Getting nice fonts embedded in Blogger

Recently I have been hearing and reading a lot about typekit. So, I decided to find out how it can be useful to me. It basically is about getting nice fonts across browsers. It is a web service that provides font. The idea is really cool.

So I decided to try it out. They offer 25000 page-views per month and two fonts per site. I don't like either of these restrictions, especially the second one. So, I looked for alternatives and I found Google Web Fonts.

Using Google web fonts is very easy. You just need to select a font and then click on the Use this font tab and you have the instructions about how you can use it in your web page.

Font-face backed out because Google entered this market. However, you still have other alternatives like WebINK.

Freenode's web interface introduces captcha

Native SDK

Recently, I had been looking into image editting on the client side. I figured it can be done on the server side; but impractical. I am certain I shall have to figure out a way of doing it on the client side. Javascript seemed to be the only option and I didn't want to do javascript as it wont be fast. However, when I found about native client sdk, I thought "This is exactly what I needed."

Social Web

Facebook and Twitter were accepted very fast and were milestones of social web. However, the recent discoveries of bugs raised questions on the security assured by these sites. Orkut at least says its a beta application; while facebook takes it a step further. Facebook users have to allow third party applications. Facebook is safe as the user made the choice of disclosing information to third party vendors.

Till that it was fine; but recently a bug was discovered in facebook chat that allowed users to view their friends' chats. Another bug was discovered in twitter that allowed users to have force followers. Now the web is undergoing a paradigm shift. However, these bugs remind us to remember the basics.

Watch this video to have glimpse of the paradigm shift.


Updates: Facebook issues
1. suspicious email guess
2. cross-site scripting
3. public updates are publicly searchable outside facebook
4. openbook [This should be enough evidence.]

Finally, people seem to notice.

The changing web

We all know the web is changing and along with it our lives as well (though the extent and kind of change is determined by the our own decisions). While surfing I found this. I was impressed to see the way it responded to mouse gestures. The design is intuitive. Developments like these are welcome. They make proper use of the power of current technologies. I could see Google's philosophy playing a role. The interface was not coming in the way.

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