What if Gowalla and Foursquare could communicate seamlessly with Address Book? What if Google Maps contained the postal address, company names, and primary phone numbers of every pin on the map? All this information could be marked up in Microformats and standard HTML on optional detail pages you could visit with a click from your [.
Left, Mike Monteiro. Right, yours sincerely. Captured at SXSW by Scott Beale.
(My SXSW photos.
In “IE9: Microsoft’s new browser gets no respect at all,” ZDNet’s Ed Bott sees seething contempt where I intended even-handed calm, and asks why my discussion yesterday of the tone of a months-old IE announcement failed to discuss yesterday’s keynote at MIX10, which I didn’t see.
One of the things about SXSW Interactive is that you are constantly meeting new people.
Is it getting hot in here? Or is it just the flames?
In An Early Look At IE9 for Developers, Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for Internet Explorer, reports on performance progress, web standards progress (border-radius, bits of CSS3, Acid 3 performance), and “bringing the power of PC hardware and Windows to web developers in the [.
SXSW 2010: A photo set on Flickr (in progress). The festival began this afternoon at 2:00 PM Central.
Book By Its Cover is a glorious new blog devoted to the beauty of books.
Popular Science has partnered with Google to offer its entire 137-year archive for free browsing.
It’s that time again. Spring and pheromones are in the air, and 11,000 web geeks are about to descend on beauteous Austin, TX for our industry’s version of the TED Conference plus Spring Break, SXSW Interactive.
Happy Cog’aoke 2 / Lesson Four: ‘Over the Top’ from Happy Cog on Vimeo.
Happy Cog’aoke 2 / Lesson Three: Multiple Partners from Happy Cog on Vimeo.
See all the videos on OK! Happy Cog’aoke, and join us in Austin for the best party of SXSW.
In Issue No. 302 of A List Apart for people who make websites, Joe Clark explains what E-book designers can learn from 10 years of standards-based web design, and Daniel Mall tells designers what they can do besides bicker over formats.
Many website designers run their own niche blog, and if the content is unique enough, a designer might be able to sell subscriptions to it.
P Is for Publishing. And publishing, as you’ve heard, is dying. … But “the printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone,” Zeldman says, “either because books don’t require monthly hosting and blogs and websites do … or because the languages and platforms for which a particular digital creation [.
Web designer Tim Van Damme, founder of Made by Elephant and blogger at Max Voltar, has skyrocketed from relative oblivion to comparative fame in little over a year.
“Content with form—Definite Content—is almost totally the opposite of Formless Content.
André Gonçalves is a graphic designer and this is his website. ♥
Web designer Joshua Lane, currently best know for doing fancy web stuff at Virb.com, has overhauled his personal site in ways that are aesthetically pleasing and visually instructive.
There’s a new Franklin in town. It’s TeeFranklin, designed by Tomi Haaparanta for T26.