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Steve Pugh <SteveP185>


I live in South London and work as the Senior Web Developer on VisitLondon.com. When not building web sites at work I do it as a hobby. I have an extremely lovely wife, but seemingly still need a life.

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London
Steve Pugh's URL
http://www.bebo.com/SteveP185
Member Since
August 2007

Steve Pugh says:
"Another day, another social networking site..." (53 weeks ago) me too!

Music
Tanita Tikaram, Adam Ant, Cerys Matthews, Moxy Früvous, Traveling Wilburys, Garbage, Catatonia, Pulp, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Zutons, We Are Scientists, Buzzcocks, Fun Lovin' Criminals
Films
Alien, Aliens, Blade Runner, Star Wars, Serenity, The Lord of the Rings, Hot Fuzz, 300, The Usual Suspects, Underworld
Sports
Rugby
TV Shows
Doctor Who, CSI, The Sopranos, House, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Life on Mars, Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Big Love, Blakes 7, Babylon 5, Angel, Coupling, Green Wing, Black Books, Spaced, Farscape, The West Wing, The Shield, Coupling, Black Books, Green Wing, QI
Books
Ash, Guns Germs and Steel, The Ancestor's Tale, The Dinosaur Heresies, Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell, The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, the Aubrey-Maturin series, Iain Banks
Interests
archaeology, astronomy, astrophysics, beer, cartography, cats, computer games, dinosaurs, dissing croydon, effortless superiority, evolution, falsifying statistics, hating coldplay, heraldry, history, kick ass babes, maps, megafauna, miniatures, more beer, mythology, pedantry, photography, physics, pirates, pub quizzes, pubs, puzzle pirates, real ale, role playing games, rugby, science, science fiction, sleeping, spaceships, the www, usability, wales, wargames.

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First Impressions
So, signed up to Bebo and what do I think?

In looks it's a classic Web 2.0 site - big chunky navigation, rounded corners, bold colours combined with subtle fades, lots of white space.

Signing up was easy. The profile had just about the right mix between preset fields and flexible fields that you can customise as you like (or cut and paste directly from Facebook, which I cut and pasted more or less directly from LiveJournal and so on...)

But there seems to be a walled garden approach. There's nowhere on my profile where I can enter the URL of my web site (it's http://steve.pugh.net) and it lacks the one feature that really sold Facebook to me - the ability to import my blog RSS feed so that I can update my main blog (http://www.stevepugh.net/VTT) and have the posts appear automatically on my Facebook profile.

There are also far fewer of my friends already signed up than on Facebook, MySpace, Last.FM, LinkedIn or LiveJournal. And no "Also on..." feature that lets me list my membership of all these other network memberships.

Sorry, but my online presence is widespread and diffuse and any
site that doesn't join the party is going to get left out.

So, okay design, good usability, but poor networking. Probably not a keeper.
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John Collins
To all firefly fans, check out my Browncoats group. it aint much now, but it's getting bigger!
53 weeks ago
 
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