Took them long enough, but I gotta say: it looks damn sweet. The place snapping is killer. Visit site »
Not a lot to see here yet, but the logo alone is worth a visit. Nathan’s new site is going to be sweet. Sign up for an invite. Visit site »
My good friends at Carsonified are building a web app in a week, and live-blogging the process. Ryan says:
Keir recently came up with a really fun web app idea … so the whole team is taking a week off to build it. It’s going to be called ‘Matt’ and it’ll be built in Django on a popular API, include a desktop AIR app, and will be hosted on an elastic computing cloud (probably Flexiscale, but yet to be determined).
Sounds like fun. Should be entertaining to watch the blog as they do this. Good luck, guys! Visit site »
…and Seattle, the 12th biggest metro in the USA and the area that houses America’s second-largest population of Google employees, still isn’t one of them. WTF?! Visit site »
Bret Walker’s simple Django-powered web app related to salaries. Its data is user-generated: you put in your job title, location, and salary. Hopefully this build a nice database of salary info, which is incredibly useful for many, many reasons. Visit site »
Dan, Justin, and Rob roll out a big new feature for StrawPoll—the ability to run your own Twitter polls. Clever stuff, using the Summize API. Nice job, guys! Visit site »
Nice looking project, here. This is very much the same as what I do on jeffcroft.com, but it’d a bit more lightweight and the importers are probably better-written (I’m still not a great programer!). My stuff will be open-sourced at some point — but it’s good to have options, and this is available now. Visit site »
Oh man. Great idea. This is going to be huge in NYC, I’m sure. Visit site »
A modern-day Dodgeball that doesn’t suck and hasn’t been purchased by Google and abandoned. Looks awesome, so far. Mark my words: within a week, every web nerd will be all aflutter about this service. Visit site »
Haha. Cute video by Heather and the folks at Flickr, soft-announcing the addition of video. I’ve been waiting for this! Flip video, here I come! Visit site »
Attempt to thread Twitter conversations. Works well, but not perfect (I’m not sure it’d be possible for it to work perfectly). Pretty cool idea. Hmmm, maybe jeffcroft.com needs this… ;) Visit site »
It’s been called “Digg for chicks.” Looks great. Visit site »
An all-inclusive calendar featuring official and non-official events around SXSW. I’ve just used this tool to plan my week at Southby, and then subscribed to its iCalendar feed in iCal. Nice.
Advice to SXSW newbs: do plan out your schedule in advance, but don’t be too married to it. If you have no plan, you’ll be lost and you’ll find yourself ducking into panels at the last minute and not being able to find a decent seat. But, if you try to hard to stick to your plan, you’re going to miss out on a lot of the fun that comes with just going with the flow. Visit site »
Rob Goodlatte and Dan Romero use Twitter to conduct brief online polls. Fun idea, fun site, and nice implementation. Word of warning to would-be parallaxers: I believe think effect is this close to jumping the shark, and I’ve only seen it on like four sites. Rob and Dan do it really well, but still… Visit site »
I love that these guys are putting a design face on top of Subversion. There’s a tendency amongst designers, it seems, to think, “version control is just for coders,” when in reality version control is something everyone ought to be using for all sorts of files. Beanstalk looks like they’re making it easy to do just that. Visit site »
Sweet! Compare, for fun:
Flickr: Seattle JeffCroft.com Seattle
It shouldn’t be a surprise that I really like this idea! Visit site »
A really useful tool for anyone who finds “making Jeremy Keith feel warm and fuzzy inside” on their web site’s priority list. By Christian Montoya. Visit site »
Twitter was featured on CSI. Weird. And yet, cool. Kinda. Visit site »
Ben Tesch, one of several great web designers and developers just across the lake at MSNBC.com, is about to launch Cumul.us, a site which will aggregate weather data and use crowdsourcing to try to make better weather predictions than the experts. Who knows if it’ll work, but it sounds like a killer idea to me, and I can’t wait to see it in action. Visit site »
Leah has posted her slides from the recent Future of Web Apps conference in London, detailing her lessons learned in developing Pownce, the popular Django-based social web app. Visit site »