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Archive for March, 2008

BBC News refresh: air’s in

Open Firefox this morning, and an old friend shows a new face. The Beeb revamp sparked a fair flurry of debate among colleagues: one camp decided that it was too conservative, while the other concluded that Aunty had shown the maturity you’d expect.
I sit in the latter camp. The design has shifted to the centre [...]

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Woopra: the live stats addicition starts here

GBTV #337 | Introducing Woopra from Neal Campbell on Vimeo.
Now this I want. I’ve long been a fan of Google Analytics – it’s simple enough to scan-read in seconds, yet clever enough to provide the kind of insights that change the way you work.
But Woopra takes the whole game to a strange new level by [...]

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Google paints it black for Earth Hour

Blink in disbelief – Google’s home page has gone black as a sign of support for Earth Hour.

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Spooky

Flickr slideshow of Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch. Silent Hill, anyone…?

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LiveLeak withdraws Fitna

I’m a LiveLeak addict. So it’s no surprise that, along with three million other people, I ended up watching Fitna, the 17-minute film from Dutch politician Geert Wilders. Today, the video has been removed after the LiveLeak team received ‘threats to our staff of a very serious nature’.
They go on to explain:
“This is [...]

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Last.FM: life after the big buy-out

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What’s at the end of the browser rainbow?

I spent half an hour yesterday getting lost in Adobe’s new PhotoShop Express, undoubtedly the nicest surprise the company has handed to us mortals in many years.
The thing’s more than polished – it’s telepathic. It knows. You go looking for a trick, and it’s already there under your cursor. Someone spent a long time refining [...]

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Must Get Me One Of These…

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The web’s most valuable blogs

The big hitters, along with the cash you’d need to buy them out.

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Four hours of sleep a night: thank God I’m normal

So I’m listening to BBC Radio 4 on the way home tonight, and there’s an investigation into what counts as ‘normal’ sleep patterns.
Turns out there aren’t any. Some professor from a UK centre of learning argued that sleep patterns varied so widely than the notion of ‘average’ was a nonsense. As long as you feel [...]

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