Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. – Calvin Coolidge
Persistence
Archives for August 2006
Geotagging in Flickr
I’ve covered geotagging in Flickr before, but it’s been problematic, relying on a very specific combination of browser, scripting and patience that is difficult to come by. Well finally Yahoo has joined the power of Flickr with the extensibility of Yahoo! Maps to add built-in geotagging within Flickr. What is geotagging? Geotagging lets you pinpoint […]
Community Server: Initial Impressions
Telligent Systems’ Community Server is a full-featured forum system that has blossomed into a content management system (CMS). It includes a gallery, file management, blogs and a portal system, all running on .NET. Having move my own sites to PHP over a year ago, I haven’t had a need to really check out Community Server […]
Dropping Names
I wanted to say thanks to the many wonderful people I had a chance to meet at UXWEEK2006 (in no particular order): Steven Berlin Johnson, author of Everything Bad is Good For You and Emergence (which I’ve added to my “must read” list); Ray Daly of the NEA; Chiara Fox, Dan Saffer, Brandon Schauer and […]
UX Week: Day Four
Author’s note: Yes, this has been sitting on my desktop awaiting publishing for over a week. Whatever. Everyone that I’ve spoken with agrees that the keynotes for the conference were really top notch. Barbara Brennan from the Smithsonian Air and Space Musueum walked us through the process of designing something very different from a website […]
UX Week: Day Three
Good God… I’m wracking my brain to remember just who gave the keynote! Ah yes, Jeff Veen, now of Google and formerly of Adaptive Path, gave a keynote on Designing the Next Generation of Web Applications. He contrasted some of the emerging systems with their older counterparts, such as traditional (and expensive) content management systems […]
UX Week: Day Two
Somebody is going to give me grief for not posting this actually on Day Two of UX Week, but I hadn’t counted on two things, and therefore ask for a bit of slack. First, the free wireless connection here at the Hotel Palomar sucks — there is no polite way to say it. It’s slow […]