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What were they thinking?

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Google Maps traffic is really nice. I love the time estimates that take traffic into account. BUT why, why did they decide to use green/yellow/red/black? To those of us (a sizable percentage of men) with red/green color blindness it is very difficult to tell (especially on a mobile device in sunlight) the difference between green red and black. (yahoo maps does the same thing, except with those little circles, for me the red and green look the same). There must be a better way.

Here here

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

The iphone is not breaking the web. As Joe Hewitt notes, the “iphone only” sites are raising the bar for mobile web apps. As other devices catch up with apple everyone will benefit.