Archives for March, 2009

Privacy and social networkingPosted on March 25, 2009

Sam Leith has written a fantastic article in the Guardian on the Home Office’s plan to start monitoring social networking sites. I assume it’s basically the government starting to monitor Facebook and Twitter, in addition to tracking who is googling how to make a bomb or take down a plane with some hair gel.
He’s [...]

Tags: random thoughts, social networking

Ada Lovelace dayPosted on March 24, 2009

Today is Ada Lovelace day, and I’ve taken the pledge to blog about a woman I admire in technology. Why is this important? Well, women are still a minority in the web space (and technology in general) and therefore women aren’t written about, talked about, asked to speak or in the spotlight as much.
I [...]

Tags: random thoughts

Fitness First is the worst gym in the worldPosted on March 18, 2009

I can’t tell you the passion with which I hate Fitness First. I was a member there for about 5 years (it was the only gym in my area) and I still get angry when I think about the way they treat their members. It’s with complete contempt.
So it doesn’t surprise me to see [...]

Tags: Marketing

Reflections on living in the futurePosted on March 15, 2009

I had one of those moments last night that made me stop and think and realise how much technology has crept up on us and how much we take it for granted.
We were driving over to a friend’s place for dinner (looking up the address from my email into Google Maps in the car [...]

Tags: random thoughts, twitter

Molt:n shop opens its doorsPosted on March 5, 2009

Last year at Web Directions South Molt:n Digital sponsored the event in the form of some funky, cool t-shirts that we gave away before the conference (as a small competition) as well as during the conference at all the geek meet-ups.

Interest in the t-shirts has continued well into the New Year as Molt:n handed out [...]

Tags: Conferences, Design, code, words

Aero skate video more pooey than originalPosted on March 4, 2009

After Snickers shamelessly stole a great idea from Spike Jonez and made it into a crap ad, Aero have joined the party and made an ad that actually reminds me of crap.
What is it with advertisers and skateboards lately? Don’t they know skating past its zenith in the 80s with Michael J Fox in [...]

Tags: Marketing

Gloria Jeans launches new website coded in 1999Posted on March 3, 2009

I just read on Mumbrella that Glora Jeans launched a new marketing campaign today with a brand new shiny website. I knew their old site well due to analysing it as part of a competitor review recently.

The site starts with audio, which is my pet hate. It adds absolutely nothing to the experience and [...]

Tags: Development, accessibility

Ignite Web for all you Melbourne folkPosted on March 2, 2009

Some happy news this week with the announcement of an Ignite event down in Melbourne called Ignite Web.
If you hadn’t heard about Ignite Sydney, it’s the same concept. A presentation night with talks lasting 5 minutes, with 20 slides, 15 seconds per slide. I had a really great night at the Sydney event and [...]

Tags: events

Brave - and possibly suicidal - website from SkittlesPosted on March 1, 2009

Skittles (those little addictive sugary candies) have just launched a very brave website. I say brave because it completely turns the idea of a corporate website on its head and throws out the brand to its users.
If you go to Skittles.com, it loads a little Skittles toolkit widget - on top of a twitter [...]

Tags: Marketing, customer experience, innovation, transparency