Your Flavor of the Web.
I posted a guest post on Alex Wilhelm’s blog about how companies will need to make their content easily available in near realtime so that others can style it. Here is an excerpt.
“Lets say someone just poured out a big bag of M&Ms onto the table for you and that person to share. Now, you decide to pick all the red M&Ms first from the pile. For some reason you just decide to take them all, even though there is no real difference behind them besides color. You perfer the red variation of the M&M of the blue variation. On the Internet, I think it is going to be a lot similar.
Many people perfer working in certain ways, and having certain visual aspects present. For instance, Windows allows you to change your background image, your screensaver, and many aspects of your machine that don’t really give you a benefit. Now sure, if you put a wallpaper of the Periodic Table of Elements on your background, it could help you if you deal with elements, but in general there isn’t much more than an asthetic effect. “
Read the full article here.
