Thanks for visiting our brand spanking new website. This is a work in progress, an experiment without a version number. Things will change and evolve over time once we figure out what we want to do with this thing. One thing’s for sure—calling this a beta would be just lazy. We don’t wanna be like that, do we? "
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Future of digital culture and e-commerce
Most interesting thing during the week was Tia and Sami presenting at the Future of digital culture and e-commerce (Kulttuurikaupan digitaalinen tulevaisuus) seminar at Dubrovnik. People present were influencers, doers & makers and journalists. Some of these included Anders Sjöman from Voddler and Anni Ronkainen from Google.
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Critical commentary, yet belief in Connected Smart Cities in the EU.
Connected Smart Cities conference focused on the different European strategies of how to become a Smart City. Distinguished, high level speakers from across Europe, including Mayors, Directors and experts, provided perspectives on issues relevant to sustainable and open Smart Cities and European Innovation Strategies.
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Site awards and ranting about half-assed web development, eBooks.
Generally, our aim is to spec things 95%. Therefore, some room for final polish is actually left for the dev team, on-the-fly prototyping and especially the front-end people. A great coder shines here and makes or breaks the UI and the UX. Now, if this guy is opening PSD’s in GIMP, is it a sign of passionate effort to make the best UI possible?
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Got our new website up and rocking, have party pics!
In other words, last week saw the launch of our new website. A modern one page approach with some overlaid navigation and project descriptions. The new site got immediately a good response in the Twitterverse.
Release notes: An experiment in form and function
So, it's been a long time coming but finally, yesterday we got a new website out for the world to see. Here's some thoughts about the process and why and how we did what we did.
First, I feel we’ve never really had a proper site out until now. This is actually a website version number four of which three got released, and one got canned on being too complex to do *well enough*. We got a pretty flying start three years ago and pretty much had just an address with […]