Category: Bookmarks

Apparently the Harry Potter movie has amazing typography. Now I might have a reason to watch the film. :-) It will take a lot to exceed Wes Anderson’s devotion to Futura though.

Mobile phone operators are about to become a commodity like water or petrol. The competitive stakes are rapidly being raised as advanced mobile service propositions are increasingly attracting competitors from outside telecoms.

An alternative way to view source on an iphone

Solution for publishing email addresses, avoiding spam, and having a fall back for accessibility.

I want one of these wind turbines for our house.

Both Facebook and MySpace have launched profile and network targeted advertising and marketing products. As they both use member interests and the communities which they are part of, trust continues to become key in adoption as information is passed along

Use both display:none and visibility:hidden

Buy your groceries with your phone. When is the US going to get this?

Red Hat is going to start offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux on EC2. The service will cost $19 per month plus 21, 53, or 94 cents per hour, depending on computing and storage capacity, plus 11 cents per gigabyte transferred in and 19 cents per gigabyte tra

eMarketer projects that US online advertising will more than double as a percentage of total media, rising from only a 6% share of total media in 2006, to slightly more than a 12% share in 2010.

For use in CMS solutions to prevent bad markup

The SDK and associated documentation

Google giving away $10 million for best Android applications

Another win for WebKit. By the time Mobile Firefox comes out, it will be moot.

“YouMonitor.Us is a distributed peer-to-peer monitoring service that puts your web site to work monitoring other sites for downtime, while other sites keep an eye on yours. The service is free, provided that you volunteer some CPU cycles and bandwidth fro

“The company is gearing up to make a serious run at buying wireless spectrum, a chunk of the airwaves that can be used to provide mobile phone and Internet services, in a Federal Communications Commission auction in January.”

Allows you to view source on an iphone.

This site converts bitmap images to vector art – it’s an online auto-tracer. It works very well.

RFPs are endemic of an oppositional structure that rewards those who fill boxes, but not those who look for deeper awareness or insights that might result in a more effective solution. In our experience, organizations that use the RFP process to purchase

Voice over ip for mobile phones

Campaign continues to put out great info on what works in each email client.

Wow! Very interesting read on how Google’s Android system uses java, but doesn’t use a java vm thereby avoiding Sun’s lockdown on Java Mobile edition

New open source platform for delivering content to mobile devices

Software that helped with iTunes volume and sound. I bought this a while ago, but it looks like it won’t work much longer.

Find out who owns the prefix in a certain area code.

“Advertising will get more and more targeted until it disappears, because perfectly targeted advertising is just information.”

Search and analytics for mailing lists

Breakdown of which email clients support forms and which do not.

“Finally, for the graphic designers among us. Enjoy a two minute and thirty-six second rock rendition of that client request you’ve heard time and again”

Funny video for designers

As all designers know, the grid is absolutely fundamental to layout, whether you want to keep to a tight grid, or break it for effect. Grid is a highly configurable JavaScript bookmarklet which overlays a layout grid on any web-site you wish.

Simplify your Ruby on Rails™ development and free yourself from setting up source code repositories, continuous integration servers, code browsers and commit notifications.

“Malcolm Gladwell talks about the importance of stubbornness and collaboration in problem-solving, and how long it takes to master any challenge.”

New feature in Google Analytics to see what people are searching for on your site.

Another comprehensive list from Smashing Magazine.

Description of the Social Media Release created for Ford

Good explanation of the social media release

Great example of social media press release.

hRelease is a community effort to define a new format for press releases via a community standard microformat

Allows you to create a web page as a separate application. Only for windows now.

This means that the industry around various online social networking sites we know and love, Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube etc – and all the multiplayer online gaming such as World of Warcraft, CounterStrike, Lineage, etc – and the multitude of virtu

“A developer tool for interacting with web services and other web resources that lets you make HTTP requests, set the entity body, and content type. This allows you to interact with web services and inspect the results.” Good for testing web services part

So much good stuff in this article from 2006. Practices for developing applications that more companies should adopt.

Repoze integrates Zope technologies with WSGI and reusable Python middleware.

FriendFeed makes it easy to keep track of the web pages, videos, music, and photos your friends and family interact with around the Internet.

Wow, bike theft in Portland is a huge problem.

GridMaker is a small script for Photoshop which allows speedy development of simple grids.

Presentation that reworked Yahoo’s site using a grid-based design. The presentation pdf is very good.

A compelling introduction to Blueprint CSS and why it streamlines the design process

One reason for organizational paralysis is that it’s easy to believe that if your tasks go away, your job goes away.

There is renewed interest in bootstrapping, if only because lower costs now make this a bit easier and younger entrepreneurs can live more cheaply.

As we told our client, innovative products come from companies with one important characteristic — willpower: The perseverance and committed resources to see a breakthrough product launched.

Online mind mapping software

“If the leadership of a company are cut off from vivid, direct contact with the front line, they are cutting off important information. Not just data, which is easy to summarize in a graph or a report, but visceral information that they remember and take

Conference calls take place on regular telephone lines. No computer or Internet access required.