ProjectX Blog

The Silicon Welly initiative was launched this morning. Tim Norton and friends have launched the site…

Here is a what Tim has to say about Silicon Welly.

The New Zealand technology industry is in better shape than ever, and it’s great to see that after all the efforts by the teams working hard across the country through some often very capital constrained times, the quality of our technology products and people are world class. Wellington has had its fair share of successes this year and two major deals Tradme and Aftermail have really helped play there part in raising the awareness of whats happening here in the middle of the country, They’re big deals, and the great thing is they’re the tip of an iceberg that is Silicon Welly….

ProjectX will be actively contributing to Silicon Welly going forward.

Mary Meeker’s – State of the internet part iii slides are a must read for any internet company. The slides show some insights of the emerging trends in ecommerce. The stats mostly have a US flavour, but there are some telling slides as to where the money is coming from.

I have been following the ReadWriteWeb’s coverage of the Web 2.0 summit currently being held in San Francisco.

One the posts that has caught my eye was the synopsis of Marissa Mayer’s Need for Speed.

As we enter a brave new world of web 2.0 applications and web services, speed and reliability of the internet is going to be even more important. In my previous post, I talked about Thinkature – the online collaboration site. This is a cool site which uses intelligent web / javascript design to create a fast user experience. I’m pretty sure I would have had a completely different impression if the was ajax UI was sluggish.

If you’re a web designer, you need to be thinking about the speed of your pages. Here are a few things that can help make a difference.:

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Online Whiteboard + collaboration + AJAX = Thinkature

I have been looking for an online whiteboard / mind-mapping tool to help me to sketch out some of my ideas.
It looks like I might be saying good bye to mind manager! Hooray!

This is a few weeks old, online maps and ZoomIn were featured in TV One’s Breakfast program in September.
Click here to view the stream of the TV segment

Thanks to Paul Reynolds for the mention.

ZoomIn has been selected as a finalist for TUANZ Business Internet and Conference awards 2006 in the inspiration category.

The award event is on 21st of November and all of ProjectX will be in attendance.

Go ZoomIn!

PWC’s Hi-Tech awards were held on the weekend.

Congratulations to :

IE 7.0 and Firefox 2.0 have been out for a couple of weeks.

Here’s a status update.

Browser stats: 5/11/06

Browser stats 19/10/06

iScrybe has now entered beta. Hopefully, we’ll get an invite soon. The video of the ajax UI looks awesome.

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I was in the Hansel office the other day and I saw this great poster that encapsulated the Importance of User experience. The assoicated blog article explains all the concepts in detail.

Any one who is building any new website should be using this as a guide to building more customer centric applications. ENJOY!