- human.io
Oooh, interesting. Gaming applications abound.
- HAUNTED ALTON: HISTORY & HAUNTINGS OF THE RIVERBEND REGION
A coincidence of name, nothing more, but this looks interesting and I want to come back to it.
- Alton Estate – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Just a bit of research for a vague idea. Ignore me.
Tag: api
Bookmarks for October 12, 2011
- notes.variogr.am – Why music ID resolution matters to every music fan on Facebook
A bit techy, but a good read, and an insight into the problems that Spotify and last.fm have to work hard to solve. I'm not posting this because it's hard on Facebook – they've stepped into a difficult arena, and have some catching up to do, but that's not a crime – but because it's an insight in how complex technical problems have very simple, very direct real-world impacts.
Bookmarks for March 29, 2011
- Data Science Toolkit
Get your own virtual server with tools for a variety of common data extraction tasks. Very, very neat.
Bookmarks for March 13, 2011
- Twitter tells third-party devs to stop making Twitter client apps
I would almost certainly not be using twitter today were it not for Twitterific. Regardless of the commerical thinking behind it, even if it turns out to be good for users in the long run, right now, this feels like a dick move, to use the vernacular. Will be interested to see the fall out from this.
Bookmarks for November 23, 2010
- boilerpipe
Web API for extracting clutter from web pages and just returning the content. Nice!
- New House Climate Czar | Talking Points Memo
Americans! Have you ever wondered why everyone hates you? It's because you elect people like this, and then apparently give them a chance of being in hugely influential of policy areas where they can fuck up the planet for people who didn't get a say in electing them, on the basis of some bullshit religious beliefs, that, in a civilised country, would disqualify them as a candidate for dog catcher. Seriously, America, please get on with reforming your political system and society to get rid of people like this. By force, if necessary.
Bookmarks for October 5, 2010
- Why Wesabe Lost to Mint – Marc Hedlund's blog
Fascinating reading – the former CEO of Websabe, about why his site was beaten (and eventually, closed down) by his major competitor. Very honest, and quite a clear eyed look at his own mistakes. (I note in passing that I am still (eagerly) waiting for the UK version of Mint or Websabe.)
- Open Data for the Arts – Human Scale Data and Synecdoche – Blog – BERG
I would love for our client to allow us to make some of the data generated by their various systems open. I've no idea what the result would be, possibly nothing, but I'd be interested to see, especially as I've been thinking about the vast aggregate of similar data we've got across several clients…
Bookmarks for March 29, 2010
- Statistical analysis, data and graphing | Timetric: making data useful | timetric.com
Met one of the founders of this outfit at the weekend. Potentially very interesting stuff in here. One to play with later.
Bookmarks for November 30, 2009
- Photo Box « MarkSelby
My god, this is just superb. Work of total genius. Combination of the ubiquity of the digital age with the sense of magic and wonder. Utterly brilliant. I want to give these to everyone.
- Pub 'fined £8k' for Wi-Fi copyright infringement – ZDNet.co.uk
Oh, look, you all know what I'm going to say by now. I'll just restate this: free/cheap public connectivity is far more important to Britain's future prosperity than the existing business models of the content industry are, and cases like this endanger that connectivity. I would like it very much if we stopped fighting the future because of a short term threat to the wallets of some rich people, and got on with embracing it so that we can have all new rich people.
- Daring Fireball: A Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs
Then number of times I've written, re-written, googled for, and generally had to implement one of these is verging on the insane. This one looks good, so I am noting it so I can come back and find it whenever this comes up again.
Bookmarks for July 14, 2009
- YQL: INSERT INTO internet (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
OK, I need to read this in more depth when I get home tonight. I'd missed this before, and it looking like it could do some seriously interesting stuff.
- 50 states — Kickstarter
A photographer friend of mine is most of the way through a project to take photos in all 50 states of the US, and is trying to raise the cash to finish the job. If you've got a few quid to spare, please consider pitching it her way – she's bloody good, and I want to see the results of the complete project.
Bookmarks for April 16, 2009
- Free as in "Me" | 43 Folders
Merlin Mann on content republication, and the right of the individual to control who gets to profit by their work.
- Tropo.com
API for a telephony service that can be used with any one of a variety of the usual web languages. Might be handy if I need to start building telephony functionality into web apps.
- Vice Magazine – THE DARK LORD OF LOGOS
This is the problem with my auto-linkblogging. I should have blogged this one first, so that you would have gotten to it second. Damn. OK, go look at the link below. Then come back and look at this one, because bands below really should have gotten in touch with this guy instead.
- The most unreadable metal logos – my 13 picks | Lady Omega : : Design, Art, Music
These are just stunning. As in I'm stunned that anyone thought "yes, that's what I want the logo for my band to be".