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27 October 2007
How to Snatch an Expiring Domain
What an utterly insane process.
Hotel Honesty
Honesty really is the best policy.
Put yourself on the map
Hmm, a mapping based social network from Google? Interesting…
Something new in News
I’m unconvinced, in the same way I’m unconvinced by the whole river-of-news thing, but I’m interested in the experimentation.
Dopplr Blog: In rainbows
Not about a certain Oxford band, before you ask. The colour coding of different towns on Dopplr is genius, but then using that dynamically as the logo on the page is even better. I’m more impressed by Dopplr every day.
RCRD LBL Slated for an 11/15 Launch
I’m watching with interest.
Branding NYC
The more I think about it the more I think that Wolff Olins – of 2012 logo infamy – are doing some of the best design design work around at the moment. Challenging is a good thing.
Gmail gets IMAP
Pretty nifty, although I’m the only person left on the planet that doesn’t use Gmail (I’ll look after my mail, thanks).
Huge pirate music site shut down
OiNK was a pretty huge deal, so this is an interesting development.
Critical Backlash: Why We Need OiNK
Good points.
The Pirate Bay To Bring Back OiNK
Shutting down file sharing networks always reminds be of the bit in ‘A New Hope’ when Obi Wan says ‘If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.’
Family
Of course, Apple don’t really need to worry about activations as they’ve already sold you the hardware to run it on, and that’s really what it’s all about.
Facebook Takes the Microsoft Money And Runs.
The $15 billion valuation is obviously completely made up – this is a further sign, though, that Facebook doesn’t want to be bought by anyone. Good on them.
S60 Gets New Features, Stepping Out of iPhone’s Shadow?
This looks rubbish, quite frankly – please try a bit harder, Nokia.
EA wants ‘open gaming platform’
This was the idea behind the 3DO (founded by ex-EA people, unsurprisingly) and it was a complete flop. It makes sense for EA, though, and it wouldn’t surprise me if they try something similar at some point soon.
How To Achieve Ultimate Blog Success In One Easy Step
He’s right, you know.
The wisdom of clouds
A weather forecasting site come social network – what a nifty idea. I’ve had Twitter perform a similar service when a really big storm has come in, so I think this could actually really work.
Mozilla Labs: Prism
Obviously on the Mac you can do something similar very easily using WebKit, but the cross platform nature of Prism could be very handy.
Leopard
“The argument for Time Machine’s game-like UI isn’t that it’s more usable, but that more people will use it.” – brilliant insight, and something that’s really made me think. Nice post John.
Adium: Happy Leopard Day!
Awesome – can’t wait to have video chat in Adium (although I’m not 100% convinced by the UI mockups – there’s a very odd reflection going on in that video shot).
Cheaping Facebook Flyers to Gather Demographics
When you create a Facebook flyer it tells you dynamically how many people you’re targeting when you specify different bits of meta-data = instant free demographics.
Celebration
Site we’ve just launched for the brilliant Celebration – love the way the site behaves when you resize the window (it just feels wrong).