Taken from dPs, all a little bit light weight really:
- Focus on the eyes
- Watch your angles
- Use diffused light
- Add a hair light
- Use of lens
- Guide expression.
6 tips for the perfect head shot
Apple’s “i” monopoly ends
From smh.com.au:
Apple has been dealt a severe blow, having been told that it no longer has a monopoly on the letter ”i” as a prefix for all its products. A trademarks tribunal has knocked back Apple’s bid to stop a small company from trademarking the name DOPi for use on its laptop bags and cases for Apple products.
Pacific Magazines moves into e-commerce
From digitalmedia:
Pacific Magazines will launch its first e-commerce site next Monday, linked exclusively to its monthly fashion title, InStyle, with a similar site for Bride to Be to launch in the coming weeks.
The online shopping launch, dubbed ShopIt!, will see InStyle oversee all aspects of the shopping experience from the display of products in the magazine to online purchase and home delivery, and will coincide with InStyle Australia’s 10th anniversary.
Web Standards for E-books
An article from Joe Clark:
The internet did not replace television, which did not replace cinema, which did not replace books. E-books aren’t going to replace books either. E-books are books, merely with a different form.
I once had quite a quirky dinner with Joe one night in Chinatown Sydney with Lachlan.
Digital Takeover, The Fairfax way
In an article edited by Frédéric Filloux:
Fairfax Digital is, by far, the leading online group in Australia and in the region.
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Some lessons can be drawn from Fairfax Digital’s performance:
- Accept the coming digital domination.
- Focus on reader engagement.
- Be an online company. Period.
- Bet on multiple business resources.
- Capture readers and users one group after the other.
- Control your advertising innovation.
- Stay awake.
TechnologyOne in $67m TAFE deal
In this article it is announced that Student Management gets a win:
Australian software maker TechnologyOne has been selected to replace student management systems for Victorian TAFEs as part of a $67 million systems overhaul package announced by the Victorian Government today.
Congratulations to the hard working crew. I knew this system once upon a time.
5 Steps to Buidling Social Experiences
An article from boxesandarrows:
- What’s your social object? Make sure there is a “there” there. Give users a reason to rally. Why would someone come to your site?
- Give people a way to identify themselves and to be identified.
- Give people something to do.
- Enable a bridge to real life (groups, mobile, meetings, face-to-face).
- ently Moderate. Let the community elevate people and content they value.
Fairfax, APN in regional online tie-up
From smh.com.au:
Fairfax Media and APN have agreed to a deal that will combine Fairfax’s online ads with the classified sections of 90 publications in regional Queensland and Northern New South Wales.
Under the alliance, APN newspapers’ local ads will appear under the Drive.com, Domain.com and MyCareer.com brands. Customers will also be able to post their classifieds ads online through the Fairfax sites.
Web cache 101
Far too simple for anyone involved in enterprise web development, but maybe a good start for others:
The two primary reasons for using web caches are:
- Reducing latency: Because an intermediate cache (which is closer to the client than the web server) can serve the content, it takes less time for the resource to reach the client. This makes the web site seem more responsive.
- Reducing network traffic: Because several resources are reused and they don’t need to be fetched afresh from the server, caching reduces the amount of bandwidth used by the client, thus reducing traffic on the network.
Testing during Agile development
It sings, it dances. Oh whatever, I will read it anyway:
This e-guide offers expert insight into the agile development lifecycle and how to implement effective agile testing. This compilation of agile development tips will assist organizations in planning and executing software tests during agile development. Read this E-Guide to learn how to maintain test consistency throughout the agile process, the benefits and common obstacles of agile test automation, and how to accelerate agile software testing throughout the entire process.