links for 2007-11-29 By delicious on 29 November 2007 — 1 min read What the Google Intranet Looks Like Google inside. Via tracking “intranet” on Twitter. (tags: google intranet) More
links for 2007-11-26 By delicious on 26 November 2007 — 1 min read FreeRice will donate 10 grains of rice for every correct answer 3,664,079,450 grains since 7th October. “WARNING: This game may make you smarter. It may improve your speaking, writing, thinking, grades, job performance…” Via my Mum. (tags: rice freerice vocabulary charity unitednations) Londonist: Going Green at Goose Green Saturday 1st December “eco-bonananza” in Dulwich. Via... More
Keeping up to date with East Dulwich on the internet: Part 4 – Delicious RSS feeds By Nic Price on 25 November 2007 — 2 mins read This series of short articles explains some simple and free ways to use the internet to keep tabs on the subjects you’re interested in. I’m using East Dulwich as the example subject. Previously: Part 1 – Google Alerts, Part 2 – Technorati Watchlists, Part 3 – Twitter tracking. This article is about following Delicious bookmark... More
A lot of bottle By Nic Price on 25 November 2007 — 1 min read This is brilliant! My Aussie friend John sent this to me asking… “who says we don’t have culture in Australia?” More
Bonus-centred design By Nic Price on 23 November 2007 — 1 min read We’ve all seen it. The dreaded “Skip Intro”. The picture of the boss on the homepage obscuring any useful content or functionality. I was just discussing this with a friend and came up with a new name for an old problem “Bonus-centred design” Here’s how it works: Take direct orders from the boss. Do not... More
N95 – two things I can never remember how to do By Nic Price on 22 November 2007 — 1 min read I’ve had my Nokia N95 phone since June. I’m pretty pleased with it. It’s good for looking at websites, the camera is great despite the shutter lag, video quality good. It’s ok for having phone calls on. Battery life’s ok. I haven’t got the patience with the GPS, and sometimes I do wonder if it’s... More
Keeping up to date with East Dulwich on the internet: Part 3 – Twitter tracking By Nic Price on 22 November 2007 — 2 mins read In this series of short articles, I’m looking at different ways of subject-tracking on the internet. Previous articles covered Google Alerts and Technorati Watchlists. This article is about Twitter and its tracking feature, using East Dulwich as the example subject. Twitter Twitter lets you share your thoughts with the world. You can do this by... More
links for 2007-11-21 By delicious on 21 November 2007 — 1 min read BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Competitions code unveiled by BBC “The code says every entry to a contest ‘should have a fair chance of winning’ and that winners should be ‘genuine’.” Good grief. (tags: bbc competitions code rocketscience) More
links for 2007-11-20 By delicious on 20 November 2007 — 1 min read Long vs. Short Articles as Content Strategy (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) (tags: cost benefit content jakobnielsen web usability) More
Britain’s online newspapers accessibility scores – should do better By Nic Price on 20 November 2007 — 1 min read Today Martin Belam publishes the scores from his excellent series of articles looking at the accessibility of the UK’s main national newspaper websites. The Times came out on top, even though it makes no use of an on-screen text-resizing widget, nor of accesskeys as shortcuts for keyboard users. Overall my conclusion has to be that... More