Links for Sunday 1 February 2009
- ASCII by Jason Scott / Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse
- Catching up on stuff… AOL Hometown shut down and wiped all its users’ sites with four weeks’ notice. It’s bad enough when chunks of the web disappear, but worse like this. (via Simon Willison)
- ASCII by Jason Scott / FUCK THE CLOUD
- A follow-up to the previous link on why keeping your stuff on servers run by other companies is a recipe for trouble. I try to avoid this but some things, like Flickr, make me nervous. (via Blech)
- YouTube - The T-Mobile Dance
- An IprovEverywhere type stunt as an advert but very nicely done. I love how the participants only gradually join in. (via Preoccupations)
- FreeAgent - Online accounting for freelancers and small businesses
- Another online thing for freelance types, this one for accounting. Lots of UK-specific stuff.
- Mathusalem - Google Code
- Interesting-sounding backup utility for Mac OS X. Backs up in the background to "local drives, iDisk, WebDAV, AFP, SMB, FTP, SFTP or Amazon S3". Maybe for when StrongSpace finally disappears. (via Tom Taylor on Twitter)
- Fraser Speirs – On the Flickr support in iPhoto ‘09
- I know Speirs could be accused of bias but it doesn’t sound like iPhoto ‘09’s Flickr integration is going to be any use to me at all. Sounds awful. (via Daring Fireball)
- Corner Cottage, St Ives
- We stayed here this past week. Lovely little place, great location, sleeps up to five. St Ives was great, if wet, this time of year: quiet, friendly, beautiful and tasty.