I’ve been really interested to see the way that conversations around conferences are being collated online. The recent D.Construct conference had a BackNetwork that I thought was really great - even though I wasn’t able to attend the conference. The upcoming Web Directions conference in Sydney has a similar Web Connections site set up. Even [...]

Moo Flickr Mini Cards launched recently, as you may have read elsewhere. I’m stoked to see so many people checking them out and enjoying them because I had the pleasure of working with the Moo Team on the design of the service.
It was interesting that Signals vs Noise wrote them up, because the design process [...]

Women researchers, designers & artists working in pervasive computing-related fields
a great resource, and a work in progress.
(tags: gender PervasiveComputing UbiquitousComputing)

Pattern-based design - teehan+lax
tackles the hairy question of ‘where do patterns fit in a UI designers toolkit’… a good discussion starter.
(tags: patterns UI userinterface)

Diversity in the web professions (dog or higher)
Talk is necessary. But after the words are spoken, the actions which are taken both define us, and change circumstances. Talk alone does not do that. So what are you going to do to increase diversity in our professions?
(tags: gender diversity)

There’s a kind of grim irony in exploring Crazy Egg, only to discover that the very thing that would make their website and service useful for me would never be able to be detected using the tools that they provide.
Crazy Egg is designed to help you continually test and improve your site.
They do [...]

Be Provocative
yet another great post from Kathy Sierra with some great tips on getting (and keeping) people’s attention
(tags: ux userexperience)

Kiva
I love this. Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can “sponsor a business” and help the world’s working poor [...]

It’s been interesting to see the mixed reaction that FlickrMaps has received since it’s recent launch. After all, it’s such a cool idea, to be able to show on a map where you took your photo, and see what the rest of the world looks like through other people’s eyes. It’s like Google Earth with [...]

Gartner’s 2006 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle Highlights Key Technology Themes
i love the hype cycle… need to find a better sized diagram than the one in this article tho.
(tags: hypecycle web2.0)

secondlife links « Second Verse
lots of second life goodness… probably a bit advance for someone who is still struggling to walk straight… (nah, these are interesting even if you haven’t explored Second Life at at all)
(tags: secondlife)

How to Blog a Conference - by business blog and social media consultant Josh Hallett
some good tips for making a ‘real’ conference more ‘virtual’
(tags: conference)

IT|Redux » Office 2.0
thoughts on Office 2.0 by the guy who’s organising the accompanying conference
(tags: podcastjam office2.0 web2.0 webapplications)

Idée Inc. - Visual Search Solutions
Visual Search applications for stock photography and footage, [...]