Friday Links XXXIII

6 October 2007

Cranky
I can very much associate with this.

Designing for a security breach
If you’re making something with any decent number of users it inevitable that there’s going to be some security breaches – be prepared.

Rsizr: Groundbreaking Image Editor with “Seam Carving”
Oooh – nifty!

TechMeme Top 100 is ‘Top 100′ of what, exactly?
I’m still not sure exactly what a blog is – the line between a news site and a blog can be pretty blurred. Whether there should be a line or not is a completely different question…

Microsoft in London
Steve Balmer: It’s unclear who benefits more from the current patent regime; the small company or the big company. Probably the small company – Sorry, what?

iPhone: Context over consistency
I love the way the download icon points down to the iPod icon.

Flash Player 10 (Astro) Sneak Peek at MAX Chicago 2007 Keynote
I like the look of the 3D features, and the idea of doing really nice typesetting in Flash is quite intriguing…

Proposal: Multipart Web Requests
Nice idea.

Video Proof: Halo DS Was Real
I really wish this was released – it looks great!

Microsoft’s new Zunes: officially in 80, 8, and 4GB sizes
Still not interested. The WiFi syncing I find pretty uninteresting, as you have to charge up the thing by plugging it in anyway, and they’re still wrapping DRM round sounds that you wirelessly share.

Weightshift
A lovely bit of site design.

Sony BMG’s chief anti-piracy lawyer: “Copying” music you own is “stealing”
What a jackass.

Ballmer on Facebook: Bunch of Features
It still amazes me that Microsoft hasn’t cottoned on to the fact features are actually fairly meaningless. Anyone can make features, it’s what you do with them that counts.

IE7 Update Available for Download
Good to see IE7 being made available to more people.

Halo maker parts from Microsoft
This is surely a good thing – well done Bungie.

Facebook to Launch iTunes Competitor
Interesting. More on this next week, but expect to see lots of new download stores spring up now that the DRM hurdle has been (mostly) cleared.

Lock up your data
What a lot of people forget when doing mashups and the like that use data from places like Flickr is that most people don’t realise their content can get reused in this way. And they may well not like it…

Sony Bravia Bunnies
Love the bunny animations.

Sony Bravia Ad Concept Stolen From Artists Kozydan?
While their is obviously some similarity, it’s the animation that really makes the advert. The Sony one could well be inspired by the cityscape, but that’s as far as it goes.

The Phenomenon of Rigid Song Structures in Pop
I thought they all sounded the same…

CSS Eleven
This sounds promising.

If wishes were iPhones, then beggars would call
Bingo.

Trillian Astra Coming to OS X
I really like the idea of another good multi-network coming to the mac, but the interface looks pretty terrible. What’s up with those little lines between the window controls?

Lastly, here’s the rather brilliant video for the new single by Scout Niblett:

From: Articles

6 October 2007