Links from 2008

Last.fm has started autodiscovering feeds on artist's homepages (using Musicbrainz data) and pulling it into their site. Lovely. Bit of a pain when it comes to artist disambiguation, though.

Gracefully get's your users attention by fading out a definable area but leaving the target element (the element which is seeking attention) un-faded.

A collaborative tool that enables you to create online surveys with simplicity and elegance.

A collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography. On this site, you can plan a sonic journey through various locations recorded around the world, or you can search the database for specific sounds by different artists from certain places.

An open-source collection of re-usable apps for the Django Web Framework. By integrating numerous reusable Django apps to take care of the things that many sites have in common, it lets you focus on what makes your site different.

Twitter revolutionized public communication by creating organic networks for one-to-many updates. Present.ly brings this revolution to your business with tools and features custom tailored for a work environment.

Plex bridges the gap between your Mac and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media.

Big in "Far East and Asian markets (carrier and OEMs)", apparently.

Big in "Far East and Asian markets (carrier and OEMs)", apparently.

KeyCue gives you an instant overview of the overall functionality of any application, plus lets you automatically start working more efficiently by making use of menu shortcuts.

Looks nice. "Bandcamp isn’t Yet Another Place to Put Your Music. We power a site that’s yours. So instead of our logo plastered between banner ads for Sexy Singles Chat, your fans see your design, your music, your name, your URL."

Easily create .htaccess files online

Eritrean and East-African restaurant on Essex Road.

"With our shirts your dress code is always semantically correct." Dork dork dork.

New music site from IMDb and Amazon; pulls data from Musicbrainz, Wikipedia and various other places.

We got fed up with the crappy tools available for sending and receiving music and felt we’d do things a little different. This is our version of how things should be.

This article is for the suits who care: if you can’t use cutting-edge tools, technologies or techniques, what can you do to ensure that you’re doing all you can for all of your users?

"Google has thrown its weight behind ambitious plans to bring internet access to 3bn people in Africa and other emerging markets by launching at least 16 satellites to bring its services to the unconnected half of the globe." Smart.

A Firefox/Firebug extension that allows web developers and designers to easily overlay a web composition over top of the developed HTML. By toggling the composition on and off, the developer can visually see how many pixels they are off in development.

When attention becomes a scarce resource, it’s important to invest it wisely. Information architects and designers play a critical role in ensuring the products they design provide users’ with a return on their investment of attention.

"Synthpop, wonky techno and electronica from a selection of Uncharted Audio artists and their friends." I made this.

Impressed by Ghostly International; how a record label site should work.

Brilliant. Wish I'd seen this.

A freshly launched elective payment music site. Artists upload their music and listeners electively pay the artist what they want to download their albums.

Create a mobile code with a few simple clicks. Write a message, your phone number, or a link to a website and change it into a mobile code, which can be scanned using a camera phone.

"The simple way to stay up to date and connected - on the go from your mobile device, PC, or online." Not available for Mac yet and you need an N96, N78 or 6210.

While we don't expect the Dream to feature a version of Android that includes Chrome, we can certainly expect to see it in later versions.

dmigrations is a Django migrations tool. It addresses a common problem in Django development: if you change a model after creating the database tables for it with syncdb, how do you reflect those changes in your database tables without blowing away your existing data and starting again from scratch?

This article will cover the W3C’s recommended option for supplying style to your mobile documents—CSS Mobile Profile 2.0. I will introduce what is available in the mobile profile and how it differs from CSS 2.1; then, I will discuss progressive enhancement and applying more advanced styles to more capable devices.

For users of Nokia phones, though, a new app will soon be revealed that does exactly what we always dreamed a mobile lifestreaming app should: geotag your media and upload it to the web.

According to a recent Nielsen Mobile Advertising Report MySpace Mobile is the leading mobile social networking site in Europe, occupying first or second position in four of the five key markets measured. Visiting social networks on mobile phones is experiencing big growth in Europe.

Please Buy My Record: The Futility Of Flogging Music – Music Think Tank

“Just because the songs are available to buy, doesn’t mean we can sell them – in the same way that (and excuse the often-used analogy) installing a landline doesn’t mean that the phone is going to…

"Inside the CrowdFire pavilion, event attendees could upload their photos, video, and text to a new site that made it possible for people not in attendance to experience the event." Not entirely convinced.

Hosted shops. Look fairly nice.

MySQL database management app for Mac OS X 10.5