Comments on: Rising Trends in Web 2.0 http://blog.hanfordlemoore.com/2005/11/10/trends-in-web-20 User Interface , Art, Design, Games Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:05:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Rising Trends in Web 2.0 by: Hanford http://blog.hanfordlemoore.com/2005/11/10/trends-in-web-20#comment-3 Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:52:58 +0000 http://blog.hanfordlemoore.com/2005/11/10/trends-in-web-20#comment-3 Re: multi-sized lettering When I first saw it on Ning I wondered if it had something to do with it's popularity, but it's not entirely obvious. When Flock had it on their homepage, it was for static text, so it definitely was not for any particular reason. Re: multi-sized lettering

When I first saw it on Ning I wondered if it had something to do with it’s popularity, but it’s not entirely obvious. When Flock had it on their homepage, it was for static text, so it definitely was not for any particular reason.

]]> Comment on Rising Trends in Web 2.0 by: Humuhumu http://blog.hanfordlemoore.com/2005/11/10/trends-in-web-20#comment-2 Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:20:30 +0000 http://blog.hanfordlemoore.com/2005/11/10/trends-in-web-20#comment-2 I hear you, re: the hype. My approach is to keep an eye on the tools, and try 'em out if they're interesting, but especially if they actually make some [i]sense[/i]. At they end of the day, if they don't really help me learn more about the things I love, or get the word out to those who share my interests, then... meh. Move on. I try to not be attracted to an idea because of the buzz, but I also try to not be turned off by it, too. Re: the multi-sized lettering -- I agree that it's amateurish, but you know that it's not arbitrary, right? A number of websites have done it, as you mention -- typically, they're tags, and the larger ones have more information, or more traffic -- it's a way of displaying as many different tags as possible, while making those that are likely to be of the most interest stand out a bit. Again -- amateurish -- but at least they're playing around with different ways of displaying rich(ish) data in a simple, instantly-grasped form. I hear you, re: the hype. My approach is to keep an eye on the tools, and try ‘em out if they’re interesting, but especially if they actually make some [i]sense[/i]. At they end of the day, if they don’t really help me learn more about the things I love, or get the word out to those who share my interests, then… meh. Move on. I try to not be attracted to an idea because of the buzz, but I also try to not be turned off by it, too.

Re: the multi-sized lettering -- I agree that it’s amateurish, but you know that it’s not arbitrary, right? A number of websites have done it, as you mention -- typically, they’re tags, and the larger ones have more information, or more traffic -- it’s a way of displaying as many different tags as possible, while making those that are likely to be of the most interest stand out a bit. Again -- amateurish -- but at least they’re playing around with different ways of displaying rich(ish) data in a simple, instantly-grasped form.

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