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Category Archives: Design

Alpha-testing the new SocialThing

I had a chat with Matt Galligan at the Web 2.0 Expo about the new version of his social network aggregator SocialThing. And now, just a few weeks later, the alpha is up for QA.
The new SocialThing looks much more advanced than it’s rival FriendFeed.

The next generation of the site now groups all of your [...]

Best design I’ve ever had

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that I switch my theme almost weekly. I have been told numerous times that I am not a designer, but I like to think that I am learning. I have put together a lot of websites for people, but never really spent time designing [...]

New design coming very, very soon

Marc Mendell pushed some pixels around and made me a new design.

I will cut it as soon as I get to a computer that has Photoshop
UPDATE: Watch it being built here.

CNET TV 2.1

CNET TV has a new look and feel. They are slowly rolling out new features. and today the “2.1 beta” popped up:

It’s being pushed out to 5% of users today.

Update: Tales found a cool image from the 1.0 days.

Update #2: This post was censored by Mark Larkin at CNET. He made me take down [...]

My Facebook wish list

Dear Facebook,
Before you launch your new redesign, consider the following improvements. They shouldn’t be hard to implement.

Events tab. Facebook’s event application is great if you have large groups becuase you can message all members.

Smaller app invite icons. Make the important icons (friend requests, event invites, photo tags) larger, and the developer app invites a lot [...]

Facebook redesign in beta

I’ve been a Facebook user for four years now, and since 2004, it’s still been the website I check more than anything. The amount of social data on Facebook is ginormous. Today, they soft-launched a sneak peek at their new design. It’s… unfamiliar, really white, and awkwardly-centered, but otherwise awesome.

I think it’s cool that [...]

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