Friday Links XLIX

8 February 2008

NowPlaying – a visualising radio prototype
Yet more good work from the BBC Radio Labs

Luddite and paranoid – why the big record labels failed at digital
Lots of wise words in this.

Shelf and the Google Social API
Nice use of the new Google Social API.

Justin Kropp
Very nice site design.

Zeroing Out Palm
‘You may need the help of a dextrous friend if you find it too difficult to do by yourself’ – If you need to write this in a consumer electronics manual, you’re doing it wrong.

Buzzword
Very impressive online Word Processor from Adobe.

How Flickr could take advantage of Facebook
It frustrates me massively that I haven’t found a good way of integrating my Flickr with Facebook – all the Facebook apps out there that do it seem to be pretty rubbish. Come on Flickr – write your own one!

Snap
I think adding simple actions to RSS feeds is a very good idea – a comment RSS admin feed, for example, where you good just hit ‘spam’ or ‘approve’ links in-feed would be very handy.

Reuters Wants The World To Be Tagged
This sounds curiously amazing – I loves me a bit of metadata…

Google Docs Gets Forms, More Access Like Little By Little
Nice little enhancement – useful for anyone who wants to do a quick survey.

OS X 10.5.2 (9C31) Seeded, Safari 3.1 Beta Incorporates Latest Webkit Features
Good to see that we don’t have to wait until 10.6 to get a new version of Safari.

BBC iPlayer to hit Macs in 2008
I wonder what DRM they’re going to use?

Heroku Lifts Ruby on Rails Development into the Cloud
Don’t think I could code in a web-based text editor – also, the very fact that this exists shows how painful RoR is to deploy.

Technology Leaders Join OpenID Foundation to Promote Open Identity Management on the Web
OpenID seems to have really got traction now.

FancyZoom
Very nifty Javascript image zoomer.

querySelector and querySelectorAll
These look very handy.

CD Cover Meme
Very clever.

Live Music Webcasting Starts Making Sense in 2008
I think we’re finally at the point where the quality is good enough for live video broadcasting – this could be quite interesting…

From: Articles

8 February 2008