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Tailgate, booBox in-page ecommerce


It’s one of those Golden Rules of web usability: don’t make the visitor click more than they need to. And so it goes that both Tailgate and booBox have gone beyond the simpler affiliate advertising model and created a new, more instant paradigm…
In the case of Tailgate, their approach is to re-purpose existing screen real […]


Skitch! Net lingo for sketch…


It’s not often that something comes along that truly impresses me. It’s all the more galling to be as impressed as I am knowing that the guys behind Skitch, the all-round image editor are Australian…
For those not in the know, we British have an intriguing love-hate relationship with our Antipodean cousins, but I’ll attempt to […]


17 things wrong with Google Blogger


I thought I’d revise a much earlier article about Google Blogger with some more of my whinging & whining and how things would be much better if only Google listened to me for a moment or ten. But then I decided to invite someone else and let them set loose their own whinging & whining, […]


MarsEdit not yet ready for launch…


Every now & then, some software comes along that raises the bar. And quite surprisingly, MarsEdit does exactly that .. for the user, that is. You see, MarsEdit, the ‘blog authoring tool is for the likes of me, the code warrior, the tinkerer, the writer of HTML code and not the less technically well hung […]


Social news portals wikio, outside.in


Amazed by the amount of click traffic through my del.icio.us bookmarks for both wikio, the democratic news portal and outside.in, the geo-targeted news portal, I thought I ought to commit some pixels to screen in the form of a ‘Lite’ review.
Sucker as I am for a slick UI (User Interface) I’ve been generally very impressed […]