SitePoint Podcast #12: 41 Shades of Blue

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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

Google Summer of Code 2009 student applications close today

Google Portable Contacts Standard

Facebook user base hits 200 million. Will Microsoft buy Facebook?

Twitter Advertising Twitter-based Apps for Free

Doug Bowman Leaves Google Complaining of Impossible Conditions for Designers

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Kevin Yank

Kevin began developing for the Web in 1995 and is a highly respected technical author. He wrote Build your own Database Driven Website using PHP and MySQL, a practical step-by-step guide published by SitePoint, and he's co-author of the SitePoint Tech Times, a bi-weekly newsletter for technically-minded web developers. Kev believes that any good webmaster should have seen at least one episode of MacGyver.

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iFroggy April 8, 2009 at 11:19 pm

Thanks for the kind words. Do you mean the links in the blog post? If so, yes.

Thanks,

Patrick

leapbrowser April 7, 2009 at 11:46 pm

Great information. Podcasts are links of the future. Does search engines count these links?

iFroggy April 6, 2009 at 11:56 pm

Thanks for stopping by, Mr. Fox.

Kevin Fox April 6, 2009 at 10:57 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.

iFroggy April 6, 2009 at 2:17 am

Thanks, Black Max. It’ll come when it comes! :) We appreciate the feedback. :)

Patrick

Black Max April 5, 2009 at 2:08 pm

Patrick, count my vote for transcripts as well. :)

iFroggy April 4, 2009 at 11:26 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

redcrew April 4, 2009 at 9:51 pm

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.

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