www.dontclick.it – cosmetically lovely, fundamentally flawed.

Here at uknetweb we are all for pushing the boundaries of web development and coming up with ingenious new ways for customers to interact with businesses online. We have produced a number of European and World firsts for our clients, not driven by technical superiority but from a good understanding of how people do business online.

When we first heard about the dontclick.it project we were excited to see what it had to offer and whether this might just be the start of an entirely new way for websites to work. Driven by my passion (and if I’m honest geeky desire) to search out the best of Web 2.0 projects and emerging internet technologies I first came across dontclick.it through a random Stumble and at first site was pretty impressed.

Not wanting to stop at my own first impressions I felt it was time to let the site do the rounds of the office and see just what the designers, techies and normal polite members of society thought about a site that doesn’t need (or allow) to be clicked.

In defence of the Web 2.0 Democracy

Social-media sites like Wikipedia and Digg are celebrated as shining examples of Web democracy, places built by millions of Web users who all act as writers, editors, and voters. In reality, a small number of people are running the show. According to researchers in Palo Alto,

hats off to Orange…

I just wanted to submit a quick post acknowledging Orange’s outstanding new ‘Unlimited’ site. For those of you who are yet to visit it check it out here.

will porn lead the way…again?

Time and time again technology advances have been driven by human desires to access pornography in more and more private ways. Whatever your view on it, countless advances have been driven by pornographers and their customers.

From the VHS win over the Betamax, through to the development of DVD players, interactive TV, Subscription TV services and of course the internet, pornographers and their customers have helped push technology forward.Now we sit in the midst of the Web 2.0 world, will we see a similar drive from the industry to help promote the ideals and principles of the Web 2.0 project? (Click for link to 2002 Story from The Observer)

something to be going on with…

These last few days I have fallen a little bit quiet and I can put this down to 2 reasons. 1) I have been rather busy in my day to day work and 2) I couldn’t think of anything useful to say.

While I have sat around wondering what the next blog should be I have learnt a couple of things that I thought justified maybe just a quick intermission blog to show I hadn’t fallen off that amazing balcony into the sea. (see ‘about uknetweb’)