David Emery OnlineMySpace opens its garden, allows third-party data sharing
A very promising start, although it seems to be limited to ‘people’ at the moment – I’d really like to hack away at getting data from artist profiles. It’s good to see MySpace finally getting their shit together, what with this and the recent redesign – they just need to redesign profile pages next…
Visit ➔Expression Engine vs Textpattern
Mr Hicks is pretty much on the money here, I think – Expression Engine is definitely more powerful then Textpattern, especially when it comes to things like users, but it’s just not as ‘nice’ to use.
Visit ➔An Essential Dozen: 2008's best albums so far
I was considering posting a ‘albums of the year so far’ type post, but this pretty much covers it (bar a few exceptions, which I’m sure they’ll have in tomorrows follow up best). Not often you come across a music related list you wholly agree with…
Visit ➔Firefox developers accelerate CSS implementation
Looks promising – the more browsers that implement CSS3 selectors and CSS Animations/Transforms the better.
Visit ➔A New Day
A lovely redesign by Jason Santa Maria – makes me want to do yet another redesign (of course!). I’m very interested in this whole concept of per-article styling – bringing art direction into web design is very important I think; I’m itching to find a site that I can have a go at really mixing things up on and making all the content ‘unique’ from a design perspective.
Down with page templates!
Visit ➔Introducing MagCloud and the Future of Magazine Publishing
I really like the idea of being able to self-publish a magazine – it’s a much more interesting concept to me then book self-publishing. Hopefully MagCloud will expand to the UK sooner rather then later as it looks like a very easy way of doing it.
Visit ➔New BuddyPress Theme
I’m not generally a WordPress fan (it gets far too much hype), but this is looking very, very interesting – I’ve long been searching for a decent mini-social network platform and this could well be it.
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