September 9, 2008
TechCrunch50 live on the web
You could fly to San Francisco, be horrified at the cost of even a cheap hotel room, then spend USD500 just to be there, or you can watch the TechCrunch50 conference live on USTREAM and just pay the streaming bandwidth cost. This is the first time I’ve ever seen a USTREAM live video stream acceptably from Australia, so if that’s been the experience for you too, give this one a try – it... read more
May 2, 2008
As some of you may know, Elliot and I are toiling away building TrippyThing, a website that turns unfriendly, jargon-heavy confirmation emails from travel booking services into understandable, friendly, shareable trip itineraries.
We hope to tell you more about our launch timeframe for TrippyThing soon.
Right now, we need your help to add to our collection of travel booking confirmation emails.
These are...
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Will you help Trippything?
March 27, 2008
AT&T: if I have to learn your interface, you’ve failed
Why do so many people in tech management find 3D interface so strangely addictive, when it’s clinically proven to be idiot-forming? Techcrunch reports that AT&T has been developing a new web 3D browser, Pogo, based on Mozilla. I’m amongst the readers who reacted with a strong WTF? at the news, though it brings up some important points about interface design, following trends, and... read more
March 11, 2008
Here I am in full iPhone Fuzzycolourtm at the dining table with Yorke Hinds, the devbrain behind Quivalent, once my favourite email newsletter marketing platform, and Zookoda, an excellent tool to help bloggers manage RSS email subscriptions, a product now in the portfolio of PayPerPost.
Peepl have been dropping around to our house a bit lately, mostly to sample our fantastic fresh-ground Forsyths coffee...
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This morning in da house: Yorke Hinds
March 10, 2008
Facebook adds political party affiliation Originally uploaded by thatjonesboy.
In place of the original vague "libera/conservative" affiliations we now get actual political parties, which is great if you vote for the same political party every election and agree with their entire platform, which is… rare. But make no mistake, this is a step forward.
In Australia, all Federal parties...
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Facebook wants to know about your politics
February 26, 2008
Mark Jones of Filtered Media is predicting the death of social networking. I don’t think death is coming any time soon, and certainly not from Google and Gmail as Mark suggests. I think the bigger future threat for MySpace and Facebook are microblogging and social messaging layers over the top of the social networks.
Yes, social networks can’t sustain the current growth. There will be a...
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Death of social networks? Not that way, and not yet!
February 19, 2008
New scouta.com MockupOriginally uploaded by rich115.
Richard Giles from Scouta was looking on Twitter for some feedback on his new redesign. I charge for this kinda work, but here’s some brief feedback:
S-P-E-L-L out the benefit
You haven’t yet shown the user the benefit. You assume they know why receiving personalised recommendations is a good thing. Start with, “Who has time to find...
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Feedback on scouta.com redesign mockup
November 9, 2007
There are now so many microblogging platforms out there, and they’re all so new none has quite achieved ubiquity yet. So teh kiddies at hellotxt have decided the right thing to do is to add anothr layer of aggregation on the interweb, this time to let you update all your microblog feeds from the one microblogger.
So gay! Why? Mostly bcoz they’ll never keep up. New microblog apps appear...
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The wrong way up a one way street of content
November 9, 2007
There are now so many microblogging platforms out there, and they’re all so new none has quite achieved ubiquity yet. So teh kiddies at hellotxt have decided the right thing to do is to add anothr layer of aggregation on the interweb, this time to let you update all your microblog feeds from the one microblogger.
So gay! Why? Mostly bcoz they’ll never keep up. New microblog apps appear...
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The wrong way up a one way street of content
October 29, 2007
Duncan Riley is copping some criticism on Techcrunch over his opinion that OS X Leopard’s widgets are newsworthy enough to report on.
I think it’s an interesting feature of Leopard, but not really significant to the widget sector (is it a sector yet? covered by TC.
Unlike most other widget platforms, OS X’s widgets are hidden in a Widget app that you need to open first, reducing the...
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Choice is more often a feeling than an action
