Posts Tagged ‘ web ’

Another Google summer

  • July 1st, 2011
  • Posted in design

I love Google.  They’re not perfect, but they’re one of the best companies out there.  And, I’d note, though they pay careful attention to what people say about them and their products, it seems that their primary source of direction and innovation is their own expertise.  This may fly in the face of some basic [ READ MORE ]

RIP Pageflakes?

Some time in early November, Pageflakes went down, and it hasn’t come back yet. Pageflakes is a free web “start page” service. It let’s one aggregate a variety of web resources, especially dynamic feeds of information from other sites, onto single pages, by way of widgets. It also provided special functions that other similar services [ READ MORE ]

A case of superior interaction design

  • November 13th, 2010
  • Posted in design

Dropbox is a free software app that provides a popular service: backing up and sharing files via the web.  It’s not the only such service provider, but it does seem to be taking the web by storm.  I believe it’s because it has a superior interaction design[ READ MORE ]

Blogger gets new themes

  • March 26th, 2010
  • Posted in design

How does Google do it?  They keep producing all this great stuff!  This time, it’s new theming capabilities for their blog service, Blogger.  Yes, many people have become a little bored with the relatively stale themes that Blogger offers.  They’ve added several new, very fresh themes, and more functionality to tweak existent themes and create [ READ MORE ]

A New Wiki on the Scene

One year after it’s inception, foswiki is setting itself up as a great wiki engine. A wiki is a software platform that facilitates collaborative web content development. Invented in 1995 by Ward Cunningham, this approach to content development was brought to serious public attention by Wikipedia, an attempt to create a collaborative encyclopedia of knowledge. [ READ MORE ]

Email, Social Media at Work, and The Next Big Thing

Recently, on CBC Spark, host Nora Young interviewed Luis Suarez about quitting email at work.  You can also see Suarez’s Web 2.0 Expo talk at Youtube.  It got me thinking about the role of software in our lives – especially in our work lives, and that regardless of how many new applications and systems are [ READ MORE ]

New blog for design calls

I’ve started a new blog for posting announcements of calls for papers to design-related journals and conferences.  It’s called DesignCalls here at wordpress.com[ READ MORE ]

Diigo V4 goes live

Version 4 of the bookmarking/annotation service Diigo is a big step forward; better search, collaboration and annotation features, and a streamlined new interface make Diigo better than ever[ READ MORE ]

Why I chose Pageflakes over Netvibes

Even though Pageflakes is a little clumsier, it has functionality that Netvibes doesn’t. There’s a category of web software called “start pages.”  These are sites that let you assemble your own Web pages out of widgets, gadgets, and snippets than each implement some specific function.  One of their most important – and oldest – functions [ READ MORE ]

My web presence, IV: Diigo wins by an annotation

I’ve decided to use Diigo as my key bookmarking app.  Here’s why. There’s a lot of useful stuff on the web, but it’s usually hidden in an awful lot of crap.  As a professor and design researcher, it’s important for me to have access to a wide assortment of good information.  The web can deliver [ READ MORE ]

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