The Guardian News Blog (through Wired) mentions a new tool that rides on other search engines, looking for people’s names. Keying in my first and last name fetched two results, one of which was a correct reference to myself on Zeldman’s External page. However it got my description jumbled up with the next website listed on that page. Oh well, nothing’s perfect.
Look closely at the screenshot of the Harvard Business Review’s home page, above. The [rightmost article](http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs/2009/09/a_single_question_haunts_me.html?cm_re=homepage-061609-_-secondary-1-_-headline) discusses the disadvantages of using of Twitter, but just below it is a button for subscribing to HBR’s Twitter feed. OK, it’s not as straightforward as that but I couldn’t resist showing the irony lurking on the surface. The…
Zeldman and Stopdesign to revamp Apple.com. Can it get any better than this? CSS guru Eric Meyer launches his new consultancy website. One for the ladies: Eating dark chocolate is good for you, according to this Reuters Health report. It contains antioxidants.
I’ve finally cleared the backlog of work in the office and found a few interesting links: X2 the movie: A brief feminist perspective. Uh, yeah. MSNBC: Palestinians in Iraq now fear the worst after receiving preferential treatment under old Saddam regime. Lastly, Zeldman’s new book, Designing With Web Standards, is out: download two free chapters…
As of time of writing, this UK computer magazine poll indicates that Firefox is the second most-used web browser with a respectable 17% out of 537 votes (including one from myself). Sleeping in the public library? Another New Yorker deals with high costs of living by staying in a 27-foot camper van. Nullsoft have done…
Avid followers of Second Life news would have heard of Crayon, the first new media marketing agency to be established in this virtual world. Well, since I couldn’t break into IBM land (see previous post), I decided to try my luck with an agency that welcomed visitors. Here’s a shot of Crayon from the outside….
Now this is something I’d pay for: a service that allows you to search and access over 140 publications online [linked off Ben Hammersley’s weblog]. The price? Less than five American dollars a month. No ads, no dead trees. And it comes with a seven-day free trial that doesn’t require your credit card number. You…