Wise, balanced view from Zeldman on Flash and the web.

The Internet? Bah!

The long tail of books on the iPhone App Store shows an increase in price.

Ushahidi SMS disaster response system at work in Haiti.

Got a new laptop today and installed the following essentials on it; Adium (IM), Backdrop, Dropbox, Echofon (Twitter), FileZilla (FTP), Firefox, git, Google Chrome, OmniGraffle (diagrams), Quicksilver (app launcher), Spotify, TextMate (text editor), and XCode. Already installed was Subversion, MySQL, Rails, iTunes. I use GMail and Google Calendar so don’t need email or calendar apps. Trying to find an alternative for the expensive Adobe Fireworks and Photoshop. Looking at Acorn and DrawIt for now.

Hacker spaces in Ireland.

5 reasons why web designers should be able to code their designs is simplistic but the point is valid. It should not replace developers who can code HTML/CSS. Designers should still focus on design.

Google’s Living Stories code has gone open source. Now you can host news stories that develop over time.

A lot of TV shows are green screened.

I’m not making excuses for developers but the Facebook platform and API is flaky. I don’t have uptime data but any developer who has worked on Facebook will tell you of the problems. I’m reminded of this by this BetaPond post. It does make me question the idea of placing all your eggs in the Facebook basket though. Having your own, independent web presence is still very important. Exploit Facebook but live outside its walls too.