Tonight whilst chatting to the Foxtel girl – who was exceptionally helpful by the way - we somehow got onto the conversation around travel and our respective experiences in seeing the sites this fair planet of ours offers. What quickly became apparent to me was that the average person in the street hasn’t actually traveled [...]
So I joined my first MMORTS – Massively Multiplayer Online Real Time Strategy – www.evony.com. This was for a number of reasons, including:
I’m a geek at heart. I used to play alot of Age of Empires and the appeal of playing a Real Time Strategy that was free, no less, was a powerful lure.
I was [...]
This article popped up on Wired a few days ago and has elicited a number of spirited discussions amongst my colleagues and friends.
The great wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet – and Keep Google Out.
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-07/ff_facebookwall
FACEBOOK’S 4-Step Plan for Online Domination
Mark Zuckerberg has never thought of his company as a [...]
Even accounting for duplicate and inactive account logins, collectively, there are 750,000,000+ registered potential users (that’s 750 million for those of you that got dazed by the zero’s) that are spending time online frittering away their lives looking at what other people do and commenting about questions or circumstances that affect each of us. Or [...]
Michael Arrington of Tech Crunch fame noted on his blog a couple of days ago the fact that My Space’s growth is stagnating compared to its arch rival Facebook .
Getting too it – why is My Space in decline?
Simply put – Usability. It sucks. I never got onto My Space because almost every time I [...]
I will freely admit that I have had a huge number of mobile phones and Personal Digital Assistants (PDA’s) in the past 15 years. Before smart phones existed, combining PDA’s and Mobiles into the one unit just wasn’t a possibility and working around computers, lots of data and lots of people made for hundreds of [...]
ABC’s Gruen Transfer, which screens each Wednesday night at 8:30pm charts the thinking, actions and rationale that drives the brightest lights in Australia’s advertising industry. Chaired by comedian Wil Anderson The Gruen Transfer has an industry based panel of notable Australian ad agency heavyweights, including Leo Burnett Sydney CEO – Todd Sampson, George Patterson Chairman [...]
What a fascinating (and logical) way to gain higher volume traffic to your newly designed website – Electronic Arts www.ea.com – jumped right onto the Ashton Kucher vs CNN battle, publishing this press release on 16th April 2009:
In supporting Ashton in his efforts, EA is offering Kutcher’s 1,000,000th follower on Twitter a copy of every [...]
I can see this announcement by Google in recent days about releasing the Analytics API to developers creating a whole new cottage industry overnight:
Custom tailored and tracked analytics targetted, triggered and monitored at discretion by customers directly.
The dev team at the Areeba offices think this is very cool, as it opens up whole new ways [...]
404 Error Pages are a necessary part of the web and you just have to accept they crop up from time to time. However we should be mindful of helping our site visitors gain the information they seek as efficiently and painlessly as possible.
Recognition?
Design the page so that it is recognisably the business/website the user [...]
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