December 2008
All the snow melted overnight… so much for a white christmas in canada! denied!
An ABC of guardian.co.uk's R2 project: Z is for... →
Today Z, for zones… which are a top navigation level of guardian.co.uk. However the navigational structure was designed to be quite fluid, and the concept of a zone is really more of an…
Alan Rusbridger: 'Major cities could be left... →
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has predicted that a number of cities in the UK could be left without their own newspaper as recession looms.
Speaking on the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning,…
Merry Christmas from Nova Scotia, Canada!
dinner with sarah’s family followed by some kind of hiphop ‘dance’ in shelbourne, nova scotia’s legion hall. it’s like a school dance…
can confirm that both puffin and guillemot are very tasty! and icelandic lamb is even better than kiwi or welsh…
Iceland is awesome. Might have Puffin for dinner :)
Journalism.co.uk :: Twitter predicts: What's... →
So what will 2009 bring? The end of newspaper video, the year of the mobile or the death of the newspaper?
links for 2008-12-20 →
Pattern Tap : Interface Collection for Design Inspiration
Pattern Tap is here to satisfy and encourage the inspiration needs of my interface design peers and peeps. We aspire to be the…
Get Some Interface Design Inspiration with Pattern... →
Pattern Tap was born out of the love for the best interface designs on the web. They wanted a place where we could come and easily find the stuff we were looking for. Sometimes it was a matter of…
The graph that shows Christmas gift panic. As it... →
Rarely is it possible to capture the mood of the web-browsing populace with this accuracy. The graph above shows traffic hour-by-hour to our Life and Style pages for the past four days. That’s…
An ABC of guardian.co.uk's R2 project: X is for XL →
Today X, for XL… which was a size of problem we noted but wouldn’t tackle.
When we estimated the work for R2 up front we used t-shirt sizes for each feature: S, M, L and XL. The largest…
Get Some Interface Design Inspiration with Pattern... →
Pattern Tap was born out of the love for the best interface designs on the web. They wanted a place where we could come and easily find the stuff we were looking for. Sometimes it was a matter of…
links for 2008-12-19 →
We make bug tracking easy @ 16bugs.com: hosted bug tracker
Sifter is a hosted bug and issue tracking application focused on making work less tedious.
(tags: bug bugtracker)
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Moo'y Christmas →
As the web matures, it is less and less just about the virtual world. It is becoming entangled with our world and it is harder to tell what is virtual and what is real. There are several companies…
Moo'y Christmas →
As the web matures, it is less and less just about the virtual world. It is becoming entangled with our world and it is harder to tell what is virtual and what is real. There are several companies…
When you fail, it’s time to try again →
No one is successful 100% of the time. Just look at entreprenuers like Richard Branson (founder of Virgin) and Milton Hershey (founder of Hershey’s Chocolate). They are (were) both extremely…
Songkick raises $4m million Series A from Index →
Songkick, the London-based concert listings site that allows music fans to track bands, tour dates and buy tickets, has raised a $4m million Series A round lead by Index Ventures. Their previous…
had some good meetings in London this morning. but vodafone’s broken and isn’t pushing work emails to my Treo - cant send or receive :(
links for 2008-12-18 →
ShoutEm - Roll your own Microblogging Social Networking
(tags: microblog whitelabel twitter)
Sock and Awe!
(tags: bush iraq shoes game viral)
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GMG rebrands Century as Real Radio - Media news -... →
GMG Radio is rebranding its two Century Radio stations as Real Radio from April, expanding Real to a six-station network.
News | Ads on YouTube have higher impact than on... →
YouTube users are 1.5 times more attentive and engaged in advertising than TV viewers, according to research conducted in partnership with General Motors Europe, Motorola, media agency MindShare and…
quite tempted to buy www.sockandawe.com on ebay..! (http://bit.ly/8x96www.sockandawe.com on ebay..! (http://bit.ly/8x96)
SockAndAwe game to foot the bill for PopJam - via... →
Alex Tew, the Uk entrepreneur most famous for creating the Million Dollar Home Page, has stumbled on another hit, almost by accident. Tew is currently working on PopJam, currently in stealth…
Blues' Diarra hopes take a blow →
CITY’S hopes of recruiting Portsmouth’s Lassana Diarra have taken a huge blow with the South Coast club have accepting a bid from Real Madrid.
Hughes pleads for time →
MARK Hughes today praised the “fantastic” support he has had from the board and spoke of his dismay that Premier League managers are not given more time before facing the axe.
Shout’Em wins seed funding for white-label Twitter →
Shout’Em , a sort of white-label microblogging platform that lets anyone create their own Twitter clone, has secured 350,000 Euros of seed capital from the Bicro seed fund in Croatia. Shout’Em…
How we create complex maps from detailed... →
Unemployment has shot to over 1 million with benefit claimants up by 75,700 in November and official unemployment now at 1.9 million people.
The UK’s unemployment stats are collated by…
Big interview: Cook City mission →
CITY chief Garry Cook insists the Blues are on track to be a global force on and off the football field.
Get the job: Surrey and Berkshire Jobs Search →
Search local jobs from across Surrey, Berkshire and Hampshire, powered by the Reading Evening Post and the Surrey Advertiser newspapers.
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Lowdown on Press Release Optimization | Online... →
Working with client PR firms to optimize press releases often generates some interesting discussion and education about writing style and keyword usage.
Hugo Drayton stands down as Phorm chief executive... →
The exodus of senior executives from controversial behavioural targeting technology firm Phorm is continuing as Hugo Drayton stands down as UK chief executive. Drayton, the former managing director…
How Hard Could It Be?: My Style of Servant... →
Don’t bother me, because I’m in the middle of my most important task as CEO — hanging window blinds.
links for 2008-12-17 →
Aviary - Home
Edit images, create mind-blowing effects, design logos, find colors, collaborate, and more. All you need is a web browser.
(tags: image editor flash app)
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Aviary - Home →
Edit images, create mind-blowing effects, design logos, find colors, collaborate, and more. All you need is a web browser. Saved By: Paul Lomax | View Details | Give Thanks Tags:…
Trinity Mirror title implements new idea for video... →
Trinity Mirror regional newspaper the Teeside Evening Gazette has come up with a novel method of generating revenue from its online sporting video content.
Last.fm offers new interactive ad platform - Media... →
Social music website Last.fm has launched a new ad platform that recognises content being experienced by the user and allows the creative to react accordingly.
Taptu Mobile Search →
Taptu is a new, free, mobile search engine that helps you find stuff in just a few clicks and share it easily with your friends Saved By: Paul Lomax | View Details | Give Thanks …
News | Five cuts ads from home page to put focus... →
Five has relaunched its home page with a greater emphasis on content and programming, and the removal of advertising formats. Five will, however, sell takeover opportunities on the home page, which…
News | Ad networks face hard year as media... →
Ad networks are battling to survive next year as agencies trim their media plans in a bid to make efficiencies during the downturn.
News | Media agencies predict higher spend in 2009... →
Media agencies are predicting resilient growth for 2009, with display budgets set to grow by almost 10% and search to increase 17%, despite the tough economic conditions.
Right Brain v Left Brain | Herald Sun →
THE Right Brain vs Left Brain test … do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise? Saved By: Paul Lomax | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: None assigned
Web ad spend growth set to plummet in 2009, says... →
A new forecast has cut UK internet ad spend growth by more than 50% next year and predicted that the digital media sector will not fully recover from the economic downturn until the London Olympics…
AJAX Libraries API - Google Code →
The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular,open source JavaScript libraries. By using the Google AJAX API Loader’sgoogle.load() method,…
Optimizing Landing Pages to Match Customer... →
Picking up where we left off in the Marketing Experiments Conversion Sequence C = 4m + 3v + 2(i-f) -2a, the last couple posts covered “m” for Motivation discussing optimizing your ecommerce…
An ABC of guardian.co.uk's R2 project: V is for... →
Today V, for video content… which changed in the way we thought about it (and implemented it) a long time after it was released.
Originally any piece of content was designated as being of…
Improve your jQuery - 25 excellent tips →
jQuery is awesome. I’ve been using it for about a year now and although I was impressed to begin with I’m liking it more and more the longer I use it and the more I find out about it’s inner…
links for 2008-12-16 →
Watch Videos On Stock Market Analysis, Wall Street News & Stock Trading | Financial Market News Videos | TheStreet.com
Watch videos online about market analysis, stock trading, and…
stressed. Tomorrow’s last day in office til 5th Jan. In Reading tomorrow, London on Friday, Iceland Saturday, Canada Monday! Not packed yet.
Lycos Europe Sells Domain Biz For €34 Million;... →
Lycos Europe, whose shareholders on Friday voted to liquidate most of the company after failing to find a buyer, is selling the first of its other remaining assets to United Internet AG, the…