I’ve tried online synchronised storage in various forms before but recently after hearing it mentioned on the Boagworld podcast, I signed up for Dropbox.
Dropbox can be accessed through a web browser as you would expect and allows sharing permissions to be set up for folders. You can give access to other Dropbox users or publicly [...]
Dan Olsen gave a talk at Web 2.0 Expo NY entitled Good to Great: Achieving Product Excellence in Web 2.0, I don’t think I was alone in expecting the session to focus on mainly UI design, usability and user experience. However I was surprised to find that Dan’s talk covered many aspects of the product [...]
I finally got around to reading Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow and I’ve got a better understanding of whuffie after hearing all about it at Fuel from Tara Hunt.
The book is set in a future where there is no scarcity so money is obsolete. The de facto currency instead [...]
First impressions
At first sight, the Flip seemed slightly more chunky than I had been hoping for, however it fits comfortably in the hand and I was able to carry it around in my trouser pocket for a whole day without it becoming annoying. My wife described the look of the unit as “retro”, this might [...]
The afternoon sessions began with the effervescent Paul Boag of Headscape, who gave us a run through some of his top web design horror stories. I must remember to grab his statistics on why “the fold” no longer matters in web design. I was recently advised to check out Paul’s podcast - Boagworld, and [...]
