It’s always a happy day when some of your hard work gets a little recognition. Ross Dawson over at ReadWriteWeb had compile an interesting list of the Top 60 Web 2.0 Apps in Australia.

3eep managed to make a Top 20 spot (coming in at number 19). Congratulations to Nick and Rob. A little recognition for all the hard work never goes astray.

We’ve been working steadily improving 3eep since its launch, adding lots of great features and improving user experience. It’s really only the beginning though. We are looking forward to helping push 3eep to greater heights in the coming months with lots of exciting things to be added.

For those with an eagle eye, you’ll probably notice we didn’t make the top 60. We don’t have any of our own syndeo::media branded Australian web2.0 apps, something we are planning on rectifying. While we don’t have anything to announce today, stay tuned for some interesting local apps coming soon.

Social interface design is becoming very important in the current development of the web. We are really only now discovering that our old assumptions are not always correct. As the web matures we start seeing that we have to look at our users differently. Its not just an individual but a whole ecosystem around that individual that needs to be considered.

Bokardo has a great post with gives a very clear idea of the changing landscape…

Gone are the days of traditional usability testing. Almost all testing assumes that 1) people want to use your software and 2) people use your software alone. Each of these things is becoming less true every day. There’s so much software! A much bigger problem, at this point in time, is how to get people and the social groups of which they are a part interested and keep them interested in your software.

You’re not convincing just one person, you’re convincing one person and all their friends.

November 14th is World Usability Day, Luis and I will be speaking at De La Salle.

Details below.

Manila Events:
De La Salle University (940am-12nn)
Venue: Y407-409, DLSU Manila

• Hans Koch & Luis Buenaventura – Web 2.0 and Usability


• Dr. Lloyd Espiritu – Usability Engineering

a. Desire lines
b. Heat map
c. Keyword usability
d. User at the center

a. Context and Purpose
b. Designing for a specific demographic
c. Responding to User Feedback

Some interesting thinking on web2.0. Are we moving on from the age of Web enlightenment into the post modern web? Are the clichéd terms like Web 2.0 just the start of the transition?

Enlightenment thinking was clear and organized. There were disagreements amongst the thinkers of the Era, but the Era itself was definable. Post-modernism cannot be defined except by saying what it is not. It is not modern; it is what came after the Enlightenment. “Web 2.0” suffers from the same malaise. People across the globe are publishing countless articles and books to try to define Web 2.0, but like its underpinning philosophy, it is not easily defined. In fact, to put it into a box would be to contradict its very nature.

Nice to see a some different thought on the present and future of this medium.