No doubt you've all whiled away the odd hour putting your name, and that of all your friends into the famous Baby Name Explorer. But it was always a bit artificial from an Aussie point of view I felt, because the data was from the US. What, no ...
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Well, it's probably not much of a shock, but much touted research by QUT postgraduate student Kim Mackenzie, (reports in SMH, Australian, SmartCompany and elsewhere) suggests that
companies that rushed to set up bases within the cult virtual world of Second Life appear to have wasted their ...
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Unless you have been asleep for the last 2 years or so, then you'll almost certainly have heard of two pieces of technology.
The iPhone is one of course, but also getting people everywhere excited has been Surface, the table top based, muti-user, multi-touch device from Microsoft.
Right now, probably ...
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Javascript is increasingly playing an important role for all web developers and designers, and obviously at Web Directions as well. Our favourite Ajax focussed blog, Ajaxian, has a post today detailing the current state of pay when it comes to the next generation of the JavaScript standard, ECMAScript 3.1/4. ...
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Got a great idea for a video game? I know I do. You get these two sticks which you can move vertically up and down the screen to hit a square ball back and forth. As the ball hits the stick, it makes a really cool, lifelike beeping sound.....(if you're ...
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If you happened upon a copy of yesterday's Icon in the Sydney Morning Herald you may have noticed "Dopple Your Fun" - where five local internet gurus - Cheryl Lead, Virginia Murdoch, John Allsopp, Lachlan Hardy and Tim Lucas were asked by the Herald's Nick Galvan ...
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Local web visionary Mark Pesce has become a fixture as our closing keynote at Web Directions South. He spoke a couple of months back at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York, where he was also interviewed on The Alcove. Here's the interview in full. Mark speaks at ...
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Words? Code? Design? Which are you? And do you want a free t-shirt so you can let the world know? It’s easy to get your hands on one - all you need to do is blog or Flickr something about Web Directions and tag it 'moltnWD'.
Wear your passion at ...
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Sadly, quite a bit of what I wrote in this article is based on out of date information, and on my own testing that had a fatal flaw. I've left the article as it is, and added corrections inline
Most web designers and developers will be familiar with Image Replacement techniques, ...
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Web Directions started out with very much a designer and developer focus. But, based on feedback, and our general observations about the industry, we recognised that there was a need for a wider focus on the web - not just the practicalities of implementation, but the strategic and business side ...
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