David Emery OnlineFriday Links XXXXI
14 December 2007
Fear & Self-Loathing Among The Un-Blogged Bloggers
So very true; just blog, don’t worry about the consequences.
IMDb Launching a Database and Social Network for Music?
Very interesting if true – I’ve always thought that there’s been a gap in the market for an IMDB style site for music. Hopefully it’ll have a good api…
Easylistener
Pretty nifty, although I’d like to be able to customise the look a lot more (faux Aqua buttons aren’t exactly stylish).
Scribbles
Watch the demo movie – the UI is quite unique (in a good way).
Flash, meet H.264
H.264 video in Flash is now out there…
BBC iPlayer
... and the BBC are now using it for a flash based version of their iPlayer. Yay!
It’s that time of year again
Lots of awesome work.
Lifehacker interview on the future of Quicksilver
Boo hiss! Hopefully someone will jump in and save the day.
OAuth 1.0, OpenID 2.0 and up next: DiSo
DiSo sounds very intriguing.
Google Chart API
Very useful stuff, although there are quite a few very nice Flash graphing libraries.
Social Blogging
I have no doubt Social Blogging is going to be very, very important.
Fail
Some people still really don’t get blogging, do they?
Stereogum sold for $5 million
Don’t let anyone tell you blogging, and music blogging specifically, isn’t a form of mass media.
Yahoo Movies and the Law of Web Page Sprawl
Cool new features do not necessarily equal good user experience (even if you think they do).
Imeem Pens a Deal with Universal Music. Now Has All the Majors.
I’ve always wanted a YouTube for music, and Imeem seem to have ended up being it. I’m not a fan of the identikit social network features the rest of the site features, but if they refocus on just music they could go far.
The News Feed
I totally agree (so much so that I wrote about it 6 months ago).
2007: More Web Design Trends & Clichés
Most of these trends seem to be pretty good ones, if you ask me (other then that oversized RSS button rubbish).
Your best live music moment? Text 83111.
Amazing work – I love it when technological ideas that would normally be computer bound can interact with the real world.
Guess Who?
Brilliant illustrations by Noma Bar.
Dopplr launches at LeWeb3 in Paris
Dopplr is one of my favourite sites at the moment, even though I don’t travel much – go and sign up!
Flash : All Things To (Almost) Everyone
And here’s the problem with proprietary platforms… you have no control.
Movable Type Open Source
Good stuff – version 4 has got me interested, although I don’t think it’ll enough to make the switch from Textpattern.
Bebo Launches Platform, Aligns with Facebook
Interesting that despite all the OpenSocial hype, Facebook have managed to essentially get someone else using their API even though it’s not open.
Star Wars Figures that Didn’t Make the Cut (Verdict: George, Make These. Now.)
Aunt Beru (smouldering corpse)
Crunks 2007: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections
Never. Belive. What. You. Read. (They make it all up)
Author Pratchett has Alzheimer’s
BUGGER.
Opera tries to force IE into W3C compliance with EU complaint; Firefox’s success may work against it
Of course! Because suing Microsoft so far has been immensely successful in changing their behaviour.
The NYT + CNN Own Web Content Design. Fox Owns Mobile.
Fox have a really good iPhone site. This confuses me greatly.
Who’s Using Your Flickr Photos? Flickr Now Has Stats.
This is pretty darn awesome – I love the way Flickr keeps rolling out good stuff.
Facebook Status Updates: The “is” is No More
Isit.
CSS Unworking Group
The whole CSS Working Group thing is obviously all screwed up – I don’t know if this is the solution, but something needs to happen.
A lick of paint for the BBC homepage
I’m not a fan of this at all. Web 2.0 clichés abound, and I couldn’t care less for the customisation elements. Such a shame considering I know the BBC can get this right if they would try a bit harder.
A special “Where’s WALL-E” edition of Why For?
I really do love Pixar.
This is the new politics
I wonder if, in about 20 years time, when the kids that grew up with blogs and MySpace become politicians things could well turn out to be very different.
Encouraging people to contribute knowledge
I did wonder how much longer Google would tolerate Wikipedia being so popular.
50 answers
Brilliantly funny in a slightly off-kilter fashion.