For one more year, O’Reilly and UBM Techweb co-produced a very successful conference on May 3-6 in San Francisco,CA. One of my favorite presentations was the one from Drew Houston (Dropbox) and Adam Smith (Xobni) with the title: “From Zero to One Million Users” This is their presentation:

Many great keynote speakers and some of them were: Tim O’Reilly, Ben Huh (I Can Has Cheezburger), Ge Wang (Stanford University, Smule), June Cohen (TED Conferences), Kevin Lynch (Adobe Systems Incorporated), Rashmi Sinha (SlideShare, Inc.) and my favorite Steve Blank (Stanford/Berkeley/Columbia) You can view all the keynote speeches here

Photos from the event:

The Adobe CS Live services have just been launched. (8pm PST) Go here and start using them with your Adobe Account (free).

Here you can see some screenshots of the new Adobe CS Live services:

I guess that most of you have noticed or read about the change in Flickr‘s logo.. Yahoo recently added “from Yahoo!” next to Flickr logo in order to enhance its brand through this very successful image and video hosting service. What yahoo did is very reasonable and it might help the company’s brand. Apparently this action is a part of its new campaign. Why Yahoo chose only Flickr and some others and not all of its websites? For example Zimbra and Delicious, two very successful websites, don’t have a yahoo logo in the header or the footer. I can understand that the audience of Zimbra is much different than the one of Flickr but Delicious focuses on the similar target market that Flickr does. Interesting..

Yahoo has several websites, services and divisions. It is quite difficult to have a uniformity across its websites but it is important. I navigated through several Yahoo websites and I noticed that there are some differences in the logos (old red and new purple) and in favicons (the small icon next to the web address). Yahoo has several logos: ‘a Yahoo division’, ‘a Yahoo service’, ‘this is Yahoo’ and ‘from Yahoo’. Why all these different? Some of them in the old red and some others in new purple.

With favicons, Yahoo has not a uniformity across its websites. In most of them we see the new purple Y! and in some others the old red one.

I like that Yahoo has a very modern logo. I also like that on the web purple means Yahoo! and they chose a unique and rare color instead of using blue that most companies do! But.. They need to pay more attention in uniformity across its websites..

Someone has to drive him in the right place and by this I mean pages as sitemap, store, member registration etc. Each company has to take advantage of this page and drive the visitor where it wants. Especially for the eCommerce websites or online stores, companies have to keep the visitor and drive him where they want. There are several good and bad examples that I found on the web.

Hewlett Packard has a great 404-Not Found page. There is a search form, the four major product categories and many links at the bottom of the page. There is no way that visitor will leave this page.

New York Times has a landing page that drive people to the Member Center. This is how they make money and this is why they care about.

The landing page of Macy’s could be much better. Their main goal is to drive visitors to the homepage but why not directly to the product categories as HP does?

Citibank has a complicated 404 page. The user can either search what he wants or to use the drop-down menus at the very right. Bank of America has a much better way to do it.

The 404-Not Found page of Microsoft is weird. If someone writes: www.microsoft.com/windoWWs goes to Bing results for Windowws and after 3 seconds he will be redirected to Bing.com website. But I visited Microsoft and not Bing and I care about Windows or Office and not about results of ‘Windows’ in Bing.com

Do you have any good or bad examples of 404-Not Found page? BTW this is my favorite one! (Get in the train!)

Since I can remember I have always been amused by all forms of creation.
When I was a little boy I dream of becoming a science-fiction film director.
As a 33 year old, I believe that by using available means, we are able to make every idea that comes to our minds happen.

“When there is a will, there is a way” – whenever you use advanced technology or a pencil. What matters is the initial idea and the process of its creation.

You can also see the documentary video of his job..

We were expecting something like this.. The WordPress.tv is On Air for all the WP bloggers. Instead of visiting the forum (support) website or reading the hundrends of pages of tutorial, bloggers can now visit the WordPress Tv and watch the videos. For instance, if you want to know how you will create a static front page you can watch this video !

Enjoy!

Down for everyone or just me?

This is the simplest way to check if a website is down for everyone or just for you.. It is so simple but quite smart!

“Changing The Way You Fly“, developed for Air New Zealand. The site introduces passengers to new advances in the way flights are handled, ranging from self check in, scanners that allow passengers for self boarding at the gate, through to USB and iPod connections on Tasman/Pacific flights.

Visitors to the site can choose night or day views. Move the mouse to each part of the scene to hear the appropriate sounds: didgeridoo for Australia, drums for the Pacific Islands, sheep and birds in the New Zealand country and lawn mowers in the city…

The site includes social networking/bookmarking links for Digg, MySpace, Stumbleupon, Facebook, Delicio.us, Google and Yahoo. Sensibly, Air New Zealand have made the content available in both Flash and HTML formats. Source: The Inspiration Room

This project shows us what Photoshop would look like if the UI were rendered in real life. If you check out this Flickr gallery of how it was created, it seems safe to say that this display is tangible, and was not created by computer graphics, or even—you guessed it!—Photoshopped.

Source: BoingBoing

Window Shop is a new website from Amazon. Today this website is on air and it will be updated every week. It is a flash site that presents the top movies, songs, best selling books and CDs. The browsing is too simply using the Space Bar and the arrows of your keyboard..

Enjoy!