BlogBloghttp://www.b2w.com/blog/2010-09-06T13:16:58ZSquarespaceNew user interface and ajax client with KPI dashboardhttp://www.b2w.com/blog/2010/8/27/new-user-interface-and-ajax-client-with-kpi-dashboard.htmlB2W webmaster2010-08-27T12:10:11Z2010-08-27T12:10:11ZAktiv Kapital, a leading Nordic player in the 3rd party debt collection industry, launches a new, slick ajax client for their corporate clients. Case management and messaging with legacy IT infratructure server-side is delivered in a intuitive and simple ajax client. B2W designed the user interface and worked with a Swedish developer team to provide a single screen interface to a rather complicated and rich application. The result is an elegant and effective tool with build-in KPI dashboard.

The process included a couple of workshops with the application owner, their business development consultant in addition to the backend and frontend developer. We went straight to Photoshop dummies and pixel perfect prototypes to provide a tool for detailed decision making and hands-on UX testing before too much effort was put into coding.

]]>Youtube channel ownershiphttp://www.b2w.com/blog/2010/5/29/youtube-channel-ownership.htmlB2W webmaster2010-05-29T06:20:37Z2010-05-29T06:20:37ZBusinesses explore popular social media platforms, and as a consequence experience some ID management trouble. The lack of group administration and ID administration functionality in general on these platforms could get you into trouble if your employee (or even worse, freelancer) used his/her ID to establish the account.


The way to do it:

  • Establish at least two company roles for social media (webmaster and editor)
  • Establish an account for each on each platform (aternatively, use an openID setup)
  • Establish the pages/channels/groups you need using the appropriate account
  • Manage the asset by delegating the login (e.g. socialeditor@company.com)

Even better:

  • Do the same on a theme domain (e.g. my_industry_topic.com) to insulate the activity from the corporate identity or..
  • Mandate an agency (e.g. say.biz) to deliver both content and community management
]]>Video hostinghttp://www.b2w.com/blog/2010/4/16/video-hosting.htmlB2W webmaster2010-04-16T09:22:10Z2010-04-16T09:22:10ZSelecting the platform depends on your needs for sharing (bandwidth) and access control, and the budget.

Some candidates:
http://www.ooyala.com/
http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/
http://www.brightcove.com/
http://vzaar.com/
http://www.kyte.com/
http://www.youtube.com/

Among services that can not be used for business purposes due to their terms of service or technical reasons are Vimeo and Flikr.

Samples:

Youtube


vzaar:

Vimeo

]]>Storyboard the page-load and page-paint processeshttp://www.b2w.com/blog/2010/3/18/storyboard-the-page-load-and-page-paint-processes.htmlB2W webmaster2010-03-18T12:18:15Z2010-03-18T12:18:15Z"As web pages get richer, they tend to get slower. One way to make your pages as responsive as possible is to carefully storyboard the page-load and page-paint processes so that the interactions most central to the page's purpose are enabled as early as possible." (YDN)

The application is put together in the browser, while you start using it:)

 

]]>Welcome to our new site!http://www.b2w.com/blog/2009/8/7/welcome-to-our-new-site.htmlB2W webmaster2009-08-07T15:12:06Z2009-08-07T15:12:06ZWe are in the process of moving our clients to a completely new technical platform. We continue to build sites based on the YUI framwork from Yahoo, mail solutions from Google, file storage resources from Amazon and a range of specialized best-of-breed online services.

Cloud computing resources now make up almost all parts of our platform, dramatically simplifying our systems management. Our development efforts are now concentrated on integration and widgets. For consultancy services and creative projects, we work with Say Pr & Communications AS, www.say.biz

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