Facebook developers have created a "Send" function that they see working hand-in-hand with the Facebook "Like" function. This button provides the ability for visitors to privately share a page with certain individuals in their Facebook network as demonstrated in their post: Read the Facebook blog post...
Last week, the amazon.com EC2 cloud took a major hit which resulted in some clients being out of service for as much as 36 hours. Once again, some long-established information technology principles still hold true...
Repurposing content refers to content created for one device which is reorganized for another device. A big misconception when it comes to mobile and online content is that you need 2 different sets of materials. Sorry, this is just not the case! Let’s try a...
http://yahoo.github.com/boomerang/doc/ boomerang is a piece of javascript that you add to your web pages, where it measures the performance of your website from your end user's point of view. It has the ability to send this data back to your server for further analysis. With boomerang,...
http://hakim.se/ Of note: Roll over the thumbnails for some really nice CSS3 transitions EDIT:(in capable browsers - hard transitions for other browsers) Scroll down and watch the header change size. Click on the comment bubble. Changes categories for page transitions. The experiments and work are all awesome too! ...
We did a minisite build for Star Magazine (designed by Star) and I used it as an opportunity to try out some stuff like HTML5, CSS3, and Progressive Enhancement. Here are my notes on HTML5 and I will follow up with notes on the other...
My friend DanO sent a Columbia University project along as a joke. It's a dating site which regionalizes based on most used terms. The project is called A More Perfect Union. What jumped out to me, is that they are using Javascript as an image...
I ran across this tip about formatting your permalinks and how it can affect performance: http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2009/02/04/efficient-wordpress-permalinks For performance reasons, it is not a good idea to start your permalink structure with the category, tag, author, or postname fields. The reason is that these are text fields, and using them...
A continuation of our discussion on TypeKit, services which serve fonts as code (versus image), Extensis has just announced that their WebINK product is now partnering with the Adobe font foundry to serve 186 Adobe fonts —26 families you may know and love— as embed...
Interesting, interactive infographic displaying the data of a single cell phone user over the course of 6 months. (Note that the data is available for download for those interested in seeing the format of the raw data.) [UPDATED 4/21/11: Developer Pete Warden has developed an application...