Episode 12 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week your hosts are Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves), and Kevin Yank (@sentience), with special guests Elliot Jay Stocks (@elliotjaystocks) and Jina Bolton (@sushimonster).
Elliot Jay Stocks is the author of SitePoint’s latest book, Sexy Web Design. Jina Bolton provided the Preface to this book, and also co-wrote SitePoint’s The Art & Science of CSS.
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Episode Summary
Here are the topics covered in this episode:
Internet Explorer 8 Released
- Microsoft to Release IE8 Today (SitePoint)
- Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 8 (Information Week)
- Shocking! Microsoft gets a sense of humor (ComputerWorld)
Google Summer of Code 2009 student applications close today
Google Portable Contacts Standard
- Google Implements New Open Standard for Friends Lists (ReadWriteWeb)
Facebook user base hits 200 million. Will Microsoft buy Facebook?
- Facebook Surpasses 200 Million Users (All Facebook)
- Is Microsoft about to buy Facebook for $50 billion? (All Facebook)
Twitter Advertising Twitter-based Apps for Free
Doug Bowman Leaves Google Complaining of Impossible Conditions for Designers
- Goodbye Google (Stop Design)
- Google Design: The kids are alright (fox@fury)
- Google’s UX Design Principles (Google)
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A suggestion: Rather than providing links to sites mentioned in the podcast, can you provide a transcript? That way, there’s another option for users who prefer to scan the transcript for the highlights rather than listening to a 20 to 45 minute podcast for the 2 or 3 items they are interested in.
I’ve noticed more podcasts are simply providing a resource link to articles/sites mentioned in their podcast now, rather than providing a transcript.
I would need another 48 hours in a day, or a dozen more sets of ears to hear all the podcasts.
I find that if there’s no transcript for a podcast, I rarely follow through on downloading the podcast.
April 4th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Hello redcrew,
Thanks for the comment.
Kevin mentioned on the comment thread for the last show that transcription is on the way: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/03/20/sitepoint-podcast-11-interview-with-microsoft%E2%80%99s-chris-wilson/#comment-900384
Hard to say when it will be, but it is on the table. :)
Thanks,
Patrick
April 4th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Patrick, count my vote for transcripts as well. :)
April 5th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Thanks, Black Max. It’ll come when it comes! :) We appreciate the feedback. :)
Patrick
April 6th, 2009 at 2:17 am
Thanks for mentioning my post in your podcast. Without getting into the broader discussion about the comparative roles of aesthetic design and functional design in tool sites vs experiential sites, I would like to mention that virtually every consumer-facing project at Google has one or more designers working on it.
Google has a huge number of Interaction Designers whose roles encompass functional and aesthetic design. In my post I referred to the *visual design* group as more consolidated instead of distributed among all projects, but that is not to say that designers aren’t deeply involved in Google’s products.
Interaction Design at Google is considered a superset of aesthetic, visual, functional and cognitive design. The fact that a designer skilled in both cognitive science and fine arts and is labeled an Interaction Designer is not to say that the products they work on suffer for not having a Visual Designer on the team because those skills are well represented.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Thanks for stopping by, Mr. Fox.
April 6th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Great information. Podcasts are links of the future. Does search engines count these links?
April 7th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Thanks for the kind words. Do you mean the links in the blog post? If so, yes.
Thanks,
Patrick
April 8th, 2009 at 11:19 pm