Late to the party, I know, but it's worth pointing this out, as an addendum to previous ranting. hoverIntent is a jQuery plugin that replaces the standard on/off hover switch with a delay, triggering...
Personal branding - building online equity through ones own internet identity - has become a prime movement in the recent trend towards renegotiating the conventional relations between employer...
From Summon Monsters? Open The Door? Heal? Or Die?, which discusses the declining value of blog comments and social news sites: A funny thing about these sites is that they know about this problem....
Tantek is fighting an uphill battle in his quest to rid the world of email. Email is ingrained, ubiquitous, and everywhere. Every person that regularly logs on to Hotmail or Gmail contributes to this...
Many of us are still conditioned to think of design frameworks in terms of grid systems, Swiss graphic design, and rigid corporate identity systems. The problems with these are similar to the problems...
I think one thing that's kind of worth recognizing is that if somebody played a mobile game, and if they think "Orcs and Elves, that was a great game", and it's in the context of, "this was a great...
Wellington based startup Ponoko went public today, in conjunction with the TechCrunch event in San Francisco. Some of you may have seen bits and pieces at the Dowse recently, or even come across...
Maybe I'm speculating too far as I have no idea of the timing/background of events, but I have been wondering whether questioning Twitter contributed in any way to stirring up the hatred and death...
Grant has been doing some great stuff over at Xero, with an account balance view that enables fluid browsing of the time range by adjusting the width of the scroller control. This is a good technique ...
This technique been mentioned in passing for a couple of years now, and recently seems to be gaining a fair amount of attention. Many web designers love the idea of building dropdowns like this....
Clay Shirky on moderation strategies: Social software is the experimental wing of political philsophy, a discipline that doesn't realize it has an experimental wing. We are literally encoding...
Talking to a friend the other night who remarked that she thought surely most people still use the internet for porn, just like always? Which got me thinking about the latest movements towards logging...
Managing RESTful AJAX operations is an open problem. While I say that aspects of managing HTTP requests, and designing UI feedback cannot be understood in isolation and must...
It's good in Wellington at the moment. I'm just glad that I am going to be able to sleep this weekend (unlike those about to unleash the 48 Hours!). But there's a lot going...
Thinking more about Wikipedia, and the kind of content disputes that seem to demarcate in terms of specialist/expert vs non-specialist/layman, led me to wonder whether there...
Was lucky enough today to attend a talk by Ben Bederson, who presented his work on Interfaces for Staying in the Flow, and examples of software that he has developed ...
➔ Plenty of Room at the Bottom? Personal Digital Libraries and Collections
➔ Studying Cooperation and Conflict Between Authors with History Flow Visualizations
➔ IBM Research | Navigating a New Kind of Large-Scale Online Discussion
➔ Ludonauts - Girls as game designers: what choices do they make?
➔ Chasing Bees, Without the Hive Mind
➔ The Game, the Player, the World: Looking for a Heart of Gameness
➔ Single Page Application And Development Environment - TrimPath - Trac
➔ Life With Alacrity: Tracing the Evolution of Social Software
