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Briefly Noted from July 2007

• Monkey News

  Looks like the folks at Mozilla are looking to make scripting languages like JavaScript and Python a browser plug-in.

  Jul 27 2007 at 10:34 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Browsers

• Zunior.com

  The digital music store that, with its selection, prices, and DRM free music, puts iTunes to shame.

  Jul 25 2007 at 8:16 PM EDT

  Topics: Music, Canada

• CSS 2.1 a Candidate Recommendation

  Almost there, one more step and CSS 2.1 is official.

  Jul 24 2007 at 1:17 PM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Web Standards

• Uniform Event Model

  Making Internet Explorer respect the W3C DOM3 Event recommendations.

  Jul 24 2007 at 1:15 PM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Browsers

• RIP: Checkers

  An Albertan computer professor has, after 18 years of computations, had proved checkers is impossible to win.

  Jul 20 2007 at 10:34 AM EDT

  Topics: Culture, Computers

• More multi-touch from Apple

  A collection of multi-touch interfaces proposed by Apple over the years.

  Jul 16 2007 at 3:20 PM EDT

  Topics: Usability, Computers

• Leaflets

  Blue Flavor creates a very clever iPhone gateway and templates for a number of Web apps.

  Jul 16 2007 at 3:15 PM EDT

  Topics: Phone/VoIP, Web Technology

• Introducing iUI

  Joe Hewitt explains a new AAjax framework for use in building native feeling iPhone Web apps.

  Jul 12 2007 at 9:58 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Phone/VoIP

• Google taking back mash-ups

  Google is letting map-based mash-ups reside on its site, in a clever effort to consolidate traffic.

  Jul 11 2007 at 10:34 AM EDT

  Topic: Search Engines

• 2007 Polaris nominees

  An overview of the somewhat surprising (yet excellent) nominees for 2007's Polaris Music Prize.

  Jul 11 2007 at 10:05 AM EDT

  Topics: Music, Canada

• Wikipedia top information site

  Nearly 50 million unique visitors went to the site in May, according to Nielsen//NetRankings, ironically.

  Jul 10 2007 at 10:37 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• Nielsen goes with time spent

  Online metrics to be measured by time spent, not page views, but same problems still apply.

  Jul 10 2007 at 10:35 AM EDT

  Topics: Advertising, Web Culture

• Write articles not blogs

  Jakob Nielsen offers some good advice on how to be an expert.

  Jul 9 2007 at 2:43 PM EDT

  Topics: Writing, Work

• purple-include

  An easy way include "of part of a document into another document by reference" using JavaScript

  Jul 9 2007 at 9:25 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• CSS Redundancy Checker

  A Ruby-based tool that finds all the CSS selectors not used in the specified HTML files or URLs.

  Jul 6 2007 at 8:56 AM EDT

  Topic: CSS

• Google Gadget API for Ajax Developers

  Small tutorial on using the Google Gadget's API

  Jul 6 2007 at 1:52 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Search Engines

• StartupNorth

  A Canadian "TechCrunch" reviewing Canadian startups and hoping to build a community around them

  Jul 4 2007 at 3:21 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• Toronto neighbourhood guides

  BlogTO releases its neighbourhood guides as for the offline visitor (map included!)

  Jul 4 2007 at 2:42 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Low Pro

  An extension to the JavaScript Prototype library offering some nice unobtrusive scripting additions.

  Jul 4 2007 at 11:28 AM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• CBC Skypes

  Some shows have begun using Skype as an alternative to satellite video feeds

  Jul 4 2007 at 11:08 AM EDT

  Topics: TV, Web Technology

• CNN frees its video

  The formerly Premium Pipeline service is now free, and welcomes user-submitted video

  Jul 4 2007 at 11:07 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, TV

• Google frees FeedBurner

  Pro version of feed tracker is now available as part of the free, base package

  Jul 4 2007 at 9:41 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology