Design Inspiration from Bakken & Bæck, SumAll, Scoop, UXPin and DailyCost! Design Inspiration is a weekly post that showcases examples of some of the best new web design from around the internet. To submit to Design Inspiration, click the “submit” link at the bottom of the page and follow the instructions for submitting your site [...]
The term disruption is often misused be people talking about new technology products or market opportunities. For many, disruption means any significant new product feature or innovation. There are actually some specific nuances to what disruption really means and how it applies to technology and business. In this post I’m going to explain exactly what [...]
It’s interesting to analyse the moves of the latest crop of Internet giants, because in many ways it feels like these companies are breaking new ground. With each generation, it feels like primarily online based companies are getting stronger and stronger. Whilst Yahoo, eBay, Amazon and Google continue to show strong performance (for the most [...]
Design Inspiration from Nextdoor, #Music, Dunked, Marquee and Handsome! Design Inspiration is a weekly post that showcases examples of some of the best new web design from around the internet. To submit to Design Inspiration, click the “submit” link at the bottom of the page and follow the instructions for submitting your site or a [...]
It was just a couple of years ago that Groupon was hailed as the hot new online company with a seemingly genius new business model. Groupon would drive traffic to physical businesses across the world without ever having to deal with inventory. The world was so enamoured that Google tried to buy the company for [...]
“REST” is a common word in the world of web applications and services. REST usually refers to the transfer of data between servers and clients. For example, if you wanted to get updates from Twitter, you would be using Twitter’s REST API. In this post I hope to explain exactly what REST means, how you [...]
Design Inspiration from Chec, Unroll.me, Sputnik Creative, Bitstamp and Readymag! Design Inspiration is a weekly post that showcases examples of some of the best new web design from around the internet. To submit to Design Inspiration, click the “submit” link at the bottom of the page and follow the instructions for submitting your site or [...]
An interesting business model that has arisen in the last couple of years is adding a service layer to a traditional industry by augmenting discovery, curation and transactions. The Internet, and in particular smartphone technology, has created opportunities to become an important player in the value chain of slow moving industries. When an industry is [...]
One of the legacy problems with WordPress is it does not offer an easy out of the box solution for using Git. This means that it is often the case that theme management is handled through FTP. Using Git for deployment is far superior than FTP in just about every way. In this post I [...]
Design Inspiration from Facebook Home, Camayakm, Simple, Gumroad and Vdio! Design Inspiration is a weekly post that showcases examples of some of the best new web design from around the internet. To submit to Design Inspiration, click the “submit” link at the bottom of the page and follow the instructions for submitting your site or [...]
