I came to an interesting realization earlier this week about designers. Contrary to most professions, web designers actually produce inferior work when you give too much direction. My experience over the last year or so has shown that designers need lot of freedom to produce passionate designs.
About five minutes after coming to my big realization, [...]
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Lakehead U. makes fun of Bush (who doesn't?)
Lakehead University is generally considered a “Last Chance U” in Canada. Interestingly enough, they are now making fun of Yale University and George Bush as part of their new marketing campaign. Here is one of their slogans: “Graduating from an Ivy League university doesn’t necessarily mean you’re smart.” The President of [...]
The $100 laptop
Here is a picture of the current laptop prototype for the “One laptop per child” intiative founded by Nicholas Negroponte. His goal is to provide every child in the world with a rugged, internet-ready laptop. You may have heard of this being called the $100 laptop. Thanks to redhadmag’s flickr stream for porviding [...]
web2.0tshirts.com
Aaron Boeving over at Clear Function just launced a really fun t-shirt store which showcases Web 2.0 shirts. I love this stuff and the shirts look great too. You can check it all out here. See my favorite above. Yes, he is using Shopify.
Business Week – Best of the Web…
For the second year in a row Business Week is doing their poll of the best apps on the web. When I took a look at the list there was no listing for e-commerce sites and the only listings for “Buying and Selling” were Amazon, Become, Craiglist, Ebay adn PriceGrabber. Yawn.
BW does say that [...]
Slow news day?
I’m not sure where I found this so please forgive me for not linking to the original source. It’s obviously a breaking news capture from msnbc. The thing that I find funny is how can this be breaking news? The guy had dinner on a plane – who cares. It’s not like there were [...]
Review: Snakes on a Plane
I saw SoaP this weekend and it is a good movie. It’s creepy, it’s scary and sometimes it’s laugh out loud funny. Samuel L Jackson, plays himself perfectly, no one else could do that role. Most things about this movie were great. All that being said, I didn’t go to this show [...]
I love anything that pokes fun at Web 2.0
Here is a site which allows you to dynamically create your own web 2.0 logo complete with reflection and beta tag. This is the one for Technologica. The FAQ is worth a read too.
Make your startup happy…
This is an extremely good blog post by Alexander Kjerulf about how to create a great work environment for your startup. I totally agree with the premise that the happier you are at work, the more productive you will be. I also love the diagram above which was inlcluded in the post. Simple [...]
Which web 2.0 sites are generating traffic?
This is pretty interesting. Seth Godin and others have ranked almost 1000 web 2.0 companies by their alexa traffic. Shopify is a very respectable 205th on the list with with a Alexa traffic ranking of 22,201 up from 39,446 six months ago. Take a look to see who is gaining traffic and who [...]
This is sad – Kiko is gone…
Justin Kan one of the founders of Kiko recently put his web calendar software for sale on ebay. Essentially this means Kiko is going under. I tried Kiko early on and liked it but for some reason didnt migrate my full calendar online until Google Calendar came out. Were they ahead of their [...]
Finally…
The past few weeks have been way too busy for me to concentrate on doing a proper design for technologica. As a result, I have opted for a very simple design based on a slightly modified version of K2. Now that I don’t feel so guilty about ignoring my blog, I should get posting on [...]