OnePage unifies your Web life in a single stream

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t join every new Web service there is, and I don’t need to get an invite of everything Twitterati seem to have a blast with. I really don’t, for various reasons.

For one, living on the island of Switzerland, I cannot access a …

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The 10 most common Brand Stream misconceptions

The introduction of the idea of Brand Streams a couple of weeks ago caused a little stir in the scene. Interesting enough, both blog posts related to the topic didn't get any comments, but I got a few direct responses through Twitter and direct talks with brand experts …

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Apple's Safari 4 doesn't care about your privacy

In February 2008, I wrote about Safari 4.0 when it was first launched as a beta. Back then, I focussed on the learnings Apple had made by being inspired by the innovations introduced with Google's previous release of Chrome.

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All that glitter

I …

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The MacBook Helium

Note: This is a repost of a longer article about the expected release of an Apple Tablet, which I published on Tumblr a while ago. Not all Core readers are aware of my life stream on Tumblr, so here is that post, in case you missed it.

So the talk has been up again, …

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Find Core on Alltop

Branding as a topic is not as big as marketing or advertising. People associate it with the same fields, but they don't regard branding as an important topic.

At one side, that's pretty normal. It's actually how it should be, because regular people aren't actively …

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Brand identities are not singular

Because people treat brands like personalities, some companies think that brands are singular. They are talking about brands as an entity, which should express its personality with a single voice, across all media.

Of course they're right about the expression part. But …

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Core joins the anti Internet Explorer 6-movement

Ask any Web front-end Web developer. Even those who are fully in love with Microsoft products. Everyone will tell you they hate Internet Explorer 6. Why? Because it is likely the oldest and most incompatible browser out there.

Ask any user who is not a Web developer or …

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Slight user interface changes

I'm currently testing shadows, radius and other CSS 3-specific features. Feel free to comment if you are experiencing problems with a browser in any OS. If you want to show me screenshots, please send them to me by e-mail.

This test excludes Internet Explorer 6 from …

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What are Brand Streams?

The following is part one of a three-part article series about Brand Streams.

A Brand Stream emerges when there is not just a single source involved in shaping a brand image, but the brand is also influenced by people participating in its experience. Those people …

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The birth of Brand Streams

About three years ago I was thinking a lot about brands, consumers and the reasons why they buy things. I started talking about people, not consumers, and gave my clients the advice to treat them as such. People, I said, want to be taken serious. They don't regard …

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Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime

Tweakfest goes retro

The only festival of its kind in German-speaking Switzerland, Tweakfest is a Zurich based geek event, a successful institution combining aspects of various media in one show. Traditionally, Tweakfest merges the ideas of game developers, Web designers, data analysis …

Life streams are the new blogs

In late 2001, early 2002, I was looking at MovableType for the first time. Published in October 2001 by a Californian couple, husband and wife, the MovableType framework looked like a promising alternative for blogging, compared to what I had been using until then, a …

Please stop sending job applications

As I said recently, I am no longer an operating business. Core as a company does not exist anymore, and I am not looking for inquiries or offers from designers, developers, Web companies or anything alike. Even when I was working for my own business, I could not hire …

Apple says: I don't know what else to do!

Brent Simmons, creator of NetNewswire for Web and iPhone, recently noted in his blog:

When I read that Apple's solution to the problem of the negative press around apps being rejected from the App Store was to add an NDA warning, I thought it was satire. It couldn't be …

Core is looking for a partner in development

Core is currently looking to team up with a developer, someone who can write proper XHTML, CSS 2 and 3, JavaScript and AJAX in his sleep.

There are a number of projects in the pipeline with which I'd like to start with rather soon. The concepts are there, what I need …

Craigslist is down

It looks like Craigslist has severe server issues. The site has been down partially for most of the day. It's possible to call up http://newyork.craigslist.org/, but it is impossible to post an ad or call up the original website, http://craigslist.org, hosted in the …

Catching up with writing

It's been a long time since I was able to post a blog entry. Due to my job at namics, it has become increasingly difficult to get my head free for the things that matter to me. I am not the type of person who divides work and life that much anyway, so the things that …

10 ways to get things done without the need for a GTD program

1. Be rigorous in sorting out what's worth following and spending time for and what not. There's a thousand things a day that will pile up minutes in wasted time.
2. Develop your own culture and stick to it. It's not a program, it's a direction.
3. Learn to utilize imperfection. …

Forget logos

A little more than a week ago I was asked to design a logo for a Web startup. It's a bookmarking service, quite similar to Diigo. I negotiated with my friend who had sent me the request, evaluating the process of branding. It would have been a low-budget job, so I …