Tag: Misc

Ourmedia Nominated for Global Award Ourmedia has been nominated as the US finalist for the UN World Summit Awards. The team at Bryght would like to congratulate JD, Marc, and all the great volunteers that helped put the site together. Now with over 26,000 members and still growing!

Magnificent Seven: Bryght gets a Music Czar Colin just started at Bryght this week, but we took him down to Gnomedex a couple weeks back for his initiation ritual. Of course, while some of us contented ourselves with getting yelled at by Microsoft, Colin decided to out our whole Backstage plan on v

8 Simple Rules for Making Those Big-Ticket Photography Purchases There are certain rules that you might consider for your future purchasing. I offer these strictly for entertainment value only and whatever repercussions you face from your better half is at your own risk

Steve Ballmer on Evangelism, Innovation and Maybe Halo 3 In discussing if anyone has out-innovated Microsoft, he fails to mention (and Robert fails to prompt him with) the obvious example–Apple. To his credit, he does recognize that Google has “done some interesting stuff”.

Leanne Chan, Rory Richards and Kris Krug Podcast from the Bryght Office Among the subjects discussed in the 7-minute podcast are how Rory and Leanne decided to join forces as well as their involvement with ROUGE, a benefit for women in the film industry (Urban Vancouver is a sponsor), which is a spinoff of Red Read More …

I’m CD Swapping Get in where you fit in… Boris and I are doing the CD Swap 2.

Good Blog Consultants are Definitely More Than Just Implementers. Two guys sit down at a bar and start talking. One says to the other, “Hey, do you know how much hammers cost, and where I can buy one?” The other guy responds, “I dunno. I hear that a lot of people have hammers these days. Read More …

Drupal Ajax Usability Ajax Mistakes covers the top 10 things that I’d like to avoid when working with Ajax in Drupal.

Web 2.0 Definition From Wikipedia Web 2.0 is a term often applied to a perceived ongoing transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users. Ultimately Web 2.0 services are expected to replace desktop c

Design for Web 2.0 15 questions to consider when figureing out what does design look like in a web 2.0 world. By Jason Kottke, Jason Fried, and Jeff Veen

150 Things You Can Do To Build Social Capital Social capital is built through hundreds of little and big actions we take every day. We’ve gotten you started with a list of nearly 150 ideas, drawn from suggestions made by many people and groups. Try some of these or try your own.

Eamonn’s Home: Flickring Families A good primer written for families who want to keep in touch using Flickr, written by Eamonn Sullivan. Useful tips.

Top-20 Most Downloaded Drupal projects Dries compiled a list of this month’s top-20 most downloaded themes and modules. It doesn’t necessarily mean that these projects are the top-20 most used

Sonic Heart Magazine | New England’s Electronic Music Magazine An electronic music magazine located in Boston, Massachusetts, that launched back in May, using Drupal.

Web 2.0 For Events: Aggregating Content Around Events Create a site for the Olympics and aggregate what everyone is saying around it, pictures people are taking, etc. Create the unofficial (or official) site for the event, and benefit from its buzz. Do the same thing for every football and baseball game that happens. Or concert. Read More …

Dogma Radio Interviews Richard MacManus I did a podcast with Roland Tanglao early this morning my time. My first real ‘chatty’ podcast, so it was enjoyable. Roland is more of a natural podcaster than me. I was all “um”s and “yep”s and coughs and halt–ing speech. But that’s what podcasting’s about – it brings the Read More …

Develop Your Own Location-Based Services Using Google Maps The Google Maps API lets developers embed Google Maps in their own web pages with JavaScript. You can add overlays to the map (including markers and polylines) and display shadowed “info windows” just like Google Maps.

Thoughts on Digital Photography 2 points: a) Traditional photography carries a host of powerful tools in its tool chest that are neither diminished nor superseded by the advent of digital. b) There are problems with digital methods that are ignored or glossed over regularly, and these probems should be recognized and openly discussed along with Read More …

Calendar Swamp If we’re ever going to share calendars, we have to insist on interoperability between them all. Let’s drain the swamp!