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“intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks.”

visualcomplexity.com

xmaschartattack – Groups at Last.fm

“We searched the site and found three up-and-coming bands we know are a million times better than anything Simon Cowell will inflict on us. We want you to decide which one we take into the Christmas Charts this year.”

"HelloTxt was born with the aim of centralizing the insertion of messages in more services with the advantage of getting more presences and more possibilities that is read what is written." Possibly evil.

Interface with the Visualizer through Flickr and LastFM tags, using any tag to create a Magnet. Once a Tag Magnet is created, members of the network will gravitate towards it if they have photos or music with that same Tag.

OXJAM – Oxfam’s biggest ever music festival

“A music festival with a difference. Across the UK, from now until the end of October, people like you will be putting on Oxjam music events to raise money for Oxfam.”

"We should make an effort to create accessible content, because it’s part of our job. And frankly, it doesn’t take much effort; it’s not difficult." First sentence yay! Second sentence wrong. It's hard doing it properly.

The main objective of this group is to collect all the interesting tools related to music stats that are scattered around last.fm

title attribute: just say no, ta.

"Teams are so fluid, project work is chaotic and project management is driven by marketing considerations (read: "get it out", not "enterprise stability") that site performance is seen as a server hardware issue."

Tekkonkinkreet

Anime with a Plaid soundtrack.

"Prague Bar is noted for having London's largest selection of premium czech lagers. Traditional czech bar snacks are available throughout day." Kingsland Road; sounds worth a visit.

30 important usability issues, terms, rules and principles which are usually forgotten, ignored or misunderstood.

"The way in which you make a desirable item of quality in the world of bits is not the same way in which you make a desirable item of quality in the world of atoms. One cannot seek to replace the other. It simply jostles it about a bit in the mix of avail

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge in California certified a class action lawsuit against Target Corp brought by plaintiffs claiming the discount retailer's Web site is inaccessible to the blind, according to court documents.

"Where do Apple put "#" on their UK keyboards? "alt"+"3"." For some reason this just won't stick in my head between sessions.

If you have pre-ordered or intend to order the download version of Radiohead's new album In Rainbows and are curious to know what price others chose, take part in the survey.

"What's more encouraging about the internet and music are the ways that the smaller bands and less well known musicians can find new ways to have careers and offer their music. One lovely example is this site from Erik Friedlander, promoting his Block Ice

A brief, twenty minute presentation to some friends in the music industry about why it’s time we pay closer attention to consumer needs when it comes to digital music.

Our self-serve solution optimizes your ad space by matching ads to networks that make you the most money.

I’ve discovered a grim-faced resistance movement amongst dozens of tiny record labels determined to hang onto physical packaging and expressive cover art, no matter what.

The future of record labels and why online battle of the band competitions produce “an endless reservoir of shit”.

"NoSquint is a Firefox extension that allows you to adjust the default text zoom level, which is very useful if you have a small display or run at a very high resolution. NoSquint also remembers the zoom level per site (though you can disable that).

Getting tired of the S60 calculator? We were, so we made our own. Using some of the concepts that make ControlFreak so easy to use, we removed the need to select on-screen buttons and moved all the operations to the joystick.

Turn your camera phone into a scanner, copier, and fax. * Clean photos of documents, whiteboards and business cards. * Extract any text and contact information * Store, search and share online"

Displays maps from Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Windows Live Local (MSN Virtual Earth), Ask.com, Open Street Map and other sources on Java J2ME-enabled mobile phones, PDAs and other devices.

"Make any errors or suspicious markup obvious to the person working on the document." Been doing this for a while - had lost the original source.

Asking users to input their email address and password from a third-party site like GMail or Yahoo Mail is completely unacceptable. Here’s why: It teaches people how to be phished.

Five alternative models for selling music, many of which are actually being tested by artists, entrepreneurs, and even the major record labels themselves.

A Few Good Creative Men.

Every different iteration of these new music strategies are uncritically assessed in the news media as an artist ‘giving away’ their music for free. When, in actual fact, mostly that’s not what’s going on.

Some reasonably useful basics.

As long as you can logically formulate what you want to say, jQuery understands your intentions and will interpret for you regardless of which user agent is listening in.

"Give us your del.icio.us username and we'll feed you anything that you've tagged as: "tagmindr" and "remind:YYYY-MM-DD". We'll remind you via RSS, SMS, Email or IM, so long as it's RSS."

How many projects have you worked on where the implementation team gave any consideration to the way people would be affected by the changes the new system would impose on them?

TwitThis is an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website. When visitors to your website click on the TwitThis button or link, it takes the URL of the webpage and creates a shorter URL using TinyURL.

Love the smell of warm vinyl in the morning? Russ Parsons, co-founder of London's Uncharted Audio imprint, talks to Spannered about his fondness of the black stuff and of the label's current Signals project.

Highly popular Industrial Rock Band Nine Inch Nails have announced that as of today they are free agents, and will not be using the services of a record company in the future.

Charlene Li from Forrester Research gave a presentation entitled 'Big Brands & Facebook: Marketing Case Studies & Best Practices.' The theme that she came back to a few times was: Facebook marketing requires communication not advertising.

Green Thing is a community that makes it easy and enjoyable to be a bit greener. Every month you’ll get a different Green Thing to do. All you have to do is do it.

"Green Thing is a not-for-profit online community that makes it easy and enjoyable to be a bit greener." Press release listing involvement: Pete Fowler, John Hegley, Howie B, Mother, Agency.com, Glue, AKQA, Agency Republic, LBi etc etc

Visitors appear to be using the location of the scroll bar but not the size of the tracker when scrolling, since the scroll bar location is a relative indicator and the scroll tracker size is an indicator of page height.

"Internet Explorer [...] has a bug where clicking on an image inside a label tag does nothing [...] What I've done is put together a quick bit of unobtrusive JavaScript to "fix" the problem." Nasty, but if you have images as labels...

For the best HTML e-mail delivery results, CSS should be inline. This is a huge pain and a simple newsletter becomes un-managable very quickly. This script is my solution.

"Releasing music is a real responsibility as you’re dealing with people’s creativity and in some cases the starts of their careers – the last thing an act needs is a false start or early over-exposure before they’ve developed into being something

Branching is widely misunderstood, and rarely implemented-- even though branching, like versioning, lies at the very heart of source control, and thus software engineering.