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March 2005 Notes Archive

Permanent link First impressions of the Yahoo! 360 beta: pretty, nice integration, very teen bop. It’s like LiveJournal on steroids.

Permanent link It had gotten to a point where I’d found simply too many cool features in Firefox to continue using Safari. It wasn’t that I didn’t like Safari, but Firefox has a simply awesome developer community that continues to create really great plugins. It’s just too bad that Firefox runs about half as fast as Safari on my iBook G3/800. I used Firefox for only a few days before I couldn’t take it anymore and switched back. I feel at home again.

Permanent link How Yahoo Got Its Mojo Back. It’s nice to see the old man back in the action.

Permanent link Holy form design Batman! Snaptax features one of the sweetest web based forms I’ve used in a while. (The Snaptax homepage appears not to work in Safari, so Safari users should go directly to the form.)

Permanent link Trying to decide between the contact managers Plaxo and Bebo? This should make the decision easier: Bebo annoyingly requires you to register in order to keep your details current; Plaxo encourages you to register but doesn’t require it. I don’t want to register with three different services to update everyone’s address book: Plaxo understands this.

Permanent link Mark Taw relates a hilarious story of tandem writing.

Permanent link Learning about Google X being removed less than 24 hours after it was launched makes Google’s pathetic 404 page even more painful. The stockholders should be proud.

Permanent link I had heard about Greasemonkey, but I didn’t take the time to learn what it was. This morning, I installed Mark Pilgrim’s Butler and Julien Couvreur’s BoingBoing Butler, which are user scripts that Greasemonkey uses to dynamically change the content of a page. Forget user styles, Greasemonkey makes the web a whole new ball game.

Permanent link If there’s any proof that Google is evil, it’s this. Stay tuned for more on this.

Permanent link Interface folks who are in the know have OS X Dock magnification turned off for very good reasons. The last thing we need is it replicated on the Web.

Permanent link O’Reilly Network published great interview with Jason Fried on project management, what it takes to build a great web application, Ruby on Rails and the power of marketing through blogs. My favorite quote: “The hard part is not adding a feature. The hard part is deciding which features really make sense and then nailing them with the perfect interface, the perfect customer experience.”

Permanent link As suggested by Tantek Çelik, I’m now using the rel=”license” attribute when I link to my Creative Commons license.

Permanent link Fun fact of the day from Answers.com: OK was used in March 1839 as an abbreviation for all correct, the joke being that neither the O nor the K was correct.

Permanent link AllofMP3.com escapes criminal lawsuit because Russian law only applies to physical goods. I love it when technology moves faster than the speed of law.

Permanent link Hotel Rwanda belongs in the required viewing category alongside American History X, Schindler’s List and Boyz n the Hood.

Permanent link Does anyone else find it funny that Anil Dash praises John Gruber’s new plugin without saying a word about how right John is or what Six Apart is going to do about it?

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