Archive for October, 2008
links for 2008-10-31
Oct 31st
Splashup Splashup is a browser-based image editing tool that mimics the functionality of Photoshop. (tags: photoshop editing images web webapp) BBC News | In pictures: Knowledge of all fonts, Introduction BBC News feature on typography in cinema art. You've probably seen this already… (tags: BBC typography fonts)
links for 2008-10-20
Oct 20th
Obama iPhone App – Digital Propaganda or Communications Genius? Review of an iPhone application released by the Barack Obama election campaign. The application does more than you'd expect – rather than just download speeches and videos it integrates with the phone's address book and GPS to identify contacts living in battleground states and the location [...]
links for 2008-10-11
Oct 11th
Font Survey: 32 of the Best Programming Fonts Samples and reviews of a number of clear, monospaced fonts suitable for programmers specifically and typography fans in general. (tags: typography programming)
Gmail’s new Labs feature – Mail Goggles
Oct 7th
Ever sent an email you later regretted? Well you might like the new Gmail Labs feature, Mail Goggles. It’s activated whenever you try to send an email late at night, when you’re most likely to be under the influence of alcohol. How does it stop you sending indiscreet, inarticulate or embarrassing emails? It forces you [...]
links for 2008-10-01
Oct 1st
A Year of Heavy Losses – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com A clearly-designed interactive graphic allows you to flip between October 2007 and September 2008, seeing the difference in market capitalisation among 29 financial services firms. Well, there are 29 to begin with, but only 27 by September 2008… (tags: visualisation finance economics08) Annex Audio – [...]
Online behaviour and the economic downturn
Oct 1st
Online intelligence service Hitwise released a report last week claiming that UK internet usage patterns were changing in response to the current economic situation. The full press release is here. Hitwise gathers its data by looking at the traffic logs of its clients’ websites, which number around 1,500. These websites are divided up into a [...]
The end of Web 2.0?
Oct 13th
Posted by brelson in social media
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Even though I’ve been known to use the phrase “Web 2.0″ from time to time, I’ve never really liked the idea very much. It’s useful shorthand for when you’re talking to anyone whose knowledge about the internet is defined largely by current trends and ‘hypes’, but really, what’s ever been new about the idea of [...]