Category: Links

“The City of Lon­don today announced plans to install a dense and com­pre­hen­sive wi-fi inter­net net­work through­out Lon­don’s Square Mile finan­cial dis­trict,” — That’s it, I’m moving.

Flickr being used for adver­tis­ing. When iit’s your own stuff, its’not allowed, but if it’s you being ent­hou­si­as­tic about some­one else’s prod­uct — is it wrong to post about it?

Ilse Media selects SixA­part’s Type­pad as their tool for a new blog­ging ser­vice. They can do more stuff, such as mod­er­ate com­ments. (Dear god, they could­n’t do that before?) Progress!

Post to and read del.icio.us, Flickr and upcoming.org in a mobile friend­ly format.

A nice piece describ­ing usabil­i­ty chal­lenges for design­ers of Rich Inter­net Applications.

“The web is the social appli­ca­tion.” With empha­sis on “is”.

Peter Mer­holz in good form, explain­ing why web 2.0 isn’t about blog­ging and say­ing that “it’s some­thing of a trav­es­ty that “elite design agen­cies” remain so igno­rant of […] “web 2.0.””

It’s been a while since I’ve read about a PS2 game that actu­al­ly sounds inter­est­ing. No sur­prise this one’s from the cre­ators of ICO. To buy.

Social book­mark­ing ser­vice Ma.gnolia goes live. I was already in the beta, and liked it (espe­cial­ly the look & feel), but haven’t made the switch from del.icio.us yet. Why? One: no auto­mat­ed post­ing to my blog and two: no way to man­age (delete, merge, spl

Old(ish) arti­cle on a few mobile social net­work­ing ser­vices. Plazes is also men­tioned. Nice overview of an area that isn’t get­ting much atten­tion (yet).

Naar Voren wijst Ned­er­landse web­bouw­ers op de nieuwe toe­ganke­lijke Rabobank site. Jam­mer dat tegen­over dit tech­nis­che hoog­stand­je geen geïn­spireerd ontwerp staat. De site maakt qua uiter­lijk en inter­ac­tie weinig indruk op me.

Who would expect Philips get­ting good press from no oth­er than 37signals? Ryan points out an idiot-proof uni­ver­sal remote.

Drew reviews three online col­lab­o­ra­tive writ­ing tools: “Write­board, on the oth­er hand tru­ly did get out of the way and let me and my friends get right into it. If they could just sort out the prob­lems mak­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion impos­si­ble then I’m sure it’l

I agree with Regine: I would love to go to the Yoshit­o­mo Nara exhi­bi­tion in London.

Camp­fire launch­es. I’ve reg­is­tered, but have yet to try it out. Looks inter­est­ing (again) though.

How social is gam­ing in a mas­sive mul­ti­play­er online game? Not as much as you’d expect — in WoW at least.

“You must pre­vent your prod­ucts from becom­ing com­plex and frus­trat­ing. Yet you must con­tin­ue to inno­vate to dif­fer­en­ti­ate your prod­uct from the com­pe­ti­tion. Add more, but only if you sweat the details, focus on solu­tions, and keep it easy-to-use.” — I ca

Naa Voren wijst Ned­er­landse web­bouw­ers op de nieuwe toe­ganke­lijke Rabobank site. Jam­mer dat tegen­over dit tech­nis­che hoog­stand­je geen geïn­spireerd ontwerp staat. De site maakt qua uiter­lijk en inter­ac­tie weinig indruk op me.

Who would expect Philips get­ting good press from no oth­er than 37signals? Ryan points out an idiot-proof uni­ver­sal remote.

Drew reviews three online col­lab­o­ra­tive writ­ing tools: “Write­board, on the oth­er hand tru­ly did get out of the way and let me and my friends get right into it. If they could just sort out the prob­lems mak­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion impos­si­ble then I’m sure it’l

I agree with Regine: I would love to go to the Yoshit­o­mo Nara exhi­bi­tion in London.

Camp­fire launch­es. I’ve reg­is­tered, but have yet to try it out. Looks inter­est­ing (again) though.

Sto­ry of the day: Google buys Mea­sure Map, and employs Jeff Veen in the process. A loss for Adap­tive Path, but it does give Google some much need­ed weight in their secret war on Yahoo!

“it’s hard to build a com­mu­ni­ty around crap­py, mun­dane, and mediocre crap no mat­ter how hard you try.”

Camino has gone 1.0. I’ve used it for a while as my pri­ma­ry brows­er, and like it a lot. How­ev­er, I keep com­ing back to Fire­fox for it’s great exten­sions. Plus: half of the time I’m on a PC — it’s nice to at least browse the same way on both platforms.

“It appears that there is some debate about the clas­si­fi­ca­tion of this appli­ca­tion, and as it does require user acti­va­tion, it appears to fall into the Tro­jan clas­si­fi­ca­tion, rather than self-pro­pogat­ing through any par­tic­u­lar vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty in OS X.”

“Just as few peo­ple can ful­ly mas­ter the skills of both graph­ic design and IA, few peo­ple will mas­ter the skills of both IA and IxD. It serves both orga­ni­za­tions and prac­ti­tion­ers for peo­ple to specialize.”

Yahoo! opens up their pat­tern library under a CC license. A great resource!