Duncan is now running Oxite

Adam Kinney — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:34:00 GMT

Duncan Mackenzie is now running his blog off of the Oxite codebase we put together. Its interesting when you are preparing code to be themeable and reusable. "Oh, did I hardcode my name in there..."

We've got a few UI enhancement ideas to work through (Duncan's month archive list goes all the way back to Feb 2003, paging, expansion, something?). Other than the basics, I'm looking for onnovative way to do tag clouds. Right now I don't even have a cloud but just a list (which is just wrong).

What's the best display of Tags you've seen?

Corporate Logos redrawn with a Web 2.0 brush

Adam Kinney — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:31:00 GMT

This is an interesting group to watch on Flickr: yay2dot0logoparody I'm not sure where but I was linked to this on Yay Hooray! somewhere. The idea behind it is that they are redesigning current recognizable corporate logos using the new styles that have become the trend for Web 2.0 companies. So of course you will see lots of reflection effects, lots of bright colors and interesting ways to not spell words correctly (Flickr, SuprGlu, etc.)

After viewing the logos, I began thinking about the 2.0 spelling trend. So why could that be happening, what helps make it cool? One thing is that naming anything nowadays is very difficult, especially when you want to reserve a "cool name".com domain name along with it. Unique spelling make that easier. But did you notice that most of the letters missing are "e"s? I wonder if there's a connection to the dot-com boom days? "I just gave my e-mail to the e-commerce times because e-business is business and I should get an e-package in the snail mail someday". (Actually that could be a true statement today)

So maybe that has something to do with it, we grew an aversion to the "e". And now we just don't use it anymore. I think I'm going to go register "adamkinny.com".

Adam Kinney posts tagged with 'web 2.0'

Duncan is now running Oxite

Corporate Logos redrawn with a Web 2.0 brush