David Emery OnlineThe Dry Side
A perfect example of good design, and improving something that no one would think needs improving.
Visit ➔Gravatar Blog: Big changes afoot
Nice to see Gravatar back up and running properly, and I’m sure the re-write from RoR to PHP had nothing to do with it being nice and fast now. Nothing at all. Not one bit.
I’ve now got Gravatar’s up and running here, using the nice and simple GlxGravatar Textpattern plugin. Took all of 5 mins to implement, so there’s no excuse, folks.
Visit ➔Out of Five | Stuff reviewed through Twitter
Simple service that lets you review things via Twitter. More ambient information etc…
Visit ➔Operation Toblerone: Yahoo Closing London Offices
Yahoo! is one of the main players in the London web dev scene so this is going to shake things up a bit. While obviously it’s going to be a bit of a kick in the teeth for those that work there, I can’t help but feel that this is probably a good thing in the long term – it’s not as though any of them will have problems getting jobs (why aren’t we hiring now, god darn it…).
Better to get out early…
Update: I’m now hearing that the engineering teams are staying put – it’s just the ‘HQ’ functions that are moving – which is obviously good news.
Visit ➔Social 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…
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