Friday Links XIII

11 May 2007

New Version of Google Analytics! – beautiful work from the Google Analytics team; is this the point where we start to see Google taking design seriously?

HTML 5: Positive Momentum – great to see some positive motion, finally. With this and the renewed energy of the Internet Explorer team, who knows what the future holds for the web…

Wilder Shore – this photo was taken at night! Makes you re-think what you see when it’s dark, and how accurate our site is anyway – I wonder what the world really looks like.

MC Hammer Declared An “Expert” — Web2.0 Finally Jumps The Shark. – MC Hammer? Seriously? I truly hope this is a really good joke.

MySpace Announces Site-Wide DRM – Wired get the title a touch too hyperbolic, but it’s unsurprising that MySpace are adding copyright filters onto their upload process – all the big players (or at least the ones that want to deal with the big media companies) will do the same.

Search, and ye shall fail – a nice bit of form markup-foo from Steve.

YouTube’s New Inline Ads: Screenshots – I’d much prefer very short pre/post roll ads (like what Joost is doing) to this.

New Guardian Site – not too bad, and certainly a lot better then it was; I really like the use of colour, but the general layout and typography is fairly uninspired. And I still don’t get the whole “GuardianUnlimited” thing – they really need to drop that late nineties bit of branding, and align with the paper redesign.

Last.fm Launches Video – an obvious move from Last.fm, but nonetheless interesting. I don’t think they’re going to replace YouTube any time soon though.

I’m going to leave you with the video for Elephant Gun by Beirut, who’s on 4AD Records, as it’s simply a stunning video. Also, a housekeeping note: I’m going to be over in New York for all of next week (if anyone wants to say hi drop me a line!) so blogging is likely to be very sporadic.

Anyway, onto the music:

From: Articles

11 May 2007