Each year, Microsoft hosts an annual web confer­ence to cele­brate all that is web, from design, through UX to devel­op­ment and devices. This year’s event has been hotly antic­i­pated as the big reveal around Windows Phone Series 7 and Inter­net Explorer 9. This post however is focused on Windows Phone 7. About a year ago (yep, […]

What would you prefer me to do? Spend my time hack­ing around issues in older tech­nolo­gies like Inter­net Explorer 6 or would you like that time spent making the site look the best that it can on better desk­top browsers, as well as on the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Black­berry and a whole host of […]

Last week I spoke at the 9th Strate­gic Intranet Summit in Welling­ton. The confer­ence happens over two days and covers all the juicy intranet tech­nolo­gies and tech­niques you’d expect. The part I played in the confer­ence was to provide some exter­nal (read outside the fire­wall) exam­ples and ideas. In partic­u­lar I spoke about Web2.0 and […]

Note: This arti­cle is repub­lished from Prac­ti­cal eCom­merce The orig­i­nal creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, dreamed of an infor­ma­tion space that was open to every­one on the planet. But like many dreams, imag­i­na­tion took over and the vision became layered with road­blocks that effec­tively brought down the shut­ters for many users. Acces­si­bil­ity returns […]

Apple announces feature list for iPhone 3.0 update

For ever so long I was using the Twit­terific app, but, as you’d be able to tell by view­ing my history, I never really used it that much. Honestly, it was a pretty shit app, doing anything was always a hassle, and the user expe­ri­ence never made me want to come back. I’d only login for […]

The eyes of the world will be on the US elec­tions on Tues­day, however there is another elec­tion happen­ing this week here in New Zealand, if you live here you might have heard about it. I decided to put my geek hat on, and look at how the three main parties (based on current polling), […]

I am well over­due to post about about this project we have been work­ing on since the begin­ning of the year. We were involved in the launch of a site called Info­Con­nect by NZTA (previ­ously Tran­sit New Zealand). This explains it best: Info­Con­nect is an initia­tive to help ensure road users have access to timely and […]