Monthly Archives: January 2010

The Google Story

By Dhiren | Published: January 30, 2010

Microformats Two big entities, MySpace and The Guardian, adopt microformats in a bid to embrace semantics. What's interesting to see here is the Guardian use hResume: a relatively new microformat. As Google increasingly becomes more semantic, we will see more media owners utilise microformats in order to improve their digital visibility. (tags: microformats) W3C Semantic [...]

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links for 2010-01-25

By Dhiren | Published: January 25, 2010

The end of free email | Anthony Evans | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Clever thoughts. This post reminded of people in the US who have to pay for incoming phone calls. The charge for incoming calls makes callers subsequently conscious of their needs to communicate, and there is no reason why emails shouldn't work [...]

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Simple & Clever

By Dhiren | Published: January 23, 2010

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links for 2010-01-22

By Dhiren | Published: January 22, 2010

Data.gov.uk Newspaper | Newspaper Club Nice infographics created from the government data store. It's great to see how both data and newspapers can be re-purposed for better clarity. (tags: design blog inspiration london business visualization uk infographics linkeddata information government newspapers community opendata newspaperclub data.gov.uk)

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links for 2010-01-18

By Dhiren | Published: January 18, 2010

Raghu Rai's images of India | Art and design | The Observer Amazing images of India that nicely compliment the Indian Winter season on channel four. Rai's attention to detail is amazing and his creativity, for a photographer of his generation, was years ahead of its time and comparable to contemporary works. (tags: photography india) [...]

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links for 2010-01-15

By Dhiren | Published: January 15, 2010

The Pirate Bay Nice visual timeline of The Pirate Bay evolutions and its slow demise. It's nice to see the Guardian use fee tools like Dipity to illustrate their articles. (tags: dipity piracy web2.0 news app timeline) Nokia Gives Us a Glimpse of the New Symbian UI I hope form matches function for Nokia's sake. [...]

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Iraqi Government on Twitter

By Dhiren | Published: January 10, 2010

I’ve been meaning to check out Thorne Anderson’s work for quite some time, so today I started to browse through Unembedded. In comparison to traditional press photography, Anderson’s work movingly provides a grittier view of the war in Iraq. After flicking through the online gallery, I decided to share the site via a tweet. As [...]

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links for 2010-01-06

By Dhiren | Published: January 6, 2010

Apple Buys Quattro, a Mobile Ad Company – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com So Google launches a mobile and Apple move into advertising. The moves by both tech giants seem to have occurred in coincidental synchronicity; a kind of simultaneous diversification. Whilst there has been protest against Apple's recent acquisition of Quattro, we have to compare [...]