Simple message By Nic Price on 18 March 2006 — 1 min read Progress means simplifying not complicating. Bruno Munari I knew it all rang a bell More
The duck’s feet By Nic Price on 17 March 2006 — 1 min read Simplicity is in the air… The following quote via Euan Semple’s The Obvious? Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity – Charles Mingus And this from Mark Hurst’s Good Experience blog following eTech Sometimes – here’s the real heresy – sometimes the best option for users might be... More
Simple parts that will never get too powerful By Nic Price on 9 March 2006 — 1 min read “The trick… is to make sure that each limited mechanical part of the Web, each application, is within itself composed of simple parts that will never get too powerful.” – says Tim Berners-Lee What are Microformats? Via Peter J. Bogaards’ Understanding by design More
The Next Net 25 By Nic Price on 2 March 2006 — 1 min read This from CNNMoney.Com: A new Web revolution is picking up steam, and the next Google or Microsoft could emerge from the companies that are in the vanguard. Via a certain high-profile blog on our intranet! 🙂 More
How will you spend your extra second this year? By Nic Price on 30 December 2005 — 1 min read 11, 10, 9, 8… It’s not getting quite the same hype as the Y2K “bug”, but this year we get an extra leap second in our countdown to the New Year! According to BBC News: A leap second is added to Co-ordinated Universal Time (UTC) to keep it in step with solar time – based... More
What goes around comes around By Nic Price on 30 November 2005 — 1 min read Peter Morville with Margaret Hanley at Online Information 2005 Great response from Peter Morville at the Online Information conference today to David Weinberger‘s everything is miscellaneous thoughts on trees and leaves. What happens to those leaves that get raked in to piles? They rot and become food for trees. I think this is a really... More
Identity problem By Nic Price on 30 November 2005 — 1 min read A note in December’s which magazine (which I can highly recommend) ID THEFT Americans happily give away security details, shows research RSA Security. 70% told researchers their mother’s maiden name, and 55% revealed how they think up passwords. I’m sure the figures would be very similar in the UK. What baffles me is that despite... More
This might catch on By Nic Price on 22 November 2005 — 1 min read A loyalty card scheme that gives you points for not going to the supermarket. Run by all the other places you can buy stuff in Haslemere, Surrey (UK). Just heard on radio, no link yet. [Update: found a link] More
Is “one size fits all” ever true? By Nic Price on 21 November 2005 — 1 min read Can you think of an example of something that exists in one size and one size only and is manufactured for one purpose? I can’t. Yet. Some suggestions talking to colleagues (and my uber-pedantic reasons why they don’t count): Red Nose – they make them for cars too Earrings – I reckon they do different... More
Web 2 or not web 2 By Nic Price on 21 November 2005 — 1 min read I’m full of admiration and respect for Tim O’Reilly but I get really wound up by what he’s coined “Web 2.0” or “web 2 point oh” as it seems to be pronounced. It’s just the web. Nothing more nothing less. Giving it a version number somehow suggests it’s something that can be commoditised, productised, owned.... More