There are definite advantages of using an agency versus using freelance information architects (insurance, not knowing who you are getting, etc.), but the article is pretty much a bash session for freelance user experience folks. This I find troubling because a) I’m a freelance user experience folk right now, and b) I used to manage a UX group about the size of Persona.
Input masks integrate formatting cues directly into an input field to help signal how to correctly answer a question. These formatting instructions are automatically included in an input and cannot be removed by a user. More importantly, a user cannot enter other non-valid characters into the input field.
Ridiculously simple API for translating a location into longitude and latitude coordinates. It also supports reverse Geo-coding which is retrieving the closest address for a given set of coordinates.
CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document- oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API.
We believe that CouchDB will drastically change the way that you build document based applications. CouchDB combines an intuitive document storage model with a powerful query engine in a way that’s so simple you’ll probably be tempted to ask “Why has no one built something like this before?”
Since we first released Google Chrome, the development team has been hard at work improving the stability and overall performance of the browser. In just 100 days, we have reached more than 10 million active users around the world (on all seven continents, no less) and released 14 updates to the product. We're excited to announce that with today's fifteenth release we are taking off the “beta” label!
On November 20th I setup an advertising campaign on Facebook for my startup, CloudContacts. The ad setup program crashed a few times but eventually I was able to get the ad running. I selected men and women from 25 to 53 with a college degree as my initial test audience. Facebook told me that there were somewhere about 33 million users for the demographics I selected. Clearly this 33 million number is just profiles they have, not actual activity.
With a back-to-the-future technology called JavaFX to be launched Thursday, Sun Microsystems hopes to attract a new class of developer while building a much-needed new revenue source.
Sass is a meta-language on top of CSS that‘s used to describe the style of a document cleanly and structurally, with more power than flat CSS allows. Sass both provides a simpler, more elegant syntax for CSS and implements various features that are useful for creating manageable stylesheets.
Photo-sharing site Flickr's mobile interface (m.flickr.com) got a facelift and a few upgrades today, notably the ability to play back video clips. Right now the Flickr folks say video playback is limited to the iPhone and iPod touch, but despite several tries on my iPhone, I never did see any video movement. (Update: Video playback's rolling out to iPhone/iPod touch users over the next few weeks.) Once it's available to all, mobile Flickrinos will love this upgrade.
If you’re looking for a time killer, most of you tend to play casual games online. It is the fast-growing segment that accounts for about 10% of the $30 billion global video game industry.
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Meet this week’s start-ups, Jim, founder of Kongregate, a company that deems themselves as the YouTube of casual games and Jameson, founder of Mochi Media, a company that provides the essential tools for casual game developers to track and embed advertising. “With games… the repeat interaction is what’s driving the advertisers interest.” says Jameson.
