Monthly Archives: November 2007

links for 2007-11-29

What the Google Intranet Looks Like Google inside. Via tracking “intranet” on Twitter. (tags: google intranet)

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links for 2007-11-26

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 … Continue reading

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Keeping up to date with East Dulwich on the internet: Part 4 – Delicious RSS feeds

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 … Continue reading

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A lot of bottle

This is brilliant! My Aussie friend John sent this to me asking… “who says we don’t have culture in Australia?”

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Bonus-centred design

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 … Continue reading

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N95 – two things I can never remember how to do

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. … Continue reading

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Keeping up to date with East Dulwich on the internet: Part 3 – Twitter tracking

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. … Continue reading

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links for 2007-11-21

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)

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links for 2007-11-20

Long vs. Short Articles as Content Strategy (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) (tags: cost benefit content jakobnielsen web usability)

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Britain’s online newspapers accessibility scores – should do better

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, … Continue reading

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