Links for 03-05-07

• James Duncan Davidson: Photoshop Umbrella Branding Continues
  "Placing the Photoshop brand onto Lightroom is like calling lemon cookies something like "Coke Crunchies". And putting the Photoshop brand onto a web-based too like like calling a pizza something like "Coke Cheesy"." Agreed.
  [tags: adobe]
• On Black
  Great photo sequence of lunar eclipse by Jonas Thomen. (Unfortunately, it was cloudy on the East coast.) via John Nack.
  [tags: photography,science]
• Couchville.com
  Looks to be about the nicest job out there of an Ajax-y TV guide grid. From Snapstream, which has about the nicest PC DVR software out there.
  [tags: video]
• Many Eyes
  Social visualization from IBM. Not sure what I'd use it for, but interesting. (This is similar to Swivel.)
  [tags: design,charting,IBM,visualization]
• HipMojo.com - Main Street Meets Madison Avenue, Wall Street and Silicon Valley » Will Digital Revenues Really Ever be Incremental?
  "No self-respecting media executive will want to forego any part of the $75B TV advertising market for the potential of online video advertising. It’s a ludicrous assertion to think that 'all media is digital and it will be multi-platform overnight.'"
  [tags: video]
• tecosystems » What is Open Source? The Q&A
  A good pragmatic (which is to say useful) discussion of what Open Source means by my "old" (sorry, inside joke) colleague Stephen O'Grady.
  [tags: opensource]
• HipMojo.com - Main Street Meets Madison Avenue, Wall Street and Silicon Valley » Adobe Adapting to the Times
  "... for a company that is worth $20B to come out and offer free services for a one-time core, money-making application, it sends a message that it sees a major loss of pricing power and needs to react."
  
  
  [tags: adobe]
• 5 Ways to Mix, Rip, and Mash Your Data
  Rundown of services to simplify mashup creation. FWIW, I looked at the screen scraping services for a recent project and couldn't get the results I needed so I wrote my own PHP code.
  [tags: web2.0]