Just another day in a Skype room with programmers…

Skype is a great internal tool for managing projects and chatting with team members. Sometimes to hilarious result.

Amazon S3 Versioning, Multi-Factor Authentication Now Available

Amazon reveals their newest addition to their S3 service: Versioning and multi-factor authentication.

Facebook vs. Twitter Clickthroughs: More Bang For Your Buck

We look at clickthrough rates from Twitter and Facebook and see how they compare.

TweetNotebook: Custom Notebooks Filled With Your Tweets

TweetNotebook prints notebooks filled with the wisdom of your tweets, right in the footer.

Google Speed Tracer Makes AJAX Optimization Easier

Google announced their Speed Tracer profiling tool to allow developers to better analyze performance problems in their web applications.

Starting Simple: Launching with the Minimum Viable Product

Venture Hacks has a great interview with serial entrepreneur Eric Ries that discusses the value of launching a startup with the “minimum viable product”: basically, the absolute most barebones product you can launch with while still being able to appropriately gauge customer interest, to avoid the common pitfall of spending months developing an idea only [...]

Better Memory Management Tools for Web Apps Coming Soon

Developing a “web 2.0″ application brings with it a host of new challenges previously unfelt or easily ignored with older, single-page-load-per-action apps. The browser has evolved from a simple page renderer to an application platform that busily executes JavaScript and receives, parses, and displays loads of new data without ever leaving the page. Developers are [...]

Periodic Table of Typefaces

Design firm Squidspot has published a very cool and useful Periodic Table of Typefaces. They’re grouped roughly by “family” and “class” groupings, and ranked roughly based on their popularity from several different font ranks, though they’re loosely grouped in order to enforce the aesthetics of the table. This will be very useful for anyone trying [...]

Track Twitter Unfollows and See Who Thinks You’re Boring with Qwitter

Use Qwitter to see who stops following you on Twitter. Simple as pie.

50 Tips To A User Friendly Website

I posted about the Designing Interactive usability blog a few months back. Josh Walsh at D-I has compiled a nice list of 50 tips to a user-friendly website that you should definitely check out. I agree with almost all of them, like Clicking on the logo should take you to the home page—this has become [...]