FW: A question on what the 'future web will resemble'

By Mathias HellquistPublished: April 16, 2008 at 04:44 Tags: #apps, #socialmedia

A somewhat likely meeting... by Don Solo

Some time ago I, and several other colleagues, was asked by my managing director if I could help out answering what the "Future Web Will Resemble". The following was my email reply to him, but I think it holds up as a blog post as well. I have expanded/clarified it slightly and also corrected obvious spelling mistakes or punctuation.For me personally: I think the future of the web will be more geared towards offline,...

Details – can't see the forest for all the trees

By Mathias HellquistPublished: April 4, 2008 at 07:00 Tags: #ux, #webdesign, #webdevelopment

under by -Travel Man-

I have spoken about the details as a topic and their importance within web design/development elsewhere but just to continue on the same topic I read this article at A List Apart today which delves further into the importance of details when presenting creative concepts to clients, and getting it 100% right.Now, all of the tips given in that article are sound and reasonable, and...

Cultural differences

By Mathias HellquistPublished: April 3, 2008 at 01:10 Tags: #culture, #socialmedia

Calculator

Imagine a world, today, where people doesn't salivate uncontrollably at the thought of a specific beautifully designed Mp3 player/Mobile phone with touch screen only, and where Google wouldn't be the biggest player in the Search Engine market and therefore not the default start page in peoples browser, and where logging into Facebook (regardless of "daily" or "at all") would be questioned with a "why?".That world exist, and right now as I'm typing this, a very late evening in the UK, they are getting ready...

Facebook, the behemoth

“Facebook now has 600 million users worldwide, generating an estimated 770 billion page views each month.” Apart from the jaw gaping obvious (and slightly) scary numbers of users, it had me wondering “How on earth (or…?) do you run a web site for 600 million users?”, so I started looking around for that.
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