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Briefly Noted from June 2007

• Pownce!

  From some smart minds comes a very killer Web app.

  Jun 27 2007 at 5:45 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Web Culture

• Mossberg & Pogue: iPhone not hype

  The two big American tech reviewers praise the iPhone (which passed the typing test) criticizing only the AT&T network

  Jun 27 2007 at 12:41 PM EDT

  Topics: Phone/VoIP, Technology

• Visual vocabulary for IA

  Includes templates for Visio, OmniGraffle, and OpenOffice

  Jun 26 2007 at 4:04 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Patterns, Usability

• Superhero entrepreneur trading

  Sunir Shah turns profiles of young Canadian tech entrepreneurs into a trading cards series

  Jun 25 2007 at 10:38 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• CSS 3 features in Safari 3

  Some demos and explanation about which CSS3 features Safari supports (apparently, 2x as many as Firefox)

  Jun 25 2007 at 12:14 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• WebKit does Firebug

  There's a new Web Inspector in the nightly builds of WebKit (Safari) that functions a lot like Firebug -- worth a look.

  Jun 21 2007 at 10:41 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Opera Mini 4 beta

  Mobile browser offers some impressive features, and can be installed on any mobile device

  Jun 20 2007 at 10:18 AM EDT

  Topics: Phone/VoIP, Browsers

• IPhone browser specs

  Details for building iPhone-friendly Web pages say width is 480px; Web standards are best; and it's QuickTime, not Flash

  Jun 19 2007 at 5:22 PM EDT

  Topics: Phone/VoIP, Browsers

• IPod-friendly NOW restaurant guide

  Ryan Feely and Jakub Labath created a portable version of Toronto restaurant reviews.

  Jun 19 2007 at 8:46 AM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, General Resource

• Mark Bowden on journalism

  Journalists and author of "Black Hawk Down" offers some good ideas on where he thinks journalism should be going.

  Jun 19 2007 at 8:44 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Newspapers

• CBC.ca undergoes massive redesign

  New site is cleaner, with lots of whitespace and a good effort to bring its disparate parts together.

  Jun 19 2007 at 1:08 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Design, Online Journalism

• Facing EnergizeIT

  I thought I missed this event, but then I saw David Crow's presentation slides and to the right of WR is...

  Jun 19 2007 at 12:42 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Web Technology

• Introducing WEDJE

  Or, “Widget Enabled DOM Javascript Embedding” for embedding little apps on third-party sites

  Jun 18 2007 at 1:05 PM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Web Technology

• No iPhone for Canada yet

  Rogers and Apple seem to be in no rush to bring the latter's mobile device to Canada

  Jun 18 2007 at 9:06 AM EDT

  Topics: Phone/VoIP, Canada

• Why the iPhone will be expensive in Canada

  Dave Shea nails the problem with Web apps on mobile devices in Canada

  Jun 14 2007 at 4:31 PM EDT

  Topics: Phone/VoIP, Canada

• Joe Clark's presentation advice

  A number of great tips from a very experienced presenter.

  Jun 14 2007 at 11:17 AM EDT

  Topic: Work

• HTML Entity Character Lookup

  Web app and Dashboard widget for suggesting the right entity code based on the character inputted.

  Jun 13 2007 at 12:52 PM EDT

  Topic: HTML

• Differences between HTML4 and HTML5

  Anne van Kesteren has created a draft list of the differences to be found in the new HTML proposal.

  Jun 13 2007 at 11:25 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Standards, HTML

• How to introduce new designs

  Jared Spool loves how Yahoo Finance encouraged its users to try its new charting services.

  Jun 12 2007 at 2:23 PM EDT

  Topics: Usability, Web Design

• Collection X

  AGO's online art gallery that encourages user submissions and social networking.

  Jun 12 2007 at 2:18 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Ontario

• Explode the homepage

  Jeff Jarvis on how to radically reinvent the news sites homepage.

  Jun 12 2007 at 2:03 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Design

• Realtime tracking of Dublin trains

  A Google Map mashup tracking Ireland's DART rail service

  Jun 12 2007 at 1:58 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Web Technology

• ...Joe Clark retires

  The Web accessibility expert is done being an expert. We all owe Joe more than we will ever acknowledge.

  Jun 12 2007 at 10:17 AM EDT

  Topics: Accessibility, Web Standards

• WCAG Samurai Errata published...

  The proposal is to be finalized in the coming weeks and uses WCAG 1.0 as a foundation.

  Jun 12 2007 at 10:15 AM EDT

  Topics: Accessibility, Web Standards

• How to do local right

  Simon Willison explains how to make local news profitable.

  Jun 11 2007 at 2:41 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Technology