One of my pet projects oboeyasui.com is down. My service provider just turned it off without any notice. It is the first time I have had a site become so popular (apparently a million hits a day) that it got shut down. So I don’t know whether to feel extremely sad or just normal sad.
I [...]

Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Ian Cheung
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Here’s the video of the presentation I gave on Information Architecture at the Apple Store, Osaka.  You’ll need QuickTime to view it but most people who have iTunes installed should have QuickTime.  It is about an hour long and your comments are most welcome.
Information Architecture – How to improve your web site in 30 minutes [...]

Posted on October 25th, 2007 by Ian Cheung
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[If you attended please leave a comment below, good or bad. Tell me what you thought of it, what you liked or disliked about it or just a thumbs up or down]
I gave a presentation on Information Architecture earlier this week at the Apple Store in Shinsaibashi. It was the first time in [...]

Posted on September 23rd, 2007 by Ian Cheung
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An interesting platform is Habari which is aiming to be the next gen blogging platform of choice.  At first glance it is just another piece of blogging software in the world dominated by WordPress, Moveable Type and others.  I took one look at it and thought “nothing much to see here”.  BUT…
Upon hearing that [...]

Posted on August 21st, 2007 by Ian Cheung
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Here’s something that I implement in passwords, verification emails and if I programmed captcha I would without fail do. Remove all ambiguous characters from the captchas you generate. It is ridiculously simple to do. Less than 30 seconds editing of an array and it will save hundreds of mistyped/misinterpreted verifications and [...]

Posted on June 10th, 2007 by Ian Cheung
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