Trying out Adobe Edge (Adobe Edge brings Flash design to HTML5)
For all the talk of how HTML5 will be the future of the Web, and how, in particular, it will replace Flash for rich interactive and animated content, the reality is that the technology is out of reach for a lot of the designers and animators currently using Flash. While HTML5 developers are working directly [Continue reading]
this google-microsoft thing is getting a bit silly :)
this google-microsoft thing is getting a bit silly :) Embedded Link Email Intervention – Homepage Make the switch
Sorry all
Reshared post from +Aaron Wood Sorry all. There was a typo in the last bit of art I posted. Here it is again sans typo. :) Looks like they’re already spreading around though! lol
Fixing UTF encoding in AJAX requests on Internet Explorer
The legendary status of Internet Explorer for being special among all browsers was reminded to me when I discovered that sending a variable with non-latin character in a GET request over AJAX is apparently too troubling for IE. The result is that characters in greek are either transformed to latin ones or just disappear. This [Continue reading]
Social media is social but it’s not media
Where equals (or close to equals) get together to interact. On Facebook it ‘s like a school reunion or a family picnic or an office party. A loose social gathering with no specific interest focus. On Twitter it looks more like a cocktail party. Lots of subgroups with specific interests. But however it looks, it [Continue reading]
Fake Apple stores in China (are you listening, Steve Jobs?)
They looked like Apple products. It looked like an Apple store. It had the classic Apple store winding staircase and weird upstairs sitting area. The employees were even wearing those blue t-shirts with the chunky Apple name tags around their necks… You have already guessed the punchline, of course: this was a total Apple store [Continue reading]
How social media can kill a brand in days
What’s perhaps most interesting here, is that the PMS campaign was actually a relaunch of a fairly similar campaign that had run in 2005. In that instance, the ads drew some negative response and complaints, but crucially this was before the widespread penetration of social media that we have today. In essence, the reaction around [Continue reading]
Google+ business profiles to include analytics & more
“You can expect to see a level of analytics and measurement that you’d typically find in Google products as well as a nuanced approach to how things are shared. It encourages and enhances conversation, it doesn’t just put things in the stream.” More: Google+ business profiles to include analytics & more | VentureBeat.
Google+ vs Facebook: The xkcd test
Xkcd is one of my favorite comics, so sharing a good strip is part of my “sharing agenda”. Facebook has traditionally a problem with xkcd.com pages.
Adventures in Google Apps Land
With the introduction of Google+ I made the attempt to re-organise my Google services under a new account also having my giannopoulos.net email on Google Apps. This lead to discovering two things
The most brilliant/evil feature in Google+
I’m exploring the world of Google+ and this option in the sharing window seems to be the best way for a social network to expand.
Google+ Statistics on SocialStatistics.com
You know when your product/service is catching on, when other people are starting to built on it, try to take advantage on it or make themselves more known by being the first on it. From the co-founder of TwitterCounter.com… Google+ Statistics tracks the top 100 users on Google+. Just add yourself so we can start [Continue reading]
The state of management tools
You have to wonder how far development of business software has progressed, when spreadsheets is being voted as the the best tool for the simple task of a to-do list. My personal choice is Apogee Team, but I’m biased :) More: Five Best Group To-Do Management Tools | LifeHacker
Redesigning TechCrunch: We Picked This Logo Just to Piss You Off
Not sure what to think on the TechCrunch re-design yet, but it certainly loads faster (I had stopped visiting the last few months due to it’s slowness) The new logo is our most controversial change. I love it, though that’s no accident: we went through many, many options with Code & Theory before finding one [Continue reading]
Google+ Circles: Rethinking the way we share
I had a full article on the issue but the WordPress iPhone app decided to eat it, so here are some other people’s articles instead
Adding OG Tags in WordPress
I’ve been using the FB Connect plugin for allowing visitors to login on the blog. It adds the Open Graph tags that Facebook reads to determine how a page will be displayed on a Facebook stream when shared, but not all of them. The description and image tags are missing, plus there are not tags [Continue reading]
Free Video Sharing Tools For Businesses
With the announcement yesterday about Facebook’s Video chat feature, there is more interest surrounding ways that you can share the apps running on your screen as well as your mug across a video link. There are dozens of Web conferencing products that I have cataloged here and I will mention a few of these services [Continue reading]
25 Examples of Inspiring Product Display in Web Design
Choosing the best way to display products is a really important step of web design, since the way you display your products can drive attention to it and make users interested in what you are selling, or can drive users away. It’s like when you are walking in a mall, the most creative, elegant or [Continue reading]
Searching for a font
A visual search (using the excellent Simple Lightbox plugin) for the best font for this blog. Any suggestions are welcome :) Current choice: Ubuntu
Swiffy: convert SWF files to HTML5
Today we’re making the first version of Swiffy available on Google Labs. You can upload a SWF file, and Swiffy will produce an HTML5 version which will run in modern browsers with a high level of SVG support such as Chrome and Safari. It’s still an early version, so it won’t convert all Flash content, [Continue reading]
From WordPress to Facebook and back
When you start a new blog you have no visitors so you need to reach out to them. And these days most of your audience can be easily reached on Facebook as your social graph is bound to be stored there these days. I have been facing the issue of making it easy for people [Continue reading]
+1 reporting in Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics
The +1 button and the Google+ project are both about making it easier to connect with the people you trust online. For the +1 button, that means bringing advice from trusted friends and contacts right into Google search, letting the users who love your web content recommend it at the moment of decision. But when you’re [Continue reading]
A new start
Greetings, this is a new article starting a third phase of this site. For the sake of… history, the previous two phase included April 2006 – April 2007: Posting photos from my journeys and things poping up in front of me April 2007 – April 2011: Basically a copy from links on the net I [Continue reading]
The WordPress vs Facebook Game: Round II