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London's innovations mashed up

February 14, 2011 in News Roundup

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A mash-up created by Londonist.com brings together the capital’s innovations on Google Maps.

Using geo-tags, the mash-up currently features around 40 inventions providing brief descriptions and a link to a source.

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New national curriculum website – ‘by teachers, for teachers’

February 1, 2010 in News Roundup

NationalvCurriculum hmpgA more teacher focused national curriculum website is set to be relaunched by Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA) and COI. The site, created by digital agency e3, aims to be a daily teacher resource that will save time and assist learning.

The newly designed site will help teachers to think about how they can design compelling learning experiences using the new guidance materials. Key content has been developed ‘by teachers for teachers’ in a bid to free up time, inspire and meet the needs of the core audience.

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The importance of visual affordance in hyperlink design

August 22, 2009 in Features

A slightly disturbing new trend seems to be happening in the world of interface design, requiring people to move their mouse around to tell what is a link and what is not.

When you start messing around with the basic building block of the web – the hyperlink – trouble is sure to follow.

Two recently redesigned websites – the LA Times and National Public Radio (NPR) – are featuring a new clean style on their pages that seems to be emulating the visual style of an actual newspaper. All the text in black and white, with no underlining or different colour text for hyperlinks.

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Quick.tv full launch

July 21, 2009 in News Roundup

Just in from the Quick.tv team, who we wrote about recently in our Monetising Online Video feature.

Great news – Quick.tv has now officially launched!

Thanks to everyone for your support and feedback during our Beta release; we hope you enjoyed it and will continue to use the service.

As a Beta User you are invited to continue without charge for another two weeks, following which we will include double play-out time for those who sign-up. No credit card or obligation at this point, simply login to your Quick.tv account by visiting

http://studio.quick.tv

Also, it’s worth taking a look at the rest of the new website which gives more information about the platform and additional services.

Any questions, just contact support@quick.tv.

Kind Regards,

Nick Bell & Tod Yeadon

Co-founders
Quick.tv