{"id":78,"date":"2007-11-30T17:59:16","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T16:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmachine1.dh.bytemark.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/11\/30\/the-rest-of-the-world-is-not-like-us\/"},"modified":"2007-11-30T18:26:23","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T17:26:23","slug":"the-rest-of-the-world-is-not-like-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2007\/11\/30\/the-rest-of-the-world-is-not-like-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The rest of the world is not like us&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Chen has <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewchen.typepad.com\/andrew_chens_blog\/2007\/11\/do-you-ever-say.html\">a great post on how people use Facebook and why MySpace pages are so ugly<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I particularly liked the straightforward comparison between the opposing viewpoints on design, i.e.:<\/p>\n<p>Facebook \/ Google \/ &#8220;modern&#8221; web companies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Simple, Functional, Easy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Myspace \/ GeoCities \/ &#8220;poorly designed&#8221; web presences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lots of options &#8211; perceived as complicated<\/li>\n<li>Entertaining &#8211; perceived as lacking a point<\/li>\n<li>Layers of complexity &#8211; perceived as difficult<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So. Scrapbooking. A $2.5 Billion industry, huh? Serious food for thought for game designers trying to think up ways to take advantage of Web 2.0, but struggling to break out of the boring &#8220;chat&#8221;, &#8220;friends lists&#8221;, and &#8220;character pages&#8221; ideas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Chen has a great post on how people use Facebook and why MySpace pages are so ugly I particularly liked the straightforward comparison between the opposing viewpoints on design, i.e.: Facebook \/ Google \/ &#8220;modern&#8221; web companies: Simple, Functional, Easy Myspace \/ GeoCities \/ &#8220;poorly designed&#8221; web presences: Lots of options &#8211; perceived as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}