Top 10 Best Websites of 2009 October 20, 2009
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1. Moodstream | Getty Images 
Moodstream is a hypnotic website brought to you by the folks at Getty Images that offers a brainstorming tool designed to help get your creative juices flowing. By simply tweaking the mood sliders you can adjust a stream of images, footage, & audio that can help inspire your creative direction.
2. Monoface
Mono is an advertising agency based in Minneapolis, MN that lives by the motto that “simpler is better.” The “Mono”face site lives up to that motto by presenting visitors with a fun and simple Flash application that allows them to sculpt a Mr. Potato Head style face that contains 759,375 entertaining possibilities.
3. Waterlife
Waterlife is a showcase for the documentary film of the same name that offers its audience a wonderful preview of the lush cinematography and rich storytelling found in the film. The true genius of the site, however, is found in its fluid navigation that recalls the gentle motion of a lake.
4. Marc Ecko
MarcEcko.com is a wonderful example of using the vast possibilities of Flash to accurately reflect the ethos of a consumer brand within a website. Even visitors unfamiliar with the Ecko brand will feel they understand the art & philosophy it symbolizes within a few minutes of touring the site.
5. Get The Glass Get The Glass is the work of the California Milk Processor Board and was designed to encourage increased milk consumption by inviting visitors to participate in a comically entertaining Flash based game whose objective is to Get the Glass–of milk of course. The current design appeared in late 2007.
6. NVIDIA® – Speak Visual™
Speak Visual is a Flash based micro site designed to promote the power of NVIDIA’s graphic processors and was developed in a collaboration between the Odopod & Cutwater design studios. The site was launched in December 2008 and currently serves as a showcase for a multimedia design contest sponsored by NVIDIA.
7. AgencyNet Interactive
AgencyNet Interactive is a design studio based in New York City, NY and Fort Lauderdale, FL whose current website design appeared in March of 2005. Absolutely stunning site! The depth and functionality of the site far surpasses any Flash based site we’ve ever seen, but don’t take our word for it…
8. 2Advanced Studios
2Advanced Studios is an interactive design firm based in Aliso Viejo, CA whose current design appeared in August 2006. 2Advanced has always been known for their stylish neo-ancient homepage design, but their latest redesign takes that to a whole new level with a background mural that is truly inspiring.
9. Section Seven Inc.
Section Seven Inc. is a website design studio that has utilizes the power of Flash to create a truly unique navigation system that allows users to tour their portfolio in style. Their current site appeared on the web in early 2007 and has received numerous awards including the prestigious FWA.
10. Dave Werner’s Portfolio
Dave Werner uses his Flash skills not only to publish his portfolio, but through the use of well narrated video, he also gives visitors a sense of his personal story which seeks to give stronger voice and context to his featured work. The current version of OkayDave.com went live in mid 2006.
source: http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/best-flash-sites
Top 10 Programmers of All Time October 17, 2009
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1. John Carmack
John is the god of programmers. He has consistently pushed back the barriers of the fastest paced industry in the world. To keep ahead of the wave whilst still working under the pressure of having to make the final result part of a game is awesome. His innovation in computer graphics have brought us Wolfenstein 3D, Doom & Quake.
2. Linus Torvalds
Linus invented Linux. He wanted to create a Unix-like operating system for the PC and in doing so created a revolution in open source software.
3. Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the World Wide Web has got to be in my top 10 because of the massive difference he has made to the face of the internet.
4. Douglas Andrew Bel Doug
Wrote one of my all time favorite games Dungeon Master At the time it was a massive leap forward in role playing games and although graphics have improved over the years thousands of games still copy the inventory system from 1987.
5. Dennis Ritchie
Dennis has had his fingers in many wonderful pies these include C, ALTRAN, B, BCPL and Unix. For me his work with C has been the most influential and the C book The C Programming Language by Dennis and Brian Kernighan is one of the best programming books ever written.
6. Bram Cohen Bram
Wrote the protocol BitTorrent that allows file sharing. For me Bram made one of those leaps of imagination required to create a system that is now used in every corner of the internet.
7. Rasmus Lerdorf, Andi Gutmans & Zeev Suraski
PHP currently runs 34% of the websites on the internet. Need I say more?
8. Jez San Jez
Is probably most known for his company Argonaut (I was it’s 8th employee) but Jez also coded some of the early games and throughout his career continued to be actively involved in the programming and could always surprise everyone with his in-depth knowledge of cutting edge technologies.
9. Bjarne Stroustrup Bjarne
Invented C++ wrote its early definitions and produced its first ever implementation. Where would we be without the massive leap from C to C++.
10. Richard Bartle & Roy Trubshaw
Together they wrote the very first massive multiplayer online game. The first MUD (Multi-user dungeon) was written at the University of Essex and allowed users to interact through a text based interface.
source: http://www.nickhalstead.com/
