Twitterfall

I like what Twitterfall does to real-time news on Twitter. Look at the g20 hashtag to see how things build up over the day.

Importing tasks in FreeCRM

Spare brain: remember that Task import requires the company name and contact name to be text, not the numerical identifiers. Makes life easier for my meetings management system, actually. [update 20100823: use the Company name (creates new) and Contact (first / last...

Names set for extinction

Daft, Smeille, Cocks are all for the chop. As are some of the names of the year competition. View the match off here.

Mexico and drugs

Funny seeing Ciudad Juarez in the news so much: it is the basis for Santa Teresa in 2666. I hadn’t seen pictures of the US border fence before. Just shocking that we have to come to this (or the equivalent in Palestine). Haven’t we learned anything since...

Mega drop-down navigation

Unusual for Nielsen to like any new-fangled navigation, but mega drop-downs are good. Anything “funky” that Microsoft introduces (like the ribbon in Office 2007) has been through a serious amount of user testing so should be seen as well worth considering....