Is the new colour of your company taken?
Is the amazing colour you just picked for your new company close to something already used by a big company? See an extensive list of "taken" colours at…
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Poetry in web motion
Ingredients: - a physics engine, - SVG graphics and - the Web Audio API. Bake and get something really cool (See it Chrome or Safari)
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On algorithhms forming communities: my best photos of 2013 (according to 500px)
During this holidays break I setup a new site for my photography and new profiles in 500px and Flickr. 500px is set up in a manner that all…
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11 Rules on being a productive creative by Henry Miller
Henry Miller (1891—1980) was one of the most controversial American novelists during his lifetime. His book, The Tropic of Cancer, was banned in the some U.S. states before…
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On failing algorithms
For some perverse reason, despite being my job to write algorithms, I love it when algorithms try and fail. For the "year in review" feature, someone at Facebook…
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The human knoweldge graph expanded?
Is this what the #web was created for? Croud-sourced #metadata (comments, photos and news links) on rap lyrics? :) Source: Rapgenius.com
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How Do You Rate As an Influential Author?
A new tool is attempting to answer that: Virante AuthorRank. As Virante's Mark Traphagen clarifies, Virante AuthorRank is not Google AuthorRank. It is an entirely indepedent formula based…
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It's the end of an era for web design
Ryanair has redesigned it's website. Before it looked like it was designed in 1992 (because it probably was). Now it looks like someone paid 15$ for a template.…
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6+1 WordPress initial-setup plugins
In my most recent WordPress installations, these are the plugins I install first: 1) Acunetix WP Security: all sorts of changes in settings and file checks to increase…
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Data visualisation porn
The Digital Attack Map is a live data visualization, built through a collaboration between Arbor Networks and Google Ideas, that maps “distributed denial of service” (DDoS attacks) designed…
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