Archive for category Things of Interest

Tab Candy

I saw the below movie today about a new feature coming to FireFox code-named Tab Candy. I’m actually quite excited about this new feature, as it looks to me to be the first truely large concept change for bookmarks and tabs. As someone who constently has lots of tabs open and on research topics quite often, I hate bookmarking them all. But Tab Candy could change that and make my browser a better research tool.

An Introduction to Firefox’s Tab Candy from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Things of Interest for December 21st, 2009

The Six Twitter Types by Guy Kawasaki.

I suppose I’m in the Newbie category heading toward the Maven category. I still haven’t found my exact niche for Twitter yet, but do like following others on it.

There Is No Page Fold via Signal vs Noise.

Not too long ago a coworker pointed me toward an article I wish I could find stating that the concept of “Above the Fold” was a moot point. That since users were now familiar with a scroll bar trying to push everything above the fold doesn’t matter for web design. I hope this continues to take off.

Startup Therapy: 10 Question to Ask Yourself Every Month by Jason on A Start Bear

These are great questions that every startup should be asking. To go with #2 and #3 I’d toss in “Why would someone go with somebody else?”. I think it’s good to look at who else is in the business you’re in and honestly ask yourself if you could do business with you or somebody else, what would make you pick them over you. If you’re really honest with yourself #3 would probably highlight this.