Powerful structures for product-driven organisations
As Andrew Orlowski points out, the new iPod Touch (the iPhone without the phone bit) is, on paper at least, an overpriced, locked-down PDA and one without any games or even an email client for when you're on WiFi. It is also, however, the only piece of consumer electronics on the market today that will without fail turn… Continue reading On Tap
After all the nonsense of Information Revolution, it's great to see Ask.com doing some actually worthwhile stuff to try and improve their search engine. A lot of the front-end changes may owe a fair amount to the big G and emerging trends in the marketplace (including "suggests" style prompting) but there's some nice new stuff in… Continue reading Not a lot to Ask
Last week at Mix, Microsoft announced a huge raft of new products. Attendees describe the wave upon wave of releases as somewhat disorientating, overwhelming in its sheer volume so that some of key details may have been overlooked by much of the audience. Certainly many of the developments (like the relationship with Hugh McLeod) point… Continue reading See the light
A really nice touch from the alternative Last FM pluggin (Audioscrobbler). The tool tips which explain what icon are for have been set up to re-use some famous advertising straplines. Here are a couple of the funnier ones: Starting with a classic parity claim: An my favourite, borrowed from the AA
More pointlessness for a Saturday morning. B3ta seem to have appointed a 404 officer with literally hundreds of variants being shown on a loop on their own error page. This does beg the slightly odd question of why I had such a hard time finding them in the first place: one broken link would have… Continue reading More4(04)
Apologies in advance. This is extremely geeky. You probably know this already but when you go to page on a website which isn't there, you'll get an error message (the error code is 404 so the error page is often known as a '404 page'). Sometimes you get a bland computery message and sometimes you… Continue reading This twitter cannot be found
Turn your back on the big G for two seconds and look what they go and do. First of all they added cool skins to Personalised home page which reflect what time of day it is where you are: And then in gmaps, the integration of pictures and extended related search pannels. You start to… Continue reading Interesting search engine things
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