links for 2007-10-08

• Masque of the Red Death
  This haunting version of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death follows Punchdrunk’s smash-hit success, Faust, which won a Critics’ Circle Award in 2006. Journey into a macabre world, explore the four corners of Battersea Arts Centre and relive i
  (tags: event london theatre augmented experience)
• Open Source Relational Databases – O’Reilly ONLamp Blog
  Data bonds and open relationships..
  (tags: database databases opensource programming relational sql development history data)
• Good News, Bad News about Facebook Application Market: Long Tail Rules
  The significant news here is that the tail doesn’t show lots of volume, not that it does, which was Chris Anderson’s original point about the long tail.
  (tags: application facebook longtail web2.0 research marketing oreilly)
• Joost Set To Ink Deal With ITN
  If the deal goes through, the news corp will provide Joost with short news, sports, business and weather bulletins.
  (tags: itv joost distribution)
• Dan Saffer // Extras
  Quality presentations from Adapative Paths UXD Dan Shaffer.
  (tags: design interaction ux)
• Main Page – Interactive Gestures Pattern Library
  This site is for the collection and dissemination of gestural interface information and patterns, such as found on such devices as the iPhone and Wii. Please feel free to edit and add information and patterns as you see fit.
  (tags: interaction design interactive interface pattern gestures interactiondesign UX UXD wiki)
• adaptive path » blog » Dan Saffer » Twitter: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
  If anyone ever asks for an example of interaction design changing behavior, I will simply point them to Twitter.
  (tags: twitter socialsoftware sxsw presence web2.0)
• Read/WriteTalk » Blog Archive » Dan Saffer – Experience Design Director, Adaptive Path
  Dan issued a ‘manifesto’ about a month ago for interaction designers around coming up with a set of gestural patterns for touch interactions.
  (tags: audio podcasts ui ux)
• Advanced Marketing Institute – Headline Analyzer
  This free tool will analyze your headline to determine the Emotional Marketing Value (EMV) score. As you know, reaching your customers in an deep and emotional way is a key to successful copywriting
  (tags: ads advertising adwords analysis blogging business marketing headlines copywriting design farce)