SensoryMetrics: re-inventing the User eXperience

Flixster.com is a movie database / social networking mashup. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a site like this get swallowed by Amazon or the like. Flixster is a wonderful environment with a very targeted purpose - sharing your opinion about movies with your social network.

Can you remember when we had to choose between buying [...]

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Fresh off the USPTO press - Cisco published a patent application this morning titled System and method for changing network behavior based on presence information.
A system and method for changing network behavior based on presence information includes detecting one or more presence indicators. The one or more presence indicators indicate presence information. An electronic persistent [...]

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ok… we’ll stop writing about iPhone…soon. SM friend Peter Krug points us to iPhoney - a browser simulation tool from Markham Ontario based MarketCircle. The simulator is free and open-source. It only runs on Mac OS X 10.4.7 and up. What can you do with it?

Test your iPhone-enabled Web 2.0 applications [...]

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Just listening to this long painful iPhone keyboard video from Apple, I really feel that there’s no way I’m giving up my trusty keyboard! “If you’re good enough, you can master two thumbs!” Why would I give up eight fingers? Would it be because I’m not going to be using my keyboard very often with [...]

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Of course usability is not just important for software and old Chrysler automobiles…it’s also critical for ghost tracking equipment! Suppose it’s late at night and you’re alone in some drafty deserted mansion - you don’t want to be fumbling around with the user guide for your handy 3-axis digital gaussmeter! Worse yet you [...]

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While product usability is all the rage right now, it’s rare that you’ll see it mentionned in mainstream media ad campaigns. I’m not sure why. Back in the glory days of magazine ads and the consumer revolution of the 40-50s, ease of use was often touted as a key differentiator - especially when [...]

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Ok, for all you crafty developers out there, here’s a great product opportunity - after the fact digital camera sensor dust clean. Let’s say you have some dust on your camera’s CMOS sensor. Of course, we all know how to clean the sensor having read articles like this one. However, what if you’ve just come [...]

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If the Facebook open API is any indication, LinkedIn’s announced app platform should generate a lot of interest from developers. Granted, most of the Facebook apps are a bit “juvenile” - although I can appreciate the satisfaction of biting your old boss and turning him / her into a brain eating zombie! What [...]

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At last count there’s over 1000 entries in Facebook’s app directory since it launched it’s platform. So out of a thousand there’s bound to be good ones, right? Here’s my favourite (at least this minute.) Zombie. It’s a game of sorts - you just go out and bite your [...]

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Well you might find this spam funny (if you weren’t a dog!!!)
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