Archive for March, 2008
BBC set a good example for site redesign
The BBC News site has undergone a redesign, and they have published on their blog some of the thinking behind it. The key point is that they have listened carefully to user feedback: …we did some research asking you what you thought we should change about the site. Many of those we asked said leave [...]
Yahoo! search results now include improved language meta data
Search results on Yahoo now include the HTML lang attribute which has important consequences for screen readers: If you do not see the text but you get it read out to you then the pronounciation is very important. Visually impaired surfers use screen readers to tell them what is on the current page, and by [...]
WordPress Upgrade
This evening I upgraded WordPress to version 2.5. All seems good so far, but please let me know if you spot any oddities.
ASCII Star Wars
Very geeky, but very cool: watch Star Wars in your Terminal: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
links for 2008-03-29
FuseCal – The Web’s Events in Your Calendar I was thinking about this just yesterday: how do I keep my web-based calendar synchronised with iCal. This looks like it could fit the bill. (tags: ajax cool free google mac software tools web web2.0 web20 website) The Best Unit Testing Resources: Beginner to Expert : Codeulate. [...]
Facebook, MySpace et al : Open up or die
Interesting article from The Economist on how social networks may be falling into the same trap that AOL and Compuserve have done in the past. Two of the biggest online phenomena of the past couple of years—social networks such as Facebook, and virtual worlds such as Second Life—look an awful lot like AOL did in [...]
Focus your RSS Feeds with Feed Rinse
If you ever have subscribed to an RSS feed and then subsequently been overwhelmed by irrelevant content, then Feed Rinse might be for you. It allows you to filter feeds based on keywords, meaning that you can be a lot more specific about the content arriving in your feed reader. Feed Rinse
Make Safari More Accessible from the Keyboard
To make it easier to navigate pages using the keyboard, go into Safari Preferences and under the Advanced tab, turn on “Press Tab to highlight each item on a webpage”. Now you can use tab to go forward through links and form elements on a page, and shift-tab to go backwards. Follow a highlighted link [...]
Yahoo Messenger for Mac adds Voice capabilities
The new beta 3 version of Messenger for Mac allows you to make voice calls to other Messenger users for free: Mac Version – Yahoo! Messenger
Yahoo! joins OpenSocial
Last November, OpenSocial was created to help build infrastructure for the social web. OpenSocial provides a common mechanism for developers to easily hook into many different social networks and extend their functionality. Official Google Blog: OpenSocial continues to grow: Welcome, Yahoo!