web 2.0, design & community
I introduced you to Memolane last week, and today they have opened their beta to everyone — no invite codes required (and perfectly timed to capitalize on that SXSW buzz). For me the real shock came when I looked at their homepage. Newly added is the “Featured Memolanes” section, including Robert Scoble, Loic Le Meur, [...]
It’s been said that everything you do or say on the Internet is there for ever. But even with all the various websites and services we use, it’s still not easy to collect all those tweets, posts, photos and other artifacts in a organized way. Flavors.me does a fair job of aggregating this data, and [...]
“Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye. Four and twenty blackbirds, Baked in a pie…” – Sing a Song of Sixpence, popular nursery rhyme* Growing up, we all sang the familiar song. Thankfully, I’ve never tasted blackbird pie (nor do I desire to). I never even really thought much about what I [...]
One of the challenges of designing for the web is that the font you want for your design may not be available on the computers your audience use. Resolving this usually requires either 1) Ditching the design intent and sticking with broadly supported font families; 2) Creating images containing text, in which case you can [...]
This year WordCamp San Francisco celebrates it’s fifth anniversary. I attended the first WordCamp SF way back in 2007. It was a much more intimate affair back then, and the sense of community was unmistakable. Five years later, the event has grown to three days, and a much bigger venue than that humble beginning. The dates [...]
If you haven’t heard of Quora, you should. It’s been getting a lot of buzz. What is Quora? According to their website, “Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it. Quora was founded in April 2009 by Adam D’Angelo, who was previously CTO and [...]
My Saturday mornings are usually either 1) a day to sleep in after a late night Friday or 2) a day to get up early and hit the trailhead, climbing one of my favorite local mountains. Today, I broke that mold, getting up early to feed my brain at WordCamp LA. My first WordCamp experience [...]
For years, designers have struggled with integrating interesting, expressive fonts into web pages. Until now, the general rule has been to stick to the commonly available font families — the default stuff installed on every Mac or Windows PC — and use images for anything out of the ordinary. This works ok, but (alt tags [...]
A couple years ago I helped build this site for researchers at Yale studying the effectiveness of various “get out the vote” efforts. Scott Beauchamp (a colleague from my Winfire days) dropped me a note yesterday saying the site was linked in a couple of places from a great article on Slate discussing the contrasting [...]
I got hooked on the concept of Twitter when it took off at SXSW 2007. I don’t often have time to write an essay, but I can generally manage 140 characters. Over time, I’ve tried and tested a number of Twitter-like micro-blogging networks. Jaiku, Plurk, FriendFeed. And social networks like LinkedIn and Facebook allow a similar status [...]
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