David Emery Onlinewikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle
Very nifty Wikipedia – Fire Eagle mashup that shows you Wikipedia articles around where you are at the moment. Definitely want to do some geo-location based stuff soon…
Visit ➔Matador Intended Play sampler 2008 — ready to download and burn
Everyone likes a good bit of free, legitimate indie music, don’t they? 12 tracks from Matador Records’ finest.
Visit ➔Writer Arthur C Clarke dies at 90
Nothing I could write would do him justice. He was one of the best.
Visit ➔Rapper DMX on Barack Obama
Guess what all you middle class white people that read the internet? Most people (even in the US) couldn’t care less about the forthcoming presidential election, let alone about who might be in the running to run.
And really, why would they care? Is it really going to make any difference to them?
Visit ➔Safari 3.1
Awesomeness – Apple have released a new version of Safari for Mac and Windows (and they still releasing for 10.4 as well, which is nice) that supports CSS Animation, Transitions and Web fonts among other things. That means the time I spent when I launched this design adding CSS Animations wasn’t in vain (so if you’ve just upgraded, this is probably a good site to test it out in).
Visit ➔Martian Headsets
4749 words that, if you’re a web developer, are a must read. The definitive last word in all this IE standards stuff that’s been going round recently, although that last word could well be ‘screwed’.
Visit ➔furbo.org · Brain surgeons
Always a bit of a shock to find someone that actually knows what they’re talking about.
Visit ➔“As someone who has been involved in iPhone development for the past six months, please let me offer you a healthy dose of reality.
Twitterrific on the iPhone could definitely make use of a background process to gather new tweets. In fact, a prototype version of the software did just that. And it was a huge design failure: after doing XML queries every 5 minutes, the phone’s battery was almost dead after 4 hours.”
Flickr Video Said To Be Launching Next Month
I’m interested to see what the Flickr team can come up with when it comes to video; I think Vimeo comes closest to getting it ‘right’ but there’s still a lot of room for Flickr-style improvement.
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