Simon Bricolo

Earlier this week Delicious released a series of significant improvements and each day this week we spent some time exploring each of these improvements. This post conclud...

Last year’s Delicious redesign made Search infinitely snappier and more usable. And after a year of solid use, we’ve thought hard about how we wanted to see the service grow to accommodate user needs and our own wish-list of features. ...

Way back in January I released a simple application called TweetNews, which essentially ranks the latest Yahoo! News articles by their number of related Twitter mes...

Over the past few months we have continued to roll out back-end Delicious infrastructure improvements to ensure that our experience is fast and reliable. While critical, these back-end improvements are ...

For many people in the web design industry, design projects have a specific start and end date. The end date specifies when the design (the mockups, code, or custom CMS) will be delivered. After the end date, the engagement is over and both partie...

I’ve given a few talks recently and by far and away the one idea that is resonating with people is the idea that the behavior you’re seeing is the behavior you’ve designed for.

It’s a simple statement, really. All it means is that...

The project m...

Google reader has been the best web-based RSS reader and one of my personal favorites too. Although, upon logging for the first time in the day, I realized that Twitter was able to rub its status upd...

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For the moment, I’m using Infomaniak as my web...

I was recently chatting with an entrepreneur who was considering building a leader-board for his social web app. The purpose of the leader-board, he told me, was to display those users of the app who were most active, with the idea that this would...

Cela fait à peine 24 H que l’annonce de Chrome OS a été faite et pourtant les avis convergent en ce qui concerne

Second Life is a fantastic example of how not to develop a community. The creators put too much thought into persuading people to join the community and too little in keeping them.

They spent money on marketing, advertising, PR and not a pe...

You feel a little jittery. Is it the presentation? Or the pot of coffee you drank this morning while rehearsing? You gather your laptop and index cards and head to the conference room.

This is the big day. You've been working on the plan f...

Apparently, I’m supposed to read my clients’ minds. I’m supposed to know exactly the style, content, and length of every project a client wants taken care of, typically on the basis of a one-line email.

I’m pretty sure I’m not the only free...

Whether or not you’re ever in this situation probably depends a lot on the size of your own personal project portfolio and how your company handles projects. It’s happened to me a few times, but it’s not a constant.