Recent Links: March 12 to March 19

“Sketchnotes I captured while attending SXSW Interactive, March 7-11, 2008 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas.

“Created by Mike Rohde. “

‘This is the first article in the four-part series, “Powerful guide to master Your WordPress”. Throughout this article, we’ll be focus on many WordPress Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing WordPress websites.’

“Free Photoshop Tutorials, Brushes, Custom Shapes And More!” /// This is a great website that looks fantastic! Really high quality tutorials. I learned a bunch in just the 5 minutes that I looked at it.

A handy service that takes code and converts it into properly escaped HTML, making it easy to post it in a blog or Web site.

“Basically, it’s a Flash application that fetches your friends and followers from Twitter when you click the “Whack!” button, then displays them for you, letting you quickly paginate through them. By default, the list contains all your friends and followers and is sorted by last update, showing those who most recently updated first. You can sort the list alphabetically either ascending or descending by Twitter ID. You can filter the list in several ways: only friends or only followers, all friends or all followers, and mutual friends.”

“Many calendar platforms offer sharing within their platform – Google, Yahoo, 30boxes, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, to name a few. However, to share calendars all users need to use the same calendar program.

Calgoo Hub takes advantage of our Calgoo calendar synchronization technology and allows you to easily share public and private calendars with people using different calendar programs.

With Calgoo Hub, a wife using Outlook can share with her husband using Apple iCal. Co-workers using Google Calendar can share with each other within the same company or with colleagues using other calendars at other companies. If you’re at work you can view a friend’s calendar to set up a meeting or view your home calendar to see family commitments.”

Technical instructions on updating a WordPress theme for use with widgets.

“Singularity is the first large-scale online web conference in the world. Singularity is over 100 of the world’s top web visionaries, developers, designers, thought leaders, and celebrities. Singularity is three days of talks over multiple tracks. In 2008, Singularity will define Web ‘08.”

“Just prior to jetting off to Austin last week, I started playing around with a mobile version of this site. While a personal blog is hardly a site that really needs one (unlike, say, an app with a proven mobile user-base like Twitter), I wanted to see what would be involved in re-factoring this design into something more fitting for a mobile environment.”

“SemanticHacker.com is home of the TextWise SemanticHacker API and we’re bold enough to call it the world’s first open API for semantic discovery.

“Semantic discovery is a way to find information without knowing explicitly what you’re looking for BUT “you know it when you see it.” Semantic discovery does not punish you for using the wrong keywords. “

“Collection of vintage logos from a mid-70’s edition of the book World of Logotypes.”

An admin theme based on OS X Leopard. In beta. It had some issues running on 2.5 RC1, but looks promising.

“Stoyan Stefanov made an appearance last week at the PHP Quebec Conference in Montreal. His session debuts Yahoo!’s latest research results and performance breakthroughs. He covers the existing 14 rules, plus 20 new rules for faster web pages. We’ve categorized the optimizations into: server, content, cookie, JavaScript, CSS, images, and mobile.”

“Change Congress is a movement to build support for basic reform in how our government functions. Using our tools, both candidates and citizens can pledge their support for basic changes to reduce the distorting influence of money in Washington. Our community will link candidates committed to a reform with volunteers and contributors who support it.”

“Who Sees Ads is an advanced ad management plugin that lets you decide who will see your ads, depending on user defined conditions. The association of an ad and these conditions is called a context: a set of circumstances you define, that will eventually display or not an ad.

“For instance, you could consider the following criteria: Is the visitor a regular reader? Does this visitor come from a search engine? Is the visitor currently reading a recent post, or something really old?”

In Safari 3.1 Apple added a hidden preference that will enable the single window mode so all targeted links will open in a new tab instead of a new window.

Polypage was designed to ease the process of showing multiple page states in html mock-ups. By adding simply adding class names to a document you can imply state and conditional view logic.