Social Media Data Mining with FriendFeed

FriendFeed have just launched an advanced search feature, Marshall Kirkpatrick

Win a BRAND NEW Dell Netbook and 3G Subscription

My good friend Paul Fabretti is giving away a Dell Netbook with a Vodafone 3G subscription.

Tagged by Fabretti

Paul Fabretti chose to tag me in one of these tag-the-blogger excercises so in the interests of not letting anybody down, I'll continue the chain.

If you are tagged you should:

(a) republish these rules

• Link to your

A new idea to hasten the demise of IE6

Last year I was discussing the idea that as web designers and developers are the poeple who suffer most from IE6's continued usage, we are responsible for doing what we can to educate users into upgrading.

37 Signals also announced that they would no longer actively …

Social Notworking?

The phrase "social notworking"

Google shutting down services

Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land writes:

Google's announced they're closing or ceasing development of a variety of products as part of analready continuing move

A chat about Basecamp

I had an interesting IM chat with my friend Jon Ward, a project manager with whom I recently worked. We were discussing the calendar functionality in Backpack and Jon brought up one of his pet bugbears - the lack of time-spanned events in Basecamp.

Jon likes Basecamp …

MehWorld Expo

I just don't get all of the excitement over the MacWorld Expo Keynote, OK, so Apple does produce some great products but the fanboy hype around the event seems a little too much. Probably the most exciting thing was the speculation about Steve Jobs' health. He'll be …

What I learned from writing the "Web Advent" Series

When I set myself the challenge of posting every day for 24 days, it was a spur-of-the-moment idea without any real consideration of what was involved. Having successfully completed the entire run of 24 posts containing 300 web resources of one kind or another, There …

It's Chriiiistmaaaas!

Merry Christmas everybody, after 24 daily posts featuring 300 things I hope that in each post there was at least one thing of interest if not some value.

Thanks to everybody who got in touch to say they were enjoying my web advent series. If you missed them here's the …

Web Advent Day 24 - Toys

I confess that I was going to list productivity applications today but then I realised that it's Christmas Eve and nobody should be thinking about work so instead, I'm listing a bunch of geeky toys and gifts that I'd love to find in my stocking on Christmas morning.

Web Advent Day 23 - Wordpress Plugins

One of the joys of using discovering WordPress is finding a good combination of plugins to enhance the site. This list reflects both the plugins that I'm currently using and some others which I've not yet implemented but feel are worth investigating.

1. Akismet - Spam …

Web Advent Day 22 - The Twitterati

Twitter is rapidly gaining adoption beyond the early adopter set. Here are a list of people who I like following split into two groups - The Web experts and celebrities from other fields.

Web Expert Tweeters

• Jeffrey Zeldman - Web standards champion
  
  


• Paul Boag - Web …

Web Advent Day 20 - Online Image Editing

The continuing trend of web-based apps moving in on territory traditionally the domain of the desktop is not strictly limited to business applications. Thanks to advances in Technologies such as Adobe Flash, There are some very capable online image editors. Currently …

Web Advent Day 21 - Sources of Inspiration

It's a bit of a lazy post for today, but it is Sunday after all. These are all posts from my favourite design blog Smashing Magazine. Their Monday Inspiration posts are a superb way to get the brain working after the weekend, covering examples of great design from all …

Web Advent Day 19 - Cheatsheets

I'm a big fan of cheatsheets, one of the main problems with working in web-development is that you are constantly switching between different languages and platforms. Inevitably I find that my mind goes blank at certain points when I'm trying to remember a syntax format …

Web Advent Day 18 - iPhone Apps

I love my iPhone, ever since I took the plunge (having waited until the launch of the 3G) I finally feel that I have a mobile device which lets me use online systems without jumping through hoops, by which I refer to tiny screens and that godawful, annoying keypad text …

Web Advent Day 17 - jQuery Plugins

I'm currently close to finishing a bunch of server side stuff for an application that I'm developing. The next phase will be to overhaul the UI in order to improve usability and expose some new features that have been built into the application base. To this end I've …

Web Advent Day 16 - WordPress Themes

Today's list is for free WordPress Themes. Since my recent move from Blogger, I've become completely hooked on WP and it's endless combinations of Themes and Plugins. Interestingly* A Google search for "Blogger to WordPress" throws up

Web Advent Day 15 - Microblogging

Seeing as today is the day that Pownce shuts down, I thought I'd list some of the other microblogging services that are still available.