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  • Open data: it’s beautiful!

    One of the things I love about the web is the ease and the speed with which it creates transparency and the way it forces institutions to open up and share. A great example is WikiLeaks where the recent release of secret cables from US diplomats caused a massive media and diplomatic storm. It draws…

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  • HoverMe adds social context to the people you follow

    I’m pretty sure there must be quite a few people out there who find it a pain to have to look at other people’s profiles in a separate places like Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. Wouldn’t it be neat if there was a functionality to connect the various social profiles of each individual user? HoverMe is…

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  • Doing (social) good, inspired by Facebook

    First it was just a simple homepage containing a poll with slightly random questions (“If you had a daughter tomorrow, what would you name her?”), but last week it launched as a fully-fledged social network: Jumo aims to connect people around the issues and projects they care about. Chris Hughes, who you might have heard…

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  • Book review: “Undercover User Experience Design”

    When a colleague first told me about “guerilla user experience design”, I immediately started visualising people wearing balaclavas working on websites whilst hiding in shady corners. I then read a book titled Undercover user experience design written by Cennydd Bowles and James Box. Lots of organisations still seem reluctant to embrace user-centric design, citing time and budget…

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  • What is HTML5 all about?

    Last night I suddenly realised that I didn’t really know what “HTML5” was. I wasn’t devastated about it but I did feel it would be a good reason to learn a thing or two about HTML and HTML5. The story starts with Tim Berners-Lee inventing the World Wide Web in the early 1990s and subsequently…

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  • This is anti-social: Path limits the number of your (online) friends

    For some of us, social networks such as Facebook and Twitter are all about amassing as many ‘friends’ as possible. Having 25 Facebook friends or 10 Twitter followers is considered insignificant (perhaps you’re not as outgoing as some of your peers or you’re just being anti-social). However, the downside of having lots of  people in…

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