Category: Bookmarks

Access Amazon’s S3 service on the mac

Collecting cell tower locations worldwide in an open source database

open source flash video player

Wow. This is an amazing web based tool that feels a lot like keynote

PHPBench.com was constructed as a way to open people’s eyes to the fact that not every PHP code snippet will run at the same speed.

The report identifies emerging trends in “mobile activism” through 11 case studies, and highlights the results of a global survey of NGO usage of mobile technology.

SMS marketing service

Integrate Campaign Monitor with drupal

Nice date picker with quick pick ranges

Surprisingly high number of mobile phones in the US that don’t support cookies

Exceptional list of tips for iPhone users

Schedule text messages as reminders

Leverage Google’s content delivery network for common javascript libraries.

“Safire is an open source framework written in HTML/CSS/JS. It make’s building/porting applications to the iPhone ridiculously easy.”

Keepmovingcomputingtaskstowhereenergyisavailable
Keep moving computing tasks to where energy is available. Cheaper to transmit data rather than energy.

58% of U.S. adults have used cell phones or PDAs for text-messaging, taking a picture, looking for directions or surfing the Web

“Why does latency have such a huge impact on page loading speed? After all, to load a page completely a web browser just needs to fetch the page source and all the associated resources. The browser makes multiple connections to servers and tries to load a

A comprehensive set of stencils. Great stuff.

Using css transformations to flip web page

Good breakdown of the differences

For those ready to sell as soon as they can get the upcoming 3G version

WebKit’s core JavaScript engine just got a new interpreter, code-named SquirrelFish. SquirrelFish is 1.6 times faster than WebKit’s previous interpreter.

A continuously updated list of all CSS properties:

SkyBlueCanvas is designed specifically for those instances when more robust systems like Joomla, WordPress and Drupal are too much horsepower.

Hook campaignmonitor up to google analytics

search and buy amazon products via sms

iPhone demographics

Story behind one of my favorite Thomas Hawk’s photos

GridFox is a Firefox extension that overlays a grid on any website

WebKit now supports gradients specified in CSS. There are two types of gradients: linear gradients and radial gradients.

A JupiterResearch survey found that 33% of broadband shoppers are unwilling to wait more than four seconds for a web page to load, whereas 43% of narrowband users will not wait more than six seconds (Akamai 2006).

mobile barcode scanning solving fixed lens issues

From a while back. Caused a lot of controversy at the time. Argues on device apps are going to be replaced by mobile web apps.

mobile advertising service including sms

Location-based SMS text messages service. Being used by realtors

The Betavine API lets you interact with mobile & web services. It allows you to send text messages, push web links to mobiles and access Betavine content. API calls are available in a variety of formats including XML, JSON and RSS.

Awesome Highlighter lets you highlight text on web pages and then gives you a small link to the highlighted page.

long tail search analytics for seo efforts

Great software for creating timelines

The result is CiUI (CNET iPhone UI) that mimics iPhone UI behavior. It’s already being used on CNET’s iPhone page (http://iphone.cnet.com). It’s been greatly inspired by iUI with a few key differences:

A sandbox for collecting search examples, patterns, and anti-patterns.

“IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process. “

Mobile web = weekend web

This is a great service for finding photographs. Much better than Flickr’s own search tool.

Twitter Statistics with Yahoo Pipes and the Google Chart API

Marshall explains his consulting business

Pinch Analytics — a hosted solution that brings the richness of web analytics to iPhone SDK applications.

Great list of yahoo pipes

Good discussion of why the using the html input type password is a usability problem for mobile

How to erase the phone in a way that makes it much more difficult to recover data.

Technique for using Amazon S3 as a content delivery network.

“Safari/WebKit is the most interesting of all as it appears to have no perceivable limit through Safari 3.1. I tested setting up to 10,000 cookies and all of them were set and sent along in the Cookie header. ” Crazy

basics of getting an app up and running on Google App Engine

Longer term statistics show that since 1995 the size of the average web page has increased by 22 times, and the number of objects per page has grown by 21.7 times.

Includes numbers on mobile services adoption. Shows low adoption of location-based services

Worldwide sales of mobile phones reached 294.3 million in the first quarter of 2008, a 13.6 percent increase over the first quarter of 2007, Gartner reported

Radar coverage of my mobile presentation from web visions

Response to NYT article questioning iPhone target of 10M for 2008. Author says, “Here’s the thing. I’ve stared at Apple’s iPhone sales figures repeatedly over the last few months, and I can’t see any reasonable way that the company can’t sell 10

The video of street view combined with the compass is very cool.

A survey of 50,000 U.S. households conducted by iSuppli Corp. in the fourth quarter of 2007 found that iPhone users spent just 46.5% of their time on the device making calls, compared to 71.7% for the typical cell phone user.

“Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, the firm behind a $100 million venture capital for official iPhone application development, told iPhone Atlas that its managers have been been overwhelmed by the response and subsequent slew of applications submitted f

“The presentations I’ve seen at Web 2.0 Expo and WebVisions are awesome. They’re basically photo slideshows with some minimal captions for emphasis. This makes for a very different experience than a typical bullet-fest.” Includes some kind words from

This post theorizes that the iPhone 3G will be available without carrier lock in. Makes some decent point. Seems unlikely to me, but want to be able to come back to it if he turns out to be right.