Fourface Exposes New Interface Paradigms

Thanks to a tweet from the @foursquare team and a post from TechCrunch, I have a new app for checking in to foursquare, Fourface.

Yeah, I know foursquare and location generally have been getting a lot of ink here and other place. Get used to it though because heading into SXSW later this week, location is [...]

What’s the Best Way to Collect Ratings?

Photo by anne.oeldorfhirsch from Flickr used under Creative Commons

YouTube published (h/t TechCrunch) an interesting graph of its video ratings earlier in the week.
YouTube uses a five-star scale for rating videos, and according to them, rating a video one star means you “loathe” it, while rating a video five stars means you love it.
The data show [...]

Finally Something Interesting, Google Chrome Frame

Google’s announcement of Chrome Frame for Internet Explorer today may not seem all that momentous. John sums it up what a lot of folks are probably thinking here:

What is Chrome Frame? According to the announcement, it’s an “open source plug-in that brings HTML5 and other open web technologies to Internet Explorer.”
Sounds like John is right [...]

IE6 Death Rattle

Last week, Digg became the first major web site to end support for IE6, or at least, support for certain functions in IE6.
Today, it looks like YouTube may be the next.
This should come as no surprise, since the anti-IE6 movement has been in full voice for quite some time.
What’s interesting is the data behind Digg’s [...]