Links from 2007

The Mainstream-O-Meter calculates your mainstreamness by comparing the listener count of your favorite bands to the average listener count of the five bands who have the most listeners among Last.fm-users.

iPhoto Diet is a utility that helps to slim down your iPhoto library by manipulating your photos

Nomadic functions are small, optimized, and fairly specific. An example may be anything from a simple Drag & Drag function, to a AJAX Star Rating, or a Text Scroller. They are like widgets… but even smaller.

A super simple resource that aims to gather the best tutorial and book links from all over the web.

www.myspace.com/goodwithmoney

The Co-operative bank’s myspace page. Every time someone adds them as a friend, they’ll donate 20p to a children’s charity.

The purpose of this virtual machine is to act as a self-contained subversion server, with a fully configured WebSVN front end.

A simple script that, given a CSS stylesheet and either a .txt file listing URLs of HTML files, or a directory of HTML files, will iterate over them all and list the CSS statements in the stylesheet which are never called in the HTML."

Users download songs, with the starting price at free. When downloads pick up for popular songs, the price starts to rise, all the way up to $0.99. If a song gets to $0.30 or so, you know its popular.

From Interesting 2007.

FoxyTunes Twitter DJ is a Twitter channel with music recommendations from a selected group of “FoxyTunes DJs”.

a command-line utility for reconstructing or recovering a website when a back-up is not available

Cursor Miner Live @ Sonar 2007

Pretty bad quality but captures the mayhem. Keep an eye open for Señor Frog.

Here are some of the general and sobering situations I’m running across the deeper I go into under-represented countries when it comes to educational opportunities and resources.

CSS and HTML validators, SEO tools, Social services, Web proxies, Network tools, Text tools, Image tools (works only with Image URLs)

If we’re going to have dozens of models we may as well have some that are honest, however cynical, to what’s really going on much of the time.

sust-it has a simple objective: to make us all more energy efficient by providing consumer information on the most energy efficient products in the marketplace.

An interactive comedy which you can participate in.

Bored of working from home or stuck in a tiny office? Le Bureau offers you the perfect solution. We put all the latest technology and services you need into an environment of ultimate comfort and style.

This article will [...] walk you through the Guidelines and point out things that typically go wrong.

"I think the reason he included this in his book, and the reason I think it is a seriously good idea to actually execute, is that as a green propaganda project is it will force people to confront the very real possibility of catastrophe before it happens.

(via Crazy88Tokyo)

Loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser. The load time of all objects is shown visually with time bars.

You can Change Your Organization or Change Your Organization.

"A powerful open source software development environment for the creation and large-scale distributed deployment of multi-user virtual 3D applications and metaverses that are (1) persistent (2) deeply collaborative, (3) interconnected and (4) interoperabl

Places where microformats can be insterspersed in the flow of natural English sentences.

This page collects all my published work related to information architecture and user experience.

"The kind of typography I'm talking about is not your typical "What font should I use" typography but rather your "knowing your hanging punctuation from your em-dash" typography."

An overview and analysis of the Facebook Plaform and what we have learned about it in the three weeks since it launched.

IE NetRenderer allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5, as seen from a high speed datacenter located in Germany.

Karo Caran takes us on a 16 minute overview of screen magnification software (in this case ZoomText) and how it is used by partially-sighted users to interact with the Web.

Podcast on agile business. [Scott] pulled out some interesting points

Describes the differences between HTML4 and HTML5 and provides some of the rationale for the changes. This document may not provide accurate information as the HTML5 specification is still in development.

one thing a month. sign up to get nagged each month about one easy thing you can do to be greener, cleaner and, if you're not careful, a tiny bit smug.

A reference for developers interested in the Facebook Platform.

CardMeeting is a free-form sandbox for simultaneous long-distance collaboration.

Versions is the first Mac OS X Subversion client that won't make you long for the command line interface anymore.

CrowdID offers OpenID to an organisation's user base, allowing users to manage their online identity.