Undo UI

Nothing beats a good undo (unless it's a redo).

My boss showed me Netflix's UI for undoing the removal of a movie from the queue. When the user clicks on the X to remove the movie, the line item greys out with a message that the movie has been removed and an Undo link in the far right column. Clicking the Undo link simply restores the line item for that movie. Gone is the modal window to confirm whether this is really what you wanted to do or not.



The only other examples I've seen so far are from Remember the Milk and Google Gmail which make use of a page-level undo when you remove items from your list or inbox. Instead, Netflix's model uses it as an inline action. Both are fine implementations and I suspect it's an element we can expect to see soon on other sites.

Switching from Firefox to Chrome

On the sole basis of memory usage, I'm switching to Google Chrome--for now. I find that even with only 1 add-on, Firefox uses up about twice as much memory as IE7 and about 3 times as much as Chrome.

Don't get me wrong, I love FF but it just comes down to a matter of productivity. I'm tired of sitting at my computer waiting on processes because of FF acting like a memory hog.

Hopefully FF is able to fix this problem. :(

Mario Kart Love Song (Original)

Trying out the YouTube blog feature.

+1 for YouTube's integrated-with-3rd-party-blog feature. When I come across a cool video, I don't need to spend time copying the embed code, navigating over to my blog, creating a new post, etc. I can just blog straight from the video I'm watching.

Figuring out where to access this feature was the hard part... Sure, it makes sense now, but since I wasn't familiar with all of YouTube's social networking aspects, I was left scratching my head. So for all of you who don't know, it's located under the "Share" section on the video page. Just click on the link to your blog's title and a little blog widget opens up. DUH.

Coming full circle now, here's my recommendation to YouTube: Include copy on the Blog Setup page telling users where they can access this feature. Thanks, the invoice is in the mail!