JJ Garret is an icon in information architecture/information design. His book The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web is one of the clearest explanations of what needs to be done, in what order, and how. If your working on a site then definitely read this one. Sites used to be on of [...]
Nice to see that Ruby on Rails is getting significant traction. Looks like the BBC is looking to leverage it on their latest skunkworks project. Check it out at: hackdiary: The BBC’s programme catalogue (on Rails)
As I pointed out in this post, the internet is far from dead. The current rage is Web 2.0, become familiar with this term as it will dominate the landscape on the ‘Net for the next few years. Web 2.0 represents a significant paradigm shift. That means new opportunities, new challenges, and a whole lot [...]
Digg is a great way to keep in touch with the latest emerging memes, check it out at http://digg.com
Let’s face it, TV is dying. That morass of crap is slowly but surely becoming irrelevant, good riddance I say. I recently heard a statistic that soap operas are experiencing an amazing drop in viewer-ship and the entire tv industry was puzzled. That’s right, they are puzzled why they are losing viewers and are befuddled [...]
Zen Gardens are beautiful creations. They exude tranquility and serenity, take a tour online.
Wow, amazing…. Most amazing, many years after the Be OS, we finally have….. Arbitrarily Extensible File System Metadata Wow, Apple did it. They did it on HFS+. Wow….. Spotlight absolutely rocks on so many levels, yeah what it does is very cool, but the technical details in implementation are astounding… I am gonna have fun [...]
The most amazing music recommendation engine just launched, its UpTo11.net – Music Recommendations and Search. They seem to be using some pretty interesting algorithms to determine what else to check out. The algorithms actually work pretty awesomely. If you haven’t been there, get there now. It just made del.icio.us most popular link of the day, its that good!
Microsoft dipping its toes into the social networking/lifehacking/wiki/full-buzzword-compliance phenomena? If your in the beta and can invite please feel free to invite me… Check it out at Wallop!
If you haven’t had a chance to checkout Google Maps head right on over and have some fun. Its another real interesting head-turning google application. Google is getting closer and closer to desktop app feels with these things, of course the data they contain blows away anything a desktop app could do…