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European Gadget

On my trip back to Germany i treated myself with a little toy for christmas. I bought the Nokia e51 and i think this is the best phone i have ever owned. It has all the features i need, is amazingly small and has a sleek design. The key specs are: WLAN, 2M Camera and Video, SD Slot and Symbian OS…

Revealing Analytics

I was just checking the Google Analytics reports for my portfolio and found interesting referring keywords that send people to my page. Take a look at this one search term that was typed in by someone who visited my portfolio page:

“(intitle:~cv or inurl:~cv) and (“ui developer” or “developer ui” or “user interface developer” or “developer graphic user interface” or “gui developer” or “developed gui”) and (pa or pennsylvania or “new jersey” or ny or delaware or de) -jobs -careers -sample”

Fashion your Firefox

Mozilla just put up a new website that let’s users discover more add-ons for Firefox. It’s an interesting way of helping users to identify extensions that are of interest to them by relating the suggestions to persona-style categories like these:

  • Finder and Seeker: “I want to make finding information on the Web simpler and more relevant to me.”
  • Rock Star: “Music and the Web go together like rock stars and leather — I love to listen while I surf, work, email or research online.”
  • News Junkie: “I want to know what’s happening in the world as it happens. And the weather helps me plan my week — temperature, please!

Red is here!

I’m excited to announce that my friends and former mentors Trek and Jesse from Backtik have released the first version of Red. In their screencast they show us how to build an AJAX photobucket similar to the one from Facebook just using Ruby without writing any Javascript at all.

Update: Now featured on Ajaxian.com.

Design Jam featured on Mozilla Labs Blog

I joined the SoCHI student group for Human-Computer Interaction just before the summer and since i came back from my internship this summer at Yahoo! we have had quite a few events this semester. One of the ideas we had was to facilitate Design Jams that would encourage students to get together to apply their skills to real life problems. We held two Design Jams sponsored by Mozilla to brainstorm and prototype ideas and designs for the browser of the future inspired by their Concept Series. We bloged about the fantastic results on our website and today we were featured on the Mozilla Labs Blog.

More pictures on Flickr

New LinkedIn App Feature

LinkedIn has added a new feature that allows users to add applications to their profiles and networks.

LinkedIn Applications enable you to enrich your profile, share and collaborate with your network, and get the key insights that help you be more effective. Applications are added to your homepage and profile enabling you to control who gets access to what information.

I experimented this morning with the WordPress Blog feature, that is supposed to show your recent blog posts on your Profile page. From the Application gallery I was taken to the WordPress App Page, where i can choose to display it on my profile and LinkedIn Homepage.

This is where it stopped working for me… I went back to the WordPress App page and found a button to “update settings”, but the following page does not open. I will have to come back when it’s fixed …

Update: Now it works!

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