Kategoria: Herkut (Page 19 of 45)

”Nearly everything I use my mobile phone for I can do with just underlying software for calls, connections, and the like, and a browser. Imagine that a company wanted to create a phone like this.”

It does appear that the biggest potential market – those who want a simple phone and have minimal interest in paying extra for the latest style – is relatively untapped and could provide a significant source of revenue and growth.

Should it be Facebook, Digg or del.icio.us? Let the statistics and other data help.

Finally Facebook is doing something to the spamming applications.

A little app where you can create a color on the screen (or copy-paste CSS hex# color) and find out the name of the closest matching color.

Seth Godin thinks that HR should be changed into Talent. But: ”Talent is too smart to stay long at a company that wants it to be a cog in a machine. Great companies want and need talent, but they have to work for it.”

No matter what your area of expertise, there comes a time in every web developers life when you have to tell a client that their site, to put it plainly, sucks. But how do you break the news gently?

”WOT, short for ’Web of Trust,’ is a community whose members exchange knowledge of websites. Our mission is to make the Internet safer by letting our users share their experience of websites and the services they offer.”

”Interfaces are where problems arise, where miscommunications and conflicting assumptions collide. It is a designer’s heaven and the practitioners hell. And it is where I prefer to be.”

”’Mobile’ Youth is a myth until it reflects the Youth’s social graph… There are no ’Mobile’ Youth – Just ’Internet Youth’. Mobile is a medium – but there are others. The medium they will adopt most will be the one which reflects their social graph.”

More than a third of mobile phone owners in China, the world’s largest mobile market, use their handsets to listen to music, more than in Britain or the United States, a M:Metrics study showed amongst other results.

Helsingin yliopiston viestinnän laitoksella alkoi sosiaaliseen ja perinteiseen mediaan liittyvä tutkimushanke, jonka tavoitteena on selvittää käyttäjien ja yleisön näkökulmaa sosiaalisen median sekä perinteisen median verkkopalveluihin.

”Living Lab on avokätisimmänkin arvion mukaan käsitteenä hieman epäselvä. Kuten Prof. Mäntylä sarjan ensimmäisessä osassa totesi, erinäiset käärmeöljy-linimenttien kaupustelijat ovat vehkeilleet itsensä mukaan hoviin.”

The wiki way is all about usability, so wiki markup is actually opposed to the core principles being pursued. What could be easier than just typing straight into the wiki, with buttons for formatting?

E.g. how not to design a Point of Sale system.

Has social networking technology (blog-friendly phones, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) made us better or worse off as a society, either from an economic, psychological, or sociological perspective? A group of wise people answer.

Aza Raskin’s goal is to make communication with the PC so intuitive you’ll forget you’re using a device.

When the first portable computers came out in the early 1980s, they were portable in name only. But mobile computers have come a long way, baby. Here are some notable laptops produced over the past quarter-century.

How can engineers and industrial designers best work toward innovative design that brings the human into the equation? Focus on the product development process itself.

When you walk up to a product, the dialogue should be intuitive and obvious. A product’s shape, color, and texture should communicate how to turn it on, how to use it, and how to interact with it.

Moli, a recently launched social-networking site, allows users to make profiles to represent different aspects of their personality.

To see what the ”Internet of things” future world would be like, a pilot project provides the next step in social networking, wirelessly monitoring people and things in a closed environment.