by tj mapes on February 2, 2006
I was actually going to post on this exact subject. If you haven’t heard of the ‘four things’ meme that’s been going around from one blogger’s site to the next, you’ve been living under a rock. They are everywhere. It is the single most, insane ‘blog-trend’ right now. Did I just make a new term? Probably not but eh.
Anyways…I was surfin around and stumbled upon this article over at left brain right brain. Its funny because it just talks about 37 Signals response to the ‘four things’
They completely passed literally on every question. I’m not sure if its as harsh as some of the commenters put it, it seems rather petty of them. Go check out the article and the actual post from 37 Signals site. Read some of the comments, they are good. Nathan from 37 soon after rewrote his response and tried changing the actual meme, basically his was a better idea since it wasn’t the same questions again I think. But anyhow, you can read that here.
by tj mapes on January 27, 2006
I was looking through some CSS gallery sites and stumbled upon Liquid Designs.
I saw the first 10 entries in their gallery and wanted to see some more. So naturally I’m looking for a categorized list, maybe by month, or week. Instead I find little text that says “Previous Entries.” What happened if I didn’t want to go through them all, what if Liquid would have just made an entire page with screenshots galore for ever month, or week or however they want to organize it. That would make it much easier on the user.
I have seen this on other sites as well. You’d think that if a site’s purpose is to showcase great CSS designs, they’d make it a little easier to view them, hence the purpose of going to that particular site over many other similar galleries.
by tj mapes on January 20, 2006
I think along with many others, I’d love to attend @media 2006 in London. What I’d take home from listening to the speakers alone would be worth the money. This year some hot topics include: Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholm (simplebits). CSS3: Fact of Fiction? by Andy Budd (clearleft.com), Roger Johansson (456 Berea Street), and the amazing Dave Shea (CSS Zen Garden).
Other notible speakers include:
Andy Clarke
Jon Hicks
Molly E. Holzschlag
Eric Meyer
Cameron Moll
I really hope they record the conference and produce podcasts of all the great sessions. I’m so jealous I’m not able to attend. Maybe next year.
by tj mapes on January 15, 2006
Not to play Diggnation or anything, but I was scrolling through Digg due to shear boredom, and found a very interesting post. It was about how fast a human’s brain decides whether or not it likes something, and in this particular case, websites.
This fascinated me because I’ve heard things like this before, but just didn’t know any actual stats.
“Like the look of our website? Whatever the answer (and hopefully it was yes), the chances are you made your mind up within the first twentieth of a second. A study by researchers in Canada has shown that the snap decisions Internet users make about the quality of a web page have a lasting impact on their opinions.”
Pretty interesting huh?
The full story.
by tj mapes on January 11, 2006
Chatsum is a free extension ”for your web browser that lets you chat with all the other Chatsum users that are looking at the same website as you.”
At first I thought Chatsum
was going to be an in-browser chat application, (hopefully with
Gtalk/aim/msn integration) which then I thought to myself, ”awesome
idea.”
I was also hoping that it wasn’t similar to Meebo or any other web-based chat app, because personally, I’ve never really liked that idea all the much. Must be because its a fairly new idea, and I haven’t seen its full potential just yet.
This seemed very similar to QuickChat, another previously released Firefox extension which enables you to chat with people who are viewing the same webpage. Personally, I think Chatsum obviously looks much more appealing to the eyes, but I’m still not going to ride this bandwagon just yet either.
I’ll be anxious to see what happens after its full release. I’d like to try it out and see what all the hype is about.
