15 month ago
plasticbag : Last.fm have a gorgeous new app for doing audio fingerprinting to sort out the metadata around music - The double-translation of similar track names to audio fingerprints is a bloody fascinating way to get good solid real-world identifiers around objects like songs. I'm installing it immediately.
Simon Willison : Audio Fingerprinting for Clean Metadata - Audio Fingerprinting for Clean Metadata. Last.fm have started using audio fingerprints to help clean up misspelled artists and duplicate track information.
philgyford : Last.fm – the Blog · Audio Fingerprinting for Clean Metadata - Help Last.fm identify tracks, albums and artists better, in return for a future free API. Pretty slow going on my ageing PowerBook though. (via Plasticbag)
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34 month ago
plasticbag : Jakob Neilson's recommendations on URL in 1999 were pretty good even though he forecast that they would disappear within five years... - As it happens, I think URLs are becoming more important if anything - as people start to understand how fundamental they are to giving your site or service all the benefits of being truly native to the web...
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34 month ago
plasticbag : Mike Schinkel's piece last year on well-Designed URLs - This was one of the pieces that I've used as a source recently, although I'm not sure I agree with the idea of recommending alternative short URLs for print. Otherwise, pretty great stuff...
deusx : Mike Schinkel's Miscellaneous Ramblings - Well Designed URLs are Beautiful! - "The following are my (current) set of rules for how to ensure beautiful URLs"
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34 month ago
Andy Baio : Current style in web design - a good explanation of current trends in good web style [via]
Nelson Minar : Current web style - Great explication of good design trends (via Populicious)
plasticbag : Current state of the art in graphic design for the web... - Mm. Rounded corners. Gradient fills. Anti-aliased text. I'd put money on them all emerging from use of Macs, but that's just me...
Philippe Janvier : Current style in web design - Une bonne ressource web design. [via] #
Paul Hammond : Current style in web design - This is where I try to sum up the current state-of-the-art in graphic design for web pages
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