Line-​​Up for Portfolio Clinic

We’re running a Portfolio Clinic as part of the i-​​​​design con­fer­ence on September 17. The idea is for budding inter­active designers to come along with a laptop and show their wares the the cream of London’s creative agencies. They’ll tell you where you’re going right and where you’re going wrong — or how you might make

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The Big Shitty

Thanks to DrewB for this invalu­able reminder of my status, via Ffffound:

I have three invit­a­tions to Ffffound, if you like pictures. First come, first served in the comments.

The last.fm post

Martin Stiksel of London-​​​​based music net­working site last.fm tells me that the company will release a new and improved version of its software tomorrow. Currently, the site uses a set of plug-​​​​ins to report your playing habits to the company’s massive database. And a stan­dalone player that plays you recom­mend­a­tions according to what it has gleaned about

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Web app resistance

There are, of course, already a lot of dif­ferent applic­a­tions you can run online, from to-​​​​do lists to spread­sheets to photo-​​​​editing. Soothsayers and other pundits are pre­dicting that as a con­sequence, the Great Beast of Redmond will soon be no more, as people abandon Excel and Word for online altern­at­ives. The next step,

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