Links from 2008

"Clients complained that their agencies [...] typically treat social channels like blogs as traditional media. In other cases, their ideas are not backed up by practical skills in the area." Glad it's not just me.

Twitter meter let's you query an index of all the words that have been sent to twitter's public timeline since [...] 11/6/2007 and plot the number of times that word was used over time.

Crayon Physics Deluxe

The errata, you will recall, are one group’s opinion of the deficiencies in WCAG 1.0. Your opinion does not have to coincide with ours, but I’d wager there won’t be many areas of disagreement.

What they need to do is make the store experience inviting, not so much about pushing product, but about being that Third Place (not home or work) where people can get a respite.

"Clearleft lead designer Paul Annett explains how he used the effect to great success on their newly launched Silverback site." More like this, please. Time to start creating effects that look great in good browsers and fall back in IE.

Build Last.fm

“Free extras built by the community to extend your Last.fm experience.”

The Big Word Project – Your websites define our words

“You pick a word and link it to your website. Your website is then the new definition” You pay by the letter, of course. Like Million Dollar homepage but slightly less seedy.

"The rise of "freeconomics" is being driven by the underlying technologies that power the Web. Just as Moore's law dictates that a unit of processing power halves in price every 18 months, the price of bandwidth and storage is dropping even faster."

shrinkwrapped:

iband – Electroplankton plus iPhones! (via Mark Iddon)

Nice del.icio.us wishlist site.

Comment, annotate, and markup images, documents, and videos.

Handy substitutions you can make for common baking ingredients

Items Tagged With ‘whatcouldpossiblygowrong’

My favourite Slashdot tag.

Javascript to zoom images inline

Enables you to delete resources localized in unused languages, and then free disk space.

Developer-focussed, gets to the point.

"The word “design” is increasingly confused with “style”. For example, to most “I like the way it’s designed” means that they like the way that something looks.

Many young web designers view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It's cool or it's crap. They mistake Style for Design, when the two things are not the same at all.

It’s a clever way of using the available technology to get this music into the hands of people who might not otherwise have found it - and to promote it more strongly.

"Brand and comparison advertising done through ad-focused widgets is emerging as a viable way of using the ubiquitous applications. Widgets’ interactive features, their ability to be virally distributed and potentially be placed on a target’s own page

Tumview – anglepoised’s tumblr / anglepoised via roamin.

Jerusalem artichokes may not look up to much, but beneath that gnarled exterior is a nutty, sweet vegetable that's a welcome treat in the winter kitchen

A small article on making the leap to working for yourself

Mac Diff app.

Ironic Sans: Idea for a new typography term

inky:

keming: noun. The result of improper kerning.

"Steal This Wiki is a collaborative update of Abbie Hoffman's seminal work, "Steal This Book"."

"Now that Google is probably pulling down more ad revenue than ITV, the biggest TV network in Britain, it looks like it is the the UK’s single largest advertising channel, posits Seamus McCauley." Clarification: ITV1 the channel, not ITV the network

A free and very easy to use mindmapping application.

Imogen Heap talks about Barbara Morgen, Cursor Miner and others.

Learning to say a polite thank you, goodbye and see you later to your consumers isn’t always easy but that’s the right way to behave with short-termed SNS activity.

Technology companies typically spend about 20% of revenues on R&D, is there an agency anywhere that spends even 1%?

Advertising's finest moments always come in the compression of complex, confusing information into simple, stark, attention-grabbing images and ideas. That challenge is at it's greatest on the phone.

"A simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.

Google on Wednesday said it has seen 50 times more search requests coming from Apple iPhones than any other mobile handset -- a revelation so astonishing that the company originally suspected it had made an error culling its own data.

Getting local right.

I think there are two ways to start / be a great creative business - 'the group of experts' (which I think of as The Magnificent Seven) and 'the group of friends' (which always makes me think of The Double-Deckers.)

Run-through of Tom Coates' latest presentation. Shame the slides themselves aren't available (nag, nag, nag).

For making resolution independent images and icons for applications and the web.

Lovely parallax effect when resizing browser.