Born On The Web

• Welcome to Flickr!
  photosharing site
  (tags: images photography web2.0 sharing community social)

During a workshop last year I completely fell in love with paper prototyping. Making a rough paper interface is such a fast and easy way to build software or a website, test it with users, get feedback from stakeholders and improve it extremely fast early on. All you need is pen and paper so you can easily build the interfaces sitting in the sun enjoying a Duvelke, without getting sidetracked with a zillion PhotoShop possibilities and only focusing on the basics: the structure, content and interaction.
Here’s a nice (Dutch) video giving an overview of the process.

I’ve been around in a few web design and interactive agencies and I was surprised to see that this technique isn’t used more often. It can help get an interactive project on track from the beginning and function as a clear guideline for the design and development teams. Why isn’t it used more often? Maybe clients like to see pretty screens of the interface instead of rough amateurish looking sketches?

• Widgets on your iPhone
  (tags: apple widgets iphone)

• Net Natives – The Global Perspective
  Interesting view, I also have the feeling, net natives have a different view on the web. The internet and the social web feel much more logical and normal for a net native than someone who learned working with the web.
  (tags: netnatives native web internet)

• Youtube Remixer
  Really nice video remixer by YouTube. I’m amazed by how fast it works.
  (tags: video youtube remixer montage editing)

• blog.pmarca.com: Essential HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, and miscellaneous cheatsheets
  Nice list of programming resources, including documentation of different popular APIs.
  (tags: css reference javascript html php programming cheatsheets cheatsheet)

Would you rather read this site en Français, 中国 or auf Deutsch? Not a problem. Apparently Google also translates complete webpages.
All links on the page point to translated pages too. So you can just go on and keep on surfing sites that were made in another language.

A service like this could prove to be very handy for translating the millions of Japanese, Chinese, Spanish or whatever sites out there that we can’t understand. I’m sure there must be excellent content on these non-English parts of the internet that we’re missing out on.

I stumbled on this while browsing through the very impressive list of Googles services to make your life better.

Does Flickr love you to?

*hint: Check the new logo

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Just noticed it when checking out the new windows live writer. Cool.

Scoble has a very nice blogpost on Zooomr its recent problems, I don’t know if you followed the story. But after releasing its next big update to the site it went down for 2 weeks. Be sure to read to the end and see the embedded youtube… inspiring.

http://scobleizer.com/2007/06/04/zooomr-next-big-inch/