Archive
September 2007’s Posts.
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Secrets of Sidebar
Sidebar Creative, the freelance co-op (a brilliant idea), talk to Digital Web about their process
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Succeeding against Facebook
Facebook managed avoid ghettoization as YASN this May when it opened its Web site to third-party applications. Essentially, Facebook answered the unasked question of what to do after everyone you once knew are in your network (and you realize you don’t have much in common with your classmates from kindergarten).
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Thunderbird gets its own company
Mozilla is creating a new company to better drive the development of its email client.
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The history of Amazon-ian tabs
A new design suggest Amazon might be going back to the past to tame its tabs.
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Sistr
An early sIFR alternative using Silverlight.
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New York Times free again
The New York Times is dropping its online paid-subscription plan two years after launching it (and four after The Globe and Mail launched the model The Times used). The spin is the online advertising boom change the rules of the game. However, advertising revenue would be a pittance compared to the potential revenue generated through annual subscriptions.
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The Times is free
The New York Times drops is subscription model, and also makes early archives and those from the past decade free to the public.
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Good job posts
When checking the times for (my first) DemoCamp tonight, I stumbled across the TorCamp job board. This is an excellent place for anyone looking to fill local Toronto jobs with potentially qualified people.
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Follow the commenter
Gawker Media is letting readings follow particular commenters on its blogs.
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Doing tabs right
Thirteen guidelines on how to use tabbed navigation.
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More on personalized news
Although the Daily Me isn't yet here, it's not stopping news outlets from experimenting.
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Visual-O-Rama
Poke the tires of Idée's amazing visual search tool (iPod for the bst 5 results).
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ONA 2007 finalists
CanCon: Two nods for the Toronto Star's "Lost in Migration", one for the CBC's consumer reporting, and one for The Globe and Mail.
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The radiated book
Eleven years before Vannevar Bush's seminal essay, Paul Otlet proposed any even more Web-like vision.
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Canada's venture capital crisis
Mark Evans looks at why investment in Canadian start-ups is dangerously non-existent.
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Detecting WebKit script
Don't do it. But if you really must find out which WebKit-based browser is visiting, here's a script for you.
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Le Monde goes 2.0
France's Le Monde has launched an impressive Digg-style news service called "Le Post"
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The day the news first stopped
When Princess Diana died, CBC experienced the same traffic surged many sites faced six-years ago today.
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Gone alpha
Announcing the release of the alpha version of the long-delayed rebuild of saila.com
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Text as design misleading
Sometimes, if important information is overly-designed, and poorly placed, it can get lost.
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Google News rewards original content
Over the North American long weekend, Google announced a deal it struck four of the top English-language newsfeeds that will see Google News hosting wire stories.
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Real-time journalism
That this is considered an innovative idea still is shocking, nevertheless it should be repeated until real-time reporting is second-nature.
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Beautiful design critique
A Brief Message aims to offer a design opinions in 200-words or less each presented on an "art-directed" Web page.
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Defining (HTML) semantics
John Allsopp offers a comprehensive explanation of what semantic mark-up is and how it works.
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Google News to serve wire articles
AP, AFP, CP, and Reuters are licensing articles to Google News making the service less of an aggregator and more of a provider.
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