Well done Adult Swim. Much better than the curt messages that are seen on other media channels.

Adult Swim Message

Adult Swim Message

Well designed site – neat and usable yet with just enough colour and flair to capture the spirit of the occasion. They seem to be using a theme from http://www.woothemes.com/ The twitter widget in particularly nicely done and placed. Not as in your face as some sites have it.

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A celebration of African ingenuity, innovation and invention via Maker Faire Africa – Aug 14th – 16th, Accra, Ghana.

Typical of the awful standard of journalism in LK. I was interested to hear of a new IT services park in Sri Lanka but the article did not mention where it was located. It just regurgitated what sounds the press release material.  The shoddy website of the project wasn’t much help either.

Sri Lanka’s IT giants are congregating at Orion City via Sri Lanka Breaking News-Daily Mirror Online.

A few basic things that Nokia messed up:
1) The display of apps based on your phone type seems inefficient. There’s apps that I can use on my E71 that don’t show up. Surely it would make more sense to do it by OS version (e.g. Symbian S60 v.3)?
2) The “missing apps” issue. http://friendfeed.com/rjt/23c51fb9/on-ovistore-getting-few-sorry-this-item-is-no
3) The search doesn’t work. I know the Gravity twitter client is in there somewhere but I can’t find it by searching. Ditto the cricinfo app.

For the beta launch of a relatively niche product, the new friendfeed is generating an extraordinary amount of noise on twitter. It’s taking on #gfail proportions and I’m sure there’s a massive numerical gap between the user base of these products. Well done friendfeed in getting the digital masses stoked about your product!

Classic mistake at http://www.polarisindustries.com/ If you offer the option to build something online, inform the user registration is required at the START of the process or prominently on the site, not after they’ve begun the process by selecting an item.  The registration page also fails to explain the benefits of registering – another practice that I think helps users.

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