FoxLand’s Exquisite Christmas Compendium
To show our clients, associates, suppliers and friends our appreciation for a great 2008 we have compiled a compendium of our favourite Christmas treats. These Yuletide recipes herald from the four corners of the globe and represent the international make-up of FoxLand. Each of them feature prominently in the festive celebrations of the recipe’s author (except maybe Christian who, in true Ebenezer Scrooge fashion, isn’t really a fan of Christmas).
Do you have your own holiday recipe you would like to share? Please send it to us and we’d be delighted to add it to the compendium.
It just remains for us to say Feliz Natal, Glædelig Jul, Fröehliche Weihnachten and Merry Christmas from all at FoxLand.
18 December, 2008
Uncanny valley and interface design
Bill Higgins talks about the danger of web designers trying to create online applications look and act too much like their regular desktop-based cousins. This is an interesting point, but regarding an issue that is still very much in flux. Web design needs new metaphors for getting things done, and what happens to the tools that are a natural mix between web-based and desktop apps, such as the iTunes Store, Twitterrific, Evernote, RSS readers, etc.?
Murdoch: people are “hungrier for information than ever before”
Much of the newspaper industry was nervous even before the downturn, but now with the massive drop in offline advertising many are resigned to the idea of permanent decline. Rupert Murdoch though does not agree and he recently made an optimistic speech on why he believes newspapers will continue to be important, but also evolve into new forms. These forms may not exist as a printed edition at all: “In this coming century, the form of delivery may change, but the potential audience for our content will multiply many times over.”
He rightly sees the internet not as the ‘enemy’ that will kill them off, but an opportunity. For someone who came so late to the internet, he now seems born again, an optimist who sees the internet as a catalyst for new ways of doing things. People are “hungrier for information than ever before… Readers want what they’ve always wanted: a source they can trust. That has always been the role of great newspapers in the past and that role will make newspapers great in the future.”
Read more coverage by the Associated Press and ReadWriteWeb.
5 December, 2008
Memes
Nice couple of articles on The Guardian and The Moderate Voice about one of my favourite websites, Memeorandum. The website scours the web for the most ‘live’ news stories of the moment. These articles are partly interested in how Memeorandum is completely driven by a clever computer-driven algorithm, but intriguingly the company has just decided to start using people to help discover news as they feel it didn’t quite work well enough without them. (Found via Andrew Sullivan)