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This is a re-post of a blog post I wrote for another blog which is now defunct. The post itself is sort of timeless though so figured I could put it on this blog as well, if nothing else to archive it.
Just tying together an e-mail I received with an article I read and my general thinking of late (which was actually based on my flat, and what isn’t working in it, though it is shiny enough), I think we (as a generic mass of web site creators) too often overlook “the little things”, all of which combined create the overall feel, or lack of, for a product.
Back To The Future Of The Web
Back to the Future?
In April 2008 I wrote a blog post called FW: A question on what the ‘future web will resemble’ where I was trying to predict (well, give my view…) how I saw the web would pan out in the near future. My conclusion, which was based entirely on my own personal experiences and views, was that I would be looking for something somewhere that enabled me to manage “my web”, either on the web or as a desktop application, and which would bring my web to me, as opposed to forcing me to go to all these other sites and services to do various tasks.
I was reminded of that post today when I was reading this article on ReadWriteWeb regarding a “central dashboard”, which in turn linked off to both an originating post by Marc Canter, as this very much ties into the conclusion of my old blog post.
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