Things that made me happy this morning The Aegis project released a few Creative Commons licensed personas with disabilities for UX testingFamous Sci-Fi quotes as infographics – missing “aren’t you a little short for a Stormtrooper?”Google translate doesn’t support the Netherlands in the World Cup but the adult industry does – great viral by Bobbi […]

Back in the days when Yahoo BOSS came out, I built Keywordfinder to show off the “keywords” functionality of BOSS. BOSS returns you keywords people entered for a certain web site in its results and I used that to list the most popular search terms for a term you enter. Now, yesterday I got an […]

Yesterday night Mozilla invited developers to the Hub in King’s Cross, London to learn about Add-ons and the future of Firefox. Nick Nguyen on Add-ons The evening started with Nick Nguyen with Mozilla giving us an overview of the reach and numbers of extensions that are currently available for Firefox and Thunderbird. Some of the […]

A few days ago I was at a party in my neighbourhood and – as it happens when you are the token geek – people talked to me a lot about the internet and how scary it is. The internets are scary and full of evil people Normally I shrug at this as a lot […]

Things that made me happy this morning: London’s Twitter activity mapped as a colourful landscape. The new government in the UK is reviewing hundreds of unnecessary websites – I agree, having worked in local government I was appalled by the waste that was done when building very simple web sites with huge enterprise systems and […]