Links from 2008

Webmonkey's Django tutorial.

On-demand recommendations and social search for websites.

E-commerce rich media gubbins.

...combines leading social commerce technology with a team of dedicated pros who make it easy to turn your customer voice into serious business results.

MILES OF SMILES RECORDINGS on Virb.com

Stars of the Lid live at St Giles-in-the-Fields Church, May 2008.

Boomkat seem to be doing a good job with their Last.fm group.

Radiohead's LED lighting. "Our road to what became, we believe, the first exclusively LED tour lighting system started with a conversation about generators at festivals and green field sites."

Musopen – Free Public Domain Classical Music

New Uncharted Audio muxtape

Uncharted Audio have put together a rather tasty new muxtape: http://unchartedaudio.muxtape.com/

It features tracks from Line, Octavcat, John Callaghan, The Council Flats Of Kingsbury, Kone-R (remixed by Wrongtom, Hard-Fi’s tour DJ), regolith plus a Digitonal remix of ON/OFF (aka Posthuman).

New Subversion client for Mac. Looks like it might be better than Versions.

Orange campaign by Poke.

Video: World of warcraft geophysical survey | Technology | guardian.co.uk

“Game designer James Wallis explains the problem with geophysics inside the World of Warcraft.”

Very amusing talk from interesting2008.

New York Magazine’s Summer Muxtapes:

What jams are rocking RZA’s iTunes these days? And what beats are bumping in Albert Hammond Jr.’s ride? In this week’s magazine, we asked members of five New York bands (also including Free Kitten’s Kim Gordon, the Jealous Girlfriends’ Alex Lipsen, and Pistolera’s Sandra Lilia Velasquez) to make playlists for classic New York summer activities.

Liner notes here. RZA is the central four chambers of the Wu-Tang Clan, Mr. Hammond plays guitar in The Strokes.

Golly, RZA!

Extensive new Last.fm API. Joy!

Realtime Tracking of Twitter Hashtags

Nice.

Some of the guidelines [the RNIB] work to in-house when commissioning accessible advertising.

The getBundle Bundle is an easy way to install Bundles for TextMate and E from the macromates.com Bundles repository.

Djangofriendly is a community resource for finding the friendliest Django hosting environments.

BBC iPlayer – Imagine – A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami

“Alan Yentob explores the mysterious, offbeat, sexually charged world of Japan’s most popular and internationally acclaimed writer.

Haruki Murakami is incomparable, a literary novelist tipped for the Nobel Prize, who writes cool, witty, and often surreal bestsellers. Notoriously enigmatic and media-shy Murakami has always shunned radio and television. However, he agreed to a rare and frank off-camera interview with the producer for this programme.”

"What you’ll be creating is an automated music tumblelog." with Last.fm, Pipes and Tumblr. Very cool.

This API lets Flex developers embed Google Maps in Flash applications. Similar to the JavaScript version, this ActionScript API provides a number of utilities for manipulating and adding content to maps through a variety of services.

A GPS-based activity tracker that runs on Nokia smartphones. Information such as speed, distance and time are automatically stored in your training diary, and on this site you can store and share your workouts and routes.

Nokia Sports Tracker is a GPS based activity tracker that runs on S60 smartphones. Information such as speed, distance and time are automatically stored to your training diary.

A Microformats and CSS demonstration site by Andy Clarke, part of the For A Beautiful Web series of web design and development workshops launching in 2008.

On my new homepage, a combined list of my tweets, bookmarks, and user comments on my site appear underneath my latest blog entries. I use a fun bit of Django code to pull these various items together, sorted by publication date

"A site for users of the Django web framework to come together and share useful "snippets" of reusable code."

Interesting 2008 – thirty more interesting things

headlessness

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Interesting! Roo Reynolds has posted link-fallout from Interesting 2008.

Open means that providers and consumers are free to use the protocol in whatever way they wish. If they want to only accept OpenID from a trusted subset of providers, they can go ahead.

Five Dials

“…is the product of a few editors and writers who would like to push a small enterprise into the inboxes of anyone interested in good writing. It comes from Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin books, and though HH publishes writers like Dave Eggers, Zadie Smith, John Updike and Jonathan Safran Foer, the magazine will not only feature the work of HH- ers, nor will it feature only Penguins, nor will it feature only published writers. The magazine will come out monthly. It will be distributed as a free PDF and if you’re interested in reading it on the bus or during the intermission of the musical Chicago or anywhere else, you can print it up on any printer.”

Featuring Iain Sinclair, Alain de Botton, Rachel Lichtenstein and Gustave Flaubert and designed by Dean Allen.

The trick is to double-click on a previously-imported still image in the Timeline (imported with the Ken Burns checkbox OFF) and in the Clip Info window that opens, set its duration to 1 frame.

The developers at BBC Radio Labs announced today that they’ll be removing the hCalendar microformat from their programmes listing pages, pending further accessibility testing or the establishment of a more accessible alternative.

Why, exactly, it’s considered important to have a separate server (or a separate service, in the case of something like S3) handling your media.

Create your own Wordle at Wordle.net, then screen capture it, crop and save. Upload to Flickr and post to this group.

“It is all live action and works by using the shutter speed of the camera rather than the rather irritating stroboscope methods other 3D Zoetropes use.”

Put simply, Puppet is a system for automating system administration tasks.

Our programs have left the desktop and found their new home on the web. System administration issues loom large upon us, security concerns lurk auspiciously in the corners of our minds.

shrinkwrapped:

TODAY ON XANTIAR – Another clip from Adam Buxton’s MeeBox.

Chanson française style pop from the 2006 album of the same name on 4AD.

I run the website for a very small indie music label, and I want to make it better. What are your favorite indie label websites, and what makes them so good?

Brilliant.