March 2008
29 posts
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Good UI Design: Make It Easy, Show Me You Care - ReadWriteWeb Gradual Engagement and Emotional State as 2 trends in Web UI design. Geni & Xobni are 2 examples (tags: Design interface
Vision Thing...it's all about the people. →
Nothing like being linked (and requested for feedback) in a blog post title ‘The Vision Thing’ (admittedly, this post was from a pal, Paul Robinson, who is kindly inaccurate in including me, I…
Release our Parliamentary Bills! →
MySociety are running a wonderfully worthy campaign to ‘Free Our Bills’ - a low-cost, easy way to open up the terribly antiquated format of Parliamentary bills, to enable public services like …
Amazon's physical goods APIs released →
I’ve just got round to reading ReadWriteWebs’s story on Amazon’s Shipping Centre APIs. Pretty incredible - I could basically build a physical goods company, with all inventory storage, shipping…
iPlayer - finally an interface I can use. →
iPlayer is brilliant - it lets me watch BBC TV at a schedule I choose, but it’s interface is a pain in the ass - lots of pretty pictures, but programmes listed in splayed episodes,…
LinkedIn groups →
So, the fairly useless benign LinkedIn actually got really interesting, by adding a groups feature (by groups, of course, I mean companies). Now they have a decent core of data to mine, they’re…
“A new office block in Sheffield has become the first building in the UK to...”
– Tate slide comes to office building
Why Your (e) Books Are No Longer Yours →
An interesting article, Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader Locked Up: Why Your Books Are No Longer Yours that reviews a recent legal review of ebook vendor’s legal agreements and ownership of the…
LinkedIn groups →
So, the fairly useless benign LinkedIn actually got really interesting, by adding a groups feature (by groups, of course, I mean companies). Now they have a decent core of data to mine, they’re…
Charting The Banking Crisis →
Charting The Banking Crisis - A Boomerang Demo is a Gapminder-like animated bubble chart of banking exposure to mortgage debt over the last year. I’m not sure it actually provides the…
Watchelextroplankton plus iband Video. I love ElektroPlankton. I shall play with it when I get home tonight. (Found on Russell Davies)
Failure of Simplicity? →
Today, BBC News linked to a Nov 2007 explanation of the sub-prime fallout. Apart from being prescient, it’s one of the best ‘why it happened’ explanations I’ve seen, using a very simple…
“Think of Apple as the Singapore of the technology world. It is impeccably clean,...”
– New York Times Blog (via BoingBoing Gadgets)
Democrat's call centre webapps →
Barack Obama Campaign tools - I’ve signed up to various candidate’s email lists to see how they communicate (as a UK citizen, I’m in er. shock and awe at the slick campaign…
