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Eric Meyer Go to the source

At last—at long, long last!— the results of the A List Apart Survey 2008 are available , along with the anonymized raw data we collected. There are a great many reasons why it took so long to get this out the door. A big part is that it’s almost entirely a volunteer effort, which means it happens in our “free time” (and there the word “free” has a couple of meanings). I say it’s almost entirely a volunteer effort because the detailed analysis is actually done by a pair of professional statisticians, who are paid for their time and expertise. They did a great job once more, and did it in a reasonable time frame. … Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

Twitter will soon get rid of the auto-follow feature. It wasn’t necessarily a public feature. You had to email support to have your account enabled. When a person followed you, you’d follow them back, automatically. Why autofollow… Read the rest here

Andy Budd Go to the source

As you’re no doubts aware I’m an unabashed conference junky, so it will come as no surprise to you that I’ve spent the last couple of weeks in the States attending three such events. First up was ETech, the emerging technology conference from O’R eily. Moved from it’s spiritual home in San Diego, this year it was help in the Chino wearing capitol of Silicon Valley, San Jose. The event was much smaller than last year and the tone was somewhat downbeat. However I don’t think this was necessarily down to the economy as a lot of people were speculating. … Read the rest here

SimpleBits Go to the source

Small Batch, Inc. are some super smart folks. But you already knew that. They’re the team that created Measure Map, which was later bought by Google. Earlier this week, they launched Wikirank , a tool for exploring and comparing what’s popular on Wikipedia . It’s pretty damn cool. … Read the rest here

Digital Web Go to the source

As some of our regular readers have guessed, yes it is true. Digital Web Magazine has ceased publication. For the reasons cited in Time To Change , it was clear to us that what we had was no longer working. We called upon both our staff and readers for ideas on what we could change. We received a lot of good feedback. … Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

While I’ve known of Yahoo Pipes for awhile, I never really thought to use it until now. Pipes is a neat tool that Yahoo has put together to allow you to mashup feeds, filter feeds and create a completely new feed. Commonly, I’ve seen people take feeds from a number of different sources on a particular subject and combine them into a master feed. For example, they want a master CakePHP feed but want to grab only posts that actually mention CakePHP. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

I was reviewing analytics data for Authentic Jobs this morning, and some figures emerged that are remarkable, but also somewhat unsurprising: For the same monthly period one year ago, visits to the site have increased by 45.9% and average time on the site has increased by 22.9% . For the same annual period one year ago (technically two years ago), visits to the site have increased by 76.0% and average time on the site has decreased by 5.1% . I say somewhat unsurprising because given the current economic climate, one can assume traffic to online job boards has increased in the last 6-12 months. Indeed, a recent report from comScore confirms this assumption: Job search ranked as the fastest growing U.S. online category in 2008 . Had comScore’s study included other countries, the same trend would likely have emerged. … Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

In building this iteration of the blog, I decided to follow that trendiest of trends and embed my latest Twitter status on my sidebar. Despite having been on Twitter for awhile and having my site linked from my Twitter account, I didn’t really have anything pushing people from my site back to Twitter. Problem solved: add status to sidebar. But what’s the best way to keep it up to date? … Read the rest here

Adactio Go to the source

I’m gratified to see that my thoughts on archiving my data —prompted by the shutdown of Pownce, Magnolia, Ficlets, etc. , etc. , etc. ,—are shared by others. But it’s all well and good for me to talk about how I’m backing up by using APIs, RSS, PHP and other non-trivial technologies. As David said when he bookmarked my post : Now if someone would build a backup-to-local system that I could use… Paul has been thinking about how to build it : Now I’m wondering: is there a space for a piece of user-installable software, like Movable Type or Wordpress, that aggregates their data from sites across the web, and then presents it as a site… Read the rest here

Adactio Go to the source

Since Magnolia went down, taking everyone’s bookmarks with it, I’ve been through a mild Kübler-Ross cycle. Denial. “It can’t be that all the data is gone. They’ll recover it.” Anger. “I want my freaking bookmarks!” Bargaining. “Isn’t there something I can do? … Read the rest here

Adactio Go to the source

Since Magnolia went down, taking everyone’s bookmarks with it, I’ve been through a mild Kübler-Ross cycle. Denial. “It can’t be that all the data is gone. They’ll recover it.” Anger. “I want my freaking bookmarks!” Bargaining… Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

My journey to find the ideal Media Centre has brought me via Plex and Boxee . Both are media center applications based on the popular open source XBox Media Center ( XBMC ), with Boxee focussing on the social network slant, and Plex solely on OS X integration. Plex has a very slick interface, and everytime I mention Boxee, there is the inevitable “Why not Plex?’ cry from other Mac users. At the moment, the answer is that Plex doesn’t yet offer me much over just using Front Row. The slick interface has more character than Front Row though, particularly in it’s use of online databases to provide metadata and large format photographs: It doesn’t always get the show/movie right however. The Secret Show recordings were believed to be ‘Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show’, and this couldn’t be manually removed… Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

As soon as I mentioned I’d ordered one of these, I’ve had a lot of interested people quiz me about it, so it seems a review is in order! Apologies for the use of press photos here, as the ones I’d taken (and the video) were rubbish – I’ll hopefully post decent ones in the next few days. Quick recap: The WD TV is a device for playing your non- DRM media (Movies, Music and Photos) through your TV (via HDMI or Composite) with audio out via toslink if you prefer. There is no internal HD, you simple plug in up to 2 USB drives, making it easily expandable. It intrigued me for 2 reasons: cost and size. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Recently I’ve seen a considerable amount of press on blogs and such regarding HTML 5, “the 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web” (W3C). I have virtually no experience (yet) with HTML 5, so as I jump on the bandwagon and begin familiarizing myself with it, I thought I’d share some of the resources I’m reading along the way. So far from what I’m learning, the consensus among several of these articles seems to be this: The world isn’t ready for HTML 5 at large just yet, but we can begin preparing for it by using common, semantic selector names ( header , nav , section , etc.) — or even new attribute names — derived from HTML 5 within our HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.x documents. This is by no means an exhaustive list, just a start. In each of these you’ll find other resources to help you dig deeper. … Read the rest here