Spock says im a bisexual romantic?

Ok, so are we going a bit overboard with the "friendly text"- ness now days? I signed up for the SPOCK.COM beta and received an email notification regarding my account. I of course, have signed up for so many things that I forgot my password. So of course, I chose the forgot password link and SPOCK sent me a new password:

Welcome to Spock! Your password is bisexual%romantic, and we encourage you to change this password ASAP.

Thanks!
The Spock Team

ok ok, for the record spock, im not bisexual, but I am a romantic. I guess they give you a POSITIVE and a NEGATIVE that way you remember your password? May depend on what kinda person you are but their may be some behavioral science here or they may just be trying to be funny. :) Either way, its all good for now....but when they start to grow, I suggest to tone it down for all those leftys!

Muginamirror.com

Thats it, just what it says. Muginamirror! This was a simple site I designed with an offisite developer in India. We created the site in 3 weeks and communicated entirely through email. The UI is simple, basically you upload an image of yourself in a mirror and then you see the image in the "cue". When people click through the random images, your picture will come up. Users have the ability to "rate" on the fly by clicking the Ajax based stars. You also have the ability to advertise your own link in the upload field....lets say for your myspace site. Have fun with it!

AOL Feed reader...coming soon

As a former AOL interaction designer, I will say that the new feed reader is going to be light, simple, and fast just as written about in techcrunch this week. I worked on some of the UI and consulted on different parts of it my last few months at AOL. If you like google products, that are clean , easily navigated and ledgible, then you should like this one. Most of the real estate and framework was designed to give the user the most space for reading their feeds. The product will have feeds and favorites combined which organizes your bookmarks and feeds in a tabbed column on the left side. Simple and clean. Thumbs up.

Iphone countdown widget - by springwidgets.com

Get this widget!

My thoughts on the anxiously awaited Iphone. In the meantime, while waiting for this expensive device, I went out and bought a blackberry 8800. I noticed that the blackberry UI, with the way it handles incoming calls, layout of icons and silo'ed navigation model, that it is very similar to the iphone minus the touch screen. Of course, im not comparing the two just yet, but I will say that I think apple did have a bit of a head start by looking at how the blackberry UI handles the ease of use issues. The jury is still out, until this thing launches, but if you put a touch screen on my blackberry and some cool finger sliding controls and I would probably be just as happy. thoughts?

Widgets , Widgets and more wwwwwidgets

If you like widgets, this is the place. SpringWidgets.com is currently still in beta, but you can find many many different flash based widgets for your site and to share with others. The UI is amazingly simple and the setup process will have you grabbing code in minutes. I created a quick logo, uploaded and brought in my RSS feed in 3 steps. Users can grab the code from your public based widget and put on their site also. Have fun widgeting!

How to use your own URL as an OpenID without running your own OpenID server.

It is easy to delegate your own URL to an OpenID server for authentication. For example, you may have an account on an OpenID server, http://yourname.myopenid.com/, but want to use http://yourname.com/ instead.

Simply embed the following into the HTML HEAD of the page you want to use:

< rel="openid.server" href="http://www.myopenid.com/server">

< rel="openid.delegate" href="http://yoururl.myopenid.com/">
< equiv="X-XRDS-Location" content="http://yoururl.myopenid.com/xrds">


The role of the OpenID server is to provide a page for you and make claims about user ownership of that page. By pointing a personal page to the page you own on your OpenID server, the consumer can discover your server information, ask you to prove that own the URL on the server, which then also proves that you own the personal URL.

How to use OpenID by Simon Willison

Simon Willison is a Computer Science student from England, currently on placement in Lawrence, Kansas. By day, he develops web applications for the Lawrence Journal-World. By night, he writes about web standards and technologies on his web development weblog.