André Brocatus was here...
This is the digital scrapbook of André Brocatus to hold quotes, examples and links. Primarily on graphic and interaction design until he sees something else which distracts him from his work.
November 9, 2009
Dear Every Site That Paginates Articles
9 hours ago • 164 notes
I’m sure you split stories like this into two pages for a good reason: to save my bandwidth. After all, the remaining 3,126 characters of the story’s body (1,530 bytes as transferred with gzip compression) would have increased the page’s total size by 0.32%.
No, I’m just yanking your chain. I know you’re double-charging your advertisers for the same story by artificially inflating your pageview count. It’s just like the old auto-frame-refresh trick, but this one’s better because most of the ad networks haven’t banned it yet. That’s their problem, right? Why should you leave money on the table? You’re a business.
But it doesn’t really work as well as you had hoped because only a tiny percentage of viewers will actually read page two. You know that, but you don’t care, because you won’t give up a chance to make a few extra cents. Who cares if it annoys the crap out of that tiny slice of your audience? Who are they, anyway? The people who actually read your content thoroughly instead of skimming the headline and moving on? That can’t possibly be your most important audience segment — they’re just the most involved and attentive. Repeat customers. You already have their “eyeballs” that you can sell to your real customers. And these dupes get their eyeballs double-counted. What a steal!
Keep up the great work, publishers.
November 8, 2009
http://thebeatlesneverbrokeup.com/
Songs from a parallel universe in which the beatles never broke up. Nicked by someone who actually time traveled. He claims. With pictures. I like this piece from the FAQ:
…as far as I know from what we talked about our universe has no capabilities to travel dimensionally unless they came here first. He did say our universe was uncharted, which his job was to explore new universes that he could then market to the masses because they were similar to his and safe. So by us being uncharted there is a good chance he was the first to come here and explore it, which means there’s a good chance that technology hasn’t already been brought here previously. Which doesn’t mean it wont happen in the future, for all I know he may be selling the coordinates to our universe to some company in his universe that specializes in relocating people to other universes…Which seems like the only believable reason someone from another dimension would go to/ looking for our dimension. via ronenreblogs 1 day ago • 1 note
November 6, 2009
Closure Tools - Google Code
The Closure tools help developers to build rich web applications with JavaScript that is both powerful and efficient. The Closure tools include:
- A JavaScript optimizer
- A comprehensive JavaScript library
- An easy templating system for both Java & JavaScript
November 4, 2009
November 3, 2009
![courtneyc:
I’m always excited for client launches, but this one is particularly cool. The Rent The Runway beta launched this week. It’s like Netflix for dresses: rent a dress, wear it, and throw it back in the mail. I took a Brian Reyes dress for a spin at a recent wedding and it was awesome. Congrats Jenn and Jenny! [And if you’d like an invite let me know at courtney at hardcandyshell dot com]
wow, great innovative idea! Good looking website too.](http://21.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksjt583LX41qz53m6o1_500.png)
I’m always excited for client launches, but this one is particularly cool. The Rent The Runway beta launched this week. It’s like Netflix for dresses: rent a dress, wear it, and throw it back in the mail. I took a Brian Reyes dress for a spin at a recent wedding and it was awesome. Congrats Jenn and Jenny! [And if you’d like an invite let me know at courtney at hardcandyshell dot com]
wow, great innovative idea! Good looking website too.
6 days ago • 15 notes
A New Bible for Interactive Designers: 'The Times' Innovation Portfolio
slantback: The New York Times interactive group creates an online encyclopedia of all their stunning inventions.
It’s an amazing resource, having all these projects collected in one place. But the site wasn’t just created as a bit of self-congratulatory eye candy. Rather, it was made to help sell advertisers on the interactive content—and show them all the tantalizing advertising opportunities they offer.
6 days ago • 2 notes
jacob: I would definitely have to place this photo in the top ten best images on The Internet.
6 days ago • 261 notes
my super über wonderful girlfriend made me this for my birthday party invitation.
the red nose is scruffy (a.k.a. psoriasis)
BRILLIANT! Also: congratulations!
6 days ago • 0 notes
November 2, 2009
POP goes your head
Only one day of voting left for my design on threadless! I am so eager to know what the final score will be!? If you have not yet voted, please do!
1 week ago • 0 notes
