December 2009
How To Explain To Clients That They Are Wrong →
GIFs of spinning @s on the “Contact us” page. Common usabiltiy mistakes for the sake of visual appeal. Splash pages. Fancy search box. No whitespace. Music on page load. Home page banner of a jigsaw-puzzle globe with a piece missing. Sometimes you just know that what a client is requesting is wrong and that you have to find a way to tell them. But how?
Source / Full article: Smashing Magazine
The Facebook Privacy Fiasco Begins →
Today Facebook finally started to roll out a new set of privacy controls. These tools, many months in the making, are designed to help simplify the site’s notoriously confusing privacy options. But alongside them Facebook is also rolling out a “Transition Tool” that promotes Everyone updates as the new default. In other words, Facebook is giving up its reputation as a ‘private’ social network —...
Top 5 Myths About Google, Inc. →
The following is a list of the top 5 myths about Google, Inc., in no particular order. If any of these rumors sound too weird to believe, don’t take our word for it. Google it.
Google Wants to Own the Internet
Google Earth is Spying On You
Google Knows Everything About You
Google is Making You Dumber
Google Doesn’t Make Any Money
Source / Full article: HowStuffWorks
The Funniest Facebook Snafus Of All Time →
We can’t vouch that all of these are real (in fact we hope some of them aren’t) but these are the funniest Facebook status scenarios we’ve ever seen. They had us hiding in shame while bursting out laughing.
Souce / Full article: The Huffington Post
