This is probably old news, but not to me. Go check out oobject.com if you haven’t already.

Google – within a few months – might start offering web-based storage for all of your stuff. Read more about it in this WSJ article.

Buzzword is the nicest web-based word processor I’ve seen…try it out.  I think it’s going to be owned by Adobe, so I’m not sure how long it’ll be free.

Has anybody run into any nice web-based spreadsheet editors?  I’m not a huge fan of the google one…

Smashing Magazine is running an article listing “some of the outstanding developments in the field of user experience design.” With one exception, all of the projects listed fall into the smart-table-multi-touch genre–not a small, portable device or anything without a massive full color screen in sight. Still, it’s a nice survey with good images and the included projects are pretty important at the moment.

Monday Inspiration: User Experience Of The Future from Smashing Magazine

There’s an interesting article running in the SF Chronicle about the ways in which wearing a pedometer can actually lead to more exercise, according to a Stanford study. It’s circumstantial, but an interesting read:

Chronicle article

I just read an article about estimating how long it will take you to do something. This might seem boring as dirt because it is. Except that this is the most exciting-sounding thing I’ve seen about something this boring in a long, long time. Here’s an example of why this article sounds so exciting: “Only the programmer doing the work can create the estimate“. That’s truth, right there.

 Joel Spolsky’s article on Evidence Based Scheduling

I’m going to try it. We’ll see how it goes…

Here is a site that uses Google Maps’ API and a nice little algorithm to calculate how pedestrian friendly the area around an address is:WalkScore.com 

You thought Gopher was dead? U R WRONG!

gopher://hal3000.cx
(may require Firefox to view) 

Canon has a nice promo site for their EOS 400d camera up here. Wait a long time for the load, then go to “urban paradise” especially. Seems to use the PaperVision3D engine for Flash.