Category: Bookmarks

South korea: boys cheering for their soccer teams. the most amazing thing is that they do this with their CLOTHES (not holding up cards).

Pretty impressive applications built in 2 days

Statistics on number of people who use web applications

the next technology era will be characterized by our collective ability to access the Internet anyplace, anytime

Nice quick tool for looking at a grid on a given page

Testing ajax on ie

How big is that? Take all of hollywood movie box office revenues worldwide. Add all of the global music industry revenues. And add all of videogaming revenues around the world. Even all those three together, we don’t reach 100 billion.

RSS to new post in wordpress

Online software for organizing a startup

Discusses how and why 37signals has been able to stay so small.

Nice way to sync calendars using iCalendar

A web site that will help create css sprites for you to help speed up your site.

The US keeps falling on the list of countries with broadband adoption.

The top review on Amazon is also good. I hope to read this book soon, but lately I’ve been hearing people refer to the book as if it were gospel which makes me skeptical.

This is a problem for any site that builds communities or allows for account creation.

It’s not simply that he cataloged his entire Star Wars toy collection, nor that he created a searchable database and ajax interface for the collection–it’s that he created hundreds of unique icons to represent each toy!

Thursday, October 25, 2007 — 20 slides, 15 seconds each for presenters

Measuring the impact of your javascript

Ugly javascript memory leak in IE

Web development firm focused on mobile content

Describes how to use CSS sprites including code samples

This is nice! Adobe AIR interface for Google Analytics. Speedy, smooth. It really shows off what is possible with Adobe AIR.

Jared Spool explains the different levels of Amazon login. I’ve seen every type of behavior he describes, but never understood why Amazon was set up that way. His explanation helps a lot and Amazon should take his advice and add explanations to its site.

Group collaboration tool

We’ve had a couple of customers interested in creating their own social networks. I need to take a closer look at Ning.

Study on download time and it’s link to usability

Big news in Europe for OpenID. Orange was everywhere in France when I was over there.

A fairly comprehensive list of services that non-profits should consider.

File input fields are very difficult to style with css and browsers treat them very differently. This shows how to overcome those challenges.

Different levels of internet APIs and platforms

Very cool technique for showing pricing levels and then sign up forms

“Give you the opportunity to “try out” some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world. You are welcome to be the administrator of any CMS system here, allowing you to decide which system best suits your needs.”

Such beautiful type. I need to order that Helvetica documentary DVD now.

Why isn’t this part of iSight by default?

Another downturn coming?

It’s hard enough to create a successful user experience when you can control every aspect of the customer interaction . Can Apple (or anyone else for that matter) create truly amazing experiences when they need to work through partners? That is yet to b

More than two-thirds of US adult mobile users can send and receive text messages, according to InsightExpress.

The company found that while Gen Y texts the most, three-quarters of 45-to-54-year-olds can also text.

US users can’t go without the internet, cell phones and television – in that order

The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has called for an end to the “stupid” male geek culture that disregards the work of capable female engineers, and puts others off entering the profession.

Now if you showed that diagram to most educated people, they probably would call it a network, and before we talked about social graphs we called them social networks, and you know what — they’re exactly the same thing, and social network is a much less