links for 7 February 2006

Why Is That Thing Beeping? A Sound Design Primer – Boxes and Arrows – lately i’ve been thinking about the role of sound in interaction, and how it should be designed/specified/documented. There is some interesting information here, but not much on the specification side of things -(tags: interactiondesign sound)
10 ways to take advantage of web 2.0 from Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog. Next I’d love someone to do one of these on how Government regulated authorities can take advantage of web 2.0 within the millions of constraints that they have at the moment…. (sounds boring, i know, but would probably be very helpful for many of us… perhaps I should think on that some more) (tags: web2.0)
Tech.Memeorandum “The Web is humming with reports and opinions on technology. tech.memeorandum is page A1 for these discussions. Auto-updated every 5 minutes, it uncovers the most relevant items from thousands of news sites and weblogs.” Pretty smart application – clusters blog and other discussions with news items. (tags: 2.0 blog cluster)

Users Interleave Sites and Genres (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) When working on business problems, users flitter among sites, alternating visits to different service genres. No single website defines the user experience on its own. Ah, Jakob. I love it when you make sense.(tags: webdesign usability)
Presentation Zen: Where can you find good images? Note to self : includes a list of images resources for use in presentations and otherwise (tags: images photos presentation)
Textpattern A free, flexible, elegant, easy-to-use content management system for all kinds of websites, even weblogs. This is the CMS that drives the UX Magazine website (tags: CMS)
Yutaka Loves London continuing my quest for great travel/tourism sites, this claims to be’the best’ non-touristy guide to London(tags: tourism travel inspiration london uk)