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No, it’s not the question for Kenneth and it doesn’t have any connection whatsoever with the meaning of that amazing song. It is a catch phrase I love to say when I am talking about ‘Social Network’. What is ‘Social Network’? According to Wikipedia:

A social network is a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of relations, such as values, visions, idea, financial exchange, friends, kinship, dislike, conflict, trade, web links, sexual relations, disease transmission (epidemiology), or airline routes.

I like the radio and frequency analogy because since now we have so many ‘social network services’, it is common to say “Do you have ‘name the social network service of your choice’?” when we meet someone new or even our old acquaintance and want to keep in touch with them. For me, it is like we are ‘tuning’ into their frequency and keep on informed about their activities.

Join everything, update nothing

A stolen catch phrase from Satya, which said almost everything about the tendency of many people when joining a particular social network service, myself included. How many of you already registered with this and that social network services and updated them regularly? Probably, you only regularly update 3-5 services and leave the other service unmaintainable or sporadically maintainable. Those services you are regularly maintain are usually the services that your friends and peers updated or used the most too. That is ‘the frequency’.

What are my frequencies?

I love social network services. Not all of them, of course. There are some services polluted with hideous user interface and annoying ‘blink’, which I personally refused to use. I joined almost every services mentioned in the news but at the end of the day, I only updated some which I really love or the one which my peers used (even to my annoyance). So here they are in no particular order:

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This is what I called a great project. [Ourmedia.org][om] is a new website that provide free storage and free bandwidth. Forever. From ourmedia website: > We provide free storage and free bandwidth for your videos, audio files, photos, text or software. Forever. No catches. Amazing isn't it? Supported by [Drupal][],[Bryght][] and [Internet Archive][], this is one great project to creative people that need huge storage, high bandwidth and of course, exposure - lots of it. This might sound like a very ambitious project for some. And for those pessimists out there... I just want to say one thing: **cut it / Read more …

Time for another cool website! Adam Polselli’s website really struck me down. Nice use of images, soothing color, great articles, great photos (I like the ‘by color scheme’ option to browse, quite catchy). I am suck with color and Adam’s website give me some good tips to improve my ‘color inspiration’. Thanks! / Read more …

It’s Stopdesign. It’s Douglas Bowman. The one who redesign Blogger. And it have a new layout now. ‘Nuff said. Awesome, great work and two thumbs up! / Read more …

Time for another cool websites, it’s been a while, eh?. This time I proudly present: Stu’s Site ~ Cascading Style Sheets ~ Cutting edge techniques. Amazing repository of cutting edge CSS techniques. Learn some new tricks or just revised your old tricks, this site worth the visit. Nice works! / Read more …

Learning CSS, Accesibility and Standards? dez’s have a bunch of good links for your learning appetite: CSS, Accesibility and Standards Links. Great work! It’s nice to know that someone really put much effort to collect all of these links. My bookmarks is in the real messy condition now and not to mention scattered on many computers… I really need to start organizing my bookmarks. / Read more …

Done. My main website is participating in May 1st Reboot and now it have a new layout… More simple, cleaner and straight to the point, I think… OK, some keypoint on the new layout: * Validated under XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS 2.0. * Have a new column called “Colophon”, a brief description about who is responsible for all of this craziness =). * I am using Flash again! Thanks to Todd Dominey’s slide show source Flash file. I put high credit on his hard work… Have you seen his amazing 2003 PGA Championship website? It’s gorgeous. * Universal navigation / Read more …

Technicolor. Another 'color selection' tools. Enjoy / Read more …

ShaunInman.com. The best tableless layout in my humble opinion and it validates too! / Read more …

Find a hard time to get some colors combination for your whatever purpose? These couple of links, from many resources, should help you out: ColorMatch Remix (fave)Color scheme (fave)Color BlenderColor Schemer - Online Color Scheme GeneratorWeb Color TheoryColor Calculator Have fun! / Read more …

Institut Teknologi Bandung's (My school where I get my bachelor degree, if you didn't already know) website is using tableless layout now... Nice work, Wid!. Hmm, I wonder if this is the first educational institute website that use tableless layout... Let me know. / Read more …

Web Standards Awards. Should I said more? / Read more …

I really like Airbag, clean design, cool graphics, great content and of course it's tableless... / Read more …

I know this website have been around for quite some times and its getting better and better. The gallery is superb and the resources are very useful and informative. If you want to see the collection of good CSS based design and lots of resources about CSS, go to CSS Vault. / Read more …

Jeffrey Zeldman is one of some people that influenced my way of thinking about web design. Now he redesign his website and it's still amazing. / Read more …

Still not convincing why tables for layout is stupid? Well, read this website then. Cool graphic, cool CSS's effect (check the Main Section link) and cool content. If you still not convincing then.. well, see you in the future then ;) / Read more …

OK, let me add two websites in this category: Thomas's Warnadunia and William's personal website. Both are using web standards specification, valid HTML and CSS and of course, tableless! Congrats guys, you two have done a very good work =) / Read more …

Today is World Aids Day. / Read more …

Another great layout from Thalia. Love the new layout and colors, especially those tab navigation and it a tableless design also which always have plus point in my book. Good work, Thal! / Read more …

The Why and How of Blogging by Nick Finck. Hmm, I didn't even realize that bloggin' will be this important when I was started it officially back in September 3rd 2000. / Read more …

Chris Bishop - her! is a very cute comicstrips. It's about a girl and a pig (with sunglasses), yes... it is the pig who wears sunglasses. And visit the creator's website too. He is a very talented ilustrator... Great collection there. / Read more …

Have your own weblog/journal/blog? Then check NITLE Weblog Census and search is your weblog/journal/blog already censused? Mine did... =) / Read more …

Dull Saturday and I just happened to find: The dullest blog in the world. / Read more …

Another fine creation of Stopdesign (Good work, Doug): Adaptive Path's website. Beautiful design and had valid XHTML 1.0 Strict (wow! Strict!!) and CSS. What more can you ask? Doug even mention the process and a few highlights on designing it. More case studies to put into my learning towards implementation of web standards. / Read more …

IndoFirstAid: First Aid First ! is an informational weblog that give education about First Aid and most articles are in Indonesian, which make this website is one of the kind. I always love this 'informational weblog genre' because well, it gives us information about something that we should know. This is Education with a capital E. Keep up the good work! By the way, eliminating that annoying ambulance animated .gif will be a blessing tho... =) / Read more …

I've heard about Blogshares a couple of months ago. Quite interesting features but back then I don't have time to explore it more. Well, that was a mistake... =P It turn out that that game is very interesting. Well, I may not quite grasped the idea. But I am getting there. Will post more about the it later. Right now, so many things to do than just play it. Update: My shares are on sale! Well, they were sold out right now and I am only hold 10% of total shares... Geez... / Read more …

Some people think standarized web design (using XHTML for content and CSS for layout) is very restricting. Some said that sometimes the standard create obstacle to the design itself. Some even said that the standard limiting their creativity... Well, since when the creativity or the design has limit? The standard is not limiting them, they in fact enhance them. Don't believe me? Read on. This is an old news for some of you but since I never post this link here, let me tell you about CSS Zen Garden. I am currently working on the Indonesian translation for it but / Read more …

Are you an Indonesian graphic or web designer? Then participate in Adikarya Desain Indonesia 2003 (Indonesia Design Masterpiece 2003)! Details on the website. One thing that make me quite happy is the separation between graphic design and web designer. I always said that web design is not just 'graphic design on the web'. Web design deserve more that that! Maybe both can be categorized under visual communication design field. I strongly agree that without a good graphic design then a website will be a sore to the eyes but there are more than just 'good looks' to make a good / Read more …