Brands that suck on Twitter
Here in the UK, Twitter has yet to seriously catch on although many organisations are attempting to make use of it. But the marketing and communications departments of large US companies are becoming...
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Image Source – redesigned website live
Since October 2007 I’ve been working on a redesign project for Image Source, a stock photo provider not unlike Getty Images or Corbis. The site went live last night. My company was initially hired to...
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The dregs of e-commerce
I’m currently carrying out some research into open-source e-commerce platforms. The research is at a pretty early stage and I’m still putting together the list of packages that we’ll then go on to...
View ArticleKicking Google Knol when it’s down
You might not have heard of Google Knol, the service Google launched in an attempt to eclipse Wikipedia as a world-accessible font of knowledge. In a post last year I included it in a list of reasons...
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Is RSS the “vinyl” of digital media?
For large stretches of my life, I’ve allowed my obsession with music to burn up huge chunks of my time as well as my money. Illness, poverty, hangovers, rain – none of these things would stop me...
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Bookmarks versus Favorites
Back when Microsoft was winning the browser wars and all but a committed few were using Internet Explorer, the word “Bookmarks” was at risk of becoming a forgotten Netscape-ism. IE’s equivalent,...
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Google’s guinea pig
Google is testing a new feature on its main search page, and I seem to have become an unwitting guinea pig. The feature is called “streaming” (edit: it was actually Google Instant, which went live a...
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“The ribbon”– a permanent new ingredient in interface design, or just flavour...
Over the last month I’ve been following a new(ish) trend in web design that I call “the ribbon”. I’ll show you some real-world examples shortly, but first here’s a mockup illustrating the basic idea....
View ArticleSmozzy for Android – the latest in a long tradition of accessing the net in...
Smozzy is a new Android app (for US T-Mobile customers only) with a novel approach to getting round prohibitive data costs. Instead of downloading web content in the traditional manner, the app uses...
View ArticleShareSite has finally returned
As mentioned last month, ShareSite has finally relaunched. You can find it at www.sharesite.org.uk. Rather than dumping the entire archive online, we’ll be publishing them one article at a time over...
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How the Geocities community reacted to 9/11
Geocities, founded in 1995, was a colossus of the dotcom era and an early example of a mass-market social web platform. When it eventually died off (under the care of Yahoo!, unsurprisingly) lots of...
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