Links from 2007

"[These players] are available specifically for Flash developers who are examining their sites from the perspective of users with earlier versions of Flash Player." Use with KewBee plugin switcher for best effect.

The Morning After is a magazine-style theme for WordPress created by Arun Kale. [...] The theme design is grid-based and has the following requested features:

"High Scalability offers some secrets to Amazon’s success based on interviews and writings of early employees." Some great tips in here.

"My attempt to disentangle and examine the topic of "Internet platform" in detail. I will go at it by identifying three distinct approaches to providing an Internet platform, and project forward on where I think each of the three approaches will go."

A set of themable widgets and interactions, built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library, that you can use to build highly interactive web applications.

It is very unusual to see print links implemented in an unobtrusive way, so here is how to do that.

"As a musician [...] I've often thought about this. I've come to the realization that the price factor is a "problem" that is going to grow exponentially as time moves forward."

What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople? | Ask MetaFilter

“In this piece, FSOL filter, process and montage all organic and synthetic sound they find resonant, to create what they call "brutal reality” or “3D-headspace”; a process that immerses the listener into a new, heightened, strangely familiar yet dislocated and timeless audio environment, an ultra-reality that ultimately retunes the listener’s receptivity of their perceived everyday spatial surroundings.“

A Gigantic Globular Burst Of Antistatic

Via Robotperson.

Web Safe Typography on Screen for Pixel Perfectionists

"...searches on the sites, indicated in your del.icio.us bookmarks. With its help you can find the necessary page according to any phrase or word, which it contains. And [...] deliGoo can create on your demand custom search engines on any del.icio.us tag.

Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream, An OverClocked ReMix Album

“An OverClocked ReMix Album featuring free fan arrangements from the soundtrack to Square’s legendary Final Fantasy VII for the Sony Playstation.”

People-powered customer service for absolutely everything.

The Last.fm Supports The Spitz Fundraiser

Live recordings from the Last.fm gig.

Nice dConstruct 2007 run-through.

Plus some useful general information on contrast issues.

Sane, reasoned comment on the whole Adblock storm -> teacup.

"There is an amazing amount to see and do at this year's London Design Festival." Perhaps too much...! Takes place between 15 and 25 September.

Myrl, a social network for the Metaverse. Here your avatar can connect to multiple online worlds and to the web.

Acorn is a new image editor built with one goal in mind - simplicity. Fast, easy, and fluid, Acorn provides the options you'll need without any overhead.

File inputs are the bane of beautiful form design. [...] This simple, three-part progressive enhancement provides the markup, CSS, and JavaScript to address the long-standing irritation.

Dockables provides you with one-click system event access right from the Dock in OS X.

Last.fm is a pretty simple way to listen to tunes, but there are a few quick and dirty ways you can oomph it up a little.

London Design Festival 2007

“There is an amazing amount to see and do at this year’s London Design Festival.” Perhaps too much…! Takes place between 15 and 25 September.

"What skills you’ll need, how to write your requirements, how to source developers and designers, how much to budget, how to agree a development contract, how to manage your vendors, how to plan your release, all the documentation you'll need, and much

Comprehensive listing of problems with OpenID. FUD? Not FUD? Couldn't say myself but author competes in that space. OpenID + Passwordmaker.org is working well for me.

You Get Me Down, first track and video from the new John Callaghan album due soon on Uncharted Audio.

Matt Webb's excellent dConstruct presentation; "...highlights products demonstrating different layers of the experience stack, and the rationale for designing for good experience."

The experience stack is a way of thinking about the different levels at which experience design operates.

Original source.

Free wireless access in Islington.

We will generate and launch multiple products. Does that mean we have no focus? If you have to ask that question, you’re still not getting it.

VJ Tools, interactive video works and experiments in Quartz Composer

The primary goal here is to have a set of rules that can be applied during the development phase of a new layout. These rules’ aim is to visually highlight problems in the markup.

Quicksilver's heretofore elusive creator Nicholas Jitkoff, generally known only as A1c0r, demos Quicksilver at a Google Tech Talk for his employers and co-workers at Google.

This book isn't just about management, it's about creating places where people can comfortably build stuff.

easyOffice, owned and operated by the easyGroup, will open in High Street Kensington in London on 28 November 2007, and is already taking bookings.

Subversion 1.5 will support Merge Tracking. This blog post provides a high level overview of what Merge Tracking is, why it is important and what it means to your organization.

Marie-France has Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) [...] Marie-France uses SwitchXS to access her computer, KeyStrokes for word prediction and Proloquo for communication.

Internet People!

Don Tapscott, the author of an eye-opening new book called Wikinomics, says that we have barely begun to imagine how the internet will change the way we live and work.

A system for recording, automating, and sharing processes performed in a web browser such as printing photos online, requesting a vacation hold for postal mail, or checking bank account information.