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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I’ve been playing with Google’s patent search engine. It’s a nice alternative to the restrictive search provided by the US Patent and Trademark Office. As an added bonus, the main search page features “fun” patent drawings such as this one for the invention of the pocket protector - in 1903. Now that’s [...]
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