I’m fairly sure I stole that title off someone, or maybe a bunch of someones. Let’s hope it’s Creative Commons. Anyway, it’s one of the things I bang on about a lot of the time – bridging the gap between the virtual world (“sit forward, single-focus, move mouse, engage”) and the real (“sit back, multi-focus, … Read more
With the opening of the Facebook Platform a war has broken out, with the two sides aligned with similar views to the ones we talked about at Museums and the Web. On the one hand is MySpace, the rambling, ugly behemoth with over 100 million accounts, a closed database of users and no API. On … Read more
Jakob Nielsen, apparent guru of accessibility and usability, has been getting his teeth into Web 2.0, in particular the issues around AJAX and what it does to the user experience. I think this is a very interesting area – Brian and I picked up on it in our paper for Museums and the Web: “…couple … Read more
“A fully engaging, sensory experience for guests. Murals and realistic scenery, computer-generated visual effects, over fifty exotic animals, life-sized people and dinosaur animatronics, and a special-effects theater complete with misty sea breezes and rumbling seats.” Sounds good? Yeah. I thought so, too. Until you look at the topic matter or the URL: http://www.creationmuseum.org Apparently $27 … Read more
I got a sign-in for the alpha release Freebase a few days ago and I’m pretty interested in what I’ve seen. Freebase is, to quote a couple of commentators: “possibly the most exciting thing to happen to the web for some time”. Or, as TechCrunch put it: “This is cool, unless it achieves consciousness and … Read more
Anyone who is in any doubt about the power of the social web or, specifically, blogging, should take a look at the graph on the left. This was the moment that Engadget’s Ryan Block posted that Apple’s iPhone was going to be delayed by several months. In six minutes, $4 Billion dollars was wiped off … Read more
Two things got a load of coverage this week which should – for very different reasons – be getting us museum types excited. First off, Google analytics launched a new version which is being rolled out for existing users. Seb Chan mentioned it on a recent post and also links to a couple of introductory … Read more
So much for not testing on a live evironment… My Google search results just turned up looking a trifle different. First of all this: …and then a couple of minutes later, this: TechCrunch wrote about this a couple of weeks ago. I’ve seen the left hand nav change that is on their post a couple … Read more
I’ve been dabbling on All Consuming over the weekend and admiring the way the site gets around too much of a sense of obsessive compulsive-ness with some great design (both visual and technical). One of the problems is that it takes a while to add stuff (unless you’ve got some kind of database already in … Read more
Tell you what, it all went a bit odd on electronicmuseum for a brief, scary moment just then. But obviously someone in the WordPress IT Crowd has just, er, powercycled the server or something ‘cos it all looks ok again now. Spooky. The same happened to Brian a while back. Maybe WP just do it … Read more