Hot Web App(s)
During the panel “Hot Web Apps” at SXSWi 06, three web applications were presented, namely Yackpack, Meebo and Zimbra. I wanted to spend some real time with these applications before writing about them....continue reading »
PR mogul cites blogging as top 3 trend
A public relations mogul gets interviewed in Singapore's Business Times, and he cites blogging as one of the top three new trends in the industry. continue reading »
Dogma Free Design
Some principles: Web design should be controlled by designers Ajax is the future of the web Every big company should have a usability lab All web apps require ethnographic research 99% of flash is bad Now destroy those principles....continue reading »
Design Eye for the List Guy
In this year’s Design Eye, craigslist was put through an extreme makeover. The result? The design-eyed craigslist. Loses its rough-around-the-edges feel of the original, even though it does look great....continue reading »
Microformats: Evolving the Web
What if you could publish the schedule of your annual staff retreat on your company website, and staff members could automatically its events to the calendar on their Palm Desktop or their iCal? Directly from that webpage. Or what if...continue reading »
What are people really doing on the Web?
Panelists: Kalehoff (Nielsen/BuzzMetrics), Madansky (GSD&M), Brown (Harris Interactive), Greenberg (Yahoo!)...continue reading »
Bloggie Awards 2006
During brunch at the Stage Cafe, I caught the last bit of the Sixth Annual Weblog Awards (2006). Boing Boing won twice (at least) and the Weblog of the Year award went to Postsecret. I took a video of that...continue reading »
SXSW 2006 Podcasts
For those of you who need to hear it word for word, podcasts of SXSW 2006 panels are now available....continue reading »
Designing for Community with Zero Advertising
Mason (moderator, Adaptive Path, MightyGirl.net blog, ‘101 projects for your blog’ book) Jake Nickell, Jeff Kalmikoff, Jacob Dehart (SkinnyCorp, Threadless) Threadless has 15,000 unique visitors and sells 60,000 t-shirts every month. Two of them met at a convention, got together...continue reading »
Craig Newmark keynote
Craig’s the founder of the popular Craigslist.org. He talks about trust, because a huge element of trust is involved on his site. He’s interviewed by Wikipedia’s President, Jimmy Wales....continue reading »
The Future of Darknets – Can Hollywood see the light?
The title of this discussion makes direct reference to the book ‘Darknets’ by JD Lasica. He summarises it as entertainment companies missing the big picture. [Note: After this most exciting discussion I went and bought the book and got...continue reading »
Remixing Business for a Convergent World
Panelists: Scoble, Samuel, Steuer, Levitt, Foster...continue reading »
Holistic Web Design: Finding the Creative Balance in Multi-Disciplined Teams
Panelists: Jason Santa Maria (art direction), Eris Stassi (interaction design), Garrett Dimon (information architecture), Carl Sieber (user interface design), Shaun Inman (web development) Lucian has endured days of me raving about Shaun Inman, so I will try my best to...continue reading »
DIY Now More Than Ever
“Fail fast, fail often” - Gina Trapani, Editor of LifeHacker. Regarding the possible theft of your brilliant idea, “If you’re the kind of person afraid of someone stealing your idea and losing your competitive advantage, it probably isn’t a very...continue reading »
Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing
Speaker: Adam Greenfield (synopsis)...continue reading »
Meet Judy Jetson
Goodstein produces a whirlwind of statistics. I think I’ll wait for the podcast (unless Lucian’s got the figures). Panelists are: Lahey Farmand, 18, female blogger and migrant from Iran. Lewis, 18, teenfashionista blog. McGunigle, the Intelligence Group...continue reading »
How (and why) to podcast an event
Maxine Sherrin, John Allsopp, Eric Meyer, Alex Williams (synopsis)...continue reading »
Creating Building Blocks for Independents
Have no doubt about this: Tantek Çelik is a visionary. Before we get into the panel discussion proper, let’s look at how Tantek defines an “independent” ought to be. Someone that dares to think or do something on their own,...continue reading »
How to create passionate users
Speaker: Kathy Sierra (synopsis). Read her blog on Creating Passionate Users and watch out for her soon-to-be-released book of the same title (O'Reilly Press). Again, another full house. Things are looking good....continue reading »
Cyberplace: Online in Offline Spaces -- and Vice Versa
Panelists: Dennis Crowley, Scott Heiferman, Michael Sharon, Molly Wright, Heath Row (moderator) Heath Row posted a comment on my personal blog before - when I praised Fast Company’s website. I’ve used the Movabletype Meetup.com service before - except that we...continue reading »
Intermission
Just moved back to Room 15, found a seat near an empty power point, and unpacked my laptop adapter (it nearly ran out of juice after the 2nd panel, which was annoying). A funky black dude (looking a bit like...continue reading »
Coudal's Keynote's Notes
A very interesting nugget Jim spoke about was that while the creatives have often been the sidekick (and manufacturing and what-not the mainstay), a role-reversal has taken place. Creatives have added the other main business functions unto themselves because the...continue reading »
Coudal and Fried opening remarks
Speakers: Jim Coudal / Jason Fried (synopsis)...continue reading »
AJAX: What do I need to know?
Panelists: Dylan Schiemann, Dori Smith, David Humphreys (moderator), Jesse James Garrett (the guy who coined the term AJAX). The panel starts at 11.30am Central Time. In the meantime, read up on this Adaptive Path article that started it all....continue reading »
How to be a Web Design Superhero
The British duo of Andy Clarke and Andy Budd step up to the stage with rock music and rock star ultraviolent lighting. This looks to be a good one. Star Wars theme playing on the speakers. The slides are amazing....continue reading »
Podcasting 2.0
I’m now at my very first SXSWi panel! The panelists are Laura Swisher, Eric Rice, Rob Greenlee and Chris Pirillo the gang leader moderator....continue reading »
SXSW goodie bag
These are the main contents of our SXSW goodie bag. Everybody gets one. (Visit the Flickr page to see my notes on each item.) As you can imagine, they were fairly heavy. We wished we had collected our bags...continue reading »
Break Bread with Brad
Today was spent going through the registration process, getting our SXSW badges, paying the State Capitol a visit and then heading down for what has become SXSW tradition for bloggers: Breaking Bread with Brad. Registration was quite amazing. They had...continue reading »
Lucian's Tentative SXSWi Schedule
While I was on the plane Vanessa made a list of panels she’d be attending. Like her, I too am unable to physically be in two places at the same time, so these are the panels I’d most probably be...continue reading »
Tower Records to unveil free music podcast at SXSW
Tower Records is launching a new service, “TowerPod”, that allows users to create podcasts of 6,000 songs (indie music) for free. TowerPod will be unveiled at SXSW and launched in the summer. It would be interesting to see if their...continue reading »
Zeldman switches to Wordpress
A day before SXSWi begins, Zeldman announces his move to Wordpress - after nearly 11 years of hand-rolling his code. He explains why. I can totally empathise when he said he wanted something that “lets you concentrate on ideas instead...continue reading »
Tentative SXSWi schedule
I've just selected the SXSWi panels I wish to attend. There were some clashes - like blogging and podcasting 2.0 being on at the same time, for instance - but I had to decide which ones were more important to...continue reading »
Austin Chronicle covers SXSWi
The Austin Chronicle put SXSW on the front page today, with a focus on women bloggers like Dooce and BlogHER. The newspaper’s coverage of several selected SXSWi panelists is more in-depth than the one-paragraph writeups on the SXSW website...continue reading »
Going Bezurk
As Chu Yeow pointed out, Singapore does have Ajaxified products. Now I’m knocking myself hard on the head for not having found Bezurk earlier. Planning for my trip to Austin has been a terrible user experience on Zuji. There...continue reading »
Nostalgia
The newly launched Yesterday.sg is definitely worth a look. Photos dating way before the digital era will evoke memories for those of you who are old enough to remember Green Spot. Backend, the site runs pMachine’s Expression Engine, which in...continue reading »
A cheaper, faster broadband network
The Business Times reports, on its front page today, that the Government intends to launch a new national broadband network, bringing ‘cheaper and faster internet access to more people’. It could be partly funded by public money. The target is...continue reading »
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