Tag clouds can be sorted in different ways: alphabetically, by frequency, semantically and randomly. Will McGugan prefers them sorted by frequency, because that makes them look better. In the comments people pointed out that it is easier to find items in a sorted list. Will responded he chooses form over function. Navigation aid? But what …
Category Archives: software
Interface ideas
The GIMP has a whole team of usability people working on its usability issues. But what’s more: there’s an online brainstorm, where everyone can contribute visual impressions of ideas. Little text, many pictures. (And it works: in cases such as this one a picture really says more than a thousand words). A quick glance through …
Collecting feelings
I just ran across a really nice project: We feel fine. It collects ‘feelings’ from the internet (defined as phrases containing ‘I feel’ or ‘I am feeling’). These data are coupled with other statistics, such as gender, age, location and even the local weather at the time the item was posted. Nice to know: although …
Social bookmarking
Robin Good wrote a mini-guide to social bookmarking, addressing underlying issues and comparing the advantages and disadvantages of some main social bookmarking services: del.icio.us, Stumble Upon, Blue Dot, Ma.gnolia, Digg, Simpy, BlogMarks, Reddit, Furl, BlinkList, Spurl, de.lirio.us, Linkroll, Shadows en Yahoo-MyWeb. As we are moving towards a semantic web, with more dynamic, user-generated content, social …
Skype 3.0 beta
Skype 3.0 has just been released in beta. Featuring skypecasts, clickable links in mood messages, a button for calling non-skype phones, and of course the changelog lists “change: UI redesigned”. According to Skype, it is an “Easier to use, more powerful and personal interface.” I’m usually not a fast upgrader, and I’m still using Skype …