links for 2007-08-28

• This Will Literally Make You Want to Throw Up (Strobist)
  Throw you camera up, that is…Hopefully our wedding photographer is also able to do this trick on our wedding (this friday ) Cool stuff! (The cool part is about 1 minute into the video)

  (tags: photography wedding)
• Jason Fried from 37signals tells how they work (Brightcove)
  Interesting short interview with Jason Fried, where he gives some insight into his company (37signals). I believe in the approach of a small team. Also he talks about working together is staying away from eachother, as proximity can slash productivity.
  (tags: business collaboration interview entrepeneur productivity)

links for 2007-08-23

• Context-Oriented Information Retrieval (IBM alphaWorks)
  This seems like an interesting technology. Too bad I don’t have time at the moment to check it out.
  (tags: ibm unstructured data information knowledge retrieval)

links for 2007-08-17

• Upload files using flash and javascript (SWFUpload)
  This is what Flickr.com uses to do multiple file upload, works like a charm!
  (tags: ajax flash upload webdev web2.0 flickr actionscript)

links for 2007-08-15

• The Cool Cam (Worse Than Failure)
  Great example of how to save a project. Sometimes the solution lies in changing something that impresses everybody, like opening up an oxygen supply and people can breath again. In this case it’s about adding a ‘cool cam’ to a war flysim game.
  (tags: engineering project management)

links for 2007-08-08

• A Guide to Hiring Programmers: The High Cost of Low Quality (Revolution Systems Blog)
  This article gives some great thoughts about why hiring average or below average coders could cost a lot. Especially the little ‘test’ at the end is funny.
  (tags: career hiring recruitment developers business management tips)

links for 2007-08-07

• Data Visualization: Modern Approaches (Smashing Magazine)
  Long list of different ways of data visualisation. Not only structured data, but also visualisations for documents and music. Very inspiring.
  (tags: analysis data design interaction inspiration visualisation)
• Blueprint: A CSS Framework
  Why reinvent the wheel every time you need to lay out a webpage in CSS. This is a great starting point. Based on work from Eric Meyer and the Typogrify project. Looks easy to get some basic stuff done.
  (tags: css design webdev framework webdesign)
• How To: Convert text to spoken audio (Lifehacker)
  In the past I also have done some things with text-to-speech. This lifehacker post has some real good pointers in the comments to freeware tts systems.
  (tags: tts audio speech text interaction)

links for 2007-08-03

• At Procter & Gamble, The Good And Bad Of Web 2.0 Tools (Information Week)
  Overview of what P&G is doing with web 2.0 stuff. Too bad that it only gives positive findings. I would also be interested in some negative outcomes or failures.
  (tags: business enterprise intranet knowledge web2.0 sharepoint)
• CommentPress (Institute for the Future of the Book)
  This looks very cool. It is a wordpress theme that makes it possible to author a book with a group of people, or just a general audience. Comments can be made on specific paragraphs.
  (tags: blog cms collaboration community ebook)

links for 2007-08-02

• How to run a brainstorming meeting (Scott Berkun)
  Article on the art of brainstorming. The tips (or thoughts) are a good summary of the do and don’ts for a high quality setting.
  (tags: brainstorm creativity tips tools)