Archive for March, 2009

Wireframes considered harmful

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

A couple of weeks ago I gave a presentation to the March Sydney meeting of the Web Standards Group. Its – somewhat deliberately controversial – title was “Wireframes considered harmful”. After the presentation, a healthy debate ensued over drinks and nibblies at the Australian Museum. This was a good indicator for me that it got [...]

My band has a new album

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

For those of you who know me personally – relax! I haven’t taken up singing, thank heavens. This is a little blog meme started by Warlach in his excellent blog post where he also collects the efforts of others. Here are the rules if you want to play: Go to Wikipedia, hit “random” or click [...]

Will Facebook kill Twitter?

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

Now that Facebook is asking “What’s on your mind?“, will it leverage its vastly bigger user base and squeeze Twitter out of the market just as the latter was poised to launch into the mainstream? I believe the question is a valid one. For starters, Facebook’s question is of course a much better one than [...]

Skittles, bold and daring or lazy and dangerous?

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

As far as the integration of social media and the wider web into brand marketing goes, Masterfoods has taken the approach pioneered by online agency Modernista! and run with it. They replaced the Skittles website with an overlay onto a Twitter search of the term “Skittles”.   Predictably, everyone and their dog raced to try out [...]

My Tweeps

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Taking a cue from Whitney Hess, I have decided to publish my own Twitter Mosaic. It is a collage of all the people I currently follow on Twitter. If you haven’t heard of Twitter, here is a good introductory article. It is fun to cast your eye over these avatars and remember why you’re following [...]

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