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Redmonk, Guinness and random stuff

In San Francisco last night, catching up with the Redmonk folks celebrating their 5th birthday (thanks to James for inviting me). Caught up with some industry legends - Steve Gillmor, Chris Messina, Dan Farber and Ryan Stewart, and made some new friends there too, e.g. Ed Hermannn - the guy who created Wii interface into an SAP app). .The Guinness is good at the Shields.

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Right, so here's a bunch of random stuff that's been capturing my attention the last week.

Firstly - weird:

Next - wow: 

Next, next - quite right:

Next, next, next - useful:

  • UI-patterns.com
    via ksharkey: "The purpose of this site is over time to fill some of the gaps - especially by providing code examples as to how how the different patterns can be implemented: to join theory with practice."
  • Short Bits: CableCARD, Beta Testing
    links to everything you wanted to know (and can never know) about the nightmare that is CableCard (I need to angrily rant on this topic one day)