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Wordpress for iPhone & iPod Touch

The iTunes AppStore has been up and running for the last couple of weeks giving iPod Touch and iPhone owners access to a myriad of third party apps. If you're a twitter user 'a twit' or member of the 'twitterati' there's the excellent Twitterific app and now, the Wordpress app - ...

‘Beta’ - the new ‘under construction’?

I note the new Irish Times website has gone live. Looks like a good, professional job by Web Factory. Well done. The previous address of the Irish Times - Ireland.com - has now changed to a lifestyle/tourism website. Not sure that the execution here is as good. For instance, the new website carries ...

Web content arms race

The superpowers of the web are constantly coming up with new formats for online content. Over the past year we have seen Air from Adobe and Silverlight - the touted "Flash-killer" - from Microsoft. In addition, widgets, mashups, RSS feeds, AJAX, podcasts, wikis and more continue to gain ground. We gave come ...

Three. It’s a magic number

Three steps to sign up, three points to explain how a Web 2.0 application or product works. Three seems to be everywhere. Twitterfone: how it works in three Basecamp: three price points Clip N'Seal: how it works in three Choppr: how the process works in three steps Blogger: how to set up a blog in ...

Designing for mobility & context

Thinking back to last week's Bootcamp Future Now session, Des Traynor's and Paul Adams's talk dovetailed nicely with each other. Des talked about designing for mobility and context, while Paul talked about designing experiences. Bootcamp got me thinking about Basecamp. Previously, in Basecamp, you'd receive a project message notification by mail. ...

Beyond functional to usable

Well visually designed wine labels are one thing, but these wine labels go beyond describing the wine visually and are actually usable. from TheDieLine.com via Eoghan McCabe From Reign of Terroir Via trendhunter.com

Post-Boot Camp

At 4.50pm yesterday - just 10 minutes from the end of Boot Camp '08 - a massive power outage struck south Dublin. Despite the sudden loss of lighting and overhead projectors, our resouceful iQ presenters managed to wrap up successfully. Drinks in the Long Hall and Hogan's pubs followed and ...

The power of the medium

Brian from iQ and Shenda from ICAN I finally made it to BootCamp in the middle of a hectic week. This morning I sneaked into Shenda Loughnane's session: Online Advertising. It was a workshop with a strong practical focus. Shenda explained how to buy advertising space, where to find statistics on ...

Web ‘governed’

Wouldn't you know it - after waiting days for the chance to present at Boot Camp, today I get to host not 1, but 2 workshops. Lucky me! The first course (Web Governance) has just finished. I am now setting up for Web Content Strategy. Delegate feedback Delegate feedback to Web Governance was ...

Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 & more

Des, Tom, Paul and Krishna have just finished their presentations at the Future Now seminar. Each speaker gave his/her own view on where the web is going. Web 1.0 to Web 4.0 and more Tom's was the most wide ranging, covering internet developments from web 1.0 as far ahead as web ...