July 2010
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WatchThe real life social network
Google’s Paul Adams 216 slides conclude
Design for multiple groups
Design for different relationships (strong & weak ties)
Design tools to support how people look to others
Adams’s forthcoming book Social Circles is out in August 2010
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WatchNatalie Portman piss-take rap
Unlikely rap stars crop up in strange places
June 2010
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April 2010
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February 2010
4 posts
Paper art
Stop-motion animation from the New Zealand Book Council demonstrating superb paper artistry skills
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WatchWired/Adobe e-mag mockup
This is rather corporate, note how reference is made to advertising opportunities in the new format.
See also Wired Comes to the iPad, Version 2.0
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HipHop for PHP
Following hot on the heels of our rap / hip hop post exhorting good design and coding for web sites via The Poetic Prophet’s rap, there is a different kind of hip hop out there on the web; as announced today by Facebook. HipHop is an open source code transformer that transforms PHP into C++ from PHP. HipHop forms part of Facebook’s increasing involvement with open...
January 2010
4 posts
Presentation style
Not a big fan of this is how an industry giant does it, this presentation rang some bells.
Presentation by Carmine Gallo.
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Steve Krug: The Least You Can Do™ about Usability
Steve Krug is the author of the excellent Don’t Make Me Think, which concentrates on minimising the cognitive load associated with web use. A major part of this is usability testing, and in this vid Steve talks about doing your usability testing yourself, showing how to get useful results at an extremely low-cost.
The presentation was...
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Good design and coding on the Web
Lol, a good design and clean coding rap from The Poetic Prophet aka The SEO Rapper.
Common or Paris he’s not; but he’s pretty good and the topic is ace.
See also these links for other Hedtek favorites:
Common on MySpace
Paris on MySpace
Also, MC Solaar and MC Solaar on MySpace, even if you are not a French speaker
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The long tail meets magazines: Magazines on demand
MagCloud is a publish-on-demand site that does for magazines what Lulu does for books. Namely, to allow magazine publishers upload copy of the magazine in PDF, so that readers can find and buy a print copy of the magazine that is mailed to them.
Bingo! The long tail meets magazines! (Although I will have more to say about that at the end of...
December 2009
5 posts
Backing up Google sites
Google’s Data Liberation Front has a span of howto information about backing up your Gooogle held data.
Image: sidebar from the DLF site.
Go fetch!
Forrester and social profiling
Forrester has done some stirling work in the area of profiling, this was an early (June 2007) rendition in Business Week (click the chart for a larger version at Business Week’s site).
More recently they have produced this profiling tool
will add here when I find a way around no iframes in tumblr, for now use this
accompanied by these notes:
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Social media statistics and corporate use of social media
Intriguing stats from Martha Kagan (presentation via Mashable). Did you know that the total time spent on Facebook daily is 5,000,000,000 minutes, that 3,600,000,000 photos are hosted on Flickr, or that there are 13,000,000 Wikipedia articles?
Actually, more than simply supplying mind-numbing stats, Martha is making a compelling case...
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November 2009
3 posts
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