Archives for April 2008

Links for 2008-04-22 (April 22, 2008) Plazes has added support for Fire Eagle! And this blog post explains all the value that they're getting out of being involved. Very excited to have them with us! (tags: plazes fireeagle)...

Links for 2008-04-17 (April 17, 2008) Jeremy Paxman's position on 'User Generated Content' should now be clear And truth be told, he's right. The last few years have seen a decent number of fairly feeble attempts to harness the wisdom of the crowds that do...

Links for 2008-04-16 (April 16, 2008) Young Marshall's Django Fire Eagle package... "The django_fireeagle package contains code to handle the Fire Eagle authorisation process within Django. You can use it to manage connections between Django users and their respective Fire Eagle access tokens." (tags: fireeagle...

Links for 2008-04-15 (April 15, 2008) Ashley Highfield is to leave the BBC. It won't be a shock if I tell you that I think it's about time. The only problem is who follows him. There are some particular candidates that I think would do...

Links for 2008-04-14 (April 14, 2008) Delightful news: Homosexual Geneticists have discovered the cause of Christianity Pretty funny as politically charged satires on the horrors of anti-gay rhetoric go. It's not quite as clever as I think it thinks it is. Some of the analogies...

Links for 2008-04-13 (April 13, 2008) The lovely guys at Skyhook have announced that they're going to be opening up their mobile clients to update Fire Eagle - which rocks! Those of you who have Fire Eagle invitations will - with any luck - have...

Links for 2008-04-12 (April 12, 2008) Nice little piece on swarming structures that the author thinks could be an angle for future architectures I'm not sure I like the sense of grazing and herding architectures. Although superficially bucolic, it has something horrible and locust-like about...

Links for 2008-04-10 (April 10, 2008) Get your weighted companion cubes here! I'm sure Cal was scratching on the front door of the Steam offices (or whatever they use instead - orbital organitropolis probably) for one of these a while back. (tags: portal weightedcompanioncube)...

Links for 2008-04-09 (April 9, 2008) Clay on the Colbert Report?! I think my head just imploded with the sheer amount of squee going on right there... Very exciting - impressed by both sets of people there. Remarkable good taste, by all accounts. (tags: clayshirky...

Links for 2008-04-07 (April 7, 2008) BBC News did a redesign a couple of days ago--and you know--it's fine, but I wonder... Design patterns are now established. Probably people need to redesign less. So is it a bold new step, or is it a distraction...