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Plenty of Fish (part 1): Founder Markus Frind web2.0/UX SUPERSTAR

February 28th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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Matt just posted a terrific overview of the amount of work, money and foresight it took SiGe to become a "Chip-Champ". His main point was that success does not come easy. That brought to mind the FASCINATING Canadian web2.0 success story that also highlights that the right mix of business model and design can make you ...

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Pimp my Mobile: paint your own phone!

February 28th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 2 comments
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If you used to assemble plastic model cars as a kid (or adult), you'll remember those great little bottles of Testors acrylic paints. I was thinking of those little bottles while looking at DoCoMo's line of kids' phones available in Japan: lots of fun colors! It would be nice to get a ...

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New Microsoft patent “relieves” the mobile user

February 27th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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Last week, Microsoft was granted US patent 7,180,987: "System, method, and apparatus for tracking on-call activity." In it, they refer our Call Context patent. Microsoft's main claim is that mobile user A can attach some data to a voice call made to mobile user B. User B can then see that ...

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Sybil: Does your UI have multiple personalities?

February 26th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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Back at anbiun, our main product focus was to build a suite of tools to allow end users of a web site to "choose their experience". The working name was Sybil - named after the book. This past week, Jobe has been experimenting with this blog to allow our readers to ...

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Sigmund Freud: Ego-less design for better products

February 25th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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One of Freud's big legacies is to popularize the notion of the ego. Out of context, in 2007, ego has become a BAD thing. But Freud intended to represent the ego as a participant in a person's ecosystem of checks and balances. There's three big forces keeping people from going crazy: the ...

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Monetizing blogging: dnScoop’s crystal ball

February 25th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 4 comments
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So we get asked a lot lately why we bother blogging... Does it make you any money? No. Because you've got nothing else to do? Big No. Because it gets you invited to swanky celeb parties? huh, No. Right now, it's more of a karma, technology, and marketing brain gym. As for the monetizing part - ...

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Side-swipped blogger pontihacked

February 23rd, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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ok - so no mitch-posts today. bad day. my crappy car died and has been declared DOA! My usual 85 km commute was cut short to the nearest hotel... thanks to Jobe for bailing me out! UPDATE: Maggie Fox tells us about Pontiac's new "social media site" - Pontiac Underground (BETA, no ...

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Today’s Software Patent battle: Microsoft vs AT&T, Bush vs Clinton

February 22nd, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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The latest patent law sideshow is now playing out in a Washington DC court. Here's the 30 second version: Microsoft stole IBM's method for compressing audio and built in into their OS. Microsoft admits it's wrong - but only in the US. Internationally, Microsoft takes it's source code (burnt on a special ...

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Is your flight mode turned on, or are you just glad to see me???

February 22nd, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 2 comments
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This is a great example of bad UI impacting support costs. Unbeknownst to me, my IPAQ 6500 turned on its flight mode. That's when the radio is turned off, but the device still works as a pda. My IPAQ has a habit of doing things on its own. Unfortunately there's no ...

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