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How to handle location specific media messages

Rajit — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:03:14 +0000

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

Adult Swim Message

Maker Faire Africa – Website

Rajit — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:39:19 +0000

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.

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

Orion City – Sri Lanka – Daily Mirror Online

Rajit — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:21:23 +0000

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.

Ovi Store Problems

Rajit — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:38:27 +0000

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.

friendfeed on twitter

Rajit — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:31:00 +0000

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!

Registering for Sites – Informing Users

Rajit — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:50:09 +0000

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.

#twitter #uk #politics

Rajit — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:23:13 +0000

Politicians twitter while the country burns. MPs are trying to look in touch by using the latest webtools. But all they reveal is how insecure the political elite has become. (from The Times)

I haven’t read a sufficient numbers of tweets from UK politicians to make a judgment on what they tweet but found the thoughts of the writer muddled, which was exemplified by the psychologist she quoted – “Nobody would Twitter if they had a strong sense of identity.”

I found that an astonishing quote. Twitter is a medium (an online, micro-messaging, networked service) and he appears to think of it as a specific lifestyle based on the way some people use it. I seem to recall people having the same attitude to blogging in its early days. I don’t the article makes a sufficient distinction how some people to use twitter and twitter as a communication tool.

I need to do some concept maps for a pro …

Rajit — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:20:32 +0000

I need to draw some concept maps for a project and wanted to try out CmapTools as a means of accomplishing this. I landed on this page on their website and even after getting to the home page struggled to find the Download page link. That required a separate search on Google. Not very impressive.

http://www.kogan.com.au/ Why is the list …

Rajit — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:01:28 +0000

http://www.kogan.com.au/ Why is the list and link to a full range of products at the bottom of the page? Annoying. Also “shop” and “store” lead to the same page, is using both words really necessary?

This site design http://www.lr…

Rajit — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:29:46 +0000

This site design http://www.lrgisamonster.com/ looks like a transition ad. Confused me initially.