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“fring™ is a mobile internet service & community that enables you to access & interact with your social networks on-the-go, make free calls and live chat with all your fring, Skype®, MSN® Messenger, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!™ and AIM
Monthly Archive for July, 2008
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“Mike Liebhold writes about what we need to do to tap the as yet unharvested business opportunities in a geospatial web.”
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“Cyberspace’ 3.0: Geohacking and Spatial Specters in William Gibson’s Spook Country
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“This online community will live on a site we’ve created that will feature blogs, forums, social networking, comments, photos, videos and a job board. And it’s by invitation only until October. Spots are limited and early members get privileges and braggi
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“One of the things that I always wanted to do but never got around to was to analyze a user’s browsing history to estimate age and gender.”
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The Ground on levykauppa, jossa musiikki myydään mp3- ja cd-muodossa, artistit listataan käyttäjien antamien pisteiden mukaan ja jokainen artisti on vapaa liittymään.
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“One inescapable facet of web work is the need to come up with, and remember, usernames and passwords.”
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Excellent article on identity and online worlds
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“t is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of the way our profession is practiced worldwide.”
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“Short (6 min) presentation debunking the way social media is being sold to us and offers a more sane and logical approach to developing industry voice to grow your business.” (David Spark)
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“Of course I’m telling nothing new here. We already know that if you over engineer your site, you might actually be hurting the accessibility of your site instead of improving it. There are two common variations of this problem. “
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“The Long Wow is a means to achieving long-term customer loyalty through systematically impressing your customers again and again. Going a step beyond just measuring loyalty, the Long Wow is an experience-centric approach to fostering and creating it.”
So I took the survey (A List Apart survey for people who make websites). And although I don’t currently do web sites for living, I do consider myself a web professional, too.
I Took the survey (A list apart survey for people who make websites)
Do take the survey!
(Don’t seem to find option for uploading pictures to Wordpress if they’re not in a posting/page. Does it exist?)
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“What if there were no stop signs… and a major corporation was charged with inventing one?” Ad agencies, yep.
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“Google went live with Knol, a platform to read and write articles on all kinds of subjects”
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“Userneeds on pohjoismainen tutkimus instituutti ja yksi pohjoismaiden johtavista paneeli-tutkimusten tarjoajista.” Hmm, perhaps they should run an usability panel on their own web page…
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“of. The Flash Player supports over 60 different role constants and has mechanisms for developers to set role and state information for controls, has methods for getting and setting values, and allows developers to define the accessibility location inform
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“tonight we’ve released the first “alpha” testing version of Django 1.0. This release includes all of the major features due for inclusion in the final Django 1.0, though some lower-priority items are still scheduled to be included before the 1.0 feature
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“Not sure how to explain the internet to your young ones? Presenting a series of nursery rhymes to teach children how to comport themselves on the online.”
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Tales of Coding: W3C recently posts updated docs on relationship between usability and accessibilitySmall article on W3C’s update. Have to read.
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“You know what I think should cause everyone to give at least some thought to accessibility?
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“We give you an API that enables you to create your own heat maps on your maps, in your application. We offer a free API you can use, or you can upgrade for more features functionality including running the API on your server.”
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“…most of the markup created by the ‘best of the best’ is a combination of presentational and structural…”
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“This technical report describes the relationships, overlaps and differences between the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and the Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP).”
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“Splicd allows you to isolate an interesting tidbit from a YouTube video and provides you with a link to share it with your family, friends, and colleagues.”
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“Starting today, you can tell Google Maps that you want walking directions, and we’ll try to find you a route that’s direct, flat, and uses pedestrian pathways when we know about them.”
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“Sleipnir is designed to be a highly customizable browser that you can configure to suit your individual needs”
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“A developing keratoconus and ectasia treatment is Corneal Collagen Crosslinking with Riboflavin (CxL), that has been proven outside of the US to strengthen a weakened corneal structure”
Viral marketing is defined at Wikipedia (23.7.2008) as:
“Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand awareness or to achieve other marketing objectives (such as product sales) through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses.”
Now, the Finnish Air Force has been quite active a marketer in the past.
Some of you may remember the FAF’s pilot recruite campaign at Irc-galleria. They created a community page for recruiting (fighter) pilots, pr and so on. Nowadays the community page is not as glittery as it used to be…
Viral marketing - or using the so called new media (web 2.0?).
Anyway, reason for this posting can yet again be found from Facebook.
As you can (might?) see to right, there’s a targeted Facebook ad from the so called “New Facebook” - or Facebook after the recent facelift.
It says “The Finnish Air Force needs your help now!” in the text. Title is “Finnish Air Force”, picture somehow makes one wonder, ’cause we don’t have planes like that here…
What is it then? I thought, at first, that FAF advertises now at Facebook. Curious as I am, clicked the link.
No, they’re not advertising at Facebook - or at least this is not FAF’s ad. It’s an ad for application, a game at FB.
Pretty good ad, in my opinion.
Now, if I worked at FAF atm, I’d do pretty much the same thing as the application developers did. I’d set up a page at FB and buy some targeted ads. Target group: all members of the Finland-network between, let’s say, 18-29. Both men and women. Replace the plane pictured with a classy pic of Hornet flying high and there we (would) go!.
Now, the interaction. I’d probably contact the developers of that particular appilication and try to work something out with them… As the game should be quite good;)
Well, as I don’t work at FAF, I don’t do any of these things.
Just thinking aloud.
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“Consulting Paradise is a comedic spoof of “Gangsta’s Paradise,” documenting the dramatic lifestyle of a management consultant.” This is just plain fucking great;)
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“Thematic Mapping Engine (TME) enables you to visualise global statistics on Google Earth. The primary data source is UNdata.”
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“Final preparations for the 2008 Summer Olympics are in full swing in Beijing. This includes completing hundreds of construction projects, reconstructions, pollution controls, cultural training, and a general “beautifying” of greater Beijing”
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“Facebook has turned on new ad units as part of the profile and home page redesign. While the format of the ad units themselves hasn’t changed significantly, their location on the page has become more prominent - and a new ad unit has been created on th
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“PHPGD.com is a resource for anyone interested in creating graphics and graphics applications using the programming language PHP with the GD or GD2 image library.”
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Looks like someone else wants the black, too.
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“I had heard of Test Driven Development (TDD), an agile development technique, and I knew people I knew were using it. I started using it recently after I finally learned the philosophy behind TDD.”