Jun 12, 2008

WiredPen When Twitter’s up, check out Twemes for Twitter memes based upon hashtags (#). The home page highlights recent memes. For example, see recent tweets from the National Conference on Media Reform; subscribe to the RSS feed. . (Read More)

Jun 09, 2008

TechCrunch Twitter tempts fate in a big way: tomorrow will be a day that they do not get kicked in the face over yet another outage, they say in a blog post. They outline two lines of defense in preparation for a big wave of Twitter usage around the Steve Jobs/Apple WWDC Keynote:“We’ve moved much of the load off our databa (Read More)

Jun 09, 2008

Mashable! I don’t know what Twitter’s business model is, but when there’s an application that capitalizes on the fact that Twitter is constantly down (join the FriendFeed Twitter downtime prediction thread if you feel psychic today), it’s worrying. Twiddict - short for Twitter addict - is a service that lets y (Read More)

Apr 18, 2008

The Robin-Ann.com Web & World Blog From Geekpreneur, here are the "Rules for Working in Cafe's".1. Find the Right CafeCafes work when they have the right atmosphere, and even though every Starbucks might look the same, each outlet has a unique feel. It's important to find a branch that matches the style of your work. There's a difference, for example, betwee (Read More)

Mar 31, 2008

CSS3 . Info The Internet Explorer team announced on their blog today that they are unhappy with the slow progress and differing implementations of the various CSS3 modules, and will not be including any CSS3 functionality in IE8; instead they will be producing their own, alternative standard, which they are codenaming CSS.2012 (after t (Read More)

May 06, 2008

CSS3 . Info Shaun Inman did a very interesting post yesterday on what he describes as “CSS Qualified Selectors”. The idea is nice, he wants to beable to do:a { text-decoration: none; color: #A10; border-bottom: 1px dashed #A10;}And then for images:a < img { border: none; }So if has a parent , the border isnR (Read More)

Apr 30, 2008

CSS3 . Info Jason Cranford Teague has volunteered to edit the CSS Basic UI, CSS Hyperlink Presentation, CSS Fonts and CSS Web Fonts modules and is looking for feedback from users on the latter two. He asks:Tell me what you think are some of the font styles and features missing from the current specification. What do you expect to be ab (Read More)

Apr 08, 2008

Twitter Blog Tiny reviews on Twitter: Tweviews. Follow or participate. (Read More)

Apr 10, 2008

CSS3 . Info This week has seen the release of a raft of new proposals for features to be integrated into the CSS specification:CSS AnimationCSS TransformsCSS TransitionsCSS VariablesI personally have reservations about the Visual Effects proposals, feeling this is better suited to Javascript, but I seem to be in the minority on this so (Read More)

Apr 04, 2008

CSS3 . Info The CSS WG had a face-to-face meeting in San Diego last month, and have released their latest resolutions in a series of posts on their blog:Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VISome of the highlights I saw on my first read through:Apple’s proposed animation & transition properties are to be considered.W (Read More)

Apr 15, 2008

CSS3 . Info I don’t have time at the moment to write a good summary, but the link to the announcement is below which includes some examples CSS Gradients in Webkit. (Read More)

Apr 08, 2008

Twitter Blog Twitter meter let's you query an index of all the words that have been sent to twitter's public timeline and displays a handy graph so you can see what folks are talking about. (Read More)

May 09, 2008

Twitterholics Twibler is a Twitter app that will automatically post your new eBay listings to your Twitter account. To use Twibler, enter your twitter account and password along with your eBay account name and store on the Twibler homepage and click "Activate." That’s it! . (Read More)

Apr 28, 2008

Ecademy: user blogs Philip Calvert is fond of telling us that we should run clubs here on Ecademy or groups on other social networks. Indeed, at the recent London Ecademy Event he explained how we can profit from online clubs. Well, here's a little test I conducted. (Read More)

May 12, 2008

TechCrunch PMOG, a multiplayer online game (MOG) that lets users accumulate points while passively surfing the web and then use those points to help or hurt their fellow players, launched out of private beta this morning. We first covered PMOG back in February.To play PMOG you need to install a Firefox add-on that lets you interact wi (Read More)

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