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Today and yesterday I’ve spend another couple of hours coding and designing away on my (autistic) little project Wigitize.com. I’m keeping an exact log of the amount of hours I’m spending and what’s happening so I will publish some full-exposure articles about how to build a project like this.

Currently these are the things that still need to be done:

• enabling people to choose a style for their widget
• write a simple API and a page to show how it works
• optimize backend so that a background worker will be used
• allowing people to ‘grab the grabber’ so that they can offer widgets of their own content to their users
• renting a machine with bandwidth, I’m thinking of slicehost.com (much cheaper than EC2)
• rethinking the name WIGITIZE. It sounds good to my Dutch-English, but it might not for Natives.

Another little sneak preview:

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In the hotel I’m staying at now there are the usual little soap items. They claim to be Italian and therefore they have the text in both Italian and English:

Apart from the bad coloring, there is an obvious flaw in the most right one (the Shampoo): it says shampoo twice. Now, I know I’m really nitpicking this one thing and I might be wrong, but I really think the philosophy behind this is wrong. The current shift to value in attention requires us to limit the amount of information we display. That means radically stripping out all the unnecessary information. Also, the age of autistically organizing things into hierarchies if over. We contextualize now, so shampoo is just shampoo – not shampoo:shampoo because ‘we HAVE to show both languages’.

Perhaps I’m totally wrong and my mind is just corrupted with the programming heuristic of Don’t Repeat Yourself.