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How to make community members stick at djst’s nest

by karlcow

an interesting conclusion about how to turn new and casual contributors into long-time community members: the key is to distribute ownership.

To wrap up, there were several things that motivated me to stay active in the Mozilla community: * A belief in the mission of the project — to create a web browser that supports and promotes the use of open standards * An interest in the technology — initially with the Gecko logo as my hook * The feeling of belonging in a community of people with similar interests * The desire to give something back to a project that gave (and still gives) me the best browser in the world for free * The experiences gained by managing a website — HTML, CSS, server configurations, and perhaps most importantly, the English language * The recognition and respect from Mozilla project members for my contributions * The pride of being responsible for an important piece of the project

25 June 2009

WebHome < Main < Reprap

by Neewok

Look at your computer setup and imagine that you hooked up a 3D printer. Instead of printing on bits of paper this 3D printer makes real, robust, mechanical parts. To give you an idea of how robust, think Lego bricks and you're in the right area. You could make lots of useful stuff, but interestingly you could also make most of the parts to make another 3D printer. That would be a machine that could copy itself.

RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is the practical self-copying 3D printer shown on the right - a self-replicating machine.

GIVE ME SOME OF THAT « INSTANT CRAP ¬

by srcmax (via)
Folies architecturales à assembler, espaces urbains aux structures complexes, capitales hystériques ultra-colorées, welcome to Pixorama. eBoy aime toujours autant le pixel et poursuit sa conquête de l’univers en inaugurant le très ingénieux Since.Upian Artspace.

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24 June 2009

23 June 2009

Adactio: Journal—DIY UX: Give Your Users an Upgrade (Without Calling In a Pro)

by karlcow

Experiment and iterate. This is the web; you can be nimble. Risk is okay as long as you are always testing. Here’s the Iridesco process for a new feature:

1. Sketch

2. Photoshop

3. Test

4. Static HTML prototype

5. Test again

6. Working prototype

7. Test again

8. Tweak

9. Launch quietly

10. Get Feedback

11. Tweak

12. Get Feedback

13. Tweak

14. Get Feedback

15. Tweak…

Iterate constantly. You need a culture of experimentation.

22 June 2009

Why we love Semantic Web technologies - TechnicaLee Speaking

by karlcow

RDF is a data standard that is both expressive enough to represent any type of data that’s connected to the server and also flexible enough to handle new data sources incrementally. URIs provide a foundation for minting identifiers that don’t clash unexpectedly as new data sources are brought into the fold. Named graphs give us a simple abstraction upon which we can engineer practical concerns like security, audit trails, offline access, real-time updates, and caching.

un peu trop communiqué de presse, mais des idées à retenir

17 June 2009

cutlery pen caps dining biodegradable - designboom

by sbrothier & 1 other
designer's own words: Turn your favourite office tool from your desk in a common cutlery...this is din-ink. A set of pen caps, including a fork-cap, a knife-cap and a spoon-cap, that replaces the normal pen cap during lunch time! All caps are made by annually renewable resources, like natural starch and fibres, to be 100% biodegradable and atoxic, warranting the best alimentary use. Dispensing each set in a compostable packaging the whole set is designed to respect the environment. Now give your office ballpoint pen a good excuse to be gnawed by your teeth: use them for din-ink.

Basecode 2 Firefox extension for Basecamp

by sbrothier
Basecode is a simple to use Firefox browser extension designed to give easy access to the hidden formatting options available when posting messages and comments in Basecamp. Even better it adds a few extra features to Basecamp to make the day to day project management process even easier.

Basecode 2 Firefox extension for Basecamp

by gregg
Basecode is a simple to use Firefox browser extension designed to give easy access to the hidden formatting options available when posting messages and comments in Basecamp. Even better it adds a few extra features to Basecamp to make the day to day project management process even easier.

Thoughts on Opera Unite | FactoryCity

by sbrothier & 2 others
I met today’s news about Opera’s new initiative — called Unite — with a mix of shock and awe. On the one hand, I was sickened by the lack of analysis from the echolalic blogger news corps. It appeared that Opera PR had successfully reached out to all of them, shoved a news release down their throats and waited to give them the go-ahead to regurgitate it on their blogs, using the same screenshots, same content, and differing only in the pithiness of their post titles.

14 June 2009

Murmur Study | Christopher Baker

by karlcow

Murmur Study is a work-in-progress that examines the rise of micro-messaging technologies such as Twitter and Facebook Status Updates. One might describe these messages as a kind of digital small talk. But unlike water-cooler conversations, these fleeting thoughts are accumulated, archived and indexed digitally by corporations. While the future of these archives are still to be seen, the sheer volume of publicly accessible personal expression should give us pause.

11 June 2009

HIDPoint

by Fulcanelli
HIDPoint can be considered as a Linux version of Logitech’s or Microsoft’s Keyboard and Mouse configuration software. It runs on many Linux distributions such as RHEL, SUSE, Ubuntu, Mandriva and Fedora. HIDPoint has been designed to give users using USB Mice and Keyboards, the same experience they get when using these devices on Microsoft Windows.

Fraser Speirs – On the Flickr support in iPhoto ‘09

by sbrothier (via)
As you may know, Apple added Flickr uploading to iPhoto ‘09. As you may guess, I was a little perturbed at this since I pay my mortgage by selling, er, a Flickr upload plugin for iPhoto. I acquired my copy of iLife ‘09 yesterday and decided to dive deep on how Apple have implemented Flickr integration in iPhoto ‘09. Here are the results of my investigation. Be aware as you read that this is the result of a morning’s click-around investigation and not months of serious use. I will do my best to give an honest assessment of what is in iPhoto ‘09, and you’ve already read my full disclosure in the previous paragraph.

10 June 2009

Pushup : Pushing up the web

by srcmax & 5 others
Pushup is an effort to push the web forward by helping users upgrade their outdated browsers. Give your users a better web experience today by installing Pushup on your domain!

09 June 2009

Boks - A Visual Grid Editor

by srcmax & 2 others
Boks is an AIR application (so it works on Windows, Mac and Linux) that provides a User Interface for Blueprint CSS's framework. It's been designed for those who think the Grid System is good but never really took the time to give it love.

08 June 2009

Make: Online : Getting free wireless in airports and hotels

by Fulcanelli (via)
One of the frustrating things about traveling is the obligatory pay-wireless that so many hotels and airports provide. If you check your mail at the airport and again at the hotel, it's pretty easy to run up charges equivalent to a month's worth of broadband, not to mention that you have to give your credit card to an unknown access provider affiliate.

02 June 2009

Google Local Lures Small Businesses With Their Own Web Dashboard

by srcmax
Google wants more small businesses to claim their listing profiles on Google Local (which is basically listings that pop up in Google Maps and local search results). To entice them, starting tomorrow it will give local businesses in the real world with physical addresses a free dashboard akin to what Websites get for free with Google Analytics (see screenshot above).

31 May 2009

Cambridge Dictionaries Online - Cambridge University Press

by nagora & 21 others (via)
Dictionary online provides with activities, word of the day, and more Does your English Dictionary give you the help you need? We publish dictionaries for people learning English all over the world.

28 May 2009

Hurricane Hello GNOME-Look.org

by tadeufilippini
Hurricane Hello 1.0 GDM Theme caniaczack caniaczack - Zack Tew last visit May 25 2009 0 friends 0 groups other contents send a message add as friend more info - - Hurricane Hello zoom Depends on: GNOME 2.x Downloads: 85 Submitted: May 25 2009 Score: score54T%score 54% good bad good Description: This is a GDM theme that goes in conjunction with my Hurricanes GTK theme as seen here: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Hurricane Warning?content=105565 Both of these are firsts for me, but I'm not sure I'll be making another GDM theme. :P License: Feel free to edit. Just give credit where credit is due. ;

ShouldIBackupMy.com | The Guardian Open Platform | guardian.co.uk

by karlcow

ShouldIBackupMy.com – A project for Open Hack 2009

Cristiano Betta talks us through how he built the wonderfully funny "ShouldIBackupMy.com". In this project he uses The Guardian Content API to give him information to "predict" the longevity of things you might be concerned enough about to back up.

19 May 2009

Cheap Ringflash

by riptiki
How to create a circular electronic flash tube that fits around a camera lens to give shadowless lighting of a subject near the lens, esp. for macrophotography.

11 May 2009

Spoke-o-dometer Overview - Open Source Urbanism

by karlcow

This project involves creating a Persistence Of Vision (POV) device for mounting on a bike wheel. There are a few of these devices already on the market (and we've bought a couple to experiment with); this project differs in that it combines a basic bike meter with the POV readout. The device will display speed and total distance travelled. Unlike standard bike computers, this information isn't displayed for the cyclist but broadcast to other people in the street. By making this information public we give the cyclist's activities greater 'visibility' within the urban environment.

10 May 2009

Example - python-graph - python-graph usage example. - Google Code

by karlcow & 1 other

This is a simple example to illustrate the use of python-graph. This should give you a feel about how the API is.

07 May 2009

Give Your Eyes a Treat

by ms_michel
Méthode pour pouvoir utiliser la police Consolas dans les fenêtres DOS (invites de commande)

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