I recently designed a website to promote Ed Burns’ Secrets of the Rockstar Programmers. Ed was a brilliant client who was good at communicating what he wanted the site to do, and what it should look like. I think being a great design client is every bit as hard as being a great designer, and […]
As I’m in high job-hunting mode, I have spent a fair bit of time poring over job listings on Media Bistro, Craigslist and the like, and am noticing a disturbing trend. Yesterday, I read an ad for an editor job that listed “dog owner” as a prerequisite. Today I saw an ad for a technology […]
David Henderson writes this from the F8 Facebook developers’ conference, about his realization of who the Web 2.0 audience really is:
They don’t read techcrunch
They don’t blog
They don’t use most of the 2.0 apps out there
They’re mostly female
They’re mostly 18 - 24 and 25 - 34
They live on Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, etc…
There’s something about social networking […]