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"My attitude to most Location-Based Services [...] has been hardened by sitting through umpty-nine presentations by the white-men-in-chinos who maintain a fortune can be made by the first company to reliably send a passer-by a voucher for a cheap coffee as they drift past *bucks." This post is not that.

This whole situation is so wrong.

An API that you can use to check whether your site is included in IE8's Compatibility View blacklist. Simply add your domain name to the URL and you'll be returned either YES if your site is on the current blacklist, or NO if it's not.

Summary of the Target class action and outcomes.

While useful for consumers, faceted navigation as normally implemented actually confuses the search engines by generating massive numbers of URL permutations that contain mostly duplicated content. This is bot spam.

Finder replacement.

Finder replacement.

Def Jux Free Tracks Playlist, a playlist by Definitive Jux, on Fairtilizer

An impromptu film made in Tokyo by Dennis Wheatley and Stefan McClean. They were sitting in this sushi bar pondering how best to set up a camera to film things all by itself whilst they were in Tokyo. Take our hands out of the equation… let the camera have its own journey.

Via Two men eating for three.

"A web site where you can type up some lists and have them handy if you need them later." Can generate lists as JSON, a MySQL insert query, or Plain Text.

Via demwunz.

A List Apart published an article called “Return of the Mobile Style Sheet”. While the article provides some good information, it has several major flaws. After testing this method extensively, I decided to try and build a better mousetrap.

Via alastc.

"We are moving all FeedBurner accounts to Google Accounts." Necessary but a bit annoying.

Cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?

Copy tracks from iPod to Mac.

Probably a better bet than passwordmaker. "use strong and unique passwords for every site and never forget any of them".

We now support a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL.

You can install it as a local ’service’, essentially a web application running on Apache on your local machine. That means you can adjust the Web Developers Toolbar for Firefox to use you local version.

Those individuals carry at least one non-traditional title. To the advertising creative partnership that traditionally has teamed a copywriter and an art director, a third member must be added: the creative technologist.

Via russelldavies.

Good analysis of the recent WebAIM screen reader survey. Use <Hn> tags, think hard about accesskeys, use skip links, know your audience.

"The real question is not "What is the industry standard?" but rather "What response time will the users of my Web site or application find acceptable?"

For the past few months I've been touting a presentation around the BBC entitled 'How we make websites'. It's a compendium of everything our team has learned from long years developing /programmes, the recent work on /music and the currently in development /events.

Quality music at a low price, and fair pay for artists - Ten Tracks

Love this idea. Deserves support, I think. “Ten Tracks is an innovative new music download portal. Get curated bundles of ten brilliant tracks, for £1, knowing we give fair pay to artists.”

Handy. "To show or hide the design grid (or other graphic), just import the following javascript file, and then use the keys Control and ; to show or hide the grid."

One key real-world benefit of this separation is that come redesign time, one only needs to change or replace the CSS stylesheet, and needn’t lay so much as a finger upon the hallowed grounds we call markup. I’m here to say that this mantra isn’t much more than a fairy tale.

FTP Replacement, Large File Transfer, Custom Extranets

Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies"

Includes estimates by age group.

"The high level of our process is dead simple: Continuously integrate (commit early and often). On commit automatically run all tests. If the tests pass deploy to the cluster. If the deploy succeeds, repeat." Blimey.

Enables you to build Model View Controller (MVC) applications by using the ASP.NET framework. ASP.NET MVC is an alternative, not a replacement, for ASP.NET Web Forms

A software pattern considered a derivative of the Model-view-controller

"Enter a UK town or postcode to find out when nearby shops are open". Brilliant.

Via kevan.

Excellent presentation on current state of web fonts/methods and typography. Grab the version with the notes.

It is difficult to overstate how impressive, and important, tools like Google Earth and PhotoSynth are visualizing geographies and in pushing the boundaries of what is possible both technically and conceptually. But both do so at the expense of what Scott McCloud calls “the magic in the gutter“.

Interesting rant about microformats.

Via jerakeen.

The buttons we’re using are imageless, and they’re created entirely using HTML and CSS, plus some JavaScript to manage the behavior. They’re also easily skinnable with a few lines of CSS

FireScope is a Firefox add-on that integrates with Firebug, to extend it with reference material for HTML and CSS.

Old, but I keep misplacing this link. "We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously."

Via scrubadub.

One price, one ticket, unlimited train journeys ... when the snow clears, the rail rover could be one of Britain's best-kept travel secrets.

Unlike previous campaigns, which required those carousing to have Bluetooth devices enabled and receptive, the Liverpool campaign used adverts projected onto walls and buildings around the city centre to encourage drinkers to turn on their Bluetooth connectivity

Via headlessness.

RA: Inside the dark art of mastering – Feature / Interview

What a mastering engineer does – and why they’re vitally important to every note of music you hear.

Interesting way of using twitter to conduct polls, plus a debate that goes on and on (2p: main title, not logo! Otherwise you have the same h1 across all pages on a site).