poohugh**: It's a blogpost about QR Codes FOR A CHANGE

I’ve been thinking (ooh careful! I HATE THAT JOKE SO MUCH) about QR Codes: the most unelegant thing since Die Another Day.

Walking past a new restaurant this morning, with a new menu on the window. wouldn’t it be good to see that menu on my phone? Ooh IMPULSIVE CONSUMER. The menu didn’t have the…

A QR reader would need to be bundled with the camera app in order to gain traction THEN (maybe) they would find a use.

That said Hugh’s idea of some multi-purpose reading device is probably much better.

QR codes remind me of AOL keywords. For a short while they were on everything too.

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A small thing Twitter could learn from Google+

September 8, 2011

I think it’s pretty clear now that Google+ isn’t going to set the social world on fire. The reasons for this are plentiful and not the purpose of my post, however a central theme will be the lack of differentiation between it and it’s major competitors. That said Google+ put some lovely user experience around it’s largely borrowed features, and in my opinion Twitter in particular should take note.

I’m talking about ‘Circles’ which were in fact ‘Lists’ done time before by both Twitter and Facebook - I’m not sure who came first. Lists allow the user to quickly filter the content they are looking at, which when you are following thousands upon thousands of people is extremely handy. What’s more lists allow you to segment what you read. Only interested in ‘Cyclists’ then just read that for a while.

What Google did was make Circles front-and-centre of it’s UE, and in beautiful way too. Every time I add someone I’m pushed into adding them to a Circle too.

Twitter should do this too, and save me, and many other users, from the flood of coming tweets. If they don’t, I fear people may drastically reduce the number of people they follow, or move away from Twitter entirely - neither are in the bird’s best interests.

Google+ won’t become the social player they want it to be. But if they’re sensible both Twitter and Facebook could take note of some logical improvements they’ve made.

Thoughts @danielbower.

putthison:

Vintage uniform posters from the Royal Mail.

via Retronaut (thanks Greg & Kyle)

Hats aren’t great with a uniform.

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Spotify is wonderful but it could take a few tips from iTunes. Here’s one for free.

The proximity of the search bar to the extremities of the app means that double clicking just a few pixels north of it can result in the app minimising itself.

Why is this a problem? Because double clicking on the search bar is a quick way to select all the text in the field ready to delete it.

iTunes gets around this by giving the search bar that little bit more breathing room.

UPDATE: The latest version of Spotify has rectified this. I’d like to think they read my blog, but it’s probably another victory for common sense.