I love these heat maps — they show the locations of photos taken by locals versus tourists in cities around the word.
Details and comments »Naz wrote a review of rdio so I wouldn’t have to. I agree with almost every single word (and I’m also pretty much a virgin to music streaming services).
Details and comments »The Wired Magazine iPad app, in my opinion, is a pretty big UI and IxD win. It’s easily the best-designed magazine to come out of the App Store since the iPad’s launch, and it is, for the most part, a joy to use. But it’s built by packaging up two PNGs for each page (one landscape, one portrait), and frankly, that’s just an idiotic and incredibly inelegant way of doing it.
Details and comments »A pretty amazing piece of work, this JS Flash player looks far more advanced than the Gordon project which floated around awhile back. It’s apparently going to be open source, as well. I’m not sure something like this will work as a long-term solution, but it may be an effective way to get many legacy SWFs to play on platforms that don’t support Flash. If nothing else, it’s a technical marvel, for sure.
Details and comments »Nice piece by my cousin Brian Ford detailing differences between media accounts and the recently-released affidavit in the saga of the lost fourth-generation iPhone prototype.
Details and comments »Props to Snook for having on of the few rational takes on Flash. Much of the web standards community act as zealots when it comes to Flash, and it is, quite frankly, an embarrassing show of just how little they really know about the entirety of web development.
Details and comments »Very cool CSS-powered infographic by Paul Irish and Divya Manian.
Details and comments »Adobe Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow shows how Flash on touch devices handles mouseover (hover) events. It handles them just the same as Safari on iPhone does — it dispatches a mouseover event on the first touch, and a click event on the second.
Details and comments »Really great take on why the Facebook Graph API is exciting and different than anything before it.
Details and comments »The Telegraph writes up the FlashCamp Seattle debacle with a typically divisive headline. Of all the publications that have ever mentioned my name, I think The Telegraph is probably the most widely-distributed. Crazy.
Details and comments »A fresh design from Veerle, who is always one worth watching!
Details and comments »A pretty great list from the Washington Post.
Details and comments »Mark’s experience of NetNewsWire for iPad getting him back into habit of easing RSS/Atom feeds perfectly parallels mine. I hadn’t read feeds ia year or so, and now I’m back to doing it every day, from the comfort of my couch.
Details and comments »I’m sorry, but the idea of HTML as a universal data storage format is pretty ridiculous. If the “data” in question is blog posts, maybe. But what if your data is tables and tables of numbers? Or heaps of video? Or needs to represent complex relationships between objects? No serious company would ever attempt to store all of their data in HTML, and neither should you.
Details and comments »Conan’s first TV interview since being ousted from NBC.
Details and comments »A pretty great piece by Ben Ward discussing “web apps,” and how much of what is being talked about aren’t really “web apps” at all, because they’re a very different beast than the “interconnected bits of information” that make up the web. I think it’s fair to say that “web app” may not be the best name for these things — although I’m not sure what to call them, instead. I’m in full agreement with most of what Ben says — but this last line just doesn’t fly with me: “The idea of undermining the core function of the web to achieve that is detestable.” I fail to see how building native-like apps using web technologies “undermines the core function of the web” at all. To me, it simply adds another function. Just as Cocoa apps aren’t part of the web, but rather tangential to it, I would say native-like apps that live in the web are also not part of the web, but tangential to it. They sit alongside it, not hurting the web one bit.
Details and comments »This looks a bit more bulletproof than the fallback I’ve done on BarStar — might have to switch to this when I get a moment.
Details and comments »Handy chart detailing “when you can use” various advanced web development techniques.
Details and comments »Nothing like a good music theory blog post to get me going.
Details and comments »My article on Django Advent, covering the new messages framework for Django 1.2.
Details and comments »Just realized I hadn’t linked to the personal project Scott Phelps and I have been working on lately. It’s in beta now. It’s a mobile, social game intended to be played by people who are out at bars doing karaoke. If you like to sing, check it out!
Details and comments »Exactly what it says on the box — a Facebook Connect backend for django-registration — and it looks well done, to boot.
Details and comments »In so many way I think Twitter is built and designed poorly, but I totally agree with this article. Just goes to show that it’s the idea that really counts.
Details and comments »I wish more designers thought like Snook. People love jQuery plugins, and for good reason, but half the time they’re overkill or not exactly what you want, and you can very quickly and easily write a custom script instead.
Details and comments »My Dad has made a website. He’s selling these Viva Beads, which are cool little bracelets and such. If that’s something you’re into, check it out.
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