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Ten delicious aggregator links

Beth Granter — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:42:22 +0000

Continuing to share my delicious links, here’s mine tagged with Aggregator:

Addictomatic: Inhale the Web – Social search engine mashup
Aggregation | drupal.org – Drupal aggregation plugin
Virb – Social networking site where your profile is built from feeds
Dipity – activity aggregator visualised in a timeline
FriendFeed – obviously
Fuser – email and social network message aggregator
HelloTxt – multiple status updater
Pageflakes – it’s like NetVibes
ShowYourself – It’s a widget, it’s not about flashing your bits
Socialthing! – Got bought by AIM and is now AIM Lifestream. Like FriendFeed.

Ten delicious advertising links

Beth Granter — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:48:20 +0000

Continuing to share my delicious links, here’s mine tagged with Advertising:

Good advertising blogs

Advertising Lab: future of advertising and advertising technology
Eaon Pritchard’s blog
Osocio – Social Advertising and Non-profit Campaigns
CST Advertising – Home of Dave Trott’s blog
adwomen – Feminist commentary on adverts

Specifically good items

Influential Marketing Blog: An Insider’s Guide To Marketing On Flickr
tesco value shampoo – spoof ad
Sprint: Plug into Now. – Massively awesome and interesting data visualisation on today’s production
Orange online ad dimensions / specifications – For reference
HSBC: No “goodservice” in Sight – and Orange Ad Campaign: I Am Lost? - about using ’search for …’ as an online advertising tactic

Ten delicious accessibility links

Beth Granter — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:55:05 +0000

I’ve been wondering how I can feature my delicious links on blog posts, so I just decided to start at the beginning of the alphabet of tags containing at least 10 links. I don’t like those automated services that just post a blog of your daily or weekly links – I wanted to group it better. I don’t tend to save the obvious stuff to delicious, but tend to save things I’m not so likely to remember how to find via Google. So, in the order that I discovered them, here’s a few random tools & articles about accessibility. Some are pretty old but still relevant:

2007 links:

ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing A journal
CSS: Map Pop Accessible CSS image map tutorial
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) W3C guidelines (the obvious one)
Mike Davidson: March to Your Own Standard Controversial opinion piece
ATRC Web Accessibility Checker Tool

2008 links:

Colour Contrast Check Tool
Text Size Drupal plugin
Accessibility | Deafness Forum of Australia Great example of an accessibility statement

2009 links

Web accessibility training courses by the RNIB
SiteRay – test, compare and improve your websites Creates great reports on website accessibility and lots more, useful for before-and-after tests for clients if you’ve rebuilt their site

I would say the most important thing I’ve learnt about accessibility over the years is that it’s not just about deaf people, blind people, or those who can’t use a standard keyboard or mouse, but about anybody who needs to or prefers to access websites in a different way. So it’s about designing interfaces that allow users to choose how to get around to best suit them, and allowing them to personalise the way online media is displayed.

Facebook privacy with friend lists

Beth Granter — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:09:00 +0000

You can now basically do anything you’d ever want with the new privacy controls within Facebook. So, if you want to make a list of ex-boyfriends and stop them seeing certain information about you, you can! Or, if you make a list of hotties, you can make a special photo album just for them!

Lists kind of work like groups as far as communication is concerned, but at the moment people don’t know what lists they’ve been put into by other people – they are for an individual to group/categorise their friends, for their own purposes.

I only hope the ways I’ve categorised my friends within Facebook never gets revealed to my friends!

Interestingly, this blog suggests that you can “shield your friend list from any or all of your friends and networks”, whereas this blog says the opposite, that “Friend lists are “private groups” of your friends. No one can see the friend lists you make.” Hopefully the first blog wasn’t talking about these new friend lists that a user creates and names accordingly, but was talking about a user’s main, complete, Facebook friend list. If a user’s main Facebook friend list is called a friend list and the lists a user creates to organise their Facebook friends is called a friend list, talking about this could get pretty confusing.