Anything and Everything that is cool, hot, fresh and classic.
The web might be a computer based place, but many of the designs for the sites that you use daily started out as simple pen on paper drawings in a boardroom or bar napkin.
Deeplinking has gathered up some of these initial concepts sketches, and there’s something about seeing the roots of highly used sites laid out before you like a dinosaur skeleton that brings the beasts back down to reality.
[Deeplinking - The Paper Version Of The Web]
[Via: Boing Boing]
If you’ve ever wondered what the offices of your favorite companies look like, then check out the Office Shapshots blog.
Walkthroughs include both web/tech companies, and larger companies that everyone is familiar with, so you can see if Tech Bubble 2.0 is alive and well, or if the perks from Bubble 1.0 have come and gone.
Buzzword is “the first real word processor for the web”.
Though this description sounds rather boring, the site itself is rather impressive.
Basically an online version of Word, it’s built in Flash, so there’s plenty of fancy features, and the online interface means you can use it on either a Mac or a PC.
Another advantage of online applications: No need to install. Traveling and in need of a word processor? No problem; Just fire up Buzzword and away you go.
Having your documents online also means it’s easy to share with friends, family and co-workers, co-editing and co-writing something through its path to perfection.
Lastly, it’s owned by Adobe, so there’s definitely no lack of support, and the chance that this winds up in the dead pool is slim to none.
It’s definitely worth a try, so click the link and see what’s buzzing.
[Buzzword]
Ever wonder what happens to a blog post after “Publish” is clicked?
The post is crawled, indexed, mined, scraped, republished, and propagated throughout the Web, going from servers to spiders to suits – to you.
To help explain this process a bit better, Wired has created a fantastically simple infographic.
Where do you fit in?
[Wired - The Life Cycle Of A Blog Post]
[Via: Boing Boing]
Today’s website is actually a website about websites. Got that? The FWA, or Favourite Website Awards, is a daily updated collection of the best of the web. Each day, a new Site Of The Day is chosen, each month, a new Site Of The Month is chosen, and each year, a new Site Of The Year is chosen (and so on I’d imagine if it survives that long). Each site features a brief description and a link, though that’s probably all you’ll need to begin your web surfing adventure. FWA also features interviews with the featured sites’ designers, which give great insight into the hearts and minds of the Internet’s creators. The sites are great and the topics are vast and varied, so be prepared to kill a few hours just looking around, but I promise it will be worth it. You’ve been warned.
Information Architects put together a Web Trend Map for 2007 that shows “all the big players, the current Internet trends and how they’re connected”. Definitely a cool way to look at the web.
[Via: Information Architects]
