My twitter stream blew up yesterday with tweet after tweet about Bill Gates, his new website and twitter status. People are excited for a new twitterer, love the blog, hate the blog, think it looks like apple, think it looks like microsoft, too small, too big…. a whole lot of opinions. In the end, check it out for yourself. I have attached some screen shots below as well as my opinion after the jump!
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In case you can’t read that, his welcome note says:
Welcome to the Gates Notes
Since leaving my fulltime job at Microsoft to dedicate more time to our foundation, a lot of people have asked me what I’m working on. It often feels like I’m back in school, as I spend a lot of my time learning about issues I’m passionate about.
I’m fortunate because the people I’m working with and learning from are true experts in their fields. I take a lot of notes, and often share them and my own thoughts on the subject with others through email, so I can learn from them and expand the conversation.
I thought it would be interesting to share these conversations more widely with a website, in the hope of getting more people thinking and learning about the issues I think are interesting and important. So, welcome to the Gates Notes.
My opinion: I love the literal white space and effective use of color. It has a very fresh, clean and modern look. Best part, it doesn’t look like he is trying to hard. I do agree that the type is a little too small. I can read it fine enough but I am in my 20′s and with a large screen, his target demo might have a rougher time than I do. I have also heard that the coding is a bit sloppy, but as I am no expert who am I to say! Overall, I really enjoy the first impression and look forward to seeing how he continues to report and update it. As for twitter, I don’t plan on following but you go Bill!
