The Official Google Blog has just posted about Joga – gives a good overview of what’s on offer there. Joga is still in ‘invite only’ mode though; so the world may have to wait to see my hot football skills (ahem!).
Archive for March, 2006
Joga update
Thursday, March 30th, 2006A Look at Google Page Creator
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006Well, I got an invite to check out Google Page Creator today. The good news is I doubt this will threaten my career; the bad news is… actually, there isn’t really any bad news (except perhaps some of the tacky templates available, but to be fair, they look pretty slick compared to the good old days of Geocities).
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Google and Nike Launch Joga.com
Monday, March 20th, 2006Google and Nike – perhaps a less than obvious pairing – have launched Joga (via Slashdot), which purports to be social networking site for Football fans around the world. Of course at the moment its got the usual ‘Invite Only’ status everyone has come to know when it comes to new Google products.
I find it interesting that this site appears to have video and photo sharing — is this the first we may see of a Google photo sharing service? Such a product seems to be strangely missing from Google’s product line up, especially considering its very offline photo organising service Picasa.
Maybe Google aren’t quite ready to challenge Flickr (and Yahoo!) just yet.
British Design Museum and Accessibility
Friday, March 3rd, 2006According to the British Design Museum website, they are:
…well-equipped to welcome visitors with disabilities. Our facilities include: lifts, wheelchair access, adapted toilets, and audio guides for selected exhibitions.
The irony of all this is that in the HTML version of the site (as opposed to the Flash) this text is rendered in a GIF with no alt text (and not considering the fact the site launches several pop-up windows). So unlucky if you’re visually impaired.
Or does this raise the question of whether you could truly appreciate a Design Museum if you were visually impaired? Or an art gallery? Or museums in general?
Regardless I do love the irony of disability services information appearing in probably the most inaccessible way possible.