Here’s a shocker for you: Facebook doesn’t want to give up its tight-knit control of your personal information. The company has officially banned Google’s recently-launched Friend Connect service, which would allow you to pull your personal data out of Facebook and use it elsewhere.
Considering that the only value Facebook actually has is all the data [...]

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Jacob Sheehy has written an interesting blog post called “Browsing the Web with a Tree.” He makes the point that multiple backs and forths, clicks and submits, creates a complex, two-dimensional browsing history. Trying, as browsers do, to represent this history in one dimension of Back and Forward, flattens out a lot of useful information.
Sheehy’s [...]

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I remember when Google used to ask me politely about my searches: “Did you mean: headgear?”
But now the all-powerful engine seems to have decided that’s an unnecessary nicety, and just silently corrects my search into what it thinks I want.
It happens to me constantly. Here’s an example: I was looking for information about San Antonio’s [...]

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Back in high school, whenever we wanted to know what the cool kids were smoking, all we’d have to do is go out behind the hockey bleachers and take a whiff. We did that today and here’s what we found: Addict-o-matic, a new multi-search site that invites you to “Inhale the Web.”
The concept is simple [...]

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Obsessing.org is a new online dev tool for those that would like to play round with the Processing drawing and animation language. The site is still in a very alpha state and lacks features like the ability to save your work, but the live demo feature is very cool.
If you were impressed by the processing.js [...]

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