A while ago Alex pointed me to this site about how to make your own cute pixel objects. I messed around a bit and came up with this:

Hey, it’s a start! It also came to me that you could write code to do this for you. Some kind of PHP module with methods like:

pixelcube(dim_x,dim_y,colour);

You could have a pixel objects graphics library with all the basic primitives like cube, sphere etc. Hrm.

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So, after my marathon post below about new search engine features, A9 have come out with a new Yellow Pages function. They went around some of the major cities in the US taking photos of all the shop fronts on either side of the streets. Then, when you search for a business you get an actual picture of the shop frontage. You can even ‘walk’ down the street by flicking along the pictures. All very cool.

Some has hacked it already (of course) so you can grab a view of an entire street. Nice.

And then a9 pay to get a shamelss plug into the OC, someone actually uses the phrase “a9.com-ed”. Doesn’t quite work aswell as “googled”

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All the companies playing catchup to Google have recently brought out new interfaces to their engines. Google have been a staunch follower of the simplistic design approach with a minimalist front page and adverts that are incredibly unobtrusive when compared to their competitors. The competitors have obviously taken note that users maybe actually like looking at nice things and not some mess of animated red/black/purple blinking/scrolling/fading in 20 boxes all packed together on the page.

read on…

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See as though all the big boys are providing fascinating stats I thought I’d knock-up some of my own.

Site Hits Per Month

Blog Posts Per Month

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I’ve always been an admirer of design company 37signals. They have an incredible uncluttered and useable design style. The thing that made me notice them was their ‘37better’ project where they redesigned some common websites themselves. They’ve also got a host of very cute projects like Ta-Da Lists, an online task list mananger and their fully-fledged project manager BaseCamp. Such good project names

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In the past I’ve ranted about how clunky the Adwords interface is. Google have at last seen sense and are releasing an API: siliconvalleywatcher.com.

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I was reading some rant of Cory’s on boingboing tonight and googled up one of his friends names and found his website. He’s a pretty interesting guy, who’s certainly been hanging out on the internet stoop for a while. I mean, he proposed the alt.* newsgroup category, that is some serious old skool. Anyway, his website has some interesting material, and I find that he is a found member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Clicking ahead I go, bracing myself for the horror that used to be the eff website to find that they’ve had a re-design and its actually not bad. Would be nice it it validated though…

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I got the domain bug the other day and went a bit crazy.
I did mange to snag: http://ollyjackson.co.uk which I’m sure was registered to someone last year. I also picked up:

http://ollyjackson.org.uk and http://oliverjackson.org.uk

They are all just pointed here at the moment, but I’ll do something useful with them, sometime.

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James recomended me this website for checking when a website becomes available for registering. Nifty, and very cleanly done.

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Every now and again I get the feeling I’ve seen all the cool (i.e. I think is cool) stuff on the net. When I find sites like this I realise how dumb thinking I’ve seen everything is, there’s always something else out there.

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