Google recently announced on their official blog a new web service called “Google Sidewiki”, which is a browser plug-in that opens a side pane beside your main browser page, and displays relevant human-contributed information to the topic you are reading. Currently only supports Internet Explorer 6+ and Firefox 2+, or read more about browser supports. From technical point of view, the plug-in seems to be non-intrusive to any existing website, which means web masters and designers don’t need to make any change on their sites to adopt the technology. Only the users are needed to install the browser plug-in to [...]
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Google Sidewiki and Commenting
Google recently announced on their official blog a new web service called “Google Sidewiki”, which is a browser plug-in that opens a side pane beside your main browser page, and displays relevant human-contributed information to the topic you are reading. Currently only supports Internet Explorer 6+ and Firefox 2+, or read more about browser supports. From technical point of view, the plug-in seems to be non-intrusive to any existing website, which means web masters and designers don’t need to make any change on their sites to adopt the technology. Only the users are needed to install the browser plug-in to [...]
ICID Conference Website
ICID – International Conference on Interaction Design (http://iadconference.org) is a conference organized by Tsinghua University, Carnegie Mellon University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. It seems to me that the conference is a pretty big deal in the interaction design industry for Asia and China. But when I looked at their official conference website I immediately found a few errors: The Chinese main page uses Flash. This is search engine unfriendly. Also, on this page I do not see any critical interactive elements that really need the multimedia power of Flash. The only animated elements are the “Signup” button and the [...]
Testing from my iphone
Im at Waves coffee testing WordPress iPhone app.
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Visit to Client’s Site
Today I went to my client’s studio of pre-school education to see the class in action. It was an enjoyable and amusing visit. Although seeing kids jumping and running around and making noises could be quite annoying to some people, I found the experience quite pleasantly bearable. Even though I would possibly say otherwise after a few more visits. After the class was off, I talked to my client about a few thoughts and inspirations I got during the class. The philosophy behind the program is not as simple as it appears to be. From that 30 minutes of observation, [...]
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My name is Calvin Chun-yu Chan, also known as カルビー or Jeepu. I'm a web app developer by trade, with curious and enthusiastic eyes on design, usability, culture and creativity.
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