Northwich Website & Graphic Designer, TheDaveyB

♥ Design Blog Of Northwich Based Website Designer David Goadby.

My Favourite 2.0's

Netvibes
I had dabbled with Netvibes at some point previous and as always the time factor came in to play, could i afford the time spent setting it all up?. It does have the fiddle factor and takes a few attempts to configure but as for being organised and having access to everything in one place (4 email accounts, 3 to do lists, 5 post sticks calendar, address book.....). If you are surgically attached to a PC via work or pleasure try it, if only so you can check up on the daily Garfield cartoon strip. - http://www.netvibes.com/

Digg
I love Digg, its so great. Where else can you be presented with the best of the web in such a relevant and concise manner. Sure there is the BBC news site/feed bringing you the latest from tehe world but not whats hot now, this minute. Plus for myself every day there is at least one post with a useful CSS tip/advice or some Ajax/Jscript that needs to be bookmarked for future dismantling. All else said i have to confess my favourite of the last 2 days.. "Top 20 Hottest Superbabes of the NES era". Enough said, Digg It - http://www.digg.com/

Last.FM
With Last.FM i do tend to find it falls under the 'no real purpose' category of the 2.0 sites. Last.FM's purpose is to drive/push music to the masses in a the 'tag' based format featured on digg, delicous etc. Sounds great but other than nosying at my weekly chart (powered by audioscrobbler) out of curiosity theres not much more i actually use the site for. So why does it make my list?, well the design is awesome - slick, clean, professional and has the CSS colour switcher which i just cant resist the urge to fiddle with. And the companies attitude is definetly something that appeals to a user and the one thing that really grabbed my attention, just check the footer that features a new audioscrobbler inspired witisism each day, pure genius. - www.last.fm

Blogger
Blogger gets in my little list for its interface design and simplicity (well it is now Google owned). I am really curious to see what happens over the next few months in terms of the development of the site (note: author now logging in via a google account) but as i said its Google owned so it cant be a bad thing hey?. I had investigated the main contender, WordPress when considering the platform for this site and I never could find the time to spend 2/3 hours configuring the various sections of the config's etc, when a simple copy/paste to dreamweaver, a little magic and a pinch of salt... and well your reading it now arent you?. - http://www.blogger.com/

posted by thedaveyb On Wednesday, March 28, 2007 @ 8:27 AM