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This syndrome occurs when, rather than working toward its overall mission, the organization operates primarily according to the personality of a prominent person in the organization, for example, the founder, board chair/president, chief executive, etc

Some pretty useful thoughts on mobile web in the comments.

A multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once.

"Today's battle was support for the empty-cells property". How did I not know this?

We all [...] hope for the quick success of a Twitter instead of the starting and stopping of a flickr (started as a game). ImThere is a startup that started and stopped, and David Gorman documents their eventual success.

It’s the difference between troubleshooters and troublepreventors.

Instead of cluttering client sites with this kind of widget I’ve started adding a set of pages with information that helps the user resize text in their browser.

An online tool that lets members work on projects with a team or on their own

A look at the idea behind CSS Frameworks, their advantages and disadvantages.

This Flickr support thread is a must-read if you’re interested in online communities, and in particular, how they change as they grow.

These tips are for kickstarting a low cost and high impact website, however some tips are general principals rather than recommendations for all cases.

I've been spending much time with ad agencies and focus groups lately and can only conclude that--with some exceptions--they are mostly clueless.

A simplified scripting language for creating Ajax style prototypes for the Web.

Buy advertising ideas for your company by +9000 creatives worldwide. Faster, Better, Cheaper.

It all unfolded over a website called OpenAd.net, a Slovenian-based online marketplace where ad and design ideas from about 9,000 creatives worldwide are bought and sold.

Great article following up on a robots.txt survey. The linked HTTP headers survey is amusing, too.

An intermediate-level book about interface and interaction design, structured as a pattern language.

curl.js 1.0 allows you to add an page curl effect (inc. backside mask) to images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean.

"This is an effort to make an easy and simple way to blend the accessibility of html with the animation of flash. JavaScript is then used as the bridge to communicate between the two." Just a proof of concept at the moment.

Conversion from SVN to Hg isn't as straightforward as one would like. Thus, I'm documenting the steps I had to do to try and help out anyone else who's attempting to go down this path.

Rather unfortunate frame youtube’s algorithms have picked there.

Unlock the secrets to your advertising/creative agency’s happiness, fame and fortune.

An open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

Online virtual worlds could soon be accessible to blind people thanks to research by students at IBM in Ireland.

The tricky situation of quoting for web design and development projects, and the various types of contracts you can agree upon.

Variations in the alignment of input fields, their respective labels, calls to action, and their surrounding visual elements can support or impair different aspects of user behavior.

Mantis to Trac import script. Oh how I hate Mantis.

The first Free enterprise language learning course available on the Internet. Eleven of our courses are now available in our beta release. Each course has 100 lessons available.

"[These players] are available specifically for Flash developers who are examining their sites from the perspective of users with earlier versions of Flash Player." Use with KewBee plugin switcher for best effect.

The Morning After is a magazine-style theme for WordPress created by Arun Kale. [...] The theme design is grid-based and has the following requested features:

"High Scalability offers some secrets to Amazon’s success based on interviews and writings of early employees." Some great tips in here.

"My attempt to disentangle and examine the topic of "Internet platform" in detail. I will go at it by identifying three distinct approaches to providing an Internet platform, and project forward on where I think each of the three approaches will go."

A set of themable widgets and interactions, built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library, that you can use to build highly interactive web applications.

It is very unusual to see print links implemented in an unobtrusive way, so here is how to do that.

"As a musician [...] I've often thought about this. I've come to the realization that the price factor is a "problem" that is going to grow exponentially as time moves forward."

What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople? | Ask MetaFilter

“In this piece, FSOL filter, process and montage all organic and synthetic sound they find resonant, to create what they call "brutal reality” or “3D-headspace”; a process that immerses the listener into a new, heightened, strangely familiar yet dislocated and timeless audio environment, an ultra-reality that ultimately retunes the listener’s receptivity of their perceived everyday spatial surroundings.“

A Gigantic Globular Burst Of Antistatic

Via Robotperson.

Web Safe Typography on Screen for Pixel Perfectionists

"...searches on the sites, indicated in your del.icio.us bookmarks. With its help you can find the necessary page according to any phrase or word, which it contains. And [...] deliGoo can create on your demand custom search engines on any del.icio.us tag.

Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream, An OverClocked ReMix Album

“An OverClocked ReMix Album featuring free fan arrangements from the soundtrack to Square’s legendary Final Fantasy VII for the Sony Playstation.”

People-powered customer service for absolutely everything.

The Last.fm Supports The Spitz Fundraiser

Live recordings from the Last.fm gig.

Nice dConstruct 2007 run-through.

Plus some useful general information on contrast issues.

Sane, reasoned comment on the whole Adblock storm -> teacup.