Yahoo’s brand-centric sites, announced in November 2006 and dubbed “Brand Universe”, have started to go live. These sites each revolve around a single popular brand – like this one on the Nintendo Wii – and have almost no original content. Instead, Yahoo is taking content from Flickr, Del.icio.us, Yahoo Answers and other Yahoo properties, along with some slick graphics, and hoping for page views.

Source: TechCrunch

A nice simple and effective feed validator for the podcast / rss / atom coder.

Feedvalidator

On Julian’s Blog:

At the risk of belittling the blog through ‘funny’ videos of animals, these are worth it (especially the first 2):

• Horse kicks chicken
• An old favourite but never get tired of it (best with sound on): Panda Sneeze
• Animal health programme at San Diego Seaworld

Some sites featured in .net this month – to save you having to read the mag! (but have a look in the Jan 2007 issue if you want more info on them). It’s all so international:

• Heiwa Alpha Inc – Japanese animation studio (no idea what’s going on there)
• Rayman - PlayStation game
• Bastard Skateboards – Brazilian brand
• Happy Pylones – French gadgets
• Jurajska - Polish water
• KTF World Phone View – Korean phones
• Orange On Web – Russian new media agency (.net: “the place to go to see CSS in all its glory” apparently)
• Apples to Oranges – San Francisco web design and branding agency. Interesting to see how they’ve chosen to do their site

Everyone knows that I hate add-ons for programs. They should be correct and full featured at release. I have finally found an extension that IS worth installing…

FireBug

If you do ANY kind of html/css/network diagnostics then this is well worth taking a look at.

I’ve uploaded a few of the less blurry pics of people playing the Wii last Friday.