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The death of page views, and why we should care
Ask any web geek and they’ll tell you that the page, as we know it, is terminally ill. For many years, it was the proud atom of the web: an unbreakable, fundamental unit. However, much like the atom, it has now been broken down further, and in modern times is being bypassed by Ajax, Flash, [...]
Branes
Also deeply fond of spEak You’re bRanes, the zenith of user generated stupidity:
(Discussing a recent energy white paper) “The government have not said which type of power they are going to use, will it be the dirty fission reactors or the cleaner, more expensive fusion reactors.”
Hugh Pomells, London
(Discussing evolution) “One of the most basic laws [...]
Functional footers are the new black
Time to share a current geeky web design crush: big footers. Seems that quite a few sites are now getting rather bottom-heavy and, you know, I think I quite like it.
There doesn’t seem to be a name yet for this type of expanded area of functionality. Ho hum. I’m calling it a ‘functional footer’ until [...]
ORG is two
A quick Happy Birthday to the Open Rights Group, whom I’m glad to be a supporter of. Put simply, without smart people like this fighting their/our corner, we’d be further down the path of privacy invasion, DRM, ill-informed media outbursts and excessive copyright.
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In Rainbows
It’s very late and as such I’ve yet to work out how important an announcement this is. Hasn’t even hit Digg yet.
Radiohead have a new album coming out. In ten days. No pre-release hype, no PR, no Letterman appearances. No surprise there. The surprise? You choose the price.
You could say this is something that only [...]
The Aiwa Facebook: £149 at Currys
Nice Facebook analogy from Iain Tait: Facebook is an all-in-one stereo system - fine for beginners but ultimately a bit limiting and of mediocre quality (web 2.0 is separates, natch). See also Wired’s article Slap In The Facebook.
This was also one of the recurring themes at BarCamp Brighton, particularly with such a strong Microformats and [...]
last.fm still going for world domination
Quite liking last.fm’s new video player. Not hugely different from YouTube, but seems a little sharper to me. Quite liking this song, too.
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Twitter at ATP, anyone?
And people ask what’s so good about Twitter…
I had another Twitter-related thought recently, namely to encourage ATP attendees to sign up and use it. In a similar way to SxSW / FOWA / any other geek conference you care to mention, we can use it as a realtime virtual community, saying things like:
“Band Of Horses [...]
WordCount
I rediscovered an old site I’d meant to post about long ago: WordCount. It’s another of those interesting visualisation tools, this time showing the commonality of English words. Derived from Oxford University’s British National Corpus of 100 million words, it’s an obvious practical example of the long tail. Since we get by on an estimated [...]
Web productivity tip
This did the rounds a couple of weeks back, but I’m passing it on since it’s been invaluable.
Set your homepage to about:blank.
That’s it. I don’t fire up a browser unless I have a task in mind - per day it’s saved me probably 15 mins of aimless surfing, and freed 15 mins of productive time [...]