Posted by: RFM on: March 6, 2009
It seems that FaceBook has finally admitted that its new interface design, launched in July last year and reviled by many users, is no good.
This comes under “forms and conventions” which is another term for “media language”. The side menu, such a fixture on early web sites, and still a feature on popular sites [...]
Posted by: RFM on: February 22, 2009
The Times Technology blog ha gathered together a Top 20 tracks remixed by Microsoft Songsmith, with predictably hilarious results.
This is a great example of user-generated content, with the audience using the software for something other than what it was intended to do. The original cheesy Microsoft ad was awful enough (you can see it at [...]
Posted by: RFM on: February 12, 2009
Via Billy, who reads the Daily Mail online so that we don’t have to, comes this link to Janet Street-Porter: Why I hate Facebook.
I think her sentiments should be expressed in a more Gollum-like way to get the full effect. “We hates it, we hates them, those little people who dare to create their own [...]
