Fizzy Web
I had a meeting with a prospective client yesterday (I hope she doesn’t mind me posting this, I am keeping it anonymous). And in our conversation she said that she wanted their site to be ‘fizzy’, at first I almost laughed, then as we…
Application Love
After an earlier gripe about YouTube’s shoddy error message, here’s a beautiful piece of application design that’s cheered me up no end. From the brilliant and ever useful backpackit.com and their writeboard (collaborative document editing…
Errors in Errors
It’s been a wee while since I posted an interface gripe. So here’s one I got today at YouTube: So, what’s wrong with this? 500 Internal Server Error. That sounds like a lot of waiters with gut problems. Serious. What did I do wrong? I must…
I love London (a little bit)
Some of you may have seen my ‘I love London’ blog – an experiment to try to get me to love living in London a bit more. And whether having a blog that makes me look out for good things would help me to see good things. After a strong start…
Zopa Interview
Tom from Zopa said some nice things about Poke and did an email interview with me about the new Zopa site (which will soon be live, fingers crossed). It appeared in their monthly email newsletter. You can read it here if you like: This…
Alpine Entertainers
Here’s a little something from my holidays. Some photos of promotional posters from the finest entertainers that South Tyrol has to offer… Alpine Entertainers – a photoset on Flickr You see, these guys look like fun. They all look like…
Hackney vs Nike
Saw this outisde a shop the other day and thought it looked like an interesting story. A bit of Googling later and it turns out that Hackeny council have sued Nike for ripping off their logo. What a funny old word it is… Guaridan Unlimited…
MySpace Murder Foiled
I’m sure this is going to get a lot of coverage: MySpace Murder Plot Foiled – September 14, 2006 And I’m not going to bang on about it too much, but it reminds me of a conversation that I’ve had with a few people recently about online…
Holidays, Blitzen and Blogsitting
It’s been a few days. But I am on holiday. For some reason whenever I go away people say “you’re always on holiday”, but I promise I’m not. Regardless here’s where I am: Algund-Lagundo – it’s a lovely place, but slightly odd; it’s in…
Youth
Ooooh oooh yes please. I’d love to know how to grab youth attention using these new fangled new media channels and technologies. Sounds exciting. Damn! I should have guessed, breakdancing kids on mobile phones. The answer was staring me…
Taxi Seat Ad
Saw this ad on the back of a taxi seat. I really don’t know what to make of it at all. Advertising ‘the snip’ must be an interesting brief… For some reason this line made me chuckle (not sure it’s supposed to though): “Now you have your…
Notting Hill Lights
Notting Hill Lights at Night – a photoset on Flickr – I was wandering around Notting Hill late last night (trying to find a cab) and I spotted lots of different types of light. Lights with different purposes that create different effects…