Posts tagged in ‘Development’

Powerpoint hell

Ok maybe hell isn’t the right word. After all, I’m not stuck in a room with a sales guy presenting bad jokes and heinous sound-effects.
Love Creative have just launched their new website created entirely in Powerpoint.

The site comes complete with poxy Powerpoint sound effects and visual transitions, such as the whirly text or [...]

Google maps finally recognises walkers

One of my small gripes with google maps has finally been rectified - they now do walking directions. I try to walk everywhere and I usually use google maps as a reference to see the distance to my destination.

At first glance it seems pretty good. They give walking time assuming about 19 minutes per [...]

Corporate web standards at Digital Web


Google keeps on tweaking

There is a great article in the New York Times this week about how Google is managing to stay ahead of its competitors. It’s a fantastic read and you should definitely sit down and digest the whole thing. I caught a glimpse of the sort of brains they have working there at the Google Developer [...]

Google Developer Day 07 - Sydney


Web standards in Vietnam

I’m posting this from Saigon (or Ho Chi Minh City for some) - it’s a great, frenetic, steamy, noisy, creative city and I really love it here. For some reason I am always more relaxed in busy and noisy places than in quiet ones.
I am here to get to know one of the [...]