Wordpress for iPhone & iPod Touch
– posted July 22nd, 2008 by Laurence Veale Comments (6)
The iTunes AppStore has been up and running for the last couple of weeks giving iPod Touch and iPhone owners access to a myriad of third party apps.
If you’re a twitter user ‘a twit’ or member of the ‘twitterati’ there’s the excellent Twitterific app and now, the Wordpress app - the blog editor for the [...]
‘Beta’ - the new ‘under construction’?
– posted July 11th, 2008 by Shane Diffily Comments (3)
I note the new Irish Times website has gone live. Looks like a good, professional job by Web Factory. Well done.
The previous address of the Irish Times - Ireland.com - has now changed to a lifestyle/tourism website.
Not sure that the execution here is as good.
For instance, the new website carries the label ‘Beta‘ in its logo. Can a website really be ‘Beta’?
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Web content arms race
– posted May 26th, 2008 by Shane Diffily No comments
The superpowers of the web are constantly coming up with new formats for online content.
Over the past year we have seen Air from Adobe and Silverlight - the touted “Flash-killer” - from Microsoft.
In addition, widgets, mashups, RSS feeds, AJAX, podcasts, wikis and more continue to gain ground.
But, just cause they are new and cool - does that mean you need them?
When should you say YES and - more importantly - when should you say NO to a new format?
Three. It’s a magic number
– posted May 16th, 2008 by Laurence Veale Comments (7)
The power of three. Used for presentations or speeches and now on websites.
It’s a magic number. Why?
Designing for mobility & context
– posted May 1st, 2008 by Laurence Veale One comment
37 Signals added a new feature to Basecamp a couple of weeks ago - you can now respond to project messages directly from email. It sounds simple, but under the hood I’m sure it was tough. But this simple addition has made a huge difference.
Beyond functional to usable
– posted April 25th, 2008 by Laurence Veale No comments
Functional, usable or lovable on wine labels? Here’s some examples of wine labels that go beyond the functional.
Post-Boot Camp
– posted April 25th, 2008 by Shane Diffily No comments
At 4.50pm yesterday - just 10 minutes from the end of Boot Camp ‘08 - a massive power 
outage struck south Dublin. Despite the sudden loss of lighting and overhead projectors, our resouceful iQ presenters managed to wrap up successfully.
Drinks in the Long Hall and Hogan’s pubs followed and helped to soothe our throats after 3 long days of lecturing.
Thanks to all our delegates for helping to make Boot Camp ‘08 such a great event.
The power of the medium
– posted April 24th, 2008 by Belen Barros No comments
Shenda Loughnane from ICAN came all the way to BootCamp to talk about online advertising.
Web ‘governed’
– posted April 24th, 2008 by Shane Diffily No comments
Wouldn’t you know it - after waiting days for the chance to present at Boot Camp, today I get to host not 1, but 2 workshops. Lucky me!
Delegate feedback to my Web Governance course (just finished) was pretty good. We covered a lot of ground.
If I were to run it again, I would probably include more about Website Standards and the documentation of site management. Several people expressed interest in getting extra information on these topics.
Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 & more
– posted April 23rd, 2008 by Shane Diffily No comments
Des, Tom, Paul and Krishna have just finished their presentations at the Future Now seminar. Each speaker gave his/her own view on where the web is going - from web 1.0 to web 2.0 and as far ahead as web 4.0 (which I never even considered before).
