June 2008
36 posts
I love youtube - http://tinyurl.com/ykwnpv
Borrowing (*cough* stealing *cough*) data from activeplaces.com
TinyPaste →
TinyUrl for snippets of text - very simple and very cool. There’s still a very good chance that I won’t use it though.
Ma.gnolia Roots →
I’ve been thinking about something similar recently - a firefox extension that mines online bookmarking services for the number of times a page/site has been bookmarked.
whoisi.com: Chris Roos →
I appear to have already been added to whoisi.com
Robby on Rails : Ruby 1.8.7 on MacPorts causing... →
Describes how to install an older version of a port.
The Future of the Web » Getting an Image's onload... →
Explanation as to why we should define the callback function for the onload event, of an image, before setting the source of said image.
The Build Doctor: The guardian.co.uk Build... →
The guardian have a very advanced rabbit. Makes me wonder if the business really understand the point of the rabbit - maybe they should be questioning a bit more about the ears being down.
Digital Kitchen presents TwitFlicks →
This is cool. Twitter + Flickr = addictive image based stories.
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Crawling... →
“We already do some pretty smart things like scanning JavaScript and Flash to discover links to new web pages”
Ahh, so that’s how they found our super secret buy link urls.
Home - smtp2web →
This looks pretty cool. Receives email to a specified address and forwards it, using HTTP, to a URL. Maybe useful for permailink?
Gizmodo UK : Badly Designed Consumer Products... →
Gizmodo coverage of our ‘badly designed products’ blog post.
Reevoo: Independent Product Review Site for... →
Coverage of reevoo, prompted by us putting out the ‘badly designed products’ post.
Doc Searls Weblog · Can we end URLs that won't fit... →
I had a similar problem when tweeting a URL, although I believe they may have had different causes.
Purposely misspelled internet brands names →
A complete non-post. Move on, nothing to see here.
Google Trends for Websites: reevoo.com →
An interesting insight into the numbers of people visiting reevoo and other sites that they’re looking at.
freshmeat.net: Project details for screen →
Apparently this is what I need to do to get screen to read my .profile when it starts.
“shell -/some/sh”
in the .screenrc
Looks like my efforts to make browsing google doctype offline may be unnecessary: http://tinyurl.com/6sx62u
Hmm, tinyurl doesn’t like hashes in URLs. Click ‘Offline support’ from last link to see what I was talking about.
Assumed one of my earphones was broken. Turns out it must have fallen out of my ear about half an hour ago.
Oh, and jolly good luck in your brosing too…
Brose google-doctype offline: http://tinyurl.com/68jen6
Two search tidbits →
Interesting that they’ve “caught up on paid link reports”. I assumed this would be a never-ending problem: I guess they’re either rare or they have a very large team rattling through the reports.
Just noticed that Ordnance Survey have an API. At a glance, it looks very similar to the Google Maps API.
MAKE: Blog: Lego wall augmentation graffiti →
Maybe I could build a lego conservatory. Hmmm…
Loving google sketchup, although my little macbook doesn’t seem so happy about me using it
Getting annoyed at how much work I have to do to apply for a conservatory on a brand new house
Council planning just suggested that I can use google sketchup to produce ‘block plans’. I think that’s cool.
Gmail Labs: A Public Stage for Googlers’ 20% Time →
An excellent way for developers to get direct public feedback on their creations. I’d love us to do something similar at reevoo.
chris.ivarson › Goodies →
Some cool icons for fluid apps
thanetonline: Thanet Planning Website Public... →
It looks like ukplanning.com have enabled comments on open (current) planning applications. Unfortunately, although it clearly states that your comments will be publicly available, it seems Thanet…
bkkeepr | Track your reading and bookmark on the... →
Cool little app that uses twitter to allow me to track what I’m reading. I’ve tried using allconsuming.net for this in the past and given up. Wonder if this’ll last any longer?
Re-reading everything is miscellaneous
Amazon.co.uk: Ask The Dust: John Fante: Books →
I’m not sure where I got it from, but I just finished reading this book and really enjoyed it.
Not an OS →
Good arguments against the ‘Web OS’