Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category

My grandfather once criticised me for saying it was a REALLY hot day… “You’re really good at pointing out the blindingly obvious.” Zap. OK, so maybe on that occasion my comment wasn’t necessary, but I’m going to take a punt and risk the “blindingly obvious” again… The first priority of your web strategy has to [...]

Just a little perspective on a Wednesday afternoon… Created by Online Education Internet Strategy Sydney & Brisbane: Are you taking advantage of the opportunities these figures present?  Call Bluewire Media on 1300 258 394 to discuss how.

When a business mentor put me onto the fact that AIM (Australian Institute of Management) was hosting an “open-house” on the Gold Coast I was quick to register.  After all, the last event I attended was very enjoyable & useful. I attended for the best part of a day but missed 2.5 sessions due to [...]

Hands up if you’re on Facebook…? According to Facebook’s latest stats, over 300 million of you are. 50% of you are logging in daily and the fastest growing demographic is 35 year olds and older! To put that in context, if Facebook were a country it would be 4th largest in the world (and nearly [...]

Here’s a video I’ve seen played a few times lately which to be honest gives me goosebumps. Just to get you started, here are some mind blowing facts from first 30 seconds: By 2010, Gen Ys will outnumber Baby Boomers 96% will be on a social network Social media has taken over porn as the [...]

Recently, MiniMovers founder & owner, Mike O’Hagan shared his thoughts on using the web to increase business profits.  Mike had just returned from the United States when he gave his presentation. Highlights from the presentation and the MiniMovers story: Give customer what they need, NOT what they want Exceed expectations by adding unexpected value in every step of [...]

The White House’s photostream — Flickr Elements of an ideal burger — NY Times interactive Firefox 3.5 is released — Go get it! An interview with Danny Nathan of Poke NYC — Site Inspire Flickr and Twitter are now officially sucking face — TechCrunch 10 tools to improve your site’s usability on a low budget [...]

10 UI design patterns you should be paying attention to — Smashing Magazine jQuery for absolute beginners — Nettuts + Let’s make the web faster — Google blog Download iPhone GUI PSD 3.0 — teehan+lax Design for mobile wiki: resources for designing and building apps and sites — Little Springs Design Rupert Murdoch’s web ambitions [...]

Another great stop motion video. 12 excellent free tools for monitoring your sites uptime — Six Revisions iPhone OS on a touchscreen monitor — CrunchGear Stop counting clicks — UX Booth Informative and useful footers — Smashing Magazine Secrets of a nimble giant — The Guardian Mobile phone flies plane — The Courier Mail Check [...]

Google Chrome competition Interactive data visualisations — Creativity Online 5 reasons why a digital agency should take usability seriously — Experience Solutions Google takes its cameras out onto hiking and biking tracks — USA Today Is Microsoft’s new Bing search engine better than Google? — The Guardian Online Student photographers battle for spot on iGoogle [...]