http://www.th1nk.com Web Concepts and Analysis Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:02:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Blueprint CSS framework made a pretty big splash late last year in the web development community. Strangely, after a few months the creator, Olav Bjørkøy, disappeared. The project was hosted on Google Code with a corresponding Google Group, and unfortunately had no other administrators. As the discussion board filled with ... http://www.th1nk.com/news/blueprint-css-has-a-new-home/ Now I'm not trying to be the boy who called wolf here... but I do believe there is a potentially bad development on the brink of occurring in the Firefox extension world. That development is the inclusion of the extensions author's own referral links to any website that utilizes url based ... http://www.th1nk.com/thoughts/a-potentially-dangerous-new-firefox-extension-concept/ Perhaps the title I have used is a little ambiguous, but what I mean by social cataloging is social bookmarking functionality for any type of content. We have seen that social bookmarking works (though is it profitable for the people than run the site excluding a buyout?). Now we are ... http://www.th1nk.com/ideas/facilitating-social-cataloging/ A Google search for SliceHost gives as the 4th result a review by HostingFu. Read the post and then check out the comments, where you can find a reply by SliceHost themselves and questions by potential customers answered by Scotty of HostingFu himself. If that doesn't convince a potential customer, nothing ... http://www.th1nk.com/assessments/the-best-advertising-money-cant-buy/ When it comes to marking and remembering images from around the web, you have very few options. Traditional image management and sharing sites focus mostly on photos that you have taken and wish to share with the world, but with today's massive amount of user generated content, there is a ... http://www.th1nk.com/assessments/image-bookmarking-the-current-situation/ Update: I've refactored a good deal of the code here to support radio servers with multiple mount points. It now uses the SimpleXML functions in PHP5, so make sure you've got those enabled. icestats.php xpath('//source'); foreach ($mount_points as $mount_index => &$mount_point) { ... http://www.th1nk.com/code/how-to-pull-statistics-from-icecast-with-php/