Recent Links: October 26 to November 02

Here are the most recent bookmarks that I have saved to Ma.gnolia.

Introducing Carrington

Carrington is an attempt to better abstract WordPress theme organization, and simplify commonly needed theme functionality.At the moment, Carrington is basically three things - in this order:A developer friendly theme and conventions-based templating system. A set of best practices for theme organization. An elegant, semantically rich WordPress theme for end-users with advanced features (like SEO-friendly AJAX loading of comments and archives and drop down navigation menus).

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Tags: web development, wordpress, themes, html, php

OmniGraffle Stencil: Social Media Interface Objects

An OmniGraffle stencil containing common social media interface components

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Tags: omnigraffle, os x, ux, ia, wireframes, stencils, templates

typeface.js

"Rendering text with Javascript, <canvas>, and VML. ""Instead of creating images or using flash just to show your site's graphic text in the font you want, you can use typeface.js and write in plain HTML and CSS, just as if your visitors had the font installed locally. This is a work in progress, but functional enough at least to render the the graphic text on this site."

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Tags: web development, web design, typography, javascript, fonts, font embedding

Crowdstatus.com

Crowdstatus is made up of crowds, each crowd contains people and each person in the crowd has a status. This means that you can see what everyones current status is in a crowd.

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Tags: twitter

Yahoo! Application Platform - YDN

The Yahoo! Application Platform allows you to build and launch open-social applications to the largest daily viewing audience on the web.

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Tags: web development, web application, social, php, javascript, flash, sdk

Social Directory - YDN

Social Directory is the central location for Yahoo! profile data and connections lists. The Social Directory APIs will enable you to tap into a wealth of information to make your website more engaging and more "social" giving you the ability to achieve your engagement, distribution, and other business critical goals!

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Tags: web development, web application, social, php, javascript, flash, api, oauth, sdk

House Almanac - Austin housing trends and values

Sales prices, current values, and housing trends for Austin, Texas. No registration required.

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Tags: houses, homes, house value, real estate, austin, austin tx

Lorem 2: An all-around better Lorem experience.

Of course it is always better to have content. But sometimes you need text filler to show how a layout will look. "Lorem 2 is a simple and better way to grab Lorem Ipsum text content."

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Tags: web design, web development, prototyping, prototypes, lorem ipsum

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