Archive for August, 2007
Monday links – 2007-08-27
- Why Mahalo, TechMeme, and Facebook are going to kick Google’s butt in four years
- Particls - Track RSS and connect to APIs on your desktop
- 2008 SXSW Interactive Panel Picker
- Article about Social Media Measurement
- 500 APIs and growing
Technorati tags: mahalo, google, apis, sxswinteractive, particls
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Flash video supporting HD…
Ryan Stewart confirmed in his blog post, The H.264 Announcement in Black and White, that Flash video will support H.264 – This means that, to quote Ryan, you can play full, hardware accelerated 1080p Quicktime videos inside of the updated Flash Player
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Next steps could be YouTube etc. acting as a host for HD clips and using Miro to pull them down and watch on your monitor or TV.
Technorati tags: video, flash, hi-def, hd, h264, quicktime, hd, hd
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Monday Links – 2007-08-20
- Why FireFox is Blocked – block a browser for blocking your ads!
- Thoughts on the Photoshop UI
- Techno//Marketer: Mobile social media booming by 2012
- slackrpoint-the presenter’s timesaver
- Mobile Web Design, The Book – August 28th can’t come soon enough
- RDF for everyone
Technorati tags: semantic, photoshop, user interface, mobile, web design, firefox
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When tagging goes bad…
Found this via Jeremy Keith’s last post. K-Feds page on Amazon is a great example of when social tagging goes horribly wrong.
Technorati tags: amazon, web 2.0, tagging
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Monday Links – 2007-08-13
- Social Network Portability – [sooner rather than later I hope]
- A CSS Framework – [this looks really interesting]
- Accessibility & podcast transcription
- Planet Semantic Focus – coming soon
- Steve Jobs presentations style & Keynote 08
Technorati tags: css, microformats, semantic web, presentations
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Second Life…
Found via William Gibson
Technorati tags: secondlife, video, cyberspace
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Monday Links – 2007-08-06
It’s late Monday, I’m watching Survivorman – Here’s some links:
- “What’s new in CS3” booklets now available FREE
- Great article on Tag Cloud implementation for large sites
- DesignSnips just launched, nice and you could start your own using Flickr
- RefreshCleveland – If you build/design websites in Cleveland, Ohio drop in and say hello
- Post about the obstacles to accessible Flash by Drew McLellan
Technorati tags: refreshcleveland, CS3, tagcloud, flash
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microformats getting bigger?
As most of my developer mates will attest I’ve drunk deep the microformats Kool-aid. I sometimes feel like a voice in the wilderness, especially when I get asked by a non-developer, to point out big name that is using them.
Well no longer.
Enter stage-left Google! That’s right, the big G has now rolled out hCard support in Google Maps. This is great news for everyone, not just us enthusiasts, but, here’s the thing. They don’t seem to work correctly. At least not for me.
The Google post suggests using Operator or Tails, both of which I have in my Firefox but neither work in the most recent version of Flock. No biggy, as I just found LeftLogic’s bookmarklet but when I test Google Maps with it I got this (see image)
– rubbish.
Okay. Lets try the suggested add-ons in Firefox. The same. Nothing of value could be exported to Outlook.
Now my initial feeling is great disappointment. Is it the extensions; my browser set-up or did Google not code these as they should? I don’t know. But if it’s the latter this could be a great blow to the adoption of these. If Google can’t get it right why should we (smaller development companies) bother?
I’m hoping this is a glitch. I’ll try tomorrow and look for more examples on blogs etc. but with adoption of microformats directly into the browsers around the corner I hope that it is just me. I’m 100% behind microformats but I still feel a little lonely.
Technorati tags: microformats, google, hCard, problem, errors, outlook