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Fun For Everyone: Your User Experience will eventually be discarted

May 31st, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 1 comment
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One of my favourite blogs is Heathervescent - by an L.A. based ajax guru. She points us to a great web site dedicated to the discarted. I love this picture. It's a great poster for UX design. Even when you get it right - eventually it will wear out. User ...

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QiGo: highly targetted key-based web site access

May 30th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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All things virtual are not always the most satisfying user experiences. A biometric iris scan to start your car wouldn't be the same as a satisfying turn of the key. Do you remember those big tower PCs that had a key for security? What about a physical key for a website? Along ...

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Asylum 2.0: How to deal with your wacko-users

May 29th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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So what would you do if your favourite web 2.0 app decided to cancel your registration and block you from the service? Call the FBI??? We just got a comment from "Shawn" on an older post about Vancouver-based dating site Plenty of Fish. The writer's 2-page rant describes how he's been "unfairly banned" since Independance Day ...

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Where 2.0 Conference: O’Reilly trademarks “where”

May 29th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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Now that O'Reilly owns the trademark to Web 2.0, they're going after all of the W5!! Where 2.0 launches today in San Jose. It's a conference dedicated to location-based services. There's lots of web 2.0 mash-ups including Quakr, loopt, Weogeo, Nearby Now, and Botanicalls... As an interesting sidenote - many of the speakers are user ...

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Stanley Cup Game 1: The Stephen Stills anthem experience

May 28th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 1 comment
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Ok - I'm a big Neil Young fan. Didn't mind Crosby Stills Nash & Young either. But YIKES - what a rendition of the US national anthem by Stephen Stills. He sure could have used some harmonies to smooth things over! Can't really complain though - he remembered the words! Well, Stephen, I'm lovin' the one ...

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Cluztr: Share your clickstream

May 28th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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Following up from the last post, it's perhaps ironic that this startup HQs from the city that also hosts the RCMP and The Canadian Security Intelligence Service... Spy vs Spy is as common as tulips here in Ottawa. But as they say... if you've got nothing to hide, why not share it. That's the ...

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the alarm clock: Canada’s TOP Web 2.0 startups

May 28th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 8 comments
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In a great tip to Canadian technology and entrepreneurs, the alarm clock published a list celebrating top up and comers and current success stories. With the assistance of B5's Mark Evans - these are the companies to watch! Toronto's Extend media (video ASP) Kelowna's Club Penguin (tween social net) Vancouver's EQO (mobile IM) Montreal's Weblo (virtual world economy) Montreal's OZ ...

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Task Architect: Tools for designing complex software

May 28th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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If you've got a complex UI to architect - you know that organizing, prioritizing, and updating tasks can be daunting. This is especially challenging when many use cases intersect, or have dependant behaviours. Task Architect - an Ottawa company specializing in designing human factors tools has the solution in its task analysis software. The latest .net ...

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Gartner’s UI future: Environmentally-aware social interfaces

May 27th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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Gartner is well-known for its analysis of technology's impact on business. They rarely consider the user interface. But it seems the UI is becoming more "business-critical". They recently* published an overview titled "The Evolving User Interface From Graphical UI to Environmental UI". It's an interesting hypothesis - though perhaps a tad ...

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