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 [...]
Over the years I have collected a bunch of useful open source tools which have helped tremendously in building and maintaining websites. Most important – they are FREE! If you really want to go to town and have the funds get yourself Adobe Web Premium (Illustrator, Photoshop, Contribute, Flash, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, Soundbooth) and start looking [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
My first reaction was to laugh. The second was to frown. The third response was: “Damn it! Since when have I been described as bloody UNREMARKABLE?!”
My excuse is that I’ve been onboard for only 2 weeks. So there.
Once I was over my fit of apoplexy, I went back and Twanalysed a few other well known [...]
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 [...]
Hats off to the team over at Firemint in Richmond, Melbourne, Australia. Working on the Walmart principle of “Stack them high, watch them fly”, they have created a polished game with a simple premise and extremely well suited to the iPhones touch screen technology whilst being addictive and thought provoking – but not too much [...]
The Age Online tonight has ventured outside the square and opted to start showcasing outside border advertising in sky blue and with nicely styled creative, promoting Telstra’s BigPond broadband network. In all the years I’ve had The Age Online as one of my Home pages, I’ve never known them to yield such a large (and [...]
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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