“10 years ago a browser was born. Its name was Internet Explorer 6. Now that we’re in 2011, in an era of modern web standards, it’s time to say goodbye.” (Source: ie6countdown.com)

Do your part to get IE6 to 0%:

1. JOIN THE CAUSE
2. EDUCATE OTHERS

“Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.” (Source: wordle.net)

According to the service’s Terms of use you’re entitled to use your Wordle in any way you choose – so GO, create your own Wordle by either…

• …pasting in a bunch of text.
• …providing the URL of any blog, blog feed, or any other web page that has an Atom or RSS feed.
• … or – like me – entering a del.icio.us user name to see the tags.

(Via aptgetupdate.)

All you need is a facebook account, a profile photo and 2 minutes to reflect on your day and on yourself.

Discover your mood? your style! with moodya today!

About the company

moodya! is a social entertainment startup that was founded to bring style, grace and fun to your facebook profile photos. With just the right mix of creativity, IT and business knowledge in our team we might as well be one of the leading fun and style companies of the future.

Bringing together profound design competence, state of the art technology and the largest social network in the world with your individual daily mood, we believe we can change the face of facebook! Not too much too soon you will be looking at your facebook news feed and discover that your friends are no longer just posting messages but directly expressing their moods with their profile pictures.

moodya! is the 1st company to give you the possibility to express yourself in a totally different way, every day, with just a few clicks!

“From news on Digg, photos on Flickr, statuses and photos on Facebook and Twitter updates, to full Google Reader RSS syncing, Socialite keeps all your social networks in one convenient place.” (Source: Realmac Software)

If you’re into software and the internet, enjoyed reading books like Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Its Inventor (by Tim Berners-Lee), Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet or Dreaming in Code (about the Chandler project) and Mozilla‘s Open-Source Software products like the browser Firefox or the email client Thunderbird are amongst the list of your favourite computer programs then – well chances are very high that you might enjoy the movie Project: CODE_RUSH. Relax and enjoy! :-)

“Code Rush [...] is an inside look at living and working in Silicon Valley at the height of the dot-com era. The film follows a group of Netscape engineers as they pursue at that time a revolutionary venture to save their company – giving away the software recipe for Netscape’s browser in exchange for integrating improvements created by outside software developers.” (Source: Project: CODE_RUSH)

(Via t3n Magazin.)

Actually I should say: Weaving and Surfing Waves! :-)

Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Watch the demo video below, sign up for updates and learn more about how to develop with Google Wave.
(Source: Google Wave Preview)

Resources

• Google Wave Preview
• waveprotocol.org – the homepage for the Google Wave Federation Protocol
• Google Wave API

Update: Meanwhile I managed to “play” at least a little bit with the Wave Sandbox – using the 2nd test account of a generous colleague (thx M.!) – while still waiting for my Wave Developer Account request to be processed.
Pretty impressed by the Wave UI but also wondering what the transformation management strategy of Google will look like when Wave hits the average users, as Wave clearly requires quite some rethinking…

No Strings (or Controllers) Attached.
Introducing Project Natal, a revolutionary new way to play: no controller required. See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it. If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak you and your friends can jump into the fun — the only experience needed is life experience. (Source: Xbox 360 Microsoft Project Natal)

(via Twine)

The Web Trend Map is a yearly publication by iA Inc. that maps the 333 most influential Web domains and the 111 most influential Internet people onto the Tokyo Metro map.

The following diagram is the final beta version of the map.

Click to display bigger version of the map (even 6740 x 4768)!

In additional you’re invited to provide feedback in the comment’s section of the page, but remember:

No hate (we know we suck), no love (we know you still love us), no novels (we know that you know a lot).
Source: informationarchitects.jp

Like it! :-)

(via createordie.de)

Why would you want to do this? Well, of course to get less spam! ;-)

How does it work? Instead of tricking around to obfuscate your email address with some nasty JavaScript hack people willing to email you will go to this URL (e.g. http://scr.im/matthias) that will reveal your email address, after a simple test that automated scripts and bots cannot pass.