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Boone Oakley’s Tubesite.

YouTube as your website — clever!

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agency, interactive, interface, tubesite, video, web, youtube

On hunting down e-book pirates…

The question is, how much time and energy do I want to spend chasing these guys… My sense is that most of them live in basements floored with carpeting remnants, living on Funions and discount beer.

›› Gotta love Stephen King

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author, download, e-book, piracy, stephen king

The A List Apart Survey results are out. Last year, the results were published as a PDF, which was a bit of an anti-climax from a standardista perspective. But this year, they’ve got it all out in bread-and-butter HTML and CSS, the highlight of which has to be Eric A. Meyer’s mind-numbingly beautiful, yet accessible, CSS work for the graphs. Plain insanity, if you ask me, but it’s top-drawer production-grade code.

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a list apart, css, eric meyer, graph, html, survey

Sunday, 22nd March 2009

This anti-IE6 message was brought to you by visual artist, Joe Lifrieri.

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browser, firefox, ie6, internet explorer, outdated, safari

Thursday, 12th March 2009

Warp wants us to be the music makers.

Warp Records are asking fans to vote for the tracks they want to see in the upcoming 20th anniversary Warp compilation. I’ve already voted for Aphex Twin’s Alberto Balsam and Squarepusher’s Port Rhombus…

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album, ambient, aphex twin, compilation, eclectic, electronic, record

Thursday, 5th March 2009

Borghierh/Lowe.

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agency, beauty, brazil, flash, font, interface, minimal

Thursday, 26th February 2009

On life after Facebook…

Nothing personal, former Facebook friends: I’ll miss those wall updates about doing dishes and changing the kitty litter… But most of all, I will miss those hundreds upon hundreds of baby pictures that remind me daily of how insanely happy I am that my kids aren’t babies any more.

›› Absolutely hilarious piece by Steve Tuttle at Newsweek

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baby, facebook, photos, social networking, time, waste

Monday, 2nd February 2009

The great Ma.gnolia meltdown.

What the hell happened, Larry? All the data lost? No backups? No backup of backups? Lots of people are bummed out but seriously folks, it’s data on a free service — what did you expect? There are more severe that you can lose in times like this.

Of course, I am sad my bookmarks are all gone, but I am gonna give it a few more days before switching back to my old, inactive delicious account.

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backup, bookmarks, cloud, computing, data, disaster

Thursday, 13th November 2008

Google Flu Trends.

It seems I am not the only one who Googles my symptoms before heading to the doctor. Google Flu Trends tracks search terms to predict when the flu will hit certain areas within the United States — an epidemic indicator, if you like. While it’s a good idea and could be extended to pseudo-prediction of epidemics and pandemics, this kind of ’searchsourcing’ will only be useful if Google remains insanely popular.

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crowdsourcing, disease, google, influenza, medicine, search, symptom

Tuesday, 28th October 2008

Window shopping at Amazon.

Amazon.com introduced Windowshop.com last week, their take on a virtual ‘window shopping’ experience. It lets you zoom and pan through Amazon content, like their best seller lists in music, books, video and other categories. One would guess their inspiration was the Cooliris application, but Amazon’s Windowshop seems tame in comparison. It seriously lacks the ‘wow’ factor of a slick psuedo-3D environment that Cooliris has.

With shiny, image-driven interfaces popping up everywhere, 2008 might be remembered as the year of the visual search. If visual search breaks into the big-time, Gesture based navigation might be the next big thing that may follow into the mainstream.

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3D, image, search, shopping, user interface, visual

Wednesday, 22nd October 2008

AIDS-3D.

Totally weird shit.

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animation, bizarre, exhibition, weird

Monday, 4th August 2008

The Survey For People Who Make Websites.

The 2008 survey from A List Apart : Go fill ‘em up!

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a list apart, Design, survey, web

Sunday, 3rd August 2008

BBH.

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agency, flash, hegarty, portfolio, web

Thursday, 31st July 2008

Not very Cuil, is it?

Nevermind the results for Cobol (which I obviously don’t really care for); it just seems like an incomplete, barely out of beta kinda search. The start page is nice and slick (which the Google chaps could really steal from) but otherwise, it’s just hype. Maybe they just wanted to be out there early so Microsoft would be enticed to buy them.