This is helping Chrome
People around me are asking IT to install Chrome. I wonder why? It’s pretty cool how a browser experiment by an indie Canadian rock band is going to help boost Chrome’s usage.
Posted 6 days ago
Apple TV with iOS? Now that’s a game changer.
The iPad is a pretty cool device, people love them. That said, I hear so many people that it isn’t really the game changer they thought it would be. They say that because the iPad doesn’t really give us anything we couldn’t do before on a laptop or a smartphone. The iPad just gave us a new form actor. Then it was iOS4, the next gen iPhone/iPad OS which brings us a bunch of much needed new features (multi-tasking is the big one, even though it’s not true multi-tasking). Now there’s whispers that Apple will be announcing a new Apple TV with iOS4. Sure, like the iPad we just get a new form factor… but man, what a form factor! We’re talking apps on our HD TV! Big and beautiful! Match this new Apple TV with the magic trackpad, a bluetooth keyboard and the little apple remote and we have ourselves a pretty awesome couch-sitting-tv-watching-interacting experience. And from marketing POV, iAds would part of the deal. This is something the traditional agencies will be all over, a new way to focus on the TV again. :)
Posted 1 month ago
Google Easter Eggs
Gotta love a company with a sense of humour… even if it is geek humour. :)
Posted 2 months ago
http://office.live.com
In it’s continued tradition of following (and not innovating), Microsoft releases Office Live via SkyDrive. Word/Excel/PPT/OneNote files can be created and edited online. Having played around with it a little, it seems GOOG might have a little competition for Google Apps. Looking forward to seeing how this plays out.
Posted 3 months ago
http://blog.echoenduring.com/2010/05/28/down-to-the-last-pixel-the-pursuit-of-perfection/
This blog post articulates the much needed attitude change with cross browser design issues. A website is not paper. The design should stand on it’s own in each browser. Now we just need to convince the clients.
Posted 4 months ago
Innovation is sexy.
But innovation isn’t an idea. True innovation is found through people and process. Although people can certainly be sexy, process isn’t known as the sexiest thing going. Ideas can come from innovation, but it doesn’t work the other way around. Ideas are just that, ideas. Lets focus a little less on ideas and focus more on the people we work with and the processes we use.
Posted 4 months ago
Facebook gets open
Looks like they’re shelving Facebook Connect and opting for OAuth. A good move, makes sense in light of them putting Open Graph in the spot light. Open Graph is an important stepping stone for the systems on the Internet understanding your behavior. It’ll give context to a lot of the data out there, and it can help validate that data too. By tapping into your social graph, systems (and marketers) can target you much accurately.
Posted 4 months ago
Have you seen your site on Mobile lately?
Is there anything more annoying than visiting a website on your phone and seeing that “you need Flash” message? Why do brands and companies choose to cut out the mobile market by making Flash-only sites?? Makes me nuts. One day, most of the mobile devices will play Flash (maybe not so much for iPhone/iPad), but until that day, show that you care about the people going to your website on their smart phones.
I can’t count the number of times I’ve looked up an address on my phone by going to the company’s website, and then being left in limbo with the Download Flash nonsense. Either choose a platform that works across all devices (like HTML/jQuery) or make versions of your site for the devices (desktop & mobile). As the web moves toward the device-in-the-hand, sites really need to work on those devices.
Can’t wait until HTML5 is the norm.
