TTMMHTM: Guardian links data, Curtain follows people, look buff in videos

Monday, October 18th, 2010 at 2:05 pm

Things that made me happy this morning:

  • Disruptive media released the [interview with me taken at FOWA](http://www.disruptivemedia.se/blog/whats-exciting-right-now-chris-heilmann-developer-evangelist-yahoo) on what’s hot and cool
  • The Guardian are releasing [Linked Data in the Open Platform](http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-platform/blog/linked-data-open-platform?CMP=twt_gu) like MusicBrainz lookups using YQL
  • [How to stop Facebook from sharing your info with third parties](http://m.gawker.com/5666325/how-to-stop-facebook-from-sharing-your-information-with-third-parties) is a writeup how fix this issue – Caja would have done that
  • I finally managed to finish the step to upload the [source text of developer-evangelism.com on GitHub](http://github.com/codepo8/Developer-Evangelism-Handbook) – please fork and translate, it is creative commons
  • [AI->Canvas](http://visitmix.com/labs/ai2canvas/index.html) is a plugin for Illustrator to export in HTML5 Canvas
  • [My little piece of privacy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhbUjVyKIc) is a robotic curtain that moves with people peeking into your window
  • An interesting discussion on wether we should [do away with panels on conferences or not](http://www.thesocialpath.com/2010/10/is-it-time-for-conferences-to-do-away-with-panels.html)
  • A good call to [end :hover abuse](http://www.cennydd.co.uk/2010/end-hover-abuse-now/)
  • A detailed [explanation of Cameron MollAdams’ Web Directions South intro sequence done in CSS3 and HTML5](http://blogs.sitepoint.com/2010/10/18/the-wds-title-sequence-explained-html5-and-css3-in-action/)
  • Some very good thoughts in [composed JavaScript UI controllers with event delegation](http://www.bennadel.com/blog/2034-Using-Composed-Javascript-UI-Controllers-With-Event-Delegation.htm)
  • [Entri](http://entri.co/) is a lightweight alternative to Google Docs
  • [Movie Reshape](http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/resources/MovieReshape/) allows you to make people in movies have more muscles and change other features
  • [Diminished Reality](http://www.kurzweilai.net/diminished-reality-software-removes-objects-from-video-in-real-time) allows to remove elements of live video