Designing Google for Google
Posted at 11:05am on Wednesday, October 17th, 2007How Google would look if it wasn’t Google. (You may have already seen this at MeFi).
How Google would look if it wasn’t Google. (You may have already seen this at MeFi).
It was only a few weeks ago that we were all wowed by the content aware image resizing demo on youtube. And now you can already do it in the browser. Awesome.
Fascinating piece by Joel Spolsky on the future of application software. I have a feeling he’s on to something…
That’s I Am Not A Designer, obviously. The design of offmessage pays relentless homage to subtraction. I hope it’s different enough to not be a rip off, but there’s no doubting the fact that I think it’s the finest looking site on the web at the moment. Some context: New Minimalism in Web Interface Design
If you have 8 minutes with some speakers this is well worth a watch. From 2004, but some of its predictions are remarkably prescient. (Link for those of you without embedding).
Doug’s already mentioned this, but I thought I’d add my twopenn’orth.
I can’t help feeling that we are being rather dismissive of the Storm Worm.
Somewhere in the region of 2 million infected machines. More computing power than any other grid out there. Responsible for a 30% increase in the total volume of spam in August. Capable of taking out not only Universities and organisations, but potentially whole countries (Estonia got taken off line by non-automated activity, for example).
It is hard to imagine an organisation collecting two million zombie PCs just to send more spam. At some point this massive acquisition of resources will stop and the network will be turned to some other use. And let’s be honest, it’s unlikely to be looking for a cure for cancer, now is it?
It’s at this point I’d like to offer some solution, or point to action already underway, but right now, we’re pretty powerless. This is likely to get messy.
Rich has pointed me at Tom Loosemore’s blog, following my previous “TV networks are dead” post. Tom asks:
I have been saying this to anyone who’ll listen to my drunken ranting at web networking events for 2 years now. I have believed it so much that every time I hear about another success of Sky By Broadband, 4od, BBC iPlayer or any other DRM crippled attempt to secure a dead position I snort derisively and start muttering under my breath.
TV networks are dead. The business models they maintain are dead. And the technology they are peddling now is to TV exactly what the Sony rootkit was to CDs. Dead. And likely to cause embarrassment.
Explained for poker players and Star Wars nerds. Marvellous.