My off-the-cuff prediction is that casual Facebook users will see this as just one more piece of clutter and heavy Facebook users will embrace the flexibility. But just because it makes things messier or less consistent visually doesn’t necessarily mean its a bad design idea. It seems like a clever way to allow users to experience the page layout freedom they had on MySpace, but within the constraints of a rigid Facebook UI. Whether that’s what Facebook users want remains to be seen—Facebook has had more than its share of problems pushing unwanted features out to its user base.
Anatomy of a viral phenomenom
Iain / May 22, 2008, 12:46 pm
Andy Baio of waxy.org fame digs into his old server logs to chart the spread of the classic Star Wars Kid video and subsequent remixes. This is a fascinating analysis of how a viral idea - or meme - makes its way across the internet.
Colin Moock interviews Jim Corbett
Caleb / May 22, 2008, 11:13 am
A really nice interview with one of the flash player engineers. They talk about ecmascript 4, the future of the web browser, silverlight, actionscript 3, web politics, etc. It’s really worth a watch (or listen in my case).
via colin’s blog
Processing.js
Caleb / May 9, 2008, 10:16 am
John Resig just ported over the Processing project to Javascript. Some really cool demos are coming out of it.
It’s some pretty amazing stuff.
via kottke.org > via waxy