Archive for May, 2007

P2P, ISP and the media industry

A few days ago I was chatting in a sun bathed terrasse of Petite Italie with a founder of DEP, one of the biggest music distributor in Canada. The conversation went passionate about music, P2P, sustainable culture, etc. These are old subjects of interests for me because I’m both a culture fan highly frustrated by [...]

Wii Opera Browser.

Filed under UI

Wii optimized web sites, part 2

A few days after posting “Wii optimized web sites“, I’ve been contacted to sketch out a proof of concept to port a very popular service to the Nintendo Wii.
I have some experience in TV interfaces, here are my basic recomandations to build a nice user experience on TV:

SMS the new command line.

The idea: to reverse engeneer Twitter — a port of the SMS culture into the social websphere — to operate web services via SMS.
People, and particularly teenagers, have developed a peculiar way to chit-chat via SMS due to the inherent constraints of poorly usable keypads and the necessity to write concisely. This SMS lingo uses [...]