B3ta.com is a place where people post photoshop-manipulated photos and animations. Unlike Worth1000 where the main idea is skill and immaculate photo manipulation b3ta thrives on novelty, skill, crudeness and, yes, immaturity. The joke of the picture is more important than the technical quality. Chances are you found a lot of b3ta pictures as “funny attachments” in your inbox over the years.

Every week there is a new challenge what pictures should be about and this week they picked “Imaginary Applications for Web 2.0”. The results are quite funny, although not up to the normal quality of b3ta as the contributors are utterly confused as to what Web2.0 might be about.

Warning: Some of the entries of the competition are not work safe as they might be deemed inappropriate, political incorrect and show crudely drawn comic genitalia. I warned you.

This just blew my mind:

I would believe that it could be a person really asking for help to get rid of a spyware/trojan infection if he hadn’t used a naughty site as his own URL.

Anyways, why should I know how to get rid of it. I never surf naughty parts of the internet, honestly!

I just put up a proof of concept for the AJAX chapter of my book. For years I have ranted about DHTML multi level menus simply assuming that every user wants to have every page in the sitemap as an item in the navigation.

My idea was to make the enhanced navigation optional and allowing the user to decide initially.
Check out the example:

• Optional AJAX navigation

It uses PHP to only provide a chunk of the full navigation automatically replacing the current link with a strong when JS is unavailable and when JavaScript is available it offers a link that turns the navigation into a multi level tree menu loading the main page content via XHR.

What do you think? Helpful? I think it is a lot less obtrusive than a lot of fancy menu systems out there while offering the same options.

I finally reached the AJAX chapter in my book and had to dabble with it for the first time (yes I know I should have done it earlier, but I work behind a proxy in the office that doesn’t let any outgoing requests through).

The first outcome is FeedNav, a RSS feed displayer: Have a look and I’d be happy about feedback here on the blog.

• Check and get FeedNav – an AJAX RSS displayer

I finally got the go-ahead to look for a replacement for me in the company I am still working for. I am leaving here on the 14th of April, and will join Yahoo on the 24th.

So, if you are:

• A very web standards and quality orientated Interaction Architect
• A good team leader
• Experienced in various development Frameworks (.NET,Spring,PHP)
• Fully up to speed on Accessibility regulations and development practices
• Experienced in conducting Usability Testing
• Interested to work in the South West of London / England

Drop me a line and your CV at the new yes.i.want.to.be.chris@googlemail.com email.

I will treat your CV with confidentiality and cannot promise anything. However, I do think I can find a better bunch of CVs here than our HR department can get through agencies :-)