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 ➔How long does a logo last?
Lovely post thinking about the life span of logos. Traditionally it’s always thought that a logo should last a long time but I wonder if actually, from a marketing and branding point of view, you might get more benefit from re-branding every 5 years or so and capitalising on the opportunity to re-market your brand?
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 ➔SSSS Equals No SXSW
Airport security really is crazy, isn’t it? I can’t believe that they almost forced a plane to land just because someone got a headcount wrong…
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.
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