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“Chyrp is a blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality. It is driven by PHP and MySQL (with some AJAX thrown in), and has a pimpin’ theme and module engine, so you can personalize it however you want.”
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“The book addresses our philosophy in creating products and services, the importance of the right kinds of research, of making design an organizational competency, [and] of thinking of your offerings as part of a larger system…” Looks good!
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SixApart’s MySQL DBA shares some thoughts on running tight ops ships. Lots of good wisdom in here.
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Dan Saffer’s talk from Institute of Design’s 2007 Design Research conference is now available online. Entitled “How To Lie With Design Research”, it’s an entertaining look at the many ways you can do evil things with research. Made me chuckle quite a lo
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“While this implementation of the API was based on publicly discoverable information (like Google’s), we simply didn’t feel comfortable shipping that project based on current implementations.” Interesting corollary to the Social Graph API.
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“Developing a compelling presentations involves a series of decisions and exercises to align your head with the fact that you’re delivering your content directly to people. No internet. No weblog. Just you.” Rands on presentations and speeches.
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“Manage your conference notes and share them with other delegates, even with unreliable conference wi-fi!” Based on Tiddlywiki – an early piece of output from BT’s Open Source division (and Osmosoft). Congrats to Jeremy!
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Lovely; as leonardr says, a “2D Super Mario Galaxy”. Hop around planetoids rescuing kittens. Ace!
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“SwitchPipe is a proof of concept “Web application server” or, more accurately, a Web application process manager and request proxy.” Wow. Peter Cooper comes good on his “RBoss” concept. Could be interesting to see if there’s mileage in this.
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“The idea is something I’m calling web hooks…simple server-side mechanisms for web applications that allow users to do what they want with their data. You just let them specify URLs for various events…to pass data or notifications to in real-time.”
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“why on earth do we believe that just because technology can expose people means that it should?” danah, as ever, very insightful, on the problems of exposing user data, regardless of whether it is already “public” or not.
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“We believe that the interests of Internet users come first — and should come first — as the merits of this proposed acquisition are examined and alternatives explored.”
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“Yesterday, I discovered that The Times (UK), a well-respected newspaper owned by News Corp., is involved in an extensive campaign to spam social media websites with links to Timesonline.co.uk articles.” Andy Baio on the Times’ involvement with SEO.
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“Mixed media artist Mark Khaisman layers several pieces of [parcel] tape on Plexiglas panels to create these memorizing rustic illuminations with textures much like a knife painting with broad wide strokes.”
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“I don’t think I’ve read an article in the last year that speaks about email as much other than an irritant.” This one, however, makes some very interesting claims.
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Hosted subversion and continuous integration specifically for Rails development. Looks interesting; reasonably competitive pricing.
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“…it became painfully clear that most business people are unaware of their role in the system… What I found was that many powerful people desperately want to help solve these problems but they seem unaware of their role in perpetuating some of the ill
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“This little hack adds find-as-you-type to Safari, Apple’s OS X web browser”
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“researchers found that information workers whose strong e-mail networks allow them to receive new information sooner than their peers…are likely to be more productive than their less well-connected counterparts”
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Notes from a talk by Will Wright in 1996. So much good stuff in here; it’s almost certainly going to get a dedicated blogpost soon.
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There are no software applications in the traditional sense… The laptop focuses children around “activities.” This is more than a new naming convention; it represents an intrinsic quality of the learning experience we hope the children will have”
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“The Telegraph will soon become the first newspaper in the world, and the first British media company, to become an OpenID provider. Readers will be able to begin using the service from the end of February.” That’s an interesting – and savvy – move.
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“”the people who make huge money, the George Soroses and Julian Robertsons of the world, they’re the people who can step back and see when the paradigm is going to shift, and I think that comes from having a broader experience”
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Mmmn. Yum.(tags: fonts typography)
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“After the toy-hacking workshop I realised how awful I am at soldering… I want to be good at soldering… partly because I like all that MAKE magazine stuff and I feel like if I’m good at soldering those people will like me.” Russell being excellent.
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Fifty photographs of directors at work. They made wonderful films; these are wonderful photographs.
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“Candyfab was first built using three sacks of granulated sugar, an aquarium pump, a car jack and some recycled printer parts. And it only bloody works.” Fabulous.
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“Instead, user research for the Web should delve into the qualitative aspects of design to understand how and why people respond to what has been created, and, more importantly, how to apply that insight to future work.” Lane Becker on fine form.
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Lots, and lots, and lots of old Pelican book covers. Delightful.