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  • Global Smartphone Vendor Shipments (October 2011)

    According to Strategy Analytics, Samsung is now the biggest smartphone dealer in the world. “Global smartphone shipments grew 44 percent annually to reach a record 117 million units in Q3 2011. Samsung shipped 28 million smartphones and overtook Apple to become the world’s largest smartphone vendor by volume with 24 percent market share. Samsung’s rise…

  • YouTube's Black/Dark Player

    Last year, YouTube introduced its new video player design, and I decided to use it before it was released for public. Now, YouTube has another new player design. This time, it’s dark. The next question is: Do you like it? Do I like it? The dark element can add more contrast, but when I want…

  • Floating CSS menu on YouTube Flash Videos

    I currently involve in a website project that put videos as its primary contents. My involvement is not primary on the design. I’m just helping a little. What I like from the process is to find solution. One of the problem is on the navigation menu. It’s very common to have navigation with sub-menus. Without…

  • Five Simple Steps Books

    I think I want these books. And, all books in collection including: A Practical Guide to Designing Grid Systems for the Web by Mark Boulton A Practical Guide to Designing the Invisible by Robert Mills A Practical Guide to Strategic User Experience by Leisa Reichelt Creating Web Content by Relly Annett-Baker Designing Web App Success…

  • Twitter Redesigned

    Twitter just got its homepage redesigned (again). Here’s its new look. It’s wider now and display less elements. Previously, there was a scrolling trending topics and some tweet stream. We can’t find them anymore now. I think the new designs tries to attract more people to join (increasing registrations) by simplifying the registration process. The…

  • Bye MyBlogLog

    I have some blog posts about Yahoo!’s MyBlogLog service. In December 2007, MyBlogLog introduced an integration with Yahoo! ID. In July 2008, MyBlogLog introduced its new design. But, I think I don’t have any “real” advantage having MyBlogLog installed on my blog. I can’t remember when I have it installed. Maybe, you heard the news…

  • Dick Costolo is now Twitter CEO

    Dick Costolo became Twitter’s new CEO. “This is why I have decided to ask our COO, Dick Costolo, to become Twitter’s CEO. Starting today, I’ll be completely focused on product strategy.” ~ Evan Williams “Our #newtwitter was designed to be easier, faster, and richer but our #newtwitterceo is faster, older, and balder!” ~ Biz Stone

  • Ten Things Why Nokia N8 Is Better (than iPhone 4)

    Ten Things Why Nokia N8 Is Better (than iPhone 4). Comparison on these subjects: price, design, video call, HDMI + Dolby Surround, memory, USB On-the-Go, usability (reception issue), sensor, Xenon flash, editing software & Ovi Maps are free (Symbian^3)

  • YouTube Embed with New Player Design

    In my previous post, I mentioned about YouTube’s new player design. Right now, it only works on YouTube site — not for videos embed externally. But, with a small modification on its player parameter, we can have the new player design for the video. Example? This is the original embed code: <object width=”560″ height=”340″> <param…

  • 0.facebook.com: fast and free

    Good news from Facebook after they bright Facebook Lite offline. There is 0.facebook.com now. According to the announcement: Yet when using the mobile internet, people around the world face two main challenges–sometimes the experience is too slow to be fun and the cost of data plans and understanding them can be daunting. We have designed…