… Uh oh.
“During [the twentieth] century we have for the first time been dominated by...”
– Douglas Adams - “How to stop worrying and love the Internet”: http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html
More on the Usage Lifecycle: Lifecycle Messaging →
DIssertation on how to manage your users’ usage pattern by well-timed emails. Highly relevant to campaigner management
“…maybe you have a different Internet than everyone else?”
– An amusing rhetorical insult found on a random Wikipedia talk page.
Meatwater →
Continuing the meat drinks theme… hmmm…. fish & chip flavoured sportswater!
The Whatchamacallit, Post Recession Phase... →
Interesting, yet lengthy, 3-part post about what’s coming next in the post Web 2.0 world.
Semantic Travel Search Engine UpTake Launches →
According to a comScore study done last year, booking travel over the Internet has become something of a nightmare for people. It’s not that using any of the booking engines is difficult,…
Ask 37signals: Public communications policy? →
Brad writes:
I’m curious what your policy is for public communication among
employees of your company, particularly posting on the SvN blog. Can
anyone come up with an idea and post it? Are there…
Speechification →
A blog about interesting radio coverage, mostly from Radio 4, but with occasional international entries.
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally...”
– Dr. Seuss (via vinh)
Greenwash Guide - Communicating Sustainable... →
Greenwash: What it is, why it’s bad, how to spot it and how to avoid it.
“Fellow Wu member Ghostface Killah is so committed that at his O2 show in London...”
– http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0„2279389,00.html
From Little Things, Big Things Grow →
An interesting article from one of the Flickr founders on how they fostered the Flickr community without crushing it under bureaucracy.
Yahoo! UI Library: Graded Browser Support →
Very useful and easily adoptable definitions of the level of support to afford to each of the current crop of browsers.
Dual n-task →
IQ brain training thing. Takes a little getting used to to start with.
Fat Cyclist » Apologies →
I got to the line “I’ll ride more later.” and choked up. What this post in isolation doesn’t give you is the whole story about his wife’s illness and the challenges they’ve been facing. It’s a story that’s both inspiring and tragic in heaps.
flight404's Processing video for Radiohead's Weird... →
Totally stunning. I’m in awe.
Information Design Patterns →
A lovely tool to browse chart designs, and read about their uses and examples of implementation. Tufte-tastic.