I have a love hate relationship with wireframes. In the last 10 years they’ve been a part of every web project I’ve worked on. There have been times when I can’t imagine how we would have solved a particular problem without them. Yet there are also times when I’ve been completely exasperated at the amount of time and energy they’ve consumed, seemingly to very little reward.

A companion site to the book that Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone are currently writing for O'Reilly Media.

"It is almost impossible to look and read at the same time: they are different actions." 
—Gerard Unger, While You’re Reading

Bespin is a Mozilla Labs experiment on how to build an extensible Web code editor using HTML 5 technology. Very much an alpha product at the moment.

A list of obvious things. But, then again, obvious things are the neglected things.

See your friends' locations and status messages and share yours with them.

It's the way of the future. the way of the future. the way of the future.

Interesting in browser OS.

ecommr is a website showcasing the best (and sometimes worst) in e-commerce design, with a clear focus on the individual elements that make up online stores. We break down retailers and focus on individual user interface elements in order to provide a gallery of inspiration for designers, developers, information architects, and anyone working with online retail.

"Photoshop" in a web browser.

"PhoneGap is a free open source development tool and framework that allows web developers to take advantage of the powerful features in the iPhone SDK from HTML and JavaScript. We're trying to make iPhone app development easy and open. For many applications a web application is the way to but in Safari you don't get access to the native iPhone APIs, and the that's the problem we're trying to solve."

A Wired article talking the importance of Chrome.

Legitimately useful e-business cards. Set up an account with your info, text dropbox with the contacts email, and it sends the contact a vCard.

There’s a strange piece of slow glass between the web industry and the games industry. It’s strange because whilst stuff passes through it in both directions, it seems to move faster towards the web, and slower towards games. In the past 2-3 years, there’s been a lot of talk in web software about making applications more playful and gamelike. Now that people have done that - and succeeded - I guess it’s an appropriate time to return the favour.

If you’ve been thinking of learning CSS but have become lost in the seemingly endless number of CSS tutorials that exist, you may want to read on. I’ve compiled my favorite CSS-related sites that specifically help the CSS newbie grasp the essential concepts. I cut my own CSS teeth by chewing on the information given by these sites, and I use most of the tools listed on a daily basis.

For the knitting folks. I hear great things from a beta tester.

Google is warping our minds

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty. A printed work which cannot be read becomes a product without purpose.

Web Design That Is Neat.

Twitter’s infamous “what are you doing?” question, dawdlr asks its users in more broader terms. Which is, what are you doing more generally? Dawdlr is updated once every few weeks and is operated by just one person who has yet to disclose his/her ge

Make mixtaps online with mp3's here is mine: andrewsimone.muxtape.com

Tag a movie scene. Metatags for film, getting closer to that Star Trek reality.

The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts. But then it's hard to imagine the current boom in procedural crime dramas without the cellphone. Cell

A vocal version of Twitter.com

This is an interesting looking into the world of Google. A great read for those interested in web development.