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Alexa my Website Browser

January 31st, 2007 Jobe Roberts No comments
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Ok, so a web browser is what you look at web sites with and Alexa is used to browse a list of web sites. It's a great starting point to find out which sites are popular. Unfortunately, what I find one day just isn't there a few weeks later. If you find something good, ...

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Jetphoto easy to use and fun

January 30th, 2007 Jobe Roberts No comments
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Jetphoto is such a wonderful example of useful elegant software. It's a Mac OS X application which will let you manage your photo albums. It also lets you publish your albums to the web. It has just about everything going for it except for its awkward map feature. Instead I resort to BlockRocker.com which is far from ...

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DemoCamp3 – a wild success

January 29th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments

The Clock Tower was packed! Thanks so much to the camp organizers - these events are really starting to catch on. As usual - great demos... Nelson's world peace geo wiki was cool, Peter and Ian demoed their calendar app - which has great promise! Robert showed us a REALLY out of box demo ...

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Tom Green does Skype

January 29th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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So Tom Green has installed Skype and will be doing "Skype Pranks". Hey - what could be funnier than VoIP??? What's next - fun with iotum?

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John Roese’s Atom – good model for the wow factor

January 29th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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In his inaugaural blog post, the Nortel CTO published a great graphic descibing his strategy for executing on the company's vision. It's a good model - one that clearly shows that real value is acheived by focussing on the intersections of technology, channels, and product. [tags]John-Roese,Atom,Nortel[/tags]

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Industrial Design student key to innovation

January 29th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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As I've said before, the best Visual Interaction Designers come from Industrial Design schools! The latest evidence of that is Arjun Mehta. He's a 4th year Carleton student who has been with the CompanyXYZ lab since the spring. His innovation and dedication has been key in helping us create some exciting new ...

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Can your UI do PARKOUR?

January 27th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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If you don't know what Parkour is, read the wikipedia description below. The philosophy applies very well to software design - you should be building multiple paths for task completion. More redundancy is a GOOD thing! Everyone figures out their own shortcuts! If you're one of those stodgy, old-fashioned "software-as-a-product" types - Get with it! Parkour From ...

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Bones of Contention: Fetch 5.2??

January 27th, 2007 Baxter No comments
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Yeah I like fetching alright! Fetch has been around for decades... for Mac folks wanting to FTP! So, like woof - they're just releasing version 5.2????? yeesh. This is the earth shattering press release! January 8, 2007 Fetch 5.2 introduces WebView, adds FTPS support and Droplet Shortcuts San Francisco, CA -- Fetch Softworks ...

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DemoCamp3 – ad hoc venture fair?

January 26th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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Wow! DemoCamp is going to burst at the seams - with 50 people signed up and 7 demos planned! From an entrepreneur perspective, it's interesting that some of the attendees are representing Skypoint Capital, LaBarge Weinstein, VenturesWest, and Wesley Clover! Is this event turning into a mini venture fair? Nelson Ko, Citadel Rock ...

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