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Seashore:

An open source image editor for Cocoa. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP’s technology and uses the same native file format.

Caveat:

Seashore is still undergoing development and may contain bugs so please make sure only to work on copies of important images…

Still, good value!

(via digg/apple)

An amazing Installation demo from MIT

Said blobby things then appear to exist within the dimensions of the room.

Not sure what the implications or application might be, but it sure is impressive!

(via digg/software)

While not normally worthy of a link, this article by John C. Dvorak on the number 30 Billion might be an exception:

… when we put all the numbers together, we can estimate that there are a minimum of 30 billion Windows system crashes a year.

(via digg/links)

Lulu.com:

An on-demand publishing tool for books, e-books, music, images, movies and calendars.
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There is no set-up fee and no minimum order to publish and sell on Lulu.

Not an entirely new idea, but one I think is bound to be replicated in various forms by many others, soon.

(via Jots)

Steve Rubel: The Blogosphere is Flat

As the blogosphere becomes more flat, the so-called “A-list” won’t matter anymore. There will be A-lists in virtually every sector. The geeks will continue to read Scoble and Winer in droves, but other kings will be crowned in domains like autos, movies, baseball, etc.

eWeek: From Melissa to Zotob

…the latest Zotob attacks prove, the time to exploit an unpatched flaw has narrowed significantly since the launch of Windows 95 10 years ago.

(via MacSurfer)

IGM: It’s a Wash: Apple Tops…

Apple has beaten its PC rivals by a country mile in the latest PC Magazine awards. And the voters were the paying public, not the (non-paying) editors.

The Reader’s Choice awards saw Apple poll “far and away the highest for all vendors,” the magazine says. Apple received a score of 9.2 for its desktops and notebooks. Among portables, only IBM and Fujitsu were anywhere near Apple, both with a score of 8.4.

MacWorld UK adds

The report observes that Mac users are martial in favour of their platform, but nevertheless states: “There’s solid evidence that Macs may be worthy of devotion.”

No kidding. The proof is in the pudding!

(via MacSurfer)

At last.

Jon Udell’s podcasts are finally available for subscription in iTunes.

A definite must!

Jeffrey Zeldman describes the visual and structural relaunch:

…both old and new. Old in its mission to help people who make websites see farther and jump higher. New in its design, structure, publishing system, and brand extensions.

(via kottke.org)

Must read Jason Kottke’s thought-provoking look ahead: GoogleOS? YahooOS? MozillaOS? WebOS?

• You’re probably wondering why Yahoo bought Konfabulator
• An update on Google Browser, GooOS and Google Desktop
• A platform that everyone can stand on and why Apple, Microsoft, and, yes, even Google will have to change their ways to be a part of it
• The next killer app: desktop Web servers
• Does the Mozilla Foundation have the vision to make Firefox the most important piece of software of this decade?
• Web 3.0
• Finally, the end of Microsoft’s operating system dominance

(via Slashdot comment)

ideologi

What started out as a search for a community of minds has manifested itself as the crystalized vision of a universal exchange of ideas
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>ideologi is an Internet-based system that facilitates ad hoc brainstorming sessions (called Exchanges) that individuals and organizations around the world can join. Users (called Participants) of ideologi can either submit answers to a countless number of active Exchanges, or submit their own questions to initiate an Exchange within ideologi.

> If a participant is interested in creating an Exchange in ideologi, a participant assumes the role of an Initiator by submitting the specifics of the Exchange for approval by Ideologi Foundation.

(Hat tip to unmediated)

Tired of coming to FeedBurner to analyze your stats? Use the API. Tired of “logging in” via a “browser” to “edit” your feed “settings”? Use the API.

Burning Questions - The Official FeedBurner Weblog has the lowdown.

(via Read/Write Web - a great post with lots more on Web 2.0, API’s and Mash-Ups)

Still got a few days to look into this: blogday.wikispaces.org

In one long moment In August 31st, bloggers from all over the world will post a recommendation of 5 new Blogs, Preferably, Blogs different from their own culture, point of view and attitude. On this day, blog surfers will find themselves leaping and discovering new, unknown Blogs, celebrating the discovery of new people and new bloggers.

(via unmediated)

I’ve missed quite a bit happening out there lately. Here’s an interesting example found on Library clips: a helpfull summary of Tagifieds with feedback from the developer and founder of the service.

Must read his latest posts on Technorati search hacks and Simpy too.

Good value!

From the Information Dynamics Laboratory comes The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems

…the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content. Recently, collaborative tagging has grown in popularity on the web, on sites that allow users to tag bookmarks, photographs and other content. In this paper we analyze the structure of collaborative tagging systems as well as their dynamical aspects. Specifically, we discovered regularities in user activity, tag frequencies, kinds of tags used, bursts of popularity in bookmarking and a remarkable stability in the relative proportions of tags within a given url. We also present a dynamical model of collaborative tagging that predicts these stable patterns and relates them to imitation and shared knowledge.

(via unmediated)