Ruby on Rails 1.0 is out
And clearly 37s didn’t feel like they were getting enough mileage from the old site. :-/ http://rubyonrails.org/
View ArticleYelp, User Contribued Content and Feed Design
Yelp gets feeds just right. I’m not sure I’ve ever said that before about anybody. They’ve got: a feed of my reviews allows me to re-purpose the content I create (No RSS, No Content Creation], a feed...
View Article“Photocasting”
James Holderness (check the comments) Do you ever think maybe the Apple guys are just winding you up? Nobody could possibly be that stupid. Maybe, though I tend to share Phil’s skepticism. Lets start...
View Article“…next week and the week after, when it’s history, all those aggregators will...
thats what 410 (Gone) is for. http://www.scripting.com/2006/01/16.html#When:9:17:07AM
View ArticleO’Reilly.com redesigns
Wow, shock to the system, but a change for the better http://www.oreilly.com/
View ArticleA new logo for Atom?
Nothing like a circle-A decorated with a pentagram to say ‘Syndication!’ I like it. http://www.majordojo.com/2006/02/a_new_logo_for_1.php
View ArticleOn Usable Microphone Design for Conferences
Microphones need visual feedback on whether the speaker is speaking into them. At conferences you’re dealing with amateur speakers, and they seem to have no problem greater then that of speaking into...
View ArticleMerlin’s search for the perfect apostrophe. Next up “Procrastination Hacks”.
I’d have never noticed the apostrophe, and Jazz would never have stopped until she found the right one. http://odeo.com/audio/1315297/view
View ArticleBoxes and Arrows Event Calendar
Attractive calendar of “interesting web-related events”. In Rails. http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events
View ArticleJeff Veen: Designing Google Reader’s trends
I want GReader trends without using GReader. Want it sooo bad. I’ve been talking a bit lately about my ideal aggregator which by default shows nothing but trends. (And I still MeasureMap!)...
View ArticleSocial Design Notes: Negative Campaigning
Billboard liberation campaign in NYC using placards taped over video billboards with the typography as negative space. http://backspace.com/notes/2007/01/24/x.html
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Pardon me?
Playing a bit with OpenID, created an account with JanRain, and was presented with the below captcha. Really changed the whole value propisition of OpenID for me.
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Early feedback on PMOG – Needs Community
Okay PMOG is super early in its life, but it intrigues me on a couple of levels (not the least of which is the engaging archetype art). However there are some things about it which are broken. Not...
View Article“It turns out color theory has a way of measuring interestingness: saturation.”
On Dabble DB’s auto-self-configuring themes. http://dabbledb.com/blog/?p=87
View Articlered interactive agency has one of the best urls ever
they also happen to be the firm behind ethanhaaswasright http://ff0000.com/
View Article“msg: wow i just wasted lots of time refreshing mtv.com here are the...
Gallery of MTV.com’s backgrounds. Interesting range of styles. http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsgalpert/tags/mtvcom/show
View ArticleStreams, affordances, Facebook, and rounding errors
I’m not really a Facebook user, but it is impossible to be a serious practitioner of the rough craft of building social software without being at least somewhat a Facebook watcher. So indulge me a bit,...
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Twitter lists, creators vs curators, and who owns the meta-data?
Flickr is a creators’ community. This informs a number of the decisions we make. Including the question of “who owns the meta-data?” (where own is defined as who can operate on it). On Flickr a photo...
View ArticleDens: First thoughts on Google Buzz for mobile (Alex is telling me the web...
“#3. Is Google Buzz the Facebook / Twitter / foursquare killer? No. Using Buzz requires more thought / more work than Facebook or Twitter and comes with less reward … For social apps the feature...
View ArticleHenry Blodget: “Facebook’s Approach To Innovation Is The Secret To Its Success”
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-privacy-innovation-2010-5 Blodget gets the headline right, and nearly everything else wrong. I’m really surprised we aren’t seeing more people writing and...
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