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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]