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Posted in Thoughts, accessibility, conferences on Jan 21st, 2009
I had an interesting couple of days last week holed up with industry experts and researchers discussing the Future of Social Networking at a W3C workshop in Barcelona. Topics ranged from privacy and trust, distributed networking, context and communities through to deeper adaptive user experiences. For me however, I was most interested in exploring the [...]
Posted in accessibility, opera on Jan 14th, 2009
Before Christmas we were contemplating getting my boyfriend’s Mum a Wii. She’s 64, suffers from fibromyalgia, loves her exercise and can’t always get out. The fibromyalgia also means that she find’s it tough to remember otherwise simple things (I can identify with her there) and as a result she craves mental exercise too.
We looked into [...]
Posted in internationalization, mobile on Apr 23rd, 2008
A Japanese version of Twitter was launched today making this the first alternative language version for the site.
I find it interesting that Japanese is the first language that the site has been localised in but as Twitter reported in their blog they were noticing a high volume of users and Twitters originating from Japan which [...]
Posted in accessibility on Mar 13th, 2008
Today I attended a presentation at CSUN on Creating Blogs, Podcasts and Use of Social Media Tools with Screen Readers presented by Mika Pyyhkala from the Association of Blind Citizens.
The focus of the session was to walk blind and partially sighted users through how to blog using Wordpress, use Twitter, Facebook and what [...]
Posted in accessibility on Feb 29th, 2008
Well I’m not quite sure what’s provoked this about face but after much resistance I’ve finally succumbed and can be found on Twitter. Don’t worry, I wont bore you with Tweets about jet lag or my window boxes – this is exactly the type of thing that’s kept me off Twitter after all.
Part of [...]