⇒ Ninjas unbox Google's Nexus One

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⇒ old google news

more Google hacked fallout:
Microsoft investigates 17-year-old Windows flaw

kind of ridiculous a gaping flaw like this hasn't been addressed until now.

Ars Technica summarises the whole she-bang

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⇒ Google had another big week

Google Buzz (i hate it so much, it almost undid all the goodwill of Google in one dick move) and 1Gbps internet service--please bring it to Sydney! I may forgive the whole Buzz shenanigan if you do it right.

Why I hate Buzz: it f#cked up my privacy. I use one email account, and email different ppl. Some of those ppl should never get wind of what I'm emailing others--privacy man, privacy!

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⇒ Ars Technica roundup

Web video format war:
HTML5 vs. FLV

vimeo, youtube and html5

game theory

indie game funding

and Gizmodo's detailed explanation of why HTML5 kicks ass

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⇒ late news: Google phone

Google made a phone

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⇒ related: Google Maps succeed

via Succeed blog

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⇒ Marissa Mayer's Stanford talk

warning: 49" video

innovation keypoints:

• ideas come from everywhere


• share everything you can

for me, it depends on your workplace.

• You're brilliant. We're hiring

i.e. surround yourself with brilliant people

• a license to pursue dreams


• innovation, not instant perfection

the key is iteration; learn from mistakes. Part of the reason I left graphic design for web design

• data is a-political


• creativity loves constraint

agreed-the point about the marked paper is excellent-I feel burdened by a
• blank canvas and making the commitment of the first stroke.


• users not money


• don't kill projects. morph them.


• take risks. Do something you're not ready to do.


• serif or sans-serif? Serif = more readable. Sans-serif = more legible

a response to the 5-year question. Again, I'm in agreement, if you knew where you were going to be in 5 years, how depressing would that be?

• competition benefits end users. "The rising tide floats all boats"


• doing something meaningful and self-fulfilling

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⇒ Google Wave explained

looking forward to it

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⇒ best of the rest

roll your own chrome:

not yet read this article


bento xbox! wow, that guy's wife is a keeper!

tips on wave photography


world's biggest water pump in new orleans:


airline cost cutting visualisation


humble pi: now calculated to 25 trillion decimals!
need to know: T2K Tuskuba does 95 trillion flops, calculated a total of 2,576,980,377,524 decimal places in 73 hours 36 minutes

Latest Porsche 911 GT3

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⇒ misc in the world of tech

Qi, the wireless standard | Layar augmented reality app | Crowdsourced traffic coming to Google maps. Great idea, now make happen in Sydney! | massive kick in the balls. Excessive fine for downloader - it's 192 million. dollars. murder is cheaper | ars technica facebook privacy guide

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⇒ SEO, PPC, cash via web musings

Wolfram Alpha 3 months later

Google updates its image search for phones

Social media footprint
I like these services (Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter) and find use for them but I rarely share--mostly due to low bandwidth and leastly time-selfishness

9 tips for making money with Amazon affiliates program | 10 more Amazon affiliates tips | 11 more Amazon affiliates tips

Twitter retweeting rant

Google quality score and search quality guides

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⇒ constructive

7 GA tips | getting started with DNS | font face embedding

wikipedia entry on PURL

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⇒ general Web knowledge:

Jon Dee Launches Paper-Less Alliance

Google Wave - what is it?
At a fundamental level, Wave is an open protocol specification. The idea is that, as with email, a variety of companies will develop competing clients (eg. Outlook, Hotmail, Mail.app, Thunderbird) and servers (eg. Exchange, Postfix, Courier) based on the Wave specification.
On a more practical level Wave is email, real-time chat and collaborative content editing & versioning rolled into one. It allows for multiple people to communicate in real time using text and rich content, while retaining the full history of the conversation and the ability to browse backwards and forwards through this history.
Wave also incorporates a framework for developers to create gadgets (client side mini-apps that run within a wave) and robots (server side applications that interact with waves in various ways).

Guess I better learn the API sooner or later...

A list apart:
content templates | RDFa intro pt1 | RDFa intro pt.2 --> basically metadata


Campaign Monitor:
campaign monitor in 30 seconds | How to add a newsletter signup form to your Facebook fan page | How Performative Web uses our API to build and send dynamic emails | Automatically manage templates via the API | New SOAP-based Ruby Gem available for the API


Google Analytics:
Google analytics API updates | Back to Basics: Free Google Analytics Tools

some good do's and don'ts of email marketing


Mac OS hints:
customise Safari's RSS | Enable the Debug menu in Safari 4 | Solve an apparent 'stuck Safari' crash without losing work

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⇒ J U M B O post

webcomic









gaming



humor
Open letter to Capcom

http://imacshuffle.com/imacshuffle.png


multimedia


useful
Mac OS X 10.5: What you can do if Safari quits unexpectedly
test your broadband speed
Self-help resources for QuickTime and QuickTime Pro
Mac Pro (8-core): Memory and hard drive kit compatibility
Reduce CPU usage while watching Flash movies
View a pie-chart-style progress indicator in Safari 4 Beta
Restore Safari 3's 'in window' tabs to Safari 4 beta
10.5: How to create a RAM disk larger than 2.2GB

A List Apart
Fluid Grids
The Elements of Social Architecture

Campaign Monitor Blog
New Joomla modules available
Chicago Portfolio
ExpressionEngine extension now available
New report: See which email clients your subscribers are using
Did you know? Web version edition

Google Analytics
Tips for Tracking Email Marketing Campaigns
Back to Basics: Quick tracking code fixes
Back to Basics: New Getting Started Guide for Google Analytics
Control Your Search Result URL
What is your Google Analytics IQ?
Google Analytics Tracking for Flash Applications
Two Cool Integrations: Telephone Leads & Live Chat

Matt Cutts
Clickable transcript of my Canonical Link Element talk
How many links per page?

Vitamin Feed
Silverlight for PHP Developers
44 Web Designers to Follow on Twitter
Bargain Basement Usability Testing
20 Steps to Better Wireframing

Aviary
Aviary releases Raven: First online vector editor


FontStruct








Inspiredology
#5 Top 5 Collections of Vintage Art Resources
#4 Top 5 T-Shirts for Designers
#2 Top 5 Design Tutorials Compilation

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⇒ constructive web catchup

a list apart:

elevate web design at the university level
brighter horizons for web education
return of the mobile style sheet
semantics in html 5
return of the mobile style sheet

campaign monitor blog:

nested tables in HTML email: how much is too much?
Q&A newsletter
Improved authentication and Yahoo! integration
Voices newsletter
Giving back gets going
Export and share campaign reports
Nyman ink newsletter
Dialogue from Dialect
Should your plain text be exactly the same as your HTML?

Google analytics blog:

mastering-motion-charts-trend-analysis
9-steps-to-becoming-analytics-emperor
new-video-see-what-people-are-searching
tracking-google-sites-with-analytics
join-discussion-with-comments
short-answer-is-you-dont-have-to-change
announcing-winners-of-website-workout
eyes-on-prize-with-custom-reports
gaac-attack-year-end-fun-for-google-analysts

MacOSX hints:

Enable mounting of remote CD/DVDs on any Mac
use VLC to watch incomplete movies
Set preview frame during QuickTime movie export
Customize those boring blue folders using Preview

Matt Cutts:

four things you need to know about Knol
detecting googlebombs
Talking to a Wiimote in Ubuntu 8.10
“Preventing Virtual Blight” talk

javascript image galleries:

lightbox
Imago
Hoverbox (modified)
Spry
FrogJS
slideViewer 1.1
lightbox 2

Vitamin feed:

tips for freelancers starting your own business
how to: RSS-Enabled, Micro-Blog with Twitter

other:

why text is king
premium business cards
Officeworks business cards
UK webhosting
Set up new virtual hosts by creating new folders
Google zeitgeist 2008

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⇒ campaign monitor

google zeitgeist
Campaign Monitor forums as a place to find work
Campaign Monitor forums as a place to find work
Getting through the Postini filter
Emails and web applications
the pearls: So some quick tips on application driven emails:

• Make the email as useful as possible: Can you get enough into the email so that reading it is enough, and no click is needed?


• Make your links as specific as possible: If you do need a link, make sure that the one click gets your reader right to where they need to be.


• Simplify as much as possible: Pull out unnecessary elements from your email. That may mean less design elements, shorter sentences or less copy.

Campaign monitor gallery
Australian research shows email still dominates
Quick tip: Know your anti-spam laws
Smarter newsletters with targeted content
Jakob Nielsen: “Email is a user interface”
API

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⇒ RSS roundup

sensis concedes to google. Using either whereis and google maps for directions still kind of sucks--it's missing a distinctly human element. Case in point: to get from A to B, go 10m forward, turn right continue along for 10m turn left continue along for 10m, turn right continue along for 10m turn left continue along for 10m, turn right continue along for 10m turn left continue along for 10m, and so on...where as an actual person (or my preferred directions giving style) would've just said go forward 100m, turn right, go forward 100m. Done!

further evidence uni was a waste of my time: via ABC news. I knew it was a sham! And i called it years ago. Time told on that one, eh?

dude said it. After last week's a$$hole(t), I couldn't agree more with this guy...the problem is in the system, and it filters down on to the streets.


Totoro bento box! via SuperPunch



I may have posted about this before but it's just too damn impressive. Papercraft Kraken diorama from a single (big) piece of paper.

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⇒ a message from Google about hidden text

Hidden text and links

Hiding text or links in your content can cause your site to be perceived as untrustworthy since it presents information to search engines differently than to visitors. Text (such as excessive keywords) can be hidden in several ways, including:

• Using white text on a white background



• Including text behind an image


• Using CSS to hide text


• Setting the font size to 0

Hidden links are links that are intended to be crawled by Googlebot, but are unreadable to humans because:

• The link consists of hidden text (for example, the text color and background color are identical).


• CSS has been used to make tiny hyperlinks, as little as one pixel high.



• The link is hidden in a small character - for example, a hyphen in the middle of a paragraph.

If your site is perceived to contain hidden text and links that are deceptive in intent, your site may be removed from the Google index, and will not appear in search results pages. When evaluating your site to see if it includes hidden text or links, look for anything that's not easily viewable by visitors of your site. Are any text or links there solely for search engines rather than visitors?

If you're using text to try to describe something search engines can't access - for example, Javascript, images, or Flash files - remember that many human visitors using screen readers, mobile browsers, browsers without plug-ins, and slow connections will not be able to view that content either. Using descriptive text for these items will improve the accessibility of your site. You can test accessibility by turning off Javascript, Flash, and images in your browser, or by using a text-only browser such as Lynx. Some tips on making your site accessible include:

• Images: Use the alt attribute to provide descriptive text. In addition, we recommend using a human-readable caption and descriptive text around the image.


• Javascript: Place the same content from the Javascript in a no script tag. If you use this method, ensure the contents are exactly same as what is contained in the Javascript and that this content is shown to visitors who do not have Javascript enabled in their browser.


• Videos: Include descriptive text about the video in HTML. You might also consider providing transcripts.

If you do find hidden text or links on your site, either remove them or, if they are relevant for your site's visitors, make them easily viewable. If your site has been removed from our search results, review our webmaster guidelines for more information. Once you've made your changes and are confident that your site no longer violates our guidelines, submit your site for reconsideration.

If you'd like to discuss this with Google, or have ideas for how we can better communicate with you about it, please post in our webmaster discussion forum.

source

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⇒ weekly 18 d3

the day crawled, then flew right by!

spore http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/index/0,,5017712,00.html
http://www.kotaku.com.au/games/2008/08/fatal1ty_pro_gamers_are_like_rock_n_roll_stars-2.html

http://www.ato.gov.au/businesses/content.asp?doc=/Content/38336.htm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/03/topless-women-kid-rock-bi_n_116632.html

http://valleywag.com/5031796/privacy-advocates-nearly-publish-guide-to-carjacking-google-executive

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

for Mac: http://www.google.com/mac/
and PC: http://pack.google.com/intl/en-gb/pack_installer.html?hl=en-gb&gl=au&utm_source=en_gb_AU-et-more&utm_medium=et&utm_campaign=en_gb_AU

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⇒ squid vids

squishy freaks:


also freaky: Michael Jackson's 'Ghost' feature


very useful stuff about google search:
http://www.googleguide.com/cached_pages.html
http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html#cache

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