There’s been a fair bit of chatter about machine translation of late and so when we noticed that the Museum of London team had rolled out the new Google Translate widget on their website we figured we’d give it a try and follow suit.
So lo and behold, now on the Powerhouse Museum main site you [...]
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Backtype has just released the very first 0.1 version of a Wordpress plugin that integrates tweets and retweets as well as comments on other blogs into the comment stream of your original Wordpress posts.
I’ve been trialling an install and you can see it in action on a post like this one. Notice that the tweets [...]
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As you’ve heard, we’ve been working on a whole lot of new projects. And with new projects comes new code. I can’t say a lot more about these projects right now, but we’ve been using Python and the Django framework to develop them. So here’s the first of the spinoff products that we’re putting out [...]
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As the team has been working on a large array of new projects and sites of late we’ve been exploring some of the newer tools that have emerged for usability testing and ensuring good information architectures. Here’s some of what we’ve been exploring and using –
We’ve started using Optimalsort for site architecture – especially [...]
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Google’s ’search within search’ or as they call it ‘teleporting‘ has hit the Powerhouse Museum.
I’m not sure whether this is a compliment or not, but as the New York Times reports, this is a very interesting development which raises many issues for content-rich sites with vested interests in their own internal search.
As you can see [...]
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Google’s OpenSocial has finally gone live.
What it provides for the museum sector is a much easier way to seed content to social networks, where apparently our younger online audiences, like to spend a lot of their time. OpenSocial, as opposed to a Facebook application, promises to work across multiple social networking services – meaning [...]
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One of the biggest problems when designing and developing a new website or rolling out a new look and feel is cross-browser compatibility. Usually the solution has been to have a series of machines, real or virtual, with different versions of the various different browsers out there installed, and then go through each one laboriously.
Fortunately [...]
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Thank you to everyone who has been tagging the collection with our bulk tagging mini-application.
Since announcing it 2 weeks ago we’ve had 515 new tags added to previously untagged objects. That’s a lot.
If you are one of the many who have added some tags – thank you. If you haven’t tried it yet, then what [...]
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SearchCrystal is a very nifty search visualisation tool. Above is the results of an image search for ‘Sydney’ across multiple engines – you can see clearly in the visualisation where results crossover and there is similarity. I really like the different types of search that can be done in this way – web searches, image [...]
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