Links for 2006-02-22

Posted February 22, 2006 12:17 AM.

• Carson Workshops have a whole bunch of photos from the recent Future of Web Apps event up on their Flickr account And looking at them, I'm terrified by how exhausted and fried I look in every single photo of me. It's like I've been replaced by some freakish semi-dead lych...
• Photoshopblog.net has a tutorial in which flesh is branded... It's quite gross, a little sexy and highly informative! What's not to like? I mean, really. Seriously. What's not to like?!
• Jake Gyllenhaal rides into film A-list "Jake Gyllenhaal's Bafta win is one of the highest recognition to date for a young actor who has managed to mix acclaimed offbeat work with mainstream offerings."
• 37 Signals release Campfire - providing 'simple group chat for business' As with many of the more recent 37 Signals products, I'm a bit at a loss as to whether it's really worth the money that they charge for it. It seems nice enough for a chat app. Um.
• Second Chance Tuesday aims to replicate all the mistakes of the last dot.com boom in London Some ways to fuck up a good thing: don't trust the people who build things, be parochial in your thinking, look for short-term gain rather than building something with a future, don't care about quality, take lots of drugs. Please let's make boom two less tedious and obvious than boom one? Maybe this time we can make something lasting?
• From a month ago: Warner Brothers announce they're going to sell movies online I'm really interested in this whole selling TV and movies stuff online after my time at the BBC - mainly wondering why the BBC isn't working with these players to find a space for public sector distribution...
• 'Sleeping on it' best for complex decisions - this may be more true of me than other people... “At some point in our evolution, we started to make decisions consciously, and we’re not very good at it. We should learn to let our unconscious handle the complicated things"
• Current state of the art in graphic design for the web... Mm. Rounded corners. Gradient fills. Anti-aliased text. I'd put money on them all emerging from use of Macs, but that's just me...
• Are we held hostage by Yahoo's acquisitions? It's always worth remembering that most acquisitions come at the point where sites are growing pretty rapidly and that scaling is a difficult and time consuming business...