Links from 2009

Adaptive Path using Basecamp, Skype and ConceptShare. Been impressed by the latter, in particular (although there are plenty of other services doing the same thing).

"Jones said how most open city games tend to come with about 100 licensed tracks, but that they realised that most players would far rather listen to their own mp3 collection. But this is an online game. So they’ve done a deal with Last.FM to use their technology in such a brilliantly imaginative way. If you’re listening to a favourite track in your car, and drive past some other players, should they have the same track on their hard drive the game will find it, and they’ll hear it from your car as you go by. Should they not have it, the game will find a track that’s similar and play that instead." Pipped.

Click on a flavor, and watch as it generates a serving of fake information right before your eyes. Use it as filler copy, in your book report, or whisper it to your special someone.

Statistics, data munging and vizualization.

Keeps an eye on 44 website policies. Every time one of them changes, you'll see an update here.

Handy-looking feedback tool.

Why building a complex feed fetching and parsing infrastructure when you could just use ours? Superfeedr is Real-time Feed Parsing in the Cloud.

Kiddie Records Weekly began in 2005 as a one year project devoted to the golden age of children's records. This period spanned from the mid forties through the early fifties and produced a wealth of all-time classics. Many of these recordings were extravagant Hollywood productions on major record labels and featured big time celebrities and composers. Over the years, these forgotten treasures slipped off the radar and it became our mission to give them a new lease on life by sharing them with today's generation of online listeners.

Is there potential for buildings to be less good at keeping us warm, or cool, or dry than they are now? You know, for environmental reasons.

Dynamic visualizations for the iPhone.

A very small and perfectly customizable program called Right Zoom that will change the default behavior and truly maximize programs when you click the green “Zoom” button”

"You’d think that with the futuristic and gravity defying creations they spawn, architects would be leading the vanguard of efficient working practices. It turns out they’re still stuck in the 90s, where sharing files and collaborating with partners and clients is done via CD and bike messenger, or – shock! horror! – even printouts sent by post." I don't find that surprising in the least. Woobius looks interesting, though.

If the UX architect at AA.com is actually pretty good, then why does the site suck so much?

Seasons brings all the information you need to you to make the right decisions when choosing your food during shopping or at the restaurant. Live greener with buying local and seasonal products.

Marketers are responsible for any unsolicited marketing messages they send which do not comply with data protection rules. Guidance issued by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) stresses that the customer who passes a friend's details to the advertiser must confirm that they obtained the friend's consent. Marketers should check the friend is not already on a marketing suppression list and should tell customers that they will tell the friend how their contact details were obtained. If the friend objects having received the message, the marketer must rapidly suppress his contact details.

I hate the word "mindshare".

Google's answer to ySlow.

Imagine you want to announce an event with participants across different time zones. Simply set the time, in your time zone, and permatime.com will generate a link for it. If you share this link with others, they will see that time in their own local time zone.

"Forrester Research believes today’s ad agencies are not well-structured to take on tomorrow’s marketing challenges, needing to move from making messages to establishing community connections." What, really?

Classic rendering bugs I have come to know and hate. "This bug is activated when an element is referenced to in the selector by it's ID, and then by it's Class to specify more stylings."

The MiFi is an ingenious little device that combines a 3G data modem with a wireless router – essentially bridging the gap between your numerous Wi-Fi enabled devices and cellular broadband.

"Computation and drawing of lines, axes, shadows even the grid itself is handled by pluggable "renderers". Not only are the plot elements customizable, plugins can expand functionality of the plot too! There are plenty of hooks into the core jqPlot code allowing for custom event handlers, creation of new plot types, adding canvases to the plot, and more."

You are the weakest link. T'ra.

3D AR video (the AR that involves a webcam and a bit of custom paper).

Background from Creative Review.

A really little content management system for when you (or your clients) need to edit content without the hassle of setting up a big CMS.

Mapumental is the culmination of an ambition mySociety has had for some time - to take the nation’s bus, train, tram, tube and boat timetables and turn them into a service that does vastly more than imagined by traditional journey planners. In its first iteration it’s specially tuned to help you work out where else you might live if you want an easy commute to work.

Mmm, maps.

Mac audio ripper with Musicbrainz integration.

IA is a brand new London based label, owned and run by Clare Thwaites; DJ Clare Large.

Play me I’m yours

“This June, 30 pianos will be delivered to the streets of London as part of Sing London and the City of London Festival 2009. Located on streets, in public squares and parks, train stations, and street markets, the pianos are there for any member of the public to play.”

Centered around music.

Hilarious. Ill-advised.

This website contains over 650 posters from the National Theatre Archive. Beautiful photographic quality prints are available in a range of sizes and prices, supplied ready for framing and delivered to your door.

Which one you choose really has more to do with your own style and what you need to accomplish.

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