Tags: sil

On Silos vs an Open Social Web by Tantek

Tantek steps back and offers some practical approaches to reclaiming a more open web from the increasingly tight clutches of the big dominant roach motels.

Notice that he wrote this on his own domain, not on Branch, Medium, Google+, Facebook, or any other black hole.

Airlift

This looks handy: a video-sharing service designed specifically to work with Silverback

Olympic Defence: the Unofficial London 2012 Security Game « Tom Scott

Yet another piece of brilliance from Tom:

Click to make the Olympic Mascots fire their roof-mounted missiles! Aim for terrorists, protestors, and any illegal advertising!

Pointer Pointer by Moniker

Pointless fun.

Meeting Sigourney Weaver in New York | Rifa B

Thanks to the fact that 10% of Silverback’s profits go to the Dian Fossey Foundation, Rifa got to meet Sigourney Weaver. Nice!

Wishlist » User Testing with Silverback

A nice little case study in using Silverback.

Google Quick Search Box

A Quicksilver rival from Google.

Roundabout is London's answer to Silicon Valley | News

The Evening Standard picks up the story of Silicon Roundabout: Last.fm, Dopplr, Schulze and Webb, Moo...

“Gorilla” Usability Testing | GarrettDimon.com

Garrett's in-depth look at Silverback, the Mac app that we've been cooking up at Clearleft.

Silvio Berlusconi: Did I say that? | Politics | The Observer

The collected wisdom of Silvio Berlusconi. I can't believe this prick is going to be the running Italy ...again.

The Amateur Gourmet - Cooking My Trip Part Two: Rigatoni with Cherry Tomato Sauce

I keep coming back to this recipe. Simple and delicious.

dpaste: #15223: LOLDOM, by Jeremy Keith

Okay, this started as a joke but then I couldn't resist writing a bit of code. Usage: OH_HAI.I_CAN_HAS_ELEMENT_BY_ID("Id") and OH_HAI.I_CAN_HAS_ELEMENTS_BY_TAG_NAME("tag").

YouTube - Silent Star Wars

A great re-imagining of the Star Wars trilogy as a silent movie.

Pimp My Snack

Oversized food.

.:: beedogs ::.

This is *exactly* the kind of thing that Tim Berners-Lee had in mind when he invented the World Wide Web: pictures of dogs, dressed as bees.

Upload to flickr using Quicksilver

Clever. This gives me a warm tingly feeling.

Upload to flickr using Quicksilver

Archbishop hits out at web-based media 'nonsense' - Times Online

He described the atmosphere on the world wide web as a free-for-all that was “close to that of unpoliced conversation.” Um... I have to admit that I've never had a policed conversation, online or off.

JavaScript meetup

Stuart has posted an excellent round-up of the London JavaScript meetup.