Coming so soon on the heels of the underwhelming Google Wave, the company’s next big social experiment seems to be another chink in the armour of the web behemoth. Buzz, which along with the most recent iterations of Facebook, resembles Twitter has been criticised by Users (Google Getting The Wrong Kind of Buzz: Web Pro) for …
Complete Beginner’s Guide to Interaction Design from UX Booth. Fascinating, complete and packed with resources.
After hassling people on Twitter for an invite I finally got my hands on a golden ticket/invite and eagerly jumped into Google Wave. It looks amazing. All those panels, sliders and plenty of workspace. Uncluttered, giving you access to only the tools you need. Once the initial euphoria had subsided, and I actually tried to do …
As it’s approaching the end of the noughties everyone seems to be in a looking backward/looking forward mood. Whilst I come up with my albums of the decade, here’s a couple of interesting links. The first from Noupe with a broad look at what we’ll all be doing in the next five years. Still no jet …
volkswagen.co.uk In my opinion the Volkswagen website isn’t particularly well desgined. I don’t like the tool bar at the top of the page, the floating navigation and the floating cars. The car selector on rollover is presented in a really awful way - calling up the horizontal scrollbar which looks ugly. However, the site does offer …
Interesting story on The Register today: Microsoft howls as Google turns IE into Chrome This is some good lateral thinking on Google’s behalf! How many hours have web developers spent in trying to hack their code to present a comparable user experience to IE users? By creating a browser plugin that uses the IE browser as …
This story on The Register is a bit of a wake up call: Facebook Enables Apps to Peek at Mail. I’m definitely in the ‘I don’t want to be a fucking zombie’ camp, but seeing some of the apps that my ‘friends’ have installed it really makes me concerned that the less power we give app …
Whilst visiting Pro Blogger in search of inspiration, I found a video talking about Google’s Wonder Wheel tool. This is available on Google’s results page by clicking ‘Show options’ and then choosing the ‘Wonder Wheel’ link. This will display your search term as the hub of a wheel and display associated search terms on the spokes. …
Who cares? There seems to be a lot of debate online about whether the Beatles back catalogue might iminently be appearing on Apple’s iTunes Store. Â Well, it’s available for download on Play, Amazon and the Beatles own online store. Â Why not buy it from there? I’ve frequently found Play to be cheaper than iTunes on numerous occasions, …
