I remember once, out with a friend for dinner, ranting about the hectic day I’ve had. About the different difficult users I’ve had to deal with, when they suddenly jumped in and asked: “Do these people actually pay to use your site?”

I must say, this was rather deflating. I mean, why was I doing what I do, when there is no direct monetary value attached to it? But it’s a very simple business equation really: Traffic = Advertisers = Profit.

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It’s a funny thing about celebrities. Upon inspection their composition appears as a hybrid mix of paranormal hype, unnatural alien-like beauty and enormous amounts of purple ego goop. Furthermore, they all seem saturated in an over-abundance of wealth and fame, both of which appear to legally allow for a constant state of inebriation or raucous moments of paparazzi eye-candy. Celebs live off media coverage often exploiting their positions in society and as recent scandals have shown, I really don’t need to joostify my argument
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We’ve been busy at 20FourLabs. The division was created about 200 days ago to build new web applications, with a particular focus on social and mobile applications. There are around 30 major projects on the go, some of them mentioned here — of which around about 14 have been completed. Labs now consists of 34 talented web professionals, with a product manager and developer-centric focus, with key roles played by community managers.
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You only get one shot at building your innovation into a successful business.You have to deliver something people want, need and love first time. And you have to deliver it fast.

Sketching makes that one shot really count. It adds a little time up front, but massively reduces the overall time, cost and risk of launching something new. … Continue Reading

24.COM - Pre Scrum: The waterfall methodology in which development occurred sequentially, flowing steadily downwards through the different phases (like a waterfall) proved ineffective on various levels. … Continue Reading

My grandfather had a favorite saying: “How you say it is more important than how you mean it”. I remember thinking that he somehow had it in reverse and meant it the other way around but because of it’s yoda-like appeal, I didn’t ever bother rectifying him. Today, after many years of exposure to the online social ‘verse; from the early trout-slapping of IRC to the nostalgic netscape chat crashes to the free-thinking forums and eventually to the social-hungry tubes, twits and faces; I can humbly say: Granddad had it right all along.
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In my personal experience, there are a range of tried and tested leadership and managerial tactics you can follow to just about guarantee that your team never reaches its full potential and consistently produces mediocre work.
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Google Creative Lab have put together an awesome presentation of the 87 coolest web innovations. Its a great collection of digital creativity using the latest technologies. Some of the APIs used include YouTube, Google Maps, SketchUp, Android and Twitter. … Continue Reading

I was looking at the Google analytics stats for our blog for yesterday and noticed that 64.65% of our users are using Firefox, 16.91% are using IE and 10.61% are using Chrome, thereafter safari opera and so on…

Drilling down I then saw that of the IE users only 15% are using IE6 60.87% are using IE7
That means overall we have about 2.5% IE6 users
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