Looking for a good gauge of a beta web app’s potential? How about the clamour for invites. The Google+ pleading atm almost matches GMail.
Archive for June 2011
Kraus Springs →
Saving this for future "running and jumping into cold things after sleeping in very hot things" purposes.
Matches: from:(updates@linkedin.com) subject:(“Network Updates”) Do this: Skip Inbox, Delete it
Only just came across this piece by @MarcDrummond on the nagging zombie that is IE6. This is reasoning I can get behind http://t.co/rO3egFz
OK so reading up, if MeeGo was scrapped in favour of WP7 @Nokia because the OS was buggy/far off completeness, how did the N9 just ship?
New Work: Benetton →
Oldish news now, but noting some lovely identity work from @Pentagram for Benetton.
My man-crush on Jon Stewart grows ever stronger http://t.co/Z49XGJ2(via @gruber)
Speaking of which, was glad not to get a sticky, tissue covered hand to shake. My favourite Big Train sketch: http://t.co/hOYTVCT
http://img.ly/56Bw A photo of me meeting @simonpegg, immortalised forever on film. Shit.
Today’s Ups: Swimming in the evening sun and stupendous customer service from Apple. Today’s Down: Dammit Canucks, what the hell?
Today’s celebratory message congratulating adopted North American sports team! Let’s hope for a repeat tomorrow. Don’t disappoint me Canada.
The new Bon Iver album seems to end with a dose of Peter Gabriel inspired electric piano, sax and winding late-night-radio guitar solos.
Should @Instapaper have auto-Tweeted when I used the Email Link action? Or, and this is more likely, did I also press the wrong button?
New system predicts most influential people on Twitter →
Whilst it's worth keeping an eye out for this forthcoming search engine, the real story right now is the statistics and algorithmic work done by MIT post-grads that roots out the most influential players within a trending social topic. Fascinating stuff. Via @MichaelSurtees.
PHOTOS: Here Is What Brooklyn Was Like In The Summer Of 1974 http://j.mp/iAUQlV (via Instapaper)
HTML5 Snippets →
A whole bunch of front-end code snippets, in the spirit of the W3C definition of HTML5 in that most are just showcasing CSS3. Handy reference anyway. Via @CameronMoll.
Always With Honor →
Just noting this down so I can come back and gawp in jealously some more at a later date.
Via @MarkWeaver.
Looking for more great ATX web/tech/design people to follow. Any suggestions? @TrentWalton @keeg @soopa @raygunray