With all this hype of Betas and web application in early phases, etc. You can do some things before you launch your private beta. Let’s take a look.
The first (very important) thing you may have, is the name for your app, we all know what a great name can make for a product, and we all know names like Apple, Nike, Google, Microsoft, Digg, Facebook, etc.
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Adobe has redesigned their website. The new main element is the “Pizzazz” banner right below the main menu. Sure they have to promote their technologies; after all they sell software, but I don´t think is necessary have a ¾ of the screen covered with a pizzazz message.
When I visit Adobe.com I know exactly what I am looking for: the new beta of Flex or some news of the Spry Framework or something else. The pizzazz is not help at all, in this case. Looks like the marketing people jump over the UI/UX team this time.
First I noticed when see the new design was: Where the hell I am. Adobe is breaking some design rules here, putting their branding (logo, etc) on the right. Why Adobe why? Everybody notice the website they are by the logo on the top left, and everybody expect that. Making this change left some people lost in the dark.
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Months ago I have started using OpenOffice for my “Office” work: Documents, Letters, Taxes, etc. After a month or so I give up with OpenOffice and started to use IBM Lotus Symphony, which is also based in OpenOffice but with a revamped UI, after 2 months or so I give up again. Then, I start to use some of the Online Office web applications, from Google Docs, Zoho, ThinkFree passing by Buzzword, Sliderocket and Blist, I have tested the most popular ones. Days ago I get back to Microsoft Office. Let´s see why.
In the beginning, there was Wordstar and Supercalc for the old MS-DOS, next come Corel WordPerfect and Quattro Pro, then, Microsoft Office for Windows came and the party is almost over.
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As my last article makes some waves out there, just read some of the comments here, here and here. I want to state that I am not against using tables on web pages, just against using the elements in a way they are not mean to. Also encouraging to the web entrepreneurs (the intended audience for this site) to use best practices on their projects. Why? Cause on the long way the good practices pay: when you have to add features, correct some bugs, scale the app, etcetera, etcetera… etcetera.
This list of website represent successful websites that are using good practices right now, and are doing something to make the web a better place.
As we move in a world of XHTML, CSS, AJAX, Microformats, Semantic Web, etc. You may think that tables are only used to display… well… tabular data, no you are wrong! Take a look at this list of top sites from Alexa and see who are still in the middle age of web design. Here I am looking only at the home page of every site, may be worst when you click your way inside the site.
Well I am not going to tell the “The History of Tobacco”, you can read some over here. But I want to bring a few things for you: light, understandable, accessible and quasi-more SEO friendly code.
When I readed that the GUI of Android will be “It’s an amazing UI — it’s interface is top-notch…”, my expectations started to rise… a week later… the face of Android appear… please Rubin, tell me what part of top-noch is present in this image, me please.
When Apple come out with the iPhone back in January they have already made a beautiful, usable and revolutionary GUI for the new device. What´s make the iPhone so great the GUI, nothing more.
Everybody is bloging now day even Glen Close here. This site: foame, is cool… but I hate Twitter. Learning from the big ones about taglines. Apple is after movie rentals, finally!
Mindmeister can work offline now too. Grab some free fonts here. Flex have down the price but still not mainstream, AJAX is free… oh wait you have this.
Looking at springnote, looks great I will write about it later. Posting this one with Zoundry. Facebook go wild everybody ruining from MySpace to grab their FB page. When we think that dating sites are dead come Crazy Blind Date and take the ball out of the park.
Time to buy GOOG. No word on Android´s GUI, I hope will be like this one, sort of, I don´t want something like this. It will be Mobile Devices not 17″ Displays the Paradigm is not the same, also, don´t expect something like this either Google is heading to a Gas Station near you, the Android Google Code page is not on line yet.
Keep Flowing.
Google has just unveiled Android. After months of speculation in the blogsphere.
Is not a Mobile Device, is a platform, a Operating System, the most near I can say is: Android will be to Mobile Devices, what is MS Windows to PCs now.
Simple as this: Google will put Android in the hands of the Handset Manufacturers, Mobile Operators, Software Companies and Semiconductor Companies, so they can develop products and services around the platform. We will see many devices running Android in the short time.
Also every developer out there can make applications for the platform and working natively with the resources on the phone. The applications can now make calls, send text messages, download from the web, etc., etc., etc. The possibilities are endless.
Just like happened with the PC long time ago, the devices that can run Android are going to be the most successful out there, why?, simple, they can run applications that no other phone will be running and there will be millions of these applications.
The devices: All handset manufacturers companies enrolled on the Open Handset Aliance will be soon releasing devices with Android, so like the PC platform is demanding better resources for run ever better apps and games, the mobile devices can just get better.
Who will win with a Android based device, the best manufacturer out there that can make a real good product, cause the applications will be compatible with every phone.
There are 3 billions mobile users a out there, is a huge market to go for. Now these users have the possibility to choose the device that can include the applications that they now use and make their live easy.
This announce only push once more the mobile market one step forward. Welcome Android.
Keep flowing, now mobile!
Peopleized is a website when you can interview real people and publish these interview in your blog/journal/website, interviews made by you or other users inside Peopleized.
Is great cause they are real people with real stories on the site, so is fresh content for your blog.
Let´s get two interviews (1, 2) to Halil Mandal, one of the founders of the site and publish some excerpts here, following the dynamic and function on the site.
DariaBlack: Tell me a little bit about yourself.
Halil: Halil Mandal, 26, single. Turkish origin and liveing in Germany/Stuttgart. Interested in cooking, Internet, Audio-books and networking. Former financial adviser with sales and marketing background, since 4 month full time Internet entrepreneur.
DariaBlack: This is a wonderful idea for a website. How did the idea for Peopleized come about?
Halil: Thank you. We come up with the idea as we saw that a lot of good blogs at the blogosphere have great content but not as many reader as they should have. So we decided to start Peopleized. The idea was a community where people interview people and share the interviews to promote each other, by using the interviews as “behind-the-scenes” tool to gain new reader to the content.
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