Link archive: June, 2008

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Monday, June 30th, 2008

Lustro - milkcarton

A cute little Mac app that exports your address book contacts in multiple formats ...including an HTML file with hCards!

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Mickipedia » Blog Archive » Social Networking Fatigue. I has it.

Good Reads is responsible for one of the most egregious abuses of trust â€” using the password anti-pattern to spam your address book. Micki has the details.

LIVE REAL TIME SATELLITE AND SPACE SHUTTLE TRACKING

A real time satellite tracking web application. Over 8000 satellites are tracked and can be displayed on the familiar Google Maps interface.

The Paper Version of the Web at Deeplinking

A nice collection of sketches and paper prototypes.

Delighting with Data » tomtaylor.co.uk

Notes and slides from Tom Taylor's talk at Oxford Geek Night 7. It's a great collection of things that talk (or at least Twitter): Tower Bridge, asteroids, plants...

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

code_swarm

A tool for generating beautiful visualisations from commits to code repositories.

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Official Google Data APIs Blog: OAuth for Google Data APIs

All of Google's data APIs (Calendar, Blogger, Contacts, etc.) all now support OAuth. Excellent!

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Scripting Enabled

Christian is using the prize money he won at Mashed to put on an event in London in September devoted to "ethical hacking": creating mashups to make social networks more accessible.

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Nihilogic: JavaScript Super Mario Kart

A JavaScript version of Super Mario Kart? Crazy!

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Wordle - adactio

Wordle puts a new spin on the tired old tag cloud. Here's a cloud of my del.icio.us tags.

Subtitles

Now you can perform data analysis on the subtitles of the most recent series of Doctor Who, courtesy of the brilliant Matthew Somerville.

Kevin Kelly -- The Technium

Scenius is like genius, only embedded in a scene rather than in genes.

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Berocca - Blogger Relief

Blogging can be hard. Here's some free relief. Sure, it's a shameless commercial promotion but it's kind of cute.

How to... Solve the meaning of life | Mail Online

The inimitable Dr. Brian Cox gives us a peek into the state of play with the Large Hadron Collider. "Because of its size and ambition, the LHC could inspire an entire generation to rediscover the value of exploration in the way Apollo inspired me â€¦

Business Technology : New Service Helps Tech Startups Choose Terrible Names

I had a very pleasant chat on the phone with Ben Worthen from the Wall Street Journal. He likes my social buzzword generator.

Friday, June 20th, 2008

DIY Yahoo! Resignation Letter

Planning to quit Yahoo? This might come in handy.

Knitting Letters : A to Z

An abecedarium of knitted letters.

Twitter / MarsPhoenix: Are you ready to celebrate?...

In the future, all great scientific discoveries will be conveyed in 140 characters.

The Art of the Title Sequence -

A blog devoted to film title sequences.

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Sorry I Missed Your Party

Worst. Parties. Ever.

Social networks may be imaginary | The Register

My new motto is "The Social Graph is a Spherical Cow."

Web Use Project: Papers

A wonderful source of data on user behaviour and perceived skill levels online.

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

bunnyhero dev » Scaring people with fullScreen

Fullscreen mode for Flash movies could be used to totally freak people out. Here's how.

Next to Last.fm

Remember when I blogged about wanting to be able to scrobble the music that someone else in the same room as me is playing? Well, Brad Dougherty has built it.

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

LHCountdown.com

Here's something to bring on the geek goosebumps: a countdown to the activation of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Many sectors have already completed cooldown.

Could Zeppelins soon grace our skies again? | Technology | The Guardian

Yes, yes, a thousand times, yes! "A new generation of environmentally friendly 'hybrid airships' could be just about to take off." Anything that makes everyday life more like Steampunk must be good.

Scott Kveton · I’m for the Open Web

Scott Kveton rips Chris Saad a new one, and rightly so. We all sent Chris the same message at Social Graph Foo Camp, he's had enough time to shape up but instead things have become increasingly hype-laden and bullshitty with him.

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Looking Back: How Different Groups Voted

A really nice interactive infographic from the New York Times.

Bruce Schneier: Are photographers really a threat? | Technology | The Guardian

An excellent article that explodes the ludicrous myth that terrorists like to go around taking pictures of potential targets so therefore photographers are dangerous.

Coding Horror: Please Give Us Your Email Password

An excellent rant by Jeff Atwood that explains just why the password anti-pattern is such an abhorrent practice: "How did we end up in a world where it's even remotely acceptable to ask for someone's email credentials?"

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

graphpaper.com - The Peculiar 20th Century

Prompted by my proposal for this year's Reboot, Christian Crumlish pointed me to this post by Christopher Fahey that echoes my assertion that the Twentieth Century might turn out to be just a blip on the cultural timeline.

The Big Picture - Boston.com

This new photojournalism blog is filled with stunning imagery.

Suggest a Feed to Ryan Irelan

If there's an RSS you think Ryan should know about, you can tell him here.

Yahoo! Address Book API - YDN

You can know use an API (with BBAuth) to get contact Yahoo account contact details. There really is no excuse now for still using the password anti-pattern.

reboot10 - Jeremy Keith talks about Hypertext (Micropresentation)

Ooh, look what else I've found on the Reboot site.: this is my pecha kucha... I mean, this is my "micropresentation" about increasing the power of your hyperlinks (with microformats ...of course).

reboot10 - Jeremy Keith talks about Soul

Wandering around the site for the Reboot conference in Copenhagen, I came across this video of my talk from last year. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed this talk.