The mobile web has garnered a lot of attention in recent months and understandably so. Mobile phone ownership in Australia alone is over 90% (OECD Telecommunications Outlook 2007) although mobile use is still mainly focused on phone calls, with photography catching up. However, this is changing. Opera Software – creators of the Opera web browser [...]

Do you have 40 minutes for some free professional development? You can attend Peter Morville’s presentation on search patterns for the IA (Information Architecture) Summit. The slides and audio are available from SlideShare and showcases innovative search interfaces and features. | View | Upload your own Go to the slideshare page if you want to [...]

Freebase, a structured wiki-like database, should be of interest to anyone with an interest in web architecture and the quest for a semantic digital order. It uses a system of user-extensible types that allow contributors to build logical relations between topics rather than just linking and tagging them. Sounds simple? Freebase’s structure seems to introduce [...]

The National Library of Australian IT Architecture Project Report (March 2007) is available online. Locan Dempsey has a summary on his blog: Moving to a single business systems environment. It’s worth reading even if it’s not quite your thing. Judith and her team explain things elegantly in a way that made me understand what info [...]