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Opera 5 for Mac Technology Preview 1 to be Released on Thursday

The Opera web

Posted on 20th February 2001 Details

Opera for Macintosh

Opera for mac, public technology preview 1, is nowavailable for download.

Posted on 22nd February 2001 Details

Overview of New Features in Apache 2.0

The first public beta of theApache Web Server v2.0has been released today.

Posted on 5th April 2001 Details

American Order - shopping and global delivery service

Ever lusted over a pair of shoes, a t-shirt or a computer peripheral in an online store only to find out they only ship inside the USA? Well, fret no more, you can now order from these stores thanks to the people atAmerican Orderwho will act as intermediaries (for a fee, of course).

Posted on 7th April 2001 Details

The Mechanical Hit Counter

Themechanical hit counter. Ping it and see it increment in real time. Ah the joys of useless tech.

Posted on 16th April 2001 Details

Kartoo - memoteur de recherche cartographique

A new French meta search engine calledKartoohas been launched. It uses a visual display to show results… prtety unusual. Not sure if I like it though.

Posted on 26th April 2001 Details

PDN Online: The end of the world as we know it

Zeldmansays itso much better than I ever could:"The Web is not in trouble. Big businesses are, when they think they can own or master it.Bye-bye, Big Content. Adieu, global agencies. Thanks for stopping by. Now step away, and let those who’ve always understood this mediumtake it where it needs to go."1 taglocal tags:webtechnorati:webdel.icio.us:webThere are no comments for this entry.Comments not allowed

Posted on 23rd June 2001 Details

The Tour de France German porn site

Amusing:tourdefrance.comis a porn site. The official Tour de France site is located atletour.fr.

Posted on 16th July 2001 Details

about.com product placement

Here’s a new advertising trick: check out theabout.comlogo for an example of creative product placement.

Posted on 7th August 2001 Details

Lego Build - Junkbot (Shockwave)

Go and play the LegoJunkbotgame. Addictive stuff!

Posted on 15th August 2001 Details

Remove these gizmos that hijack your websurfing experience

If you’ve been noticing yellow underlined links in web pages you visit, and you recently installed the Kazaa file-sharing program, it means you simultaneously installed the evil ezula toptext adware which hijacks pages you visit by adding links to advertisers in their content. To remove it, download thiscool utilityfrom LavaSoft.

Posted on 19th August 2001 Details

help me get rid of the last few bugs

The new design for this site is finally live. There are still a few bugs that I can’t find a way around, so if anyone can help, please let me know.

Posted on 26th August 2001 Details

Guns for kids

Isn’t free entreprise great? Buy your kids a present atgunsforkids.com

Posted on 3rd September 2001 Details

Link this page

Milov asks for a link, sohe gets one.

Posted on 9th September 2001 Details

Potluck (shockwave app)

Potluckis an incredible online sound application built with shockwave.

Posted on 16th September 2001 Details

Karborn.com: one of those online Ezines

Neat. I got linked byKarborn. Cheers!

Posted on 18th September 2001 Details

Cnet: News knocks out sex in Net searches

For the first time in the (short) history of the web, the word "sex" actuallydropped out of the Top 10 search words. Considering the number ofGooglesearches ending up on this site for terms like " bodies falling from wtc", I can’t say I’m too surprised.

Posted on 20th September 2001 Details

Chatmaster 3000 (shockwave plugin necessary)

Chatmaster 3000is a shockwave chat room to play in if you’re on some kind of mind altering substance. I feel dizzy after spending just 5 minutes in there.(viamagnetbox)

Posted on 25th September 2001 Details

all.news

Tired of doing the rounds to check the latest in all the design portals? Just hop over toall.newsfor the portal of portals.

Posted on 27th September 2001 Details

Spread the sex search meme

Helping spread the meme:If you’re happy and you know it: add the word “sex” to all yoursearch engine queries...(...thus ending up with things like “linux usb scanner support sex”, “springfield bus timetables sex"and so on.

Posted on 28th September 2001 Details

charabia.net - generation de textes

The (French language) random text generators atcharabia.netare magnificent! Of particular note are themusic pressandJean-Claude Vandammegenerators.

Posted on 29th September 2001 Details

CyberExtruder

Upload a pic of your face, run it throughCyberExtruder, and you’ve got a 3D model of yourself ready to do serious damage in Unreal Tournament, Quake and other games.

Posted on 16th October 2001 Details

FindSounds.com - Search the Web for Sounds

Need some samples for a new track you’re making, or a flash movie you’re working on? Here’s a search engine that only scans the web for sounds, and is aptly namedFindSounds. It can even search for audio files based on how they sound, or if they’re similar to a sound you’ve already created.

Posted on 27th October 2001 Details

404 error

The classic404 error pagemeets the classic adventure game.

Posted on 28th October 2001 Details

The Register: the browser wars are back

The browser warsare back! There’s nothing like a bit of healthy competition. Although, in typical fashion, Microsoft has already thrown a few punches below the belt.

Posted on 5th November 2001 Details

Wired: IE Bug Can Lead to Strange Search

The Internet Explorer I use on my PC was taken over by some stupid ads in Chinese that showed up every time I typed a bad URL, I managed to get rid of them but many people get stuck with them, often displaying porn and other unwanted rubbish. Wired hasan article about this extremely annoying practice.

Posted on 8th November 2001 Details

The tourist guy original email

The search is over. The most photoshopped man in the world,the real tourist guy, has shown up.

Posted on 21st November 2001 Details

Indymedia: Reason to be Paranoid; a Personal Experience

Recently, a foreign poster to the indymedia site was stopped upon entering the USA andinterrogated by government agentswho accused him of involvement in terrorist groups.

Posted on 22nd November 2001 Details

The human clock

This is really cool: bored with that measly little time display in the corner of your screen? Get thehuman clock.

Posted on 6th December 2001 Details

KPMG

Ok, let’s the help spread the meme.

Posted on 6th December 2001 Details

DavidLynch.com

DavidLynch.comhas launched. It’ll cost you $10 a month for access though. I’m curious to see if that works out for him, I kinda doubt it.

Posted on 11th December 2001 Details

The Web Standards Project: Fighting for Standards in our Browsers

TheWeb Standards Projectis taking a leave of absence

Posted on 17th December 2001 Details

Year-End Google Zeitgeist

Google’syear-end zeitgeistgives an insight into what people were searching for through 2001.

Posted on 21st December 2001 Details

Mactopia: Download: Internet Explorer 5.1 Macintosh Edition

Internet Explorer 5.1for Mac OS Classic is out.

Posted on 21st December 2001 Details

2600 wins Ford lawsuit - right to link upheld

2600 Magazine haswon against Fordwho were trying to ban them from linking to them via thefuckgeneralmotors.comwebsite.

Posted on 23rd December 2001 Details

ZDnet: .Net vote rigging illustrates importance of Web services

The lengths Microsoft will go to to push their products are unbelievable, they’revote-riggingnow. How desperate can you get?

Posted on 9th January 2002 Details

Opera 5 for mac

Opera 5, final version for Mac OS Classic is out. The OS X version is till in beta, but well on the way.

Posted on 9th January 2002 Details

Industrious Clock (flash)

Anothercool online clock idea.(via boing boing)

Posted on 11th January 2002 Details

xxx church - the number 1 christian porn site

xxx church- the number 1 christian porn site

Posted on 14th January 2002 Details

Discogs

A great resource:Discogs- attempting to build the biggest and most comprehensive electronic music database. I’ve started contributing to it already.

Posted on 15th January 2002 Details

CNN: Amazon posts a profit

Miracles happen: Amazon hasposted a profit.(thanks Eric)

Posted on 22nd January 2002 Details

AZ Central: Teen accused of running child porn site

A 15 year-old boy has been accused ofrunning a child porn site.

Posted on 3rd February 2002 Details

Googlewhacking: The Search for 'The One'

Part one in things Colin gets up to when bored:Googlewhacking. Here’s my first one:toxophilite impostor

Posted on 5th February 2002 Details

BBC Rejection letter

The BBC sends back the funniestjob application refusal letterI’ve seen in a while(viaNTK)

Posted on 9th February 2002 Details

BBC News: Web rage hits the internet

A new term:Web rage. Have any of you ever felt frustrated enough by the slowness of a web site to hit a co-worker or smash a laptop? Some people need to take a chill pill.

Posted on 20th February 2002 Details

TotL.net Human Virus Scanner

Among other things, I am a carrier of: Amiga, Industrial, 8-Bit, Goth, British and BBCB. Check your own memetic content at theHuman Virus Scanner.(via the null device)

Posted on 26th February 2002 Details

Sommaire du dossier sur l'affaire Tati versus Kitetoa

French siteKitetoa(yes, another horrible French website play on words: Qui t’es toi?) has been fined 1000 EUR for exposing a security hole in the website of Tati, a french retailer. This type of event seems to occur a lot in France. Remember the guy whoexposed the hole in the ATM cardsthere and was arrested?

Posted on 28th February 2002 Details

Narco News White Paper on Ethics Problems at Don Hazen's Alternet

Acorrosive attackon alternative media Alternet and their unethical practices.

Posted on 2nd March 2002 Details

Wired: Google Yanks Anti-Church Sites

Scariest use yet of the DMCA: The Church of Scientology has managed to getall references to anti-Scientology websites removedfrom Google.

Posted on 21st March 2002 Details

Las Vegas Mercury - Goldberg: Dear Diary...

Next time you go out with someone, type their name into google, it mightturn up a few surprises.

Posted on 22nd March 2002 Details

eBay: Heaven's Gate Cult Leader's Van

How about buying the van that belonged to the leader of the Heaven’s Gate cult that committed mass suicide in 1997? Now you can,on eBay.

Posted on 26th March 2002 Details

ROUTE 81 - Big Red Machine Scandinavia

Support imprisoned Scandinavian Hell’s Angels by buying merchandise fromtheir website.(thanksDimitri)

Posted on 29th March 2002 Details

Google Technology

The secretbehind Google’s technology.

Posted on 4th April 2002 Details

2inch - home of BNP [Bruut Nationaal Product]

2inch- a very neat Belgian site.

Posted on 4th April 2002 Details

Google: moscow's blowing up the moon!

Strange Google search referer of the day:moscow’s blowing up the moon!

Posted on 18th April 2002 Details

Google Answers

Google adds another service:Google Answers- Live Researchers answer your questions on any topic for a fee.

Posted on 18th April 2002 Details

Ce soir on vous met le feu

If you feel like making a statement against Le Pen on your website,here’s what you need.

Posted on 3rd May 2002 Details

Google and Dilbert doodle

Dilbert gets to work on theGoogle logo.

Posted on 21st May 2002 Details

W3C Interop Tour: Event in Brussels 3 June 2002

TheW3C Interop Tourwill stop by Brussels on June 3rd. The topic will be ‘WWW Interoperability’. Could be interesting.

Posted on 27th May 2002 Details

David Still :)

Hi, my name is David Still. Have you ever wanted to pretend that you were someone else. Well, now you can! If you want to, you can use me to send someoneelse an email, justuse the form below.

Posted on 29th May 2002 Details

Mozilla

Ladies and Gentlemen, presentingMozilla 1.0!

Posted on 5th June 2002 Details

Stay Invisible: Free Public Proxy Servers List

If you want to surf anonymously, here’s the perfect information resource for you:a list of public HTTP proxy serversthat’s updated daily.

Posted on 9th June 2002 Details

annoy.com

What I’ve been missing: I just discoveredannoy.com.

Posted on 13th June 2002 Details

Microsoft mactopia: downloads : internet explorer 5.2

Just released today:Internet Explorer 5.2 for Mac OS X.

Posted on 17th June 2002 Details

Fridges and Streets

Fridges and Streets. An online project where you can listen to the sound a fridge or the streets associated with its location. I’m situated in thebottom right corner here.

Posted on 19th June 2002 Details

Confide in me: open secrets

I’m unsure whether I should laugh or cry when I read the secrets people feel some urge to broadcast to the net at large viaConfide in me.

Posted on 15th July 2002 Details

Ftrain: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web

Google, a huge ever growing pulsating brain that rules from the centre of the web world.

Posted on 29th July 2002 Details

Salon: Meet Mr. Anti-Google

A webmaster is crusadingagainst Google, who’s page-ranking process he calls undemocratic.

Posted on 29th August 2002 Details

NY Times: Wanna bet?

A computer or ‘machine intelligence’ will pass the Turing test by 2029-Wanna bet?

Posted on 1st September 2002 Details

Replacement of Google with Alternative Search Systems in China

Somescreenshotsof sites you were redirected to when trying to reach Google from computers in China.

Posted on 13th September 2002 Details

Gaggle

Don’t Google.. JustGaggle...(thanks Els)

Posted on 13th September 2002 Details

Mouchette Censored by Robert Bresson's Widow

Censorshipis still alive on the web. This time the guilty party is in France.

Posted on 23rd September 2002 Details

Linking To The Onion

Looks like this weblog is officiallybreaking the Onion law.(thanksXavier)

Posted on 24th September 2002 Details

Real-Time Testing of Internet Filtering in China

one.point.zero isinaccessible in China. The government filters don’t want me to be read over there… amusing.

Posted on 11th October 2002 Details

Cnet: Google excluding controversial sites

Googleremoves site listingsfrom local versions where they risk violating local law.

Posted on 24th October 2002 Details

The Chimera Project

I’ve been usingChimeraas my default browser for a little while now and I have to say I’m impressed. It’s light, fast, uses Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine and is OS X native. But where it really scores is when you enableHTTP pipelining. Sites just fly in! And if they’ve got mod_gzip enabled, it’s even faster.Slashdotbeing the prime example, as soon as I hit enter, the full page is on my screen.

Posted on 15th November 2002 Details

Yahoo Privacy: Web Beacons

Yahoo is tracking your travels through the web via their web beacons. You canopt-out here.

Posted on 5th December 2002 Details

Dtroit Free Press: Internet spammer can't take what he dishes out

Mega-spammer Alan Ralsky has beengetting a taste of his own medicine: he’s been inundated with ads, catalogs and brochures through snail mail since his address was publicly posted to the web. Serves him right!

Posted on 9th December 2002 Details

Google Press Center: 2002 Year-End Google Zeitgeist

The2002 year-end Google zeitgeistis available.

Posted on 17th December 2002 Details

101 things you can do in Mozilla

101 thingsthat the Mozilla browser can do that IE cannot.

Posted on 17th December 2002 Details

Teleferique: Hidden Camera

This siterecords your mouse movementson the homepage. Amusing.

Posted on 6th January 2003 Details

LiveJournal: Jamie Zawinski - Apple says 'fuck you' to Mozilla

There’s loads of talk in the weblogging community about Safari bugs and how Apple should have chosen Gecko as the rendering engine. Jamie Zawinski runs Apple’s reasoning through ade-weaselerwhile Dave Hyattkeeps us updatedon what the development team is up to. Seems to me that they’re listening, which is good. And, it is a beta after all.

Posted on 9th January 2003 Details

Google mirror

Hey look, it’s aGoogle mirror!

Posted on 6th February 2003 Details

Opera releases "Bork" edition

After the Opera browser being blocked from MSN, Opera software has reacted by releasing theBork versionof their browser, specifically designed for our friends at Microsoft.

Posted on 14th February 2003 Details

These Weapons of Mass Destruction cannot be displayed

If George Bush surfed the web, he might getthis error page.

Posted on 21st February 2003 Details

SF Gate: Bureaucrats get EBay fever

The state of California isselling items confiscated at airportson EBay.

Posted on 1st March 2003 Details

Google hack or Googlewhack?

Neat little hack if you’re not paying attention: go toGoogleand enter ‘French military victories’ in the search field, then hit the ‘I’m feeling lucky’ button.

Posted on 17th March 2003 Details

The Register: Google News: press releases are OK - Official

Mind your sources when you use Google news.PR is bonafide newsin their view of things.

Posted on 7th April 2003 Details

Wired: Inside the Soul of the Web

Watching Google in realtime:Inside the Soul of the Web

Posted on 22nd April 2003 Details

Ebay: haunted doll auction

Haunted dollup for auction on Ebay, including spooky video footage.

Posted on 25th April 2003 Details

Safety Sign Builder

Fantastic:build your own safety signand get it output in PDF format.

Posted on 21st May 2003 Details

Zeldman: R.I.P.

Well, Internet Explorer for Mac is dead and it looks like Windows users will be stuck with IE6 for a while… not much to look forward to. Zeldman has writtena good analysison the situation.

Posted on 15th June 2003 Details

Google: weapons of mass destruction

A Google search forweapons of mass destructionis quite revealing.

Posted on 2nd July 2003 Details

Mozillazine: AOL Cuts Remaining Mozilla Hackers

AOLkills Netscape. Not all sad news though, Mozilla lives on.

Posted on 16th July 2003 Details

HEY KidS Are YOU homeless?

Need a new webhost?This onemight do.

Posted on 5th August 2003 Details

Caption Thing

Annoy all your friends withcustom captioned pictures.

Posted on 11th August 2003 Details

The Monkey Shakespeare Simulator

They say if you have enough monkeys banging randomly on typewriters, they will eventually type the works of William Shakespeare. You canattempt to prove it.

Posted on 22nd August 2003 Details

The memory hole: eBay Repeatedly Cancels Auctions for Schwarzenegger Issue of Oui

Strange eBay censorship linked to Schwarzenegger issue ofOui magazine.

Posted on 8th October 2003 Details

ZDnet: X10 files for Chapter 11

Three cheers! X10, responsible for flooding the web with those infamous camera pop-under ads havegone belly-up. Their online advertising debt seems to be one of the main causes.

Posted on 27th October 2003 Details

ReUSEIT! Contest Entries

Redesigning Jakob Nielsen, results of theReUSEIT!competition are in.

Posted on 5th November 2003 Details

del.icio.us

del.icio.usis quite interesting. Use a bookmarklet while you surf to add interesting sites to this online bookmarks repository. It automatically categorises them and generates an RSS feed for you. The status is pre-pre-alpha right now but it looks promising.

Posted on 2nd December 2003 Details

Lego Mosaic

Greatonline toy from Lego: upload a picture, turn it into a mosaic, then order the lego bricks needed to make your very own Lego mosaic at home.

Posted on 8th December 2003 Details

Newsday: Miserable Failure?

Newsday has an article about thatmiserable failure Google bombwhich is landing in my inbox at least once an hour for the moment (Yes, I saw it, now stop sending it to me. Please!)

Posted on 9th December 2003 Details

OJR: Microsoft Move Likely to Be Death Knell to Pop-Up Advertising Format

Looks like popups are well and truly on their way out. The next version of Internet Explorer will featurea popup blocker.

Posted on 15th December 2003 Details

USA Today: The economy according to eBay

Analysing 2003 viaeBay statistics. A bit Americentric but interesting nonetheless.

Posted on 2nd January 2004 Details

Omniweb 5 Preview

Omniweb 5is shaping up to be a great browser for the mac. It uses webcore so rendering should be fine and the added functionality looks quite interesting.

Posted on 2nd January 2004 Details

2003 Year-End Google Zeitgeist

TheGoogle Zeitgeistfor 2003 is here. One name: Britney Spears.

Posted on 2nd January 2004 Details

Het Laatste Nieuws

After the Senate, the Belgian Press.Another sitethat doesn’t get the web.

Posted on 22nd January 2004 Details

Omniweb 5 beta

Mac users: the first public beta ofOmniweb 5is out and first signs are good. Lots of cool stuff including workspaces (fantastic), rss support, shared bookmarks, popup trap, loads of useful little extras for web developers, and much more… The version of webcore used is a bit behind Safari feature-wise, but that’s a small detail compared to all the rest.

Posted on 3rd February 2004 Details

Paper cd case

Here’s aneat little web applicationthat makes custom origami CD sleeve templates in PDF format.

Posted on 1st March 2004 Details

msgoogle

If Microsoftbought Google...

Posted on 3rd March 2004 Details

yahoo! vs. google: one.point.zero

Comparing Google and Yahoo!search results. Quite interesting to see how Yahoo is doing since the move to inktomi.

Posted on 9th March 2004 Details

Dork Tower: Screenshot In The Dark Dept.

Online advertisingat its best.

Posted on 17th April 2004 Details

Died Online.com V2.0: The Internet's first ever death notification system!

Let your friends know by email that you’redead.

Posted on 20th April 2004 Details

Google Groups

Google Groups 2 Beta, now offering Yahoo-groups-style mailing lists alongside the traditional usenet archive.

Posted on 14th May 2004 Details

Shiira Project

Yet another new browser for OS X:Shiira. It’s based on webkit so anything that works with Safari will also work in it. It’s also an open source project which could mean interesting contributions in the future.[via]

Posted on 26th May 2004 Details

BugMeNot.com

Want to read an article but it’s hidden behind a registration page? Fear not, here’sBugMeNot.

Posted on 7th June 2004 Details

1h05: Days in a Day

Lose yourself in the unearthly ambience ofDays in a day, an exploratory flash piece chronicling the ordinary life of Mr Brown.

Posted on 14th June 2004 Details

You Whores

Jimmy Cauty aka Rockman Rock from infamous band/art collective KLF has launchedyouwhores.comwhere you can let the world know what you’re ready to do and what your price is.

Posted on 21st July 2004 Details

Slate: So Tired

Cute. Where doweb surfers gowhen they haven’t slept a wink?

Posted on 21st July 2004 Details

Incomodo

I haven’t been slacking off but there’s a dire lack of engaging (to me anyway) content to be found on the net for the moment. Updates will resume when I start ferreting out interesting things again, in the meantime have fun beinga fly in this man’s face.

Posted on 25th August 2004 Details

Firefox - Switch

I try to avoid the whole posting about web standards thing as there are many people out there doing a fine job already. However, let’s kill two birds with one stone: to the 67% of my visitors still hitting this site in Internet Explorer, who don’t know about or are too lazy to switch to a better and safer web browser, and in order to increase pagerank for sites that deserve it, here’s an assortment of worthwhile places to visit:Switch to FirefoxBrowse HappyStop Internet Explorer

Posted on 29th August 2004 Details

Password generator bookmarklet

Here’s a fantastic littlebookmarklet for URL-specific password generationbased on a unique master password. You just need to remember one single password and the bookmarklet generates a different one for each site through MD5 (doesn’t work with IE).[via]

Posted on 6th September 2004 Details

The Tao of Mac: I Hope Kelkoo Gets Sued

I’m not the only one getting abundant referrer spam with dodgy brand name appropriations (the rest usually being about human anatomy),time to fight.

Posted on 23rd September 2004 Details

DSO zet archief open voor bloggers

Chaim points me to a decision by Belgian newspaper De Standaard toopen up its paying archives to selected bloggersso links don’t go dead once articles move off the front page into the subscriber-only area.

Posted on 26th September 2004 Details

BBC News: Google 'saved' Australian hostage

Iraq hostagesaved by Google.

Posted on 19th October 2004 Details

ARTE radio.com

Arte Radio, the web-only MP3 radio station run by Franco-Germancultural TV Station Artehas just made its complete MP3 archive available to the public under the creative commons license.With the constant vilification of anything remotely linked to the sharing of audio online these days, it’s a welcome change.

Posted on 8th November 2004 Details

Google Suggest

Looks like Google has implemented searching through XMLHttpRequest inthis beta versionthat provides type-ahead suggestions.

Posted on 10th December 2004 Details

Indymedia Belgium Situation

There’s a struggle for control of theBelgian indymedia branchtaking place, and they’re fighting it out wiki-style. One side is accusing the other of beingthe handpuppet of the PTB/PVDA, an extreme-left political party that seems to be best known for attempting to recuperate any event/protest for its own purposes, while the other is namecalling back withright-wing and zionist accusations.Right or wrong, my perception of indymedia Belgium was that control stood, indeed, in the hands of the PTB/PVDA. Does anyone actually believe there is such a thing as truly independent media anyway?

Posted on 28th December 2004 Details

The taggregator - combined metatagging

Folksonomies,ethnoclassificationand assorted labels (I tend to favour free tagging) have been making the rounds again,del.icio.usandflickrbeing the perennial models. So it’s no surprise to see them combined in theTaggregator(add your chosen tag to the URL). I’m addicted.(via)

Posted on 12th January 2005 Details

Transforming Google into a Free Online Dating Service and Social Networking Community

Why build the mesh when you can add a layer on top of an existing one?SocialGriddefines itself as a social networking community/online dating service that uses Google to hook people up. You place a unique identification string on your personal page/weblog and others find you through search codes based on common interests.

Posted on 1st February 2005 Details

Wired news: Folksonomies Tap People Power

The spreading folksonomies/ethoclassification/ meme has finally hit the pages ofWired News. Meanwhile Clay Shirky points to thedel.icio.us spamming attemptsof user “DaFox” who obviously doesn’t know much abouthow search engines work, Ben Hyde plots thedistribution of tagsfor 4 entries, and Matt Biddulph uses a little DHTML trickery toinsert some del.icio.us functionality into the BBC website.

Posted on 3rd February 2005 Details

Datamonitor: Google may target search spam with domain move

Datamonitor is indicating that the reason for Google’s recent expansion to domain registrar status could be for using its access to the list of recently transferred domains in order toclean up search results. Once a domain would change hands, its pagerank would be reset, avoiding pollution of the Google database from domains having gained pagerank in their previous life. This could, among other things, help stopsearch engine optimisation outfitssnake oil merchants from buying up high-ranking domains and turning them into marketable link pools.

Posted on 3rd February 2005 Details

blog.forret.com: Folksonomizer: generic folksonomy service

Peter Forret proposes acentralised universal metatagging systemaccessible to sites which aren’t natively tag-enabled.

Posted on 7th February 2005 Details

The Robot Co-op: Word on Investment

Amazon hasinvested in Robot Co-op, makers of the43 Things project. If Amazon is interested, can a social-network-enabled online shopping experience be far behind? Robot Co-op also useRuby on Railsfor their web development, a nice push further into legitimacy for this excellent framework in a world dominated by masochistic Java “web” developers in their ivory towers/frameworks who seem to consider touching html code as lowering themselves to the level of primates, thus notgettingthe web at all (yes, there are exceptions, but they’re few and far between).

Posted on 9th February 2005 Details

Hypulp: Hyperlinks in Print I

There’s an interesting series of posts at Hypulp about hyperlink metaphors being used in print publications (part 1,part 2andpart 3).I was just reading a magazine article this morning (amusingly, it concerned usability) and thinking that the way it was pointing to other resources seemed quite clumsy now that we’re used to instant gratification online via a simple mouse click. Then again, I get CMD-F (Find) keyboard shortcut reflexes while reading books.

Posted on 12th March 2005 Details

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Why are you so terribly disappointing?...

Why are you so terribly disappointing?

Linked on 13th February 2010 Details

Remember 88x31 buttons on the web?

Are you old enough to remember these? You couldn't visit a web page back in the day without seeing at least one.

Linked on 6th April 2025 Details

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