Over the last few weeks the armchair communication developers of the world have been solving the woes of the Twitter infrastructure and communication problems. And out of all this advice Plurk has come to light.
Plurk is interesting, it’s primarily focus is a social networking message service, with a true microblogging conversation, video or image sharing on a timeline.
So in a way it’s an extension of Twitter, but a little like Pownce. It allows you to group your friends into cliques and define posts to be personal (one to one), public or just to the members of a clique. bit like the private feed in Twitter.
Well a good friend Ben Winter-Giles has tagged me for an interesting meme. You have to document with a simple camera your journey home. I don’t often do memes, but this one is interesting in that it gives a snapshot of our lives in the web industry.
As many of you know I operate out of our home studio. It’s ideal for my freelance lifestyle. Plus all the trendy people are doing it now. So this meme is going to be different, I’m not technically going home from work as that type of photo-shoot would be just two or three pics at best.
I have been watching OAuth and OpenID develop over time, wishing and hoping they would both take root and bloom into something wonderful. Now I think the concepts and ideas behind these two, especially OAuth is a wonderful Idea. What is OAuth (to refresh your memory):
OAuth gives users access to their data while protecting their account credentials via the use of an open protocol of a secure authenticating API.
But then we come to reality. Although a good number of you are not going to agree with me it has to be stated. There is a steady ground swell of apathy that is leading to a number of major problems with web interconnectivity.
From a user experience view we are always looking for the real world interaction that we can translate into the virtual world. The procedure that we can mirror with an element of user familiarity to leverage of a person’s previous experience.
However from time to time you run across something in the real world that just needs to be streamlined before it’s moved into the virtual.
I’ll give you an example.
The National Australia Bank (NAB) have an interesting method for quick cheque deposits, this is from the instructions on the deposit envelope.
