Monthly Archives: August 2008

Please digg me…I’ll send you a lollipop

If you don’t know Digg then check the website out now!! Over the last few days I have become a biggest fan of Digg not sure why ??
And now I want to be on the first page of Digg. If I end up on the first page of digg, I’ll send a lollipop to everyone [...]

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LinkedIn new group features

Last night LinkedIn launched its new community features. Definitely better than its earlier buggy group features. In the latest release users can start a discussion. I started one today:

One of the reasons why I enjoy LinkedIn is because its signal to noise ratio is high. Would the new groups feature change that ?
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PlayNTrade.com: Kwiqq’s latest semi-social website

Social websites have now become a necessity for the corporate market. Some good example of this are pepsi social network, BBC, Sky News (semi-social) etc.
Its important that sites don’t loose their ethos in an aim to be too social. This is where the idea of semi-social sites was born. Semi-social sites are not full [...]

Posted in Business 2.0, Fun 2.0, Kwiqq Announcements, Kwiqq Clients, Social Networks, Web World | 1 Comment

iPhone Blogging using Wordpress

I think of most of my blogging topics/themes/silly videos whilst I’m traveling. Wordpress just made it easier for me to convert these themes to blogs when I’m traveling using my iPhone.
 
Thanks to the Wordpress Blog Application. Simple, robust and instant solution to blog on self-hosted WP blogs. Although you will require to upgrade your wordpress [...]

Posted in Business 2.0, Fun 2.0, Marketing 2.0, Travel 2.0, Web World, iPhone | 3 Comments

Car Social Networks

Whilst you have social networks for several niches travel, startups, Business (French)… Why shouldn’t there be a social network for car lovers
In this section I will try list 5 of my favorite Car Social Networks in no particular order.

CarSpace: Sounds and looks like MySpace Version 1.0 :). Carspace piggy backs on the success [...]

Posted in Europe 2.0, Fun 2.0, Myspace, Social Networks, Web World | 2 Comments

The future is gestural

As a designer you have to be careful what language you use to communicate information to users. This could mean naming conventions in navigational elements or using easier to understand language to name links (based on my previous posts this may be naming at the genus level). Beyond this are the new interfaces beginning to [...]

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Kwiqq’s new office layout

Part of tomorrow (Wednesday) is reserved to receive our new tables from Ikea. Dan drew a sketch for how the office would look like once all the furniture is assembled:

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Tags: Kwiqq, Office, Tables, Ikea

Posted in Brighton Community, Fun 2.0, Kwiqq Announcements, Web World | 4 Comments

Judging Shell STEP - second time

Last year was the first time I judged the Shell STEP project which allows university students in their penultimate year to work on a real project with a local companies. I did the Shell STEP scheme twice (with European Union and Dazdaq) myself and can’t stress how much it helped me with my career. Really [...]

Posted in Brighton Community, Business 2.0, Events 2.0, Kwiqq Announcements, Web World, Young Entrepreneurs | 1 Comment

Stick to what you, and others, know.

For the second installment on the psychology of design, I would like to write more about the research behind my theory before concluding the series next week with how these principles can be directly applied to web design.
It begins with Eleanor Rosch, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. From field experiments [...]

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Video: Building home-made iPhone: Goes Wrong !

Another day another silly video !

Building home-made iPhone: Goes Wrong ! from Raj Anand on Vimeo.
The video indicates the need of a real iPhone. I have a Vodafone contract which doesn’t expire for another 6 months. Frustrated with the situation I thought I’ll make my own iPhone using my Sony Ericsson phone. Although [...]

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