Excellent video explaining Web 2.0
Note: This video does not include tutorials for rounded corners or javascript animations.
Found via Cre8d Design.
Delivering on Support Promises
Back in the states, email based customer support has become the standard. Often times there is no phone support option. It’s pretty good too. It’s safe to assume you’ll get a reply within 24 hours or so.
Here in New Zealand, the option for email support is almost as common. And there’s always a phone option.
Even [...]
More Twitter Ramblings
Whenever I spend some time thinking about why I don’t like something, I inevitably stumble upon some way it can work for me.
After my last post regarding Twitter, it occurred to me that I could enter the update feeds of friends into Gmail’s Web Clip bar.
This eliminates the interruptions that occur when the updates come [...]
Making MOO MiniCards
Jason’s Goldman’s post on MOO Flickr MiniCards reminded me that I wanted to get some for handing out when I met new folks here in NZ.
Making the cards is very easy. You pick your photos, then position them within a cropping outline. It’s low weight creativity. And a lot of fun.
There are a number [...]
Subscribing in Google Reader
Here in New Zealand, Internet service is often times slow (thanks to lower available speeds and that pesky distance thing). There are also caps on the total amount of bytes you can transfer in a month. While I enjoy visiting friends sites, It can become a costly test of patience.
As a result, I’m getting [...]
Helpful Dialogs
I’ve recently started using the web based GTalk that’s available through Gmail. It’s pretty handy for quick little things. Occasionally I’ll even “pop-out” one of the chat boxes into it’s own window, for a longer conversation.
That’s when trouble starts…
I’m not accustom to having chat tied to a browser window or to leaving my email open [...]
Trouble free tagging in web apps
Tagging content is work of the worst kind – Production Work. Yet hundreds of thousands of people are doing it every day on the web. Apps like Flickr and Del.icio.us have gone a long way to show tagging can be worth the trouble… Now we need more apps that make tagging less trouble.
My Web 2.0
Yahoo’s [...]