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Links for 10 Feb 05

  • Matt rediscovers the problem with hosted services — this is what put me off TadaList
  • Joe Blade has some very interesting insights into why web semantics aren’t quite there yet — the key issue? Only machines get benefit from the “hidden” semantic information, via Paranoidfish
  • This Baby Name Wizard is absolutely amazing. Amused to see that my name has never been a popular baby name, although Meredith has been — for both boys & girls
  • Edward Tufte’s Website — the guy had some great ideas about visual representations
  • Rands points out some great web UI examples
  • Detailed look at how Google Maps works via DaringFireball, amongst others
  • Reasons to switch to WP 1.5 (the article is actually about switching to WP fullstop, but a lot of the features seem to be new things in 1.5)
  • This guy chose to ratify Kyoto at home and has some great analysis of how he’s doing against his 1990 levels (and some hints & tips); via WorldChanging
  • Unobtrusive Javascript — a series of tutorials, via ParanoidFish
  • Yet Another View on nofollow
Posted by Meri @ 1:25 PM on February 10, 2005
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One Response to “Links for 10 Feb 05”

  1. Rich...! Says:
    February 10th, 2005 at 7:10 PM

    Hey, Tuft does have great ideas, I’m just not conviced about their accuracy, in fact, sometimes I think he’s so off the mark it’s scarry. His data is too empirical and sadly not practical…!

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