I tried to login to my Twitter account earlier and found this staring back at me.
If custom error pages are the new black, then you gotta love Twitter for being one of the first to get down with it.
I wish I could pimp my own 404.
(Image from Gizmodo)
There’s been a decent amount of buzz about it lately, mostly from people like Adaptive Path’s Peter Merholz, Russell Davies from Open Intelligence Agency and even PSFK showed some love, too.
Personally, I think the idea of advertising wrapped around pre-experience design is totally fucking awesome.
I’ve got a Flickr photostream called Drum n Bass.
It’s going to document all of my drum n bass adventures.
If you’ve got some photos that you’d think would be great to add to it, leave a comment with a link!
You know you’ve been spending too much time at work when you starting missing news like Fiddy’s latest video game, 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand.
According to the official spiel, players will be able to “play as one of the world’s biggest hip-hop stars in an all out battle to protect 50 Cent’s assets and to collect payment from a crooked overlord.”
Check out some screens or read the full preview at Gamespot.
Man, imagine taking out hoods with Lloyd Banks on co-op.
Scratch that; did you know people will soon be able to play chess with RZA at Wuchess?
Imagine beating Fiddy at his own game!
Sorry. Pardon the pun.
(Image from Universal Stopping Point’s Flickr)
“How do we get people to keep coming back to our site?”
People always ask me this question at work and I always ask weird questions in return because it depends on why you want people to return to a website.
What are you offering visitors?
What do you want them to do on your site?
What’s the top-of-mind recall for your site?
The fact that your brand is so cool? The fact that you’re a Fortune 500 company? Your award-winning Flash animation?
Bullshit.
It’s a science. And getting it right is as simple as how Matt Rossi from ifoh designs explains it.
Another nice post from Matt.
So, what do you think about his recommendations?
I read somewhere that the reason why Japanese advertising is sometimes difficult to understand is because it’s so subtle.
That, and a whole lotta quirky.
Thanks to the iMedia Connection e-mail newsletter I received earlier today, I can share with you the results of Tokyo Interactive Ad Awards, courtesy of TIAA judge Akihito Abe.
Especially this Kendo blog widget, which features a Kendoka who whacks the living crap out of bad words in your copy.
It’s awesome! Try it.
Needless to say, the other winning entries were pretty interesting, too.
And a whole lotta ‘quirky’.
(Image from AllPosters.com)
A search on del.icio.us for the keyword ‘Malaysian’ reveals 4872 bookmarks.
The results are skewed in favor of politics and food porn.
I wonder; is this what most of us are blogging about?
Can you shake off your Scrabulous addiction for one whole day? If the answer is ‘Yes!’ you’re ready to be part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the Internet.
(Global Orgasm Day was probably the other one)
Shutdown your computer on 3 May 2008.
And let’s see what happens!
(Image from useit.com)
” Since I started in 1983, the usability field has grown by 5,000%. It’s a wonderful job — and still a promising career choice for new people.”
- Jakob Nielsen, web usability consultant.
Congratulations to Jakob Nielsen for the first 25 years of improving the Web!
I’ve learned heaps from his books and even just being on his mailing list.
Here’s to the next 25 years of knowledge, guidance and inspiration from the guru of Web page usability.
