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Friday Links XX

29 June 2007

Basecamp gets OpenID and “Open Bar” – Nice solution here for having multiple accounts across their different services, without having some convoluted method to joining them all together.

Selling advertising – I guess their is almost no point linking to Seth; if you’re reading this you must be reading him as well…

An entirely new way to stay organized – nice improvements on the interface from Google. With this and Google Analytics, is Google finally paying attention to aesthetics?

Web fonts on the horizon – oh how much I want this to happen! The lack of available fonts is – I think – the biggest issue I have with HTML and CSS a the moment.

OmniWeb Sneaky Peek Builds – OmniWeb 5.6 is so fast; blindingly quick, in fact. It uses the latest version of WebKit, so has a whole load of improvements and the new web inspector.

iPhone’s disappearing spacebar – the iPhone UI is packed full of so many clever details like this.

In search of Eiríkur Smith – art matters – always worth remembering that, I think.

I read the news today, oh boy – brilliant post. Scary times in London, yet again, but life – and shiny gadgets – goes on.

Record shop chain Fopp closes – well that sucks, and is a bit of a surprise; Fopp was definitely my favourite music and video store. I imagine we’re going to be hit by the same thing the US has seen since Tower Records’ closure, with all the other big chains getting even more conservative.

Web App Autopsy – some interesting stats here; we’re quite happy with PHP (and CakePHP on top of it) – it seems to be working out nicely.