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Web trends interactive map

This came by way of a couple intermediaries, but it’s cool nonetheless. In the embed above, you can zoom in as deep as you want and pan and drag to see web domain trends and more. A great way of visualizing the state of the web …

April 8th, 2009 :: design, technology :: 0 comments

Avoiding social media spam

The web is chalk full of really good social software applications. Some help you connect with friends, share things you find on the web, create and share video, images or thoughts and many of the good ones are accessible from virtually any device, while letting you extend or build upon them through open APIs. The good services are good, usually because they do one thing really well …

March 1st, 2009 :: technology :: 3 comments

Siftables, a brilliant interface

I already bookmarked and tweeted this, brought to my attention by one of my RRU cohort. However, as I thought about the educational implications for such a usable human-computer interface, the possibilities seem only limited by programming and concept …

February 13th, 2009 :: design, technology :: 0 comments

News online – it’s not as far fetched as you might think

Saw this courtesy of my pointy-haired manager, somewhere in his twitter-stream, on Facebook, from ping.fm, out there. Absolutely hilarious, and not that long ago for old guys like me …

January 28th, 2009 :: technology :: 2 comments

The folly of free

I’ll admit that I’m really qualifying the title of this, specific to business critical applications, regardless of what sector that business is in. We now seem to be in pre-bubble-burst 2.0, big-time. How long before the social web balloon pops in favour of more realistic and sobering economics? The social part is clearly here to [...]

January 26th, 2009 :: technology :: 3 comments

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