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- Auctions on eBay: A Dying Breed businessweek.com
As consumers opt for fixed-price purchases, what happens to the company that perfected the art of online bidding—and the scores of e-auctioneers?
- World's first internet balloon race playballoonacy.com
Orange balloon race competition by Poke.
- Coding Horror: Designing For Evil codinghorror.com
"When you design your software, work under the assumption that some of your users will be evil. They'll be out to game the system, to defeat it at every turn, to cause denial of service exploits, to attack and humiliate other users, to fill your site with
- SoundManager 2: Javascript Sound for the Web schillmania.com
SM2 is an attempt at providing the sound API which Javascript has been missing. It's a library which wraps and extends Flash's sound capabilities, bringing cross-platform audio functionality to Javascript.
- AJAX Libraries API - Google Code code.google.com
The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries.
Enables social entrepreneurs, socially-minded people and socially-driven organisations to share, shape and use social insight to generate greater positive impact in the real world.
Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite WebApps as a separate desktop application.
- Debugging Django simonwillison.net
- 30+ Essential Music Industry Resources & Links - MusicbizHacks.com musicbizhacks.com
- Usability Testing is more than Testing thoughtballoon.co.uk
Products such as Morae allow 'usability labs' to be constructed from two laptops and a webcam. This has made Usability Testing as practical and almost exclusively necessary part of the building of any interface or application.
- AMEE - The world’s energy meter amee.cc
AMEE is designed as a neutral platform to aggregate and distribute all the CO2 data in the world. It combines measurement, profiling and transactional systems to enable this.
The Usage Lifecycle describes how far a person has progressed in using your web application, helping to identify the hurdles someone needs to overcome to become regular, passionate users.
In this article, I will examine a few different techniques for delivering Flash videos over the internet and compare the advantages and disadvantages of each.
A new report out today appears to confirm that a broad economic slowdown in the United States is starting to negatively effect the online ad industry.
- The JavaScript Manifesto - The Web Standards Project webstandards.org
This sums things up quite nicely.
- Yahoo! Internet Location Platform - YDN developer.yahoo.com
Provides a resource for managing all geo-permanent named places on Earth.
The world is changing. And changing quickly. The web is going to win, filling the market niche where Flash and other similar technologies found their hold.
- Where SEO and accessibility collide | AlastairC alastairc.ac
The cheat sheet is from seomoz.org [...] Some of the advice directly contributes to an accessible site (which is something many have noted before), but a couple of items will impact on the experience for people using particular technologies.
- John Resig - Processing.js dev.jquery.com
"I've ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript, using the Canvas element." Nuts. Cool.
The lazy load pattern is a practical implementation of the Proxy Design Pattern. The goal is to avoid loading an object until it is absolutely needed—only then do we invest the resources in loading it.
- Getting Satisfaction | GarrettDimon.com garrettdimon.com
When I originally checked out Get Satisfaction, I was immediately impressed. However, it wasn't until I needed to get in and use it for myself that I really began to appreciate the depth of thought apparent in the interface.
- Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery simonwillison.net
- Coding Horror: The Great Dub-Dub-Dub Debate codinghorror.com
- ongoing · Multi-Inflection-Point Alert tbray.org
We’re simultaneously at inflection points in programming languages and databases and network programming and processor architectures and Web development and IT business models and desktop environments. Did I miss anything?
- Deploying and tuning Django mydjangoblog.com
In this article I’ll share my experience for installing on this server Django with Apache mod_python, with memcached caching and lighttpd for serving static files.
- » This is How You Get sIFR to Work | Design Intellection designintellection.com
By not using it? "The goal of this tutorial is to distill the information at the official site for sIFR into a simple step-by-step process of how to implement sIFR on your site."
Another miseducated SEO rears their ugly head and slanders a well-known development technique as well as a high-profile SEO, accusing both of being spam. Better yet [...] Image Replacement has been dubbed “poor man’s cloaking”.
- Stop using Ajax! - Opera Developer Community dev.opera.com
Or, at least, think more carefully about when and how you use it.
- Seth's Blog: Silly Traffic sethgodin.typepad.com
Engage your existing users far more deeply. Increase their participation, their devotion, their interconnection and their value. Turn those existing users into ambassadors, charged with the idea of bring you traffic that is focused, traffic with intent.
The Google User Experience team aims to create designs that are useful, fast, simple, engaging, innovative, universal, profitable, beautiful, trustworthy, and personable.
- Jumpchart » Home jumpchart.com
Great idea, massively overpriced.
- WebAnywhere - A screen reader on the go webinsight.cs.washington.edu
A web-based screen reader. It requires no special software to be installed on the client machine and, therefore, enables blind people to access the web from any computer they happen to have access to that has a sound card.
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Web 2.0 is set for spending boom news.bbc.co.uk
Web 2.0 is set to be embraced by Enterprise 2.0 as businesses prepare to spend nearly $5 billion by 2013 on social networking tools.
- Information Architects » Blog Archive » Web Design is 95% Typography informationarchitects.jp
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
- Access Matters » Blog Archive » “Off left” banned by Google? access-matters.com
Short answer is no. Thank goodness. "Yes, Google was right. Spam was stuffed into hidden text on my site. They were not complaining about my accessibility technique."
- Flickr Code code.flickr.com
Your one-stop shop for information, gossip and discussion with the Flickr developer community
- We heart it / Visual bookmark for everyone weheartit.com
FFFFOUND! alternative.
- Designers Toolbox: OS Form Elements designerstoolbox.com
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Webmaster tips for creating accessible, crawlable sites googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
- Cross Browser Testing. Pick a browser, Pick an OS, Test website crossbrowsertesting.com
"We give you FULL ADMINISTRATIVE ACCESS to the operating system. While our primary focus is cross-browser testing, you actually have full control over the configuration. When you disconnect, the virtual instance goes away and so does any trace of your wor
- jScrollPane kelvinluck.com
A jquery plugin which allows you to replace the browsers default vertical scrollbars on any block level element with an overflow:auto style. You can easily control the apperance of the custom scrollbars using simple CSS.
- Walrss walrss.com
"Get a handy little iPhone or iPod Touch version of any website." Genius. Makes me wish I had an iPhone.
- Last.fm’s Free Music ‘Boosts Sales’; Unlimited Services ‘To Kick In By 2012’ | paidContent.org paidcontent.org
Last.fm claims its 12-week-old free, full-track music streams have resulted in 119 percent more CD and download sales through its Amazon.com click-through partnership.