February 2012
1 post
A little trick for responsive markup
Some time you have big text that is just fine when viewing it in full browser width but it can get cluttered when reduced on a mobile or tablet view using media queries on the css, for example it won’t be that nice when is not displayed as a single liner per tense. Here an example from the beyounic website I am making responsive. As you can see we have an header made up of 3 single liner...
October 2011
2 posts
“The biggest risk you can take is taking no risks”
– #sus2011
5 tags
Recurring Events - A quick UX exploration
Working on the ohanah app v2 - one of the challenge was to implement recurring events in the most simple, easy and elegant way as possible while yet to keep it powerful.
Here a first draft of making recurring events during the event creation process (can be applied to non recurring events as well, making them recurrings).
When creating an event they system will differentiate between the parent...
September 2011
1 post
6 tags
Thoughts after 1 year of hybrid events
To really get what an Hybrid Events is all about i think the best way is to experience it under each angle first.
1) Remote Attendee
2) POD Attendee
3) F2F Main event attendee
Those are the audience of an hybrid event and those are the engagement and experience you need to learn in order to being able to address them. To do this i tried in the past year to take advantage of the eventcamp...
August 2011
5 posts
6 tags
Login / Signup - A quick UX exploration
Working on the login - signup workflow I’m try to reduce as much as possible the steps in the process in favour of a better UX. For example I always hate to submit email / password and being notified that the combination was wrong, maybe when i just misspelled the email. Second is important to allow the user to move easily between login to signup.
first check if the email is a valid...
6 tags
Using Custom Markers with Google Static Map APIs
Just few small tip and trick if you plan to use custom map marker to generate your google static map images.
img have to be max 64x64px in size
If you have gradient images or detailed png ones make sure to set format=png32 so that the returned images doesn’t loss too much quality
if you want to create your own shadow, set shadow:false but then you need to be aware of a little detail:...
8 tags
Please disrupt the death market before I die
Ok here we go, the death market is such a boring one, so please rethink it before i’ll die as i will be very thankful (if this will matter). Let quickly think about the market first: how many people die per year on each country and what is the average cost of a funeral and related practices in those country…I bet you should have plenty of market to start with. Keep in mind that...
4 tags
Using Sass to write DRY css
Here my first experience using sass to manage css.
first of all install sass (thats pretty simple, just: $ sudo gem install sass (you can du without sudo too;-)
then you can copy your actual css into scss: $ mv style.css style.scss or you can convert it by doing : $ sass-convert styleOK.css styleOK.scss !copying means you’ll start of with an scss file that is exactly the same...
8 tags
Input Date - A quick UX exploration
During the past days we tried to understand how to put together the best UX for inputing date and time online. While this may sounds easy few thing are to be taken into account:
1) People is used to the calendar methapor for inputing dates
2) Time format differ from Europe vs States
3) In our scenario the starting and finishing date/time just tell you about When of an event and as you can tell...
July 2011
1 post
6 tags
Why Nooku?
Nooku is a RAD PHP framework to build web application as many other out there, It still is at an alpha level and therefore it may not be as complete as others more mature fw are, so the question is: why nooku?
Because Nooku even being at this early stage offer something that no other fw out there offer you: a platform (namely joomla 1.5, joomla 1.6, joomla 1.7 and nooku server) that all together...
June 2011
2 posts
4 tags
Using Google Docs Spreadsheet to enjoy my weekend...
Doing my work at beyounic I always strive for ways to make things work easier, saving time and avoiding stupid repetitive tasks. So when I heard that i had to track daily stuff on the web I just went mad. Before even starting to take this new tasks on my shoulder i was already up with a plan, a challenging one: how can I spend few hours on this and just forget about it?
My initial idea was to...
9 tags
Bulding an iphone app using brush and glue
Ok guys, this is for no reason a serious post, just the first in a row dedicated to my summer-code project dedicated to learning and experimenting with new techologies.
First I needed to chose something simple that can grow as the project evolve and and that have at least some marginal use. During our work at the beyounic HQ we seen so many people crossing the street out of our window that we...
May 2011
1 post
“When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don’t really...”
– Steve Jobs (from subject to Change: Creating great Products and services for an Uncertain World by Peter Merholz, Todd Wilkens, Brandon Schauer, David Verba)
December 2010
3 posts
“The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear...”
– Benjamin Franklin
“You can have a conversation without a social object. You cannot have a social object
without a conversation. It is the conversation that makes the object “social.”
Conversations grow around social objects, much like pearls grow around microscopic
dust. Social objects are about growth, they are “live.”
— JP Rangaswami
If you try and “inject” a social object into a conversation, then what...
“Social networks consist of people who are connected by a shared object. That’s...”
– The term “social object” first surfaced in a blog post by Jyri Engeström on April 13, 2005.
Jyri, cofounder of jaiku and now a product manager at Google
November 2010
3 posts
4 tags
Sex and the Valley
I must say that I’m really tuned with the Kevin Hale (wufoo.com co-founder) fanatical approach about creating meaningful relationships with users. I think this mindset approach is vital for any kind of relationships you creates. On This post i’ll try to outline some of my thought using the flirting methaphor and paradigm applied to the start-up & investors scene. Btw, this has...
5 tags
Mashup? No... Mashapp!
In web development, a mashup is a web page or application that uses and combines data, presentation or functionality from two or more sources to create new services.
The term implies easy, fast integration, frequently using open APIs (an interface implemented by a software program that enables it to interact with other software) and data sources to produce enriched results that were not...
September 2010
3 posts
7 tags
Experience Events through a remote Event POD
There are events you can attend live, there are events you can attend remotely through the net, there are hybrid events you can attend both live or remotely and there are event PODs! Event PODs, are sub events dislocated around the globe and attached to the main event. Event PODs are a new experimental way to enable to live attend events through a remote location. If you still not clear about...
4 tags
Why do we meet?
We all are nodes in a graph, connected through edges wich carry stories from node to node. Meeting bring those edges alive transforming stories into experiences. Experiences enrich us, enpower us, teach us, grow us, they are the vital nourishment for the nodes. The answer to “Why do we meet” rely in us as social being as the answer “why do we breath” rely in us as...
4 tags
August 2010
6 posts
Why This Blog?
For you out there that allready have a blog you know what it’s all about, when you feel the need to express and laydown your thoughts, ideas, or mumblings about what does matters to you. So this will be the place where i’ll write about open source, technology & events, about ohanah, and whatever I’ll feel to. This blog is also a way for me to tackle my own thougts and improove my...
6 tags
Social Graphing Events
“Events are entering a new era and social media is becoming an increasingly important and visible element in the transformation of events. However, the full extent of social media’s use in events is still not very well known. Social media has greater power in events than many realize”. From Social Media in the New Event World”
As for today, event organizers are faced with numerous...
“Il faut le savoir faire, Il faut savoir le faire, il faut le faire savoire”
– Unknown.
8 tags
Don't Be The First!
I often find myself thinking about innovation, ideas, and entrepreneurship, where everybody seems on the quest of whatever they can claim being the first in it. Being the first doesn’t mean to be remarkable. Let’s think about it: Google wasn’t the first search engine outhere when they laucnhed, and when they started there were allready big players out there with much more money...
4 tags
2 tags
The Margarita Effect
Few years ago I use to own a Lounge Cocktail bar here in switzerland, oh yes i love cocktails and jazz music! It came back to my mind few month ago something that I used to refer to as “the margarita effect”. Its a pretty simple observable things: at the cocktail-bar, when the standing people are waiting to order, their choice is often influenced by the people that have ordered before ...