Archive for the ‘Trends’ Category

Harvey Norman takes to Twitter in online backflip – Dynamic Business 10 Fun Facts You Didn’t Know About Google – Mashable 15 Amazing Apps for File Storage in the Cloud – Web.AppStorm The greatest defunct web sites and dotcom disasters – CNET UK 11 Useful Google Chrome Extensions for Serious SEO Workers – Blog Web [...]

“Guitar Hero” Rocks Out on iPhone – Mashable Inspirational 50 Twitter Backgrounds Showcase – 1st Webdesigner Starbucks Used Social media to Get One Million to Stores in One Day – Mashable Is Facebook Getting Bigger Than Google? – Mashable The Top 8 Free Online Image Editors – Web.AppStorm 5 Gadgets That Will Transform Your Home [...]

5 Tips to Effectively Promote your Articles – Creative Overflow 25 Awesome Google Search Tips and Tricks – AppStorm Even Dolphins Love the iPad – Mashable 10 things you didn’t know about Twitter – Telegraph.co.uk New App Helps You “Game” Foursquare Mayorships – Mashable Microsoft’s own “Upgrade Your Browser” promo! How We Improved Our Conversion [...]

3 Online Tools to Backup Your Twitter Account – Madras Geek On “Out of office” replies: The Difference Between “Not Here” and “Away” – Pow! Right between the eyes! (Why not take a quick holiday to test out your new techniques?) via @SmashingMag via Fast Company How To (Further) Engage Your Readers – Noupe 7 [...]

This week’s round-up is tinged with sadness as we say goodbye to our long-standing and well-loved designer, Sarah Hyne.  Sarah’s migrating to new, lush pastures over at MAP Magazine. Sarah had been with Bluewire for two and a half years and in that time she instigated our famous “Weekly Round-up” blog posts. It’s with a [...]

Spotted: Facebook’s check-in functionality and new “Places” tab — TechCrunch Fred Wilson’s 10 golden principles of successful web apps — Think Vitamin Guidelines for writing a good ‘About’ page — Six Revisions 9 essential social news and bookmarking sites for designers — Mashable Why is business writing so awful? — Inc. 5 ways to boost [...]

The current state of web design: Trends 2010 — Smashing Magazine Google Latitude has 3 millions active users, check-ins likely on the way — TechCrunch Erik Spiekermann’s typo tips — Font Feed Facebook adding location features this month — Mashable Strategies for engaging your visitors — Six Revisions Facilitating design critique — UX Booth Social [...]

Dropbox startup lessons learned — SwissMiss Mobile web design: is it worth it? — Six Revisions Root domains, subdomains vs. subfolders and the microsite debate — SEOmoz Classification schemes (and when to use them) — UX Booth 10 new UX books to look out for in 2010 — UX Booth Wireframes as a thinking device [...]

“Apple said Monday that it sold more than 300,000 iPads on the day of its launch, ushering in a new era of people buying things to find out what they are.” – Seth Meyer for Weekend Update on SNL. (via Konigi) The iPad is a toy — Konigi Facebook introduces community pages — TechCrunch Facebook [...]

9 ways to improve the SEO of every website you design — Six Revisions Viral Cameron: forget health, kill a kitten — Sydney Morning Herald How to build engaging one-of-a-kind Facebook fan pages — TechCrunch Charts of the week: Here’s how much a unique visitor is worth — Business Insider It’s not about web traffic [...]