links for 2008-07-13

  • EFF is the leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the digital world.
  • An incredibly thorough survey and guide on building sign-up forms with excellent usability. This is an outstanding article.
  • YouTube will soon add geosearch — giving viewers the ability to find videos tagged to a certain location — disclosed product manager Brian Glick at a developer talk at YouTube’s San Bruno, Calif., campus on Thursday.
  • There is truth to this truemor–participatory news network NowPublic has acquired Truemors, a website dedicated to news rumor mill. Truemors founder Guy Kawasaki will join NowPublic as Chair of the Advisory Board.
  • The first line of TweetBeep’s webpage sums up this service perfectly – it’s the equivalent of Google Alerts for Twitter