Are the buttons too big? Is the type too small? Should it be bolded? Is there enough contrast in the color? Is it high enough resolution? As I waited in line to early vote yesterday and watched voters punch at the touchscreen, bend over to get a closer look at [...]
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Collaboration, innovation, working online gets loud
At work our office is in an open working environment where all the worker bees sit in these nice built-in cubicles which are larger than some offices I’ve had in the past. In the cubicles besides the web team members there are some other graphic designers, writers, photographers, videographers from [...]
What you need to know to flash
Flash content is an important part of the overall mix of web content and has a steeper learning curve than most other kinds of web content creation. Unfortunately, Macromedia and now Adobe have changed the flash creation process/interface so often that if you once learned flash it’s like you’re starting [...]
Video: how cloud computing works (and how you use it everyday)
Here’s a good video from CNN that explains how cloud computing works and how you use it every day.
Wow! One out of four pageviews is from Facebook
In the United States one out of every four pageviews is from Facebook. Amazing! Google only accounts for one in eight page views (15 percent).
AT&T Service fails, but Google answers
The visual voicemail on my iPhone quit working about a month ago (I won’t say what caused it), but I called AT&T today to see if they could help me get it working again after missing a couple of voicemails. Surprisingly, I didn’t have to hold for an operator at [...]
Job seekers lack internet skills
A fifth of American’s don’t have Internet access and the demographic profile of those without access — generally older and less educated — match up to those who are the newly unemployed according to an MSNBC article published today. This digital divide separates not only who qualify for jobs and [...]
Why ruin their false reality for them?
This morning I ran across this video full of great facts about social media (the facts are great, but the music is not so great). My favorite fact: Social Media is now the #1 activity on the Internet (not porn)!
My must haves on a new computer
I keep switching computers around at work and at home– just jumping from one computer to another to try something different out- and I have come up with a list of tools that I always install first thing when I take a new windows computer to use. I’ve done this [...]
Twitter in the mainstream
Twitter has been in the news a lot this week with the race to million followers between Ashton & CNN and Oprah’s introducing twitter to her huge audience, not to mention the techie audience blowback to Oprah and her new followers. I’m glad that Oprah has introduced twitter to a [...]