Humanize vs Usability

Submitted by ipublicis on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 23:45.

Eight great concepts on humanized interfaces:

1. It's not your fault.

The main thing you have to remember — and please remember this, because it could be vital to your sanity — is that any problems you have with an interface are not your fault.

Our Wordpress recent work is available under GNU/GPL

Submitted by ipublicis on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 16:19.

Our recent plugins made for Wordpress CMS are at Wordpress.org and Box.Net.

Author Box

Adds an author box below text when viewing a single article. idea taken from a Brian Gardner's article.

sm00sh URL shrink

sm00sh URL shrink plugin is for quick, easy, full-featured URL shortening for content and comments.

Shorten2PingNG

Sends status updates to Ping.fm or Twitter everytime you publish a post. Using Bit.ly, Tr.im, YOURLS, Su.pr or even your own domain for shortened permalinks (accounts on these services required). So this way you can send status to many sites at once

No news are good news!

Submitted by ipublicis on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 16:14.

We've being busy although we write less here.

sm00sh has a few inside changes but it is far from getting out of Beta. The community section is rolling and we hope to have it soon available to the public. Also, the redirector will work more like others alike when destiny is a certified web page and allow you to see the final content and, at the same time, share it with many others via social networks.

Lots os SPAM being caught. You can imagine, but 80% of all submissions are pure scams.

New projects on the run: sm00sh URL shortner

Submitted by ipublicis on Fri, 08/28/2009 - 18:08.

We have being busy...

We just launched our new project sm00sh in Beta. It is a(nother) URL shortner, but with a (few) twists.

But we aim to make it roll way beyond the existing ones. It still lacks the community functionalities being activated but we decided to release soon, release often so we decided to turn the nuclear portion of it available sooner, i.e. the URL shortner/redirector part.

Transparency and Responsibility in Civil Society

Submitted by ipublicis on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 17:30.

Our sister is promoting a SERIES OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES on CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS, TRANSPARENCY AND RESPONSIBILITY.

They will be held at the Goethe Institut Auditorium, in Portugal, Lisbon, Campo Mártires da Pátria, 37.

The first one will happen next March, 31^st and is about Good Governance and Regulation.

Building with Wordpress and osCommerce

Submitted by ipublicis on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 17:24.

We just bluilt a nice and simple store for AromaNatura, a natural essences and products seller, integrated with a blog. For this project we are using the neat package WPosC.

As soon as it wents live we will post it here.

Empowering local news communicators

Submitted by ipublicis on Tue, 11/25/2008 - 12:52.

We are preparing a project that will allow local newspapers and individuals that wish to produce a structured news media website to do it the easy way. And almost for free (€5,00/month is almost free).

Searching for funding to implement it is the starting point.

Pulse-ing

Submitted by ipublicis on Fri, 11/14/2008 - 03:22.

A new great venture from the Knight Foundation is their newest community site to discuss the future of information.

Despite the seemingly never-ending flow of news, people around the globe still struggle to find the information they need to make basic decisions about their life.

Two events to attend

Submitted by ipublicis on Wed, 10/22/2008 - 20:05.

One is the SAPO Codebits, which is a sort of Google Summer Of Code but smaller and directed to the portuguese public. It's a web programming contest different from others. No rules, promotes an informal and relaxed environment, try to create the necessary conditions to participants' creativity and inovation. Can check at SAPO Codebits wiki. Two of my friends will be there, talking both and one competing with a very interesting Drupal-based project.

Knight News Challenge is almost ending...

Submitted by ipublicis on Wed, 10/22/2008 - 19:50.

This a very interesting contest for those working with Free Software and with community projects. Some info from their own site:

The 2009 Knight News Challenge is year three of a contest awarding as much as $5 million a year for innovative ideas that develop platforms, tools and services to inform and transform community news, conversations, and information distribution and visualization.

Knight Foundation plans to invest at least $25 million over five years in the search for bold community news and social media experiments.