Over the years I have collected a bunch of useful open source tools which have helped tremendously in building and maintaining websites. Most important – they are FREE! If you really want to go to town and have the funds get yourself Adobe Web Premium (Illustrator, Photoshop, Contribute, Flash, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, Soundbooth) and start looking [...]
My first reaction was to laugh. The second was to frown. The third response was: “Damn it! Since when have I been described as bloody UNREMARKABLE?!” My excuse is that I’ve been onboard for only 2 weeks. So there. Once I was over my fit of apoplexy, I went back and Twanalysed a few other [...]
I can see this announcement by Google in recent days about releasing the Analytics API to developers creating a whole new cottage industry overnight: Custom tailored and tracked analytics targetted, triggered and monitored at discretion by customers directly. The dev team at the Areeba offices think this is very cool, as it opens up whole [...]
With all the hoopla surrounding the popularity contest currently going on with Twitter and its celebrity/corporate residents (think: aplusk; Oprah, CNNBRK) , Travis spotted this amusing site earlier today. www.epenis.nl I wonder if there is a version which gives a rating for the type of car you drive when you plug it in? Ford? Holden? [...]
Technorati’s 5th annual report commenting on that which it focuses on so well – Blogs – citing a pot pourri of mind boggling statistics, insights and conclusions around the “State of the Blogosphere“. The reports comprehensive nature was delivered across a 5 day period, and split across a host of areas looking at variables such [...]
Hard on the heels of my post a few weeks back, Information Architects Japan has just released Version 4 of its Web Trend Map. The full version can be viewed here at http://www.informationarchitects.jp/wtm, or click on the below image for a full size 6740 x 4768 (JPG 2.56Mb) on Flickr. As at time of writing [...]
This is very cool. Using the Tokyo Subway as an overlay, the uber smart dudes at Information Architects Japan have listed out close to 300 of the WWW most visited and influential websites. Each train line represents a trend which the site portrays i.e. social network, news etc. Interactive version here: http://informationarchitects.jp/start/
CMS Watch have recently released their 2009 Content Managment System Subway map which attempts to portray the ever changing CMS landscape into something reasonably cohesive and more visually engaging than a spreadsheet grid. Of particular note is the massive upheaval from previous years in the arrangement of the suburbs and proximity of the major players [...]
Tiny URL Small URL’s which can act to shorten typing and aid in memorizing. This WordPress URL http://theculturemind.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/tiny-url/ at 74 characters as a Tiny URL would be: http://tinyurl.com/ax4fmv at a much more palatable 17 characters. Partcularly useful for grabbing URL’s from websites which have very long URL’s or if you have limited space within an [...]
A work colleague was crowding around my machine last week, when he passed comment on the “look” of my Firefox browser. Conversely, his machine had some cool picture viewing software which I hadn’t seen before. Aside from the fact that it is a faster browser, the nice thing about Firefox is the myriad of useful [...]
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