Have you ever noticed those little things that happen on your daily life that aren’t the same as the life of another person on another culture? Let’s have an example:

“Dirty clothes – Laundry Machine – Clean Clothes”

Our culture understand the process above like this: We’ve some dirty clothes, we put it on the laundry machine and the result is clean clothes.
But what about other cultures? Maybe they understand this: You’ve clean clothes, you put it on a laundry machine and the result is dirty clothes. ( They’re going to be like WTF? I’m not going to buy that thing called “laundry machine” )

Having said that, we can’t make a good platform if we’re not thinking globally. Let’s have an example using Facebook:

This is what we see when we enter to Facebook’s site and in the right hand, what other cultures see.

What’s the big deal? The way we read is different. So that, facebook said:

“Ok, we’ve to try that people from around the globe understand the same thing on our platform”

We can see this “cultural thing” on other websites, let’s try twitter.

As you can see on the picture above, there’s a reason why people (like me) don’t read some tweets. It’s based on how we read.
1- We see the profile picture and identify the person.
2 – You check the name of the person (just in case it’s a RT)
3 – You see the tweet.

The problem is when the person haven’t a professional/nice profile picture or has the default twitter egg. The profile picture is something important for so many reasons, one of those reason, a presentation card.

In conclusion, developing a platform or a software, it’s not a piece of cake, there’re so many things that should be taken in consideration for designing a good one. We always have to remember one thing, think globally but act locally.

It’s a good practice to start thinking in different ways or to open your mind to new possibilities. That’s cool. What are we looking forward when we do things like that? Many times we want to make things more simple.

Have you ever noticed that you’re tweeting and suddenly you see:

@ArlesPinzon: Yep RT @example: are you coming tonight?

How can we make that “Nothing RT @example what are you doing? RT @ArleSPinzon fine RT @example fine and you? RT @ArleSPinzon…” something easier and less annoying using the powerful #newtwitter functions? piece of cake.

When you’re tweeting you’ll see something like this:

What if I want to answer @Nunniee but I want everyone to know what we were talking about? Use the #newtwitter features!

Click on reply, then make sure that the username of the person you’re answering to is after a character. Look at the example:

When you do that, you’re creating a connection between the tweets, so they’re going to be linked.

After you do that, the rest of the twitteruniverse should see not only what you answer but the tweet you’re answering to.

Like this:

Voila! ;D

For those who haven’t seen it yet (like me) @Youtube introduced last July a new space on @youtube site.

It’s called: Leanback

What’s leanback? Leanback is like your own channel (designed by you), in which you can see videos based on your preferences without the youtube layout bothering you.

It’s a site that has been designed for the @Google TVs and any other wide screen internet surfing capable.

Here’s how it works:

Cool isn’t it?

@Microsoft is releasing its new product called “Windows 7 Phone” the self-branded Phone from the Software Giant.

The commercial say something like “It’s time for a phone to save us from our phones” – I mean, REALLY?

Would it be more addictive that the one that are actually on the market? Honestly I don’t think so.

I believe that @Microsoft should have done a more interesting release. When back on 2007 a cellphone was just that, “a phone you can carry on, share pictures and music with Bluetooth" apple introduces a multi-touch device with different apps, Bluetooth, camera, music, wi-fi, etc breaking some of the paradigms of that year. Why Microsoft couldn't do something like that?

What do you think?

Microsoft, you can do it best.