David Emery OnlineSocial Docking
A good observation; now when you meet someone you enter into a complicated online docking procedure where you each figure out what social networks the other is on and what username they’re using.
I guess if we were all using XFN you could roll together a service where you enter your new friends URL (with nicely marked-up ‘this is me on Flickr’ type links) and it automatically adds them as a friend on all the networks you’re on. I guess that might spoil part of the early friendship dance, though…
Visit ➔Adam Green
We’ve just launched the new site for Adam Green, and rather pixel-tastic it is too. James, who built this one (and still doesn’t have a website), really rose to the challenge of making something inspired by Leisure Suit Larry. With hookers.
Visit ➔Watch Out FriendFeed: Socialthing! Is Even Easier to Use
While Socialthing looks like a bit of a lifestream bandwagon jumper on first glance it looks rather useful as an aggregator for those of us that have friends scattered across lots of services. If they could release a Twitterific-style desktop app that works across different services they would have a killer app on their hands.
Visit ➔First Details, Screenshots of the Fire Eagle Launch
Fire Eagle looks like it could be very interesting slightly further down the road when their are some apps available. As it is all we have is a comprehensive API and a very pretty website to play with. If you want an invite let me know – I’ve still got a couple left…
Visit ➔ExpressionEngine 2.0 “official” screenshots
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not really a fan of the current version of ExpressionEngine – none of it works quite the way I expect it too, and it certainly doesn’t have the logical, well thought out nature that Textpattern has (although it does offer more features). That being said, these screens of EE 2 are very impressive and it looks like they may finally be able to deliver on the promise that EE 1.5 doesn’t quite deliver on.
Visit ➔BBC iPlayer On iPhone: Behind The Scenes
The encoding tech that drives the iPlayer is very impressive, as is the new iPhone compatible version (although it needs a proper native interface). It really feels like we’re in the future when you can wirelessly stream programs onto a small, large screened device flawlessly.
Visit ➔The Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit
Looking pretty good – I haven’t had a chance to install it yet, but IE8 has lots of very promising features (including some microformats support!).
I did find this amusing titbit in the release notes, considering the current push by Microsoft with Silverlight as a Adobe Flash competitor:
Visit ➔Adobe AIR Download Center Web site
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 crashes when you access the following Adobe AIR Download Center Web site:
http://get.adobe.com/air
No workaround is currently available for this issue.
Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8
Great stuff – Microsoft have reversed their decision about all this IE8-behaving-like-IE7-by-default rubbish. Good on them!
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