Microsoft Amalga delivers solutions for connected health that enable healthcare enterprises, providers, researchers, and hospitals to use information resources effectively in improving the quality and availability of care.

If you’re going to call your new product Awesome Screenshot, it really does need to be, well, awesome. Fortunately, Diigo‘s Chrome extension actually fulfills its billing, by providing a handy toolbar button that lets you capture and annotate web pages, similar to screenshot tool Skitch.

Better Facebook is a FREE user script that plugs into your browser and adds a lot of great enhancements to your existing Facebook account!

PandaForm is a new form building service that lets you put together online forms via a simple drag-and-drop interface. Payment processing can be incorporated, and a mail merge facility is included so that pre-filled, personalized forms can be sent out to your users.

Once you’ve signed up (a very painless process), you can get to work creating forms straight away. The drag-and-drop interface is fairly intuitive. Most users probably won’t need the friendly tutorial video on the form building in order to get going, although certain aspects of PandaForm aren’t quite as straightforward as I would like. In particular, the way that you can apply a “two-column” CSS class to the form that results in changes only to the published form and can’t be seen in the form editor may take a little getting used to.

Suomi-Neito is a distant, but weirdly parallel echo of ‘Paula’, the personification of Brazil’s Sao Paulo state (discussed in #471). Female like most other anthropomorphic representations of geographic entities (1), this Finnish Maiden shares with Paula the extra distinction of not only symbolising her nation, but also literally coinciding with its geographic shape.

The Finnish Maiden reminds me of the lament by a Finnish friend, a bachelor recently returned to his home country after years of working abroad: “All the women in Helsinki look identical. It feels like you’re going out with the same woman over and over again.” A luxury problem perhaps, as that same woman probably looks a lot like the Finnish Maiden: a tall, blonde, blue-eyed woman in her mid-twenties (braided hair, bare feet and folkloristic costume in the national blue-white colours are optional).

Over the years, I have reviewed the accessibility of a number of sites. This document outlines ten common accessibility issues I have encountered which could result in a site’s failure to fully comply with WCAG 2.0. The document includes links to some of the WCAG 2 advisory Sufficient Techniques provided by the W3C for addressing each issue.

Please note: This is not intended to be a complete list of all possible accessibility problems and the order of the items is of no significance. For full details about WCAG 2.0 go to the “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines” W3C Recommendation 11 December 2008.

WebWarehouse (WWH) is a web-based solution integrated with the manufacturers’ internal logistics systems to enable proper information flow between them, the warehouses, hauliers and customers. All integration between Communicate and the manufacturers is already done, and because no software installation is necessary at the warehouse, implementation and training only takes about half a day.

The Social Object, in a nutshell, is the reason two people are talking to each other, as opposed to talking to somebody else. Human beings are social animals. We like to socialize. But if think about it, there needs to be a reason for it to happen in the first place. That reason, that “node” in the social network, is what we call the Social Object.

Tampereen yliopisto on järjestellyt ahkerasti digimedian koulutusta ja tutkimusta viime aikoina. Tuorein liike on Hypermedialaboratorion nimen muuttaminen informaatiotutkimuksen ja interaktiivisen median oppiaineeksi.

Nimenmuutosta perustellaan mm. hypermedia-termin liialla teknologiapainotteisuudella. Termihän on syntynyt aikanaan 80-luvulla ja sittemmin jäänyt lähinnä tutkijoiden käyttöön.

Tampereen busseista vain yksi linja tuottaa enemmän kuin siitä on menoja. Voittoa kertyy 13 senttiä matkalla.

Loput 32 linjaa tuottavat tappiota muutamasta sentistä useaan euroon matkaa kohden.

"Mikä ei ole oikeus ja kohtuus, se ei saata olla lakikaan"

Tämä Olaus Petrin oivallinen tuomarinohje 1500-luvulta tulisi edelleen olla peruspilarina kaikessa lainsäädännössä.

Valitettavasti oikeus ja kohtuus ei toteudu laissa. Pyörätien käyttövelvollisuus ei ole oikeus eikä kohtuus, kun pyöräteille ei ole asetettu minkäänlaisia laatuvaatimuksia. Pyörätie poukkoilee korttelin välein ajoradan puolelta toiselle, keskellä pyörätietä on valopylväs, puu tai bussipysäkki, pyörätie päättyy yhtäkkiä, pyörätie on täynnä kuoppia, pyörätie on niin kapea ettei tilaa ole kaksisuuntaiselle liikenteelle, pyörätie tekee 360 asteen mutkia ja niin edelleen ja niin edelleen.

Wille Visualisation System is a framework for building visualisation applications. The latest generation of the system is Wille2.

This site provides the Wille Developer Toolkit that was mainly developed as part of OPAALS Network of Excellence project during 2006-2010. Last major revision has taken place in May, 2010. The work continues in terms of applied subprojects.

Suomen valtiolla on enemmän velkaa kuin koskaan ennen, nimellishinnoilla mitattuna. Suomi velkaantuu nopeammin kuin koskaan ennen. Sinäkin olet velkaantuneempi kuin koskaan ennen. Suomen maksama korko nousee ennen pitkää – niin sinunkin lainojesi korko. Yhä suurempi osa veroistasi menee velan korkojen maksuun eikä enää hyvinvoinnin rakentamiseen. Suomen huoltosuhde heikkenee nopeasti, ja maksajia on yhä vähemmän. Kuinka kauan tällainen meno voi jatkua?

"Mappers is an atlas of hand drawn maps. it is an ongoing project…" Too bad all texts are portrayed as pictures.

The release of Google Earth 5.2 had a lot of new features, so many that we had to write three different blog posts just to cover it all. Well, OK, four with this one. One of the most exciting features from a developer standpoint is the new KML extension, <gx:Track>.

We wanted a better way to represent movement on and above the globe. Time animation works well, but from a KML standpoint it required very bulky files. In order to “move” a <Point>, you created a new <Placemark> for each time segment. Your <Point> didn’t actually move, it merely was replicated at a different place. This made animating your path rather cumbersome. Instead, we wanted a smoother experience, and one that allowed you to truly animate a <Geometry>. So, we created <Track>. To get a real sense of the power of <Track>, check out this video.

As a follow-up to Apple's emergency iPhone 4 press conference yesterday, in which Steve Jobs claimed that all smartphones suffered from similar reception problems when held tightly (and also erroneously quoted Nokias as having "stickers on the back that say 'Don't touch here'"), Nokia has apparently responded with a statement, quoted below.

Do you want RegexPal-style regex syntax highlighting on your webpages? This library takes care of it for you, so you can spend more time writing powerful regular expressions and less time deciphering them. Currently, JavaScript regexes only are supported. Any regex features not supported by JavaScript are marked as errors, along with some edge cases that cause cross-browser grief. There's a bit more detail in my related blog post.

The Full Page Test loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser.

The load time of all objects is shown visually with time bars.

Miltä näyttää kun kesken autovideon kuvauksen käy karhu kimppuun? Tai miltä kuulostaa kun "romaniaa" puhuvat Epätieteellisen seuran valkotakkiset herrat päästetään autotohtoreiksi?

Entä kuinka käy kun mahtiauto ja pappamopo ottavat toisistaan mittaa moottoriradalla – viännettynä eli savoksi selostettuna?

Ja mitkä autot esittelevät horsebicin harrastajat, avaruusmies tai kesälomaileva joulupukki?

Oudot, hauskat ja mieliinpainuvat videot on kuvannut Kimmo Taskinen.

“Listen up, team. Our task is to create a system that will frustrate and perhaps even anger a large number of our organization’s employees, customers, and potential customers. What can we do?”

“Well, we might affect them when they are most vulnerable; say, when they are looking for a job or a promotion.”

There was a time when companies described what they were trying to communicate rather than larding in unnecessary hyperbole. It gave us a sense of what is going on. Somewhere along the way, that sense of simple communication was lost in the need to demonstrate self-serving leadership status. Is it any wonder that some of us don’t even read press releases anymore?

Here is my pet list of words I find a turn off when used injudiciously:

"Steve Jobs addressed the media at the Apple Press conference and explained the Apple iPhone 4 antenna and call reception issues. Catch Steve Jobs explaining the iPhone 4 issues"

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FAIL OFTEN: Ideas that challenge the status quo. Proposals. Brainstorms. Concepts that open doors.

FAIL FREQUENTLY: Prototypes. Spreadsheets. Sample ads and copy.

FAIL OCCASIONALLY: Working mockups. Playtesting sessions. Board meetings.

FAIL RARELY: Interactions with small groups of actual users and customers.

FAIL NEVER: Keeping promises to your constituents.

When given an important assignment, there are some unspoken instructions. They are unspoken because of the assumption that they are so obvious, they need not be said. That is often a dangerous assumption. The unspoken instructions are:

If you were looking for a message thread on Apple's support forums pointing to Consumer Reports' article 'not recommending' the iPhone 4, it's not there any more. Apple's support forum moderators deleted the thread. Bing cached it.

Breaking news: The Guardian once again involved in committing a data awesome! As before, the UK newspaper graced developers with a really cool piece of information published on the web: all the World Cup 2010 statistics as an Excel Sheet.

Now, the easiest way to play with this data is to use YQL, so I simply took a copy of the information and shared it as a CSV document on Google Docs.

The following demo was made using a variety of CSS techniques. Rounded corners, shadows, gradients, rgba, pseudo-elements, and transforms are just some of them. A lot of these were generated by helpful tools, such as westciv’s tools and Border Radius. By combining these techniques, you can create rich graphics with just a few lines of code. Here are a few examples.

This is yet, another attempt at killing CAPTCHA, based on HTML, CSS and a little touch of JQuery magic.

What we're trying to pull here is an alternative to the current CAPTCHA solution, which is inherently inaccesible to people with disabilities, despite the best efforts put forth by initiatives such as the popular reCAPTCHA or the more recent nuCAPTCHA.

An article by @lukew titled "A Sliding Alternative to CAPTCHA?" published on July 1st, 2010 introduced the idea of the slider approach to replace CAPTCHA, which we thought was brilliant. We decided to push this idea further and try to come up with a solution that would be device-independent, cross-browser and more importantly, totally compatible with assistive technologies. The goal here being to make sure it would be accessible to people with disabilities using assistive software or to people using touch screen devices such as the iPhone or the iPad.

Keith Richards at 65, Do you really think he gets up in the morning, looks in the mirror, and says “Keith, you marvelous looking rock star, don’t you ever die?” He might have already died, don’t you think?

Ringo Starr turns 70 today. Tell me he doesn’t look better now than he did in 1964. It might help that he reads my friend Dak’s hip MagnificentBastard website for looking and staying young.

In three years, there’s no chance that Ringo will look like my favorite Okie from Muskogee Merle “Yes I Am” Haggard, now 73.

ast year, I looked into the way companies are using Enhanced Facebook Pages as a way to beef up the branding and interactivity available with Facebook’s default Page settings. On my company blog, I explored the enhanced Pages of big companies such as Starbucks and The Gap. And I also made a list of ten third-party applications that you could use to enhance Facebook Pages, based on what was available at the time. In that vein, below I’ve identified ten more third-party apps that can be easily plugged into your Facebook Page to offer a little extra functionality and interactivity.

Perhaps best use of ALT-attributes at pictures ever;)

Kokonainen broileri kypsyy grillissä ja saa makua siideristä. Kokeile tätä hauskaa ja herkullista reseptiä ja saa naapuri kateelliseksi!

Beer Butt Chicken (taloudessamme puhumme arkisesti Kaljap*rsekanasta)

It’s been two months since my first Future Accessibility article, and less than a week since my most recent one, yet several exciting new developments have already made some of the things discussed in the series outdated or incorrect. Here, briefly, are some of those recent changes.

For reference, HTML5 <video>, HTML5 Semantic Elements, New <input> Types in HTML5, HTML5 <input> Extensions, SVG, and canvas.

Mainostoimisto Wieden+Kennedyn tuottamasta ja näyttelijä Isaiah Mustafan näyttelemästä Old Spice -mainoksesta on tulossa elävä web-legenda.

Nerokasta mainosta on katsottu YouTubesta noin 12 miljoonaa kertaa ja mainoksen toistakin versiota 5 miljoonaa kertaa. Mainos on yksinkertaisesti niin hauska, että linkki leviää sosiaalisessa mediassa.

App Inventor is built on the idea that you do not need to be a developer to build great mobile applications. Instead of code, App Inventor allows you to visually design applications and use blocks to specify application logic.

The Updates Firehose API gives developers access to the full, real-time Yahoo! Updates index and allows developers to search, filter and combine Updates data using YQL. This page describes the basic usage of the API and dives into some complex use cases to demonstrate using the API with YQL (Yahoo! Query Language).

Jos aikuisella on ylisöpö tai hassu profiilikuva, miten se vaikuttaa mielikuvaan tästä ihmisestä asiantuntijana? Tällaista kyselin perjantaina verkostoiltani Twitterissä ja Qaikussa Löydy-kirjaa varten, ja tässä on poimintoja mielipiteistä.

How can you download Facebook albums? Everyone’s on Facebook these days and many of our interactions with our friends are around sharing and commenting on photos. Uploading photos to Facebook is easy, but do you know how to download Facebook photo albums?

We researched around this topic and put together this list of free tools that allow you to download either yours or your friends’ pics from Facebook and save them on your computer for backup or offline sharing. Enjoy!

But spending some time on the theory behind the graphic design principles we use every day can expand our design horizons. It can open up new avenues of creativity and experimentation that can lead our designs from just good, to fantastic. On that note, below are 50 excellent resources and articles that discuss graphic design theory, including layout, color theory, and typography. Feel free to share additional resources and articles in the comments.

It's easy to run out of superlatives when talking about Sports Tracker – it runs so smoothly, uses Symbian so well, does everything you might want it to do (and then some), handles Internet and Bluetooth connections faultlessly – but thankfully you don't have to take my word for it. STT's model of giving the software away for free, for trial on any GPS-equipped Symbian phone, and then making a profit on the heart monitors, means that you can run it for a while and enjoy the standard logging functions, then upgrade to get the hardware for when you want to get serious about your exercise.

Running a project requires a level of commitment that's absent from someone who is managing one. Who would you rather hire, a manager or a runner?

Quick takeaways from the survey:

* Advertising works in Facebook. And with the in-built demographic ad targeting, your ads willl get clicked even more.
* Get yourself a Facebook Page if you are a business. A Facebook Page is free. Sending out updates to your customers via your Page gets noticed by your customers and you can build a fan base from there as your updates and offers will get looked at.

Global food giant Kraft Foods has set its eyes on Facebook, pumping up at least three campaigns for Wheat Thins (crackers), Oreo (cookies) and Crystal Light (flavored beverage) in recent weeks.

There are 550,000+ apps that are used on Facebook. Seventy percent of users engage with apps each month. There are one million app developers. Zynga, the top app developer, made $250 million in 2009. Of that amount, $80-$150 million is estimated to be profit, more net profit than Facebook itself made.

Did you know Apple iPad can be used for finger painting of portraits! David Jon Kassan did a quick Apple iPad live fingerpainting demo streamed live from his Brooklyn studio.

Playing devil's advocate, but only to a degree, Steve Litchfield turns the entire smartphone world on its head by rejecting its latest darling – large touchscreens. Ask any pundit in the mobile world about smartphones and you'll get the answer that it's all about touch. About large displays that can be caressed and programmed and manipulated with your fingers. Except that traditional, non-touch form factors have these 2010 'flagships' well and truly beat – here are the Top 10 Reasons Why Touchscreens Suck.

Yet another tracking service, sort of. It seems every manufacturer has their own (hardware + software + web site). I yet fail to see the reason.

Open source military analysis, strategic thinking, and imagery interpretation.

Mitä ihmettelemistä siinä on, että Matti Vanhanen siirtyy Perheyritysten liiton toimitusjohtajaksi? Sen jälkeen hän saa virallisestikin palkkaa Kyösti Kakkoselta, Toivo Sukarilta ja muilta Kehittyvien Maakuntien Suomen (KMS) rahoittajilta.
Onhan se hyvä, että salainen ja hämärä puoluerahoitus muuttuu nyt avoimeksi palkkatyöksi. Perheyritysten liiton jäsenlistalta löytyvät KMS:n merkittävimmät rahoittajat:

- Kakkonen-Yhtiöt Oy
- Lemminkäinen
- Maskun Kalustetalo Oy
- Suomen RH-yhtiöt
- Suomi-Soffa SSF Oy