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Humane Content Management for Rails

Via tomtaylor.

The signature behavior of people who routinely achieve innovative outcomes is that they constantly seek to experience the world instead of talking about experiencing the world.

Via russelldavies.

"A social music website built around a curated library of free, legal audio" from WFMU, KEXP, Cash Music, Dublab and others.

The best French, Italian and British food delivered next day to your door

The concept of usability often seems to exclude people with disabilities, as though just access is all they are entitled to. What about creating a good user experience for people with disabilities—going beyond making a Web site merely accessible to make it truly usable for them?

Two calls for Delicious data are now supported inside BOSS: the number of times a URL has been bookmarked and the top tags that users have applied to categorize that URL. Delicious has its own API, but it's not as helpful as this integration with BOSS is.

Via eternity.

In short: OU academic Tony Hirst produced a rather lovely map, on the suggestion (taunt?) of the Guardian’s technology editor, Charles Arthur, and the result? A brand new politics story for the Guardian on MPs’ expenses.

"Designed for businesses using Twitter to engage existing customers and attract new ones, CoTweet is a comprehensive Twitter business platform that supports both proactive marketing communication and response-driven customer support." Wow, way to make it sound really boring.

Once the manic burst of building has stopped and the whirlwind has slowed, the secrets of Dubai are slowly seeping out. This is a city built from nothing in just a few wild decades on credit and ecocide, suppression and slavery. Dubai is a living metal metaphor for the neo-liberal globalised world that may be crashing – at last – into history.

Via tomtaylor.

PSDs illustrating safe areas for various browsers.

Via thegingerbloke.

Reuters reporter Alexei Oreskovic recently authored an interesting blog post about the demographics of Twitter users. What he discovered was that 18-24 year olds, the traditional social media early adopters, are actually 12 percent less likely than average to visit Twitter (Index of 88). It is the 25-54 year old crowd that is actually driving this trend.

Via smitchio.

People don't stop talking in a recession. So making your marketing dependent on a scarce resource - your advertising budget. Or making it more dependent on an abundant resource - your customers? You decide.

Via markrocky.

If you're Home Depot, and you've got 150,000 employees, half of whom are on Facebook, you had better be thinking about this. Social media is no longer experimental.

Via markrocky.

New Web Trends map is nearly there.

Nice Japanese products. Crazy words. "100% is condition beyond reasons. Not the scheduled or harmonized world, but the world where we live is filled with the logically un-analyzable mysterious factors beyond the range of expression with words and numerical value."

The social sites we visit today are not just friend networks - they're also built around objects that connect people with shared interests. These social objects could be anything from a photo on flickr to a video on YouTube or a track on Last.fm.

A collection of 51 cards representing diverse ways that design teams can understand the people they are designing for. They are used to make a number of different methods accessible to all members of a design team, to explain how and when the methods are best used, and to demonstrate how they have been applied to real design projects.

MakerBot Industries creates open source robot kits that transform your digital designs into physical objects automatically. The kits are modular, modifiable, and built to be hacked.

Via russelldavies.

"Maybe instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention you are on twitter, and paying people to blog about your company, forget all that and just make awesome stuff that gets people excited about your products, hire people that represent the company well, and when your stuff is so awesome that friends share it with other friends, you may not even need "social media marketing" after all."

Replaces MultipleIE

Possible sandbox alternative.

What does this site do? It keeps track of predictions of the future by public figures.

Like Shapeways but uses "two-dimensional laser cutters; 3-D objects need to be assembled afterward."

Manufacturing-as-a-service removes the equipment and capital barrier to entry for new product companies. These companies can focus on product design and building the community around the product and leave the operation of the manufacturing hardware to manufacturing-as-a-service guys.

Twitter users sending a tweet with the name of a band or artist to MuZoid receive a reply in less than 2.5 seconds with a link to a bespoke webpage containing gig listings, a discography, a recommendation of similar artists that the user might like. If MuZoid doesn’t know an artist, she makes a note of it and gets busy learning. Once enough information’s available, she’ll tweet back to the original querant with an update.

Gang of Four's Dave Allen on the album as arbitrary audio bundle. "Technically then, we can say that 1930 was the year that the organizing principle for the length of a popular music album was implemented, and with the advent of that organizing principle it is worth noting that musical artists had no control over the length of time their masterpiece would run; they were at the mercy of contemporary technology."

"There’s something delightfully Wallace and Gromitey about Poke’s BakerTweet, but not content with its floury goodness I decided to hack it around a bit. I’ve put together an app which takes the feed from Albion’s Twitter account, checks for updates, filters them (I’m only really interested in bread), and if (according to Fire Eagle) I’m within a mile of the bakery, sends me an SMS." Beautiful.

More on continuous deployment.

"An example of cognitive bias in which "people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it". They therefore suffer an illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average."

Answer: probably not.

"Tests your website designs across 17 different Windows browsers right from your Mac desktop in seconds. No need for virtual machines, Windows licenses, or any messing around with Windows Update." Requires a litmus account.

The Freedom of the South West rail rover provides unlimited use of all National Rail services on the map in the validity section. Available any 3 days within a 7 day period.

According to Cutts, more than one h1 is fine as long as you don't go crazy. Pretty much as expected.

Take a look at Verified By Visa. Allegedly this protects cardholders - by training them to expect a process in which there’s absolutely no way to know whether you are being phished or not.

"A small experiment in subtractive synthesis." I could spend all day playing with this. In fact, I think I will.

a social music game that brings fans and artists together and empowers artists and listeners to determine what's hot by creating virtual record labels.

A free tool that lets you assign a unique code to anything.

Hadn't come across this one.

Building Services Porn

When all the sections end evenly on the page, users subconsciously decide there isn’t anything else to look for and don’t try to scroll. Of course, if they don’t scroll, they miss important content, such as the list of products.

Makes a handy checklist of stuff not to do.