Take some time for a quicky…

It’s been a while since my last post, but I’m a bit busy arranging everything for my new appartement. Tomorrow I’ll be signing the legal transfer documents, the actual transfer will be on April the 13th. As I don’t have time to write a whole lot of a story, I’m just gonna throw up a neat list of items I found over the last week, and which I think are worth mentioning. You probably read some of them already, but I’ll drop ‘em anyway:

Mezzoblue has some nice tips about speaking in public, which might come in handy somewhere soon. I’m supposed to give a presentation over at IDG in a month or so. It’s mainly about web2.0, and I’m hoping that it’ll give some heads up to the people who should care, but actually don’t.

WeBreakStuff has a good read about the human side of web applications.

Why don’t we still have a publication like this, or this at IDG?

Some other page I stumbled upon was CrazyEgg, it’s not public yet, but it sounds promising. Add some markup to your page, and CrazyEgg will produce a (click)heatmap of your site, so that you can easily see which partions of your website are best clicked. Afcourse this is not the same as an eyetracking heatmap, but it can sure give you some relevant insights. I’m trying to figure out how it’s technically done, but I haven’t found the right solution yet. It could be done via rewriting all tags via DOM to some redirect uri’s. But how do they extract the relevant x- and y-coordinates out of that to produce the heatmap? Could it be done via javascript generated image submit buttons? They do deliver coordinates, but could that be of any use, let alone be reliable?

There is a job opening over at Ilse Media… hmmm, tempting…

Must-read books, which are on my to-be-ordered-books list:

Blink

Ruby on Rails: Up and Running

Naked conversations

Oh, and I rediscovered the last.fm player.