
Take a look at a pic above which I took this evening at a small restaurant. This is a machine for free drinks and you can see several buttons on it.
If you’d like to drink a cup of cold water, where do you touch? As you can see, most of people touch buttons on right side and that’s why the buttons are fading away. I also touched.
But, the buttons on right side are not clickable. It’s not a button but a label to show what kind of hot/cold drink you can get. I couldn’t imagine that even when I touch the label.
People keep touching the labels and then the labels are getting more like buttons. Why’d this happen? That’s because the restaurant haven’t maintained the button area ever. People make mistakes sometimes but we all have chances to recover it.
If your labels are fading away, it’s time to change something.
Author: Hiro
I made a new theme for my blog and I choose HTML5. Visit here if you are subscribing via email or RSS. Nothing special, it still looks quite simple.
To develop something is always the best way to learn new technologies and that’s the reason why I developed the theme. Here are what I’ve learned from the process.
- Framework is important to develop HTML5 base web sites.Productive programmers prefer to use well designed frameworks or modules to develop apps. Same thing is happening. In HTML5 era, writing HTML/CSS is not only for web designers. Programmers will come to write HTML/CSS. It’s going to change the development process. I chooseLess Framework 4 for my blog theme. It helps me to write flexible layout to support various resolutions without writing tons of lines of code.
- ‘Progressive enhancement’ helps us to live in the future. In a few years ago, I was always working hard to make pixel perfect web design for all available browsers but it doesn’t make sense anymore. No one want to get it except the author. The most important thing is to make compatible design for all available browsers and devices. Please resize the current window to see what will happen.
- HTML5 is fun to use. I know it’s not perfect yet but unlike older version of HTML, I feel philosophy. We always need to focus on content itself while writing code to make sure what kind of content will be displayed there. This is how we can write beautiful code.
My first version is not enough. I need to try more to find out better way to use elements or techniques but I’ve learned a lot from this first version.
Time to write something as my first post
I haven’t yet published post here. This is the first one. I think there are tons of place to publish content like WordPress, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook etc. I don’t know how I should use here. I know there is a brilliant feature to post multiple platform at once via Posterous but I don’t need it. I choose individual tools to update content.
Updated
I forgot that I had connected Posterouns and this WordPress blog. Yes unexpectedly the post above is here. I posted via Posterous. OK, I see how it works well. My Posterouns is here.
This interview with DeNA founder/CEO Tomoko Namba told us a lot. DeNA is running a mobile gaming SNS platform called Mobage.
At the interview she said:
- DeNA’s revenue: $1.2B
- DeNA’s users: 20M
- Japanese companies have interest in acquiring companies out side of Japan
Instagram got a million users. But the important part is here:
It took Foursquare just over a year to get a million users. It took Twitter about two years. Instagram? They accomplished the feat in less than three months.
Sounds cool. I’m not an Instagram addict but the result told us that their social strategy works well.
Japan post service launched Twitter analyzer which picks up you the most tweeted word of the year. The service only can understand Japanese though.
My result is the screenshot above. That’s my tweeted words ranking.
The result tells me one thing. Most of my tweeted Japanese are location related words and it means most of my Japanese tweets are came from Foursquare. What a boring tweet I made!
So I changed my mind and unlinked Foursquare and Twitter to stop to make noises anymore. Anyway, I keep using Foursquare and post my location to Facebook wall.
Found this at Engadget. It’s a stabilizer for pocket camcoders like Xacti and seems good for our podcast shows on messa.tv.
There are some stabilizers for DSLR or camcoders but this one costs just $29.99. Sounds great. I don’t know where I can get this from Japan though. You can watch a review video at the original post.
[Information] Moved To A Stable Server
Japanese version of this blog has got tons of access since I published a post about Evangelion (Only in Japanese). That’s why I decided to move to this blog to EC2.
I’m already using Amazon EC2 for our web sites like messa.tv and jp.messa.tv but I choose a DIY server for this blog. Of course tried to configure a web server and WordPress/Plugins to handle tons of access but got too many visitors at once via Twitter and Japanese social bookmarking site Hatena Bookmark.
Anyway, I hope the current system works well for all of visitors, thanks!