Great tips from Brad Frost on cultivating a personal brand online. His steps are pretty straight forward:
- Be sincere
- Establish a style and tone
- Be consistent
- Have a hub
(via lindseykirkbride)
CLUE 1:
“went to short dogs house,
they was watching Yo MTV
RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3:
”The Lakers beat the Super
Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…
We thought we’d share some information on our testing process.
My name is David Blooman, I am the principal tester for responsive news, all questions and queries can be sent to me at david.blooman@bbc.co.uk. Twitter @davey_blooman
When testing the devices, there are 4 main areas to…
Doggling is creepy, I know. I love bulldogs. I love dogs in general. Sometimes I go to the dog park and watch them. Now, I’ve just drawn myself with a dog to deal with the fact that I just can’t have one. le sigh.
By now, most of you have probably seen the Kony 2012 campaign. It’s a well-produced campaign video from Invisible Children — a group with the goal of stopping international human rights violator Joseph Kony and the subsequent violence he has brought to Uganda and its neighboring countries. It…
The browser is a hostile development environment and supporting a wide range of desktop browsers can be tough work.
One of the immediate challenges we discovered when we first started the responsive news prototype was the large range of devices that we would have to support. It terrified us. This article is about a solution we use to alleviate this problem.
I’d like to fill in the picture I began in my recent post on Android fragmentation by examining the changes in version distribution of the other major mobile operating system: iOS.
Unfortunately, this was no quite as easy as it was for Android. Unlike Google, Apple does not publish the version…
The iPad3’s Retina display is causing problems for apps who have to deal with Apple’s 20MB limit on app size. You know the web is in trouble when even the native apps are struggling with the gigantic Retina screen.
The difference of course between a native app and a website is that the bulk of the file size for native apps can be handled in one fell swoop upon download, while assets are requested on demand for the web.
This is going to be serious troubling for the web, who’s already dealing with increasingly-bloated page sizes. Users are going to get used to seeing beautiful crisp experiences on native apps, then turn to the web and get pixelated disgustingness. It happened before with the launch of the iPhone4, but because of the screen size the problem is compounded dramatically.
Of course not every iPad is on 3G service, but not all are blazingly-fast Wi-fi either. We need to be able to deliver great web experience that cater to context, and that means serving a good experience to a user on shitty Wi-fi on a Bolt Bus and also to the user comfortably browsing the web from their home.
The The user on the bus can be on slow Wi-fi or 3G and might just need to get the damn assets downloaded. They shouldn’t be punished with downloading a massive Retina-ready image. That’s where navigator.connection comes into play, but even the basic connection types don’t give the whole picture of the user’s context.
Just because the iPad3 CAN serve up high quality, crisp images and video doesn’t mean it SHOULD for every use case. This is important. We need a way to properly address this.
My wife is an animal. I watched her do this from scratch, which kind of blew my mind.
A little late but, Happy Chinese New Year! 2012 Year of the Dragon. This took me awhile, but I’m really happy with how it turned out. Let me know your thoughts!
