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Agile developers welcome the year of the pig!

December 31st, 2006 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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For those of us in the software business - particularly those employing Agile and Scrum management methodologies - we're looking forward to the Chinese New Year next month. Yep - it's the year of the pig! Until then, HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

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PeopleLink – the organic mobile user experience

December 31st, 2006 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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This was a concept that tried to break the rules of cell phone design. The industrial design was created by Laura Mahan. It featured a number of wearable options (shown here configured as a necklace.) The strap also embedded soundbeam-type speakers which provided private, headphone-less audio. The UI avoided the ...

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UI rant: Why directories fail

December 29th, 2006 Mitch Brisebois 1 comment
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Whether it's a buddy list, phone directory, or hosted contact manager - the UIs fail the user. Why? Because in all examples I can think of, the tool sucks the context right out of the directory items. Most force everybody into lists - alphabetical or most recent. Sure you can separate ...

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The VC machine: A tail of two logos

December 29th, 2006 Mitch Brisebois 5 comments
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Quiz time: which of these two logos cost nothing and the other $70,000USD??? When Jobe and I started anbiun- we spent very little money getting our pitch together for VCs. We designed our first logo ourselves. It served us well through two rounds of financing. ...

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Wikiasari unlike Google

December 27th, 2006 Jobe Roberts No comments
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A few weeks back I wrote a post about improving Google's search engine by allowing users to blackball search results. I surmised that allowing users to vote on the results would improve the search results. Now Jimmy Wales, the man behind Wikipedia plans to launch a new search engine named Wikiasari which will allow users ...

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The Economics of Lying: Getting Free Tech Magazines

December 21st, 2006 Mitch Brisebois 1 comment

Just like many of my tech friends, I subscribe to a number of great tech-related magazines. Some of my favorites include Baseline, e-Week, Information Week, Edge, IT Canada, Communications and Networking, Computing Canada, IT in Government, Small Times (nanotech) and those are just some of the print ones. Add to those the excellent ...

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Rogers identified as one provider getting IP-Telco right.

December 20th, 2006 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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There's a lot of talk about how incumbant telcos are rapidly losing ground because of internet-driven forces like Voice 2.0, and VoIP. STL Consultants, headed by Martin Geddes(Telco2.0 guru) has just released a study identifying trends that are disrupting the established industry. The main message is that "old-style" telcos can't shed their monopolistic ...

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Deja VoIP – part 3

December 18th, 2006 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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In the concluding chapter of my talk at BarCamp Ottawa2, I demonstrated the marvelous SoundBeam as part of the Great Technology, Horrible Products series. Here's Baxter wearing the infamous Nortel Neckset! The technology was awesome developed by a brilliant inventor, Andre Van Schindle. He modified the cones of speakers and messed around with some fancy phase ...

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Motivating Innovation: Cornell U. suggests “pay up!”

December 15th, 2006 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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Encouraging a sustained culture of innovation in any size company is a challenge. Beyond internal PR campaigns, and "HR motherhood statements", if there exists no tangible program to push innovation it just won't happen. Why not? Look the the basics of the psychology of work. A person is going to continue to do their job ...

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