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List of tumblr custom theme tags.

In early October, Yahoo’s Tom Coates presented Fire Eagle, a geographic service now in alpha testing that will provide data to location-based internet applications.

So it’s out, and lots of people are talking about it, but I’m still trying to work out exactly what it is.

Some good points, some contentious.

Dead handy.

Walk London is organising guided walks on every section of the 326 mile / 525km Strategic Walk Network in London over the weekend of 17-18 November.

Internet Archive Wayback Machine – Web Pioneers

A special Wayback collection of websites that began the Internet revolution.

"Jeff Parks [and] Milissa Tarquini [...] talk about how this long held rule in web design is being de-bunked by web analytics and user testing, as well as how this will impact design and development processes based on screen resolution and browser compati

"Typography has an important place in the web at the moment. Social interaction, and how to design for it, it a hot design topic [...] But don’t forget that the medium of social interaction is language, and the way language is shaped and looks is typogr

Eventually, once every efficiency has been wrung from the web, they'll start to need those skills of imagination, craft and intuition that our funny little industry has so painstakingly acquired.

Lots of new tumblr features. Nice work.

Choosing the right framework can be tricky, and weeding through a mess of opinionated fanboys (myself included) is intimidating.

KitchenBug could be described best as a social recipe application. It allows you to create, bookmark and share recipes in a very seamless way.

Free download, released today.

Wish I’d seen this yesterday.

TwitterPoster

“A visual application based on Twitter API. It provides a visual representation of the degree of influence of the Twitter users.”

There are prettier demos but Mental Hangover sums up the era for me.

I miss my Amiga.

Not replicating browser functionality and making accessibility help videos.

A presentation that covers the benefits of WCAG 2.0, shortcuts for using WCAG 2.0, how it differs from WCAG 1.0, and other topics listed in the outline

"Easily create and share personalized, annotated maps of your world". Nice video tutorial

The evidence from the £12m four-year project will end years of debate and is likely to overturn government advice that eating organic food is no more than a lifestyle choice.

In this 40-minute presentation, Nate takes you on a detailed tour of the YUI CSS foundation, its philosophy, and its usage.

If the volume of searches reflect the regional popularity of a search string, then Google Trends reveal useful information for marketing agencies, record labels, and booking agents.

Not a particular fan of Reznor but there's some smart opinions in this piece.

"Ning, is participating in this week's launch of a new open web API called Open Social, which is being spearheaded by Google and joined by a wide range of partners including Google's own Orkut, LinkedIn, Hi5, Friendster, Salesforce.com, Oracle, iLike, Fli

Got a webcam, use twitter, install Tweetr and you can have your picture here.

If history repeats itself, we can expect a compelling SDK (software development kit) to emerge providing programmers with a standard user interface for their web applications.

CIA can send an IRC bot to your channel to instantly report the progress made by you and your peers.

"An easy and fun way to talk about and share flickr photos in real time." Liking this very much.

As counterintuitive as it may seem in this age of iPods and digital downloads, vinyl -- the favorite physical format of indie music collectors and audiophiles -- is poised to re-enter the mainstream, or at least become a major tributary.

“As counterintuitive as it may seem in this age of iPods and digital downloads, vinyl – the favorite physical format of indie music collectors and audiophiles – is poised to re-enter the mainstream, or at least become a major tributary.”

— Eliot Van Buskirk, Vinyl May Be Final Nail in CD’s Coffin

"An "Open In TextMate" Finder toolbar icon for Leopard [...] A single TextMate window will open, containing all selected or dropped items in a project."

Over the last year or so at Fog Creek we’ve been developing a system that’s so easy even our grouchiest developers are willing to go along with it. And as far as we can tell, it produces extremely reliable schedules.

It's clear to me that Facebook might be the one thing that saves advertising agencies from an ignominious slide into irrelevance. Because now, finally, there's a mass, popular digital tool out there that senior agency people are using for it's own sake

Click streams have made room for bounce rates, search analytics, and so much more. If we play our cards right, we can reduce and synthesize the raw data and give our clients more meaningful information that foments action.

When building a web app, reporting is the last thing on many feature lists. Clear reporting is vitally important for the long term success of your web app and managing your growth.

"For better or for worse** however, many of us are on one side or the other of an outsourcing arrangement. I discovered in my work that using test driven development as a mechanism for both validation (are we building the right thing?) and verification (i

"We take the MD5 digest of the city’s name, convert it to hex and take the first 6 characters as a CSS RGB value." Smart.

or How to be a POSH SEO!

Version control, build systems, automated test suite, code reviews, refactoring and code style. All the things everyone should be doing.

Server log files are inappropriate for gathering usability data. They are meant to provide server administrators with data about the behavior of the server, not the behavior of the user.