When a "Find my car" app ended up being "find any car", e.g
the perfect tool for thieves :) Embedded Link ’Find My Car’ iPhone app finds anyone’s car • The Register Blogger tags security and privacy howler. By Richard Chirgwin • Get more from this author. Posted in Security, 14th September 2011 02:24 GMT. Free whitepaper – IBM BNT RackSwitch and IBM System Networ… Google+: View post [Continue reading]
New Performance report on Google Analytics
Google has added a "Performance" tab in the "Site Speed" report (available in the new Google Analytics interface only). It provides a break-down of your visitors according to the loading speed they experienced. This was previously possible through custom variables but it’s great to see a native support which will allow more complex reports to [Continue reading]
Excellent archive of resources on the hottest web design trend of your times :)
Excellent archive of resources on the hottest web design trend of your times :) Embedded Link The ultimate responsive web design roundup | Webdesigner Depot More than 70 resources for creating responsive designs, including articles, frameworks and boilerplates for responsive layouts, tools, techniques for resizable images, 100 examples and much more! Google+: View post on [Continue reading]
/me ponders on changing title to Code Designer ;)
/me ponders on changing title to Code Designer ;) Embedded Link The Art of Good Code Design You probably have never heard of Dieter Rams (pictured at left) but certainly know of his work. For many years he was a product designer for Braun and … Google+: Reshared 2 times
cool news!
cool news! Reshared post from +Chris Chabot A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao-tzu I’m super excited about how the Google+ project brings the richness and nuance of real life sharing to software, and today we’re announcing our first step towards bringing this to your apps as well by launching [Continue reading]
Excellent ideas to reduce even further your KB footprint
Excellent ideas to reduce even further your KB footprint Embedded Link Recycling and animating icons with CSS | Webdesigner Depot In the not so distant past, we were learning about revolutionary techniques to save HTTP Request and KBs alike through the use of image sprites. These sprites
WordPress plugin of the day: Auto Link Best Tags
Here is a nice WordPress plugin that can improve content discovery within your blog. It finds mentions of a post’s tags inside the text of the post and creates links to the respective tag pages. Get it at WordPress › Auto Link Best Tags.
Going to be trying this soon
Going to be trying this soon Reshared post from +Eric Cheng Very useful. I had to kick it off 3 times, but it seems to have worked. Embedded Link Move Your Photos – An easy way to move your Facebook Albums to Picasa Move2Picasa is a web application that helps you export all your facebook [Continue reading]
Photos on Google+ are sharing-un-friendly
Try to share a photo to Facebook: No proper title, no description, no image can be matched (or declared with proper tagging)(Photo by +Eric Cheng, he has some amazing photos)
Facebook really needs to learn about this amazing concept of people OPTING IN to…
Facebook really needs to learn about this amazing concept of people OPTING IN to new features… Got this in the mail today Hi Markos, We’re trying out a new feature to reduce the amount of email you receive from Facebook. Starting today, we are turning off most individual email notifications and instead, we’ll send you [Continue reading]
A pig in the sea and other social network gripes
Good day, here are two gripes from my morning browsing… 1) Photos on Google+ are sharing-un-friendly Try to share a photo to Facebook (or wherever for that matter, a service that will try to extract data from the URL): No proper title (example: the author’s name and/or part of the description), no description (photo caption), [Continue reading]
Arguments vs sensationalist journalism
Who wins? :) Embedded Link Tech Writers In Denial: The Michael Arrington Case Study | Loic Le Meur Blog Tweet. (pic, Joi Ito). I have read so much BS- about Michael Arrington’s supposedly displaced integrity as a writer that I thought I should set the record straight. Mike has been an investor in my… Google+: [Continue reading]
Change always brings opportunities :)
Change always brings opportunities :) Embedded Link Responsive Web Design | Webdesigner Depot Responsive design has quickly become recognized as an incredibly smart way to build websites ensuring that websites render the same across all browsers.
How soon before we have ads in Google+ ?
How soon before we have ads in Google+ ? Embedded Link Facebook Has Just Added In-Stream Ads Ads on Facebook have pretty much always had their place ; we know they’re going to pop up on the right hand side, clearly labelled under sponsored content. And up until the introduction … Google+: View post on [Continue reading]
You can have Google Analytics in Picasa That's it, i'm moving from Flick…
You can have Google Analytics in Picasa That’s it, i’m moving from Flickr Embedded Link Using Google Analytics to track visits : Captions, Comments, and Tags – Picasa Help You can integrate Google Analytics to monitor your Picasa Web Albums photo traffic. Please note that this is not a feature for the average bear. We [Continue reading]
Why is the client being so stupid?
Clients aren’t stupid. They aren’t doing things your way because they don’t know what you know, and they don’t think about products and problems the way you think about them. So true. It’s our job to explain and educate and stand on our position, if we are going to be helpful to our clients. Embedded [Continue reading]
Drupal needs to be more user-friendly or it's going to be overpassed by WordPress…
Drupal needs to be more user-friendly or it’s going to be overpassed by WordPress (if it’s not already, measurements in this area do not have consistent results)… Embedded Link Acquia to Launch Apps Market for Drupal Sites A Web publisher’s choice of content management system could determine its relative visibility to its audience, especially those [Continue reading]
Say you want to copy Facebook’s any-page-on-the-web sharing feature where a title,…
Say you want to copy Facebook’s any-page-on-the-web sharing feature where a title, photo and part of the content is automagically presented to the user. Or you want to build yet another news reading service (after you finished building your geo-location group-chat app ;)). You can now do this with Diffbot. More (and a short PHP [Continue reading]
How to read pages with PHP and Diffbot, a visually learning robot
Say you want to copy Facebook’s any-page-on-the-web sharing feature where a title, photo and part of the content is automagically presented to the user. Or you want to build yet another news reading service (after you finished building your geo-location group-chat app ;)). You can now do this with Diffbot.
This guy has seen too many Steve Jobs presentations…
This guy has seen too many Steve Jobs presentations…
Embedded Link Personas as a site design tool | Opinion | .net magazine Stu Collett of Super User Studio says building a detailed persona of your target user is an essential part of creating a truly successful interactive website and explains how to go about it
Looks like LinkedIn is following in Facebook's footsteps
Reshared post from +Jim Goldstein Looks like LinkedIn is following in Facebook’s footsteps. You’ve been opted in to LinkedIn’s various programs that I’m sure many of you might not want to be in including 3rd party advertising. Details and instructions in the following article. Thanks for the heads up on Twitter +Peter West Carey Embedded [Continue reading]
This is the tag cloud of 2 months of posts from my blog
If you could have a word cloud for everything you post online, which words would it contain?
The state of my cloud
When I re-started this site, a bit more than 2 months ago, I thought (or so I said to myself) that I would be posting a lot about coding practices, examples, etc. And it turned out quite differently as you can see on the current status of the tag cloud. Google Plus has been the [Continue reading]
Embedded Link Where ideas for design come from | Opinion | .net magazine The creative process isn’t just magic. Web Hosting Search’s Jane Campbell explains how and why designers’ creative process works, and goes through it from practice and preparation to execution
It seems we can not avoid the chain mail situation no matter how we change the way…
It seems we can not avoid the chain mail situation no matter how we change the way we communicate. Mail forwards are being replaced by re-tweets, +1s and re-shares. When even highly knowledgable people like +Vic Gundotra and +Robert Scoble fall for these kind of things, what’s the solution? Embedded Link The new social network [Continue reading]