11 May 04
“You may notice that many of the links on the site go through redirects before sending you to the link’s final destination”
The petabox by the Internet Archive is a machine designed to safely store and process one petabyte of information (a petabyte is a million gigabytes)
“an attempt to characterize various constructive models of Internet conduct both by those who use the system and by those who provide its services”
“A Randompixel camera was given to a stranger. Stickers on the camera instruct the recipient to take a few pictures and pass it along. When the camera is done, it is dropped in the mail, it returns home, and the pictures are posted here”
Vizster is an interactive visualization tool for online social networks, allowing exploration of the community structure of social networking services
“Feedmelinks organizes your bookmarks so you can get to them from all your computers and browsers, no matter if you’re at home, work, school, whatever”
A party game for three or more players.
it already seems quaint to ask: What do women do online?
check the Google namespace spread
“Get the latest word direct from the Googleplex about new technology, hot issues, and the wide world of search.”
12-part tutorial
This year’s winners include Wikipedia and Creative Commons!
10 May 04
“One of the issues here is what a standard is. That is one of the most abused words in the language and people like you (in the media) do not help by calling things standard that are not standards”
29 Apr 04
mail, shopping cart, note, and comment icons &c.
28 Apr 04
“very early in his career, [Wheildon] became aware that the rules of typography are largely ancient maxims, with very little empiricism to support them”
23 Apr 04
‘it is important that there exists a relationship between the graph layouts that achieves a mental map between the various relationships represented by each graph while preserving readable drawings for each individual graph layout in the series’
22 Apr 04
Brad Templeton, Advisor to Google and Chair of the EFF, addresses GMail’s security and privacy
21 Apr 04
“Let them build their sand castles where they like. Next year they will publish another twenty W3C recommendations and ISO standards to address the special cases”