Facebook's FOSS FBJS Animation Library

From “FBJS/Animation – Facebook Developers Wiki“:

FBJS exposes a powerful animation library which gives developers an easy way to improve their user interface with a line of two or code. All animations are CSS based, so a working knowledge of CSS will really help you out here. An open-source version of FBJS Animation that will work on pages outside of Facebook is available at: http://developers.facebook.com/animation/.

Via ReadWriteWeb and the Facebook Developer blog.

Do as They Say, Not as I Do

From “Work-Life Boundaries for the Passionate Worker“:

The only problem with being super-passionate about your work life is that work can take over your whole life. That’s especially so for web workers since near-ubiquitous connectivity means you can almost always tweak that website, write that blog post, or code that next feature no matter where you are or what time it is.

I’m a dad. My offspring is the backbone of my keep-off-the-darn-computer-for-at-least-a-few-hours-a-day strategy. :)

Google's Answer to Wikipedia

Technology Review: Google’s Answer to Wikipedia
Google recently announced Knol, a new experimental website that puts information online in a way that encourages authorial attribution. Unlike articles for the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which anyone is free to revise, Knol articles will have individual authors, whose pictures and credentials will be prominently displayed alongside their work. Currently, participation in the project is by invitation only, but Google will eventually open up Knol to the public.

I can totally picture it: Google to Jimbo: “Oh yeah? You wanna walk all over our turf with Wikia? Well take that!” ;p

TUAW's 1.1.3 iPhone Update Liveblog

From: “1.1.3 iPhone Update Liveblog“:

It’s time to kiss my beautiful jailbreaked iPhone goodbye and to surrender to the inevitability of the 1.1.3 update. Goodbye delightful shell access. Goodbye beautiful 3rd party applications. I’m upgrading for the sake of my readers–and hopefully downgrading soon after! Read on for the liveblog…

I salute you, Erica, for taking a bullet for the team once more. :)

Read/WriteTalk Speaks with the New Mozilla CEO

From “Read/WriteTalk: John Lilly – CEO, Mozilla“:

In the interview we review both the lessons he’s learned at Mozilla and his plans for the organization in the future. I also think many of the leaders at DataPortability.org will find his comments quite interesting.

Interesting. Very interesting!

And while I’m at it: See “New Video Explains the Basics of Data Portability“, if you’re unclear on the subject.