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Have your iCake and eat it too

July 31st, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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There seems to be a whiff of competitive cake-making on Flickr... who can make the best iphone cake?? So far DebbieDoesCakes has the best entry! There are a lot more pictures of Blackberry cakes - but then they're MADE from blackberries... It also appears that iphone cakes are much harder ...

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aWOWtrip: What goes down in Vegas, stays in Vegas

July 31st, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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Yesterday, I was thinking to myself, "I wish there were more dating websites, no?" Perhaps I was thinking aloud because the jolly folks at aWOWtrip launched their new dating site today. They have an interesting twist - it's aimed at meeting people while you're travelling. You can search for travellers ...

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Lactose Tolerant: Jugs, Pouches & Cartons

July 31st, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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There's been growing pressure in the US and the UK for getting rid of hard plastic jugs as milk containers. There's also the growing popularity of buying milk in glass bottles - just like the old days! Some UK dairies are looking to Canada for packaging ideas. Since the 70s most of ...

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Snooty Snooth talks to your Facebook wino friends

July 30th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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Snooth has a database of millions of wines, and today they're launching a wine recommendation application on Facebook (in beta of course). The press release describes their proprietary technology: Snooth analyzes a user's unique set of interactions with the site and, using its powerful recommendation engine, leverages this digital fingerprint to generate highly-personalized wine ...

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Roxanne Cialis has accepted your LinkedIn invitation

July 30th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 4 comments
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Jobe and the rest of the planet are getting spam e-cards - putting that entire industry at risk. I'm also starting to get fake Classmates notices. What's next? Someone writing "Get bigger, longer lasting ********" on my Facebook wall? Every fake online pharmacy accepting my LinkedIn invitations? What about Twitter... ...

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How Spam has deteriorated the web User eXperience

July 28th, 2007 Jobe Roberts No comments

For the past three weeks I've been getting spam email with the subject "greeting card sent to you.." Of course, as soon as you open the email, it's evident that it's an IP address link (HIGH ALERT FOR PIRATE ATTACK!) So, I've been ignoring them, and guess what, the byproduct is that I'll ...

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Predominant use of scary visual advertising in your UX is bad for your health

July 28th, 2007 Jobe Roberts No comments
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I know, you'd think most of us would be able to easily ignore ads on a web page by now. Most of us are able to ignore those odd Google ad links, but the 'in your face' flashy visual advertisements are competing with the purpose of your site (unless your purpose is primarily ...

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Shoe Pure: The stinky footwear eXperience

July 27th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 1 comment
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With man and with woman as for of shoes source of trouble Coming out of Japan, this unique product makes sense - simply pull out the holding racks, hang your shoes and the "Shoe Pure PURE 100" (so pure, ya gotta say it twice) zaps some ozone into them for a refreshing purification! As a ...

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Grandparents.com: Inevitable Social Segmentation

July 27th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 2 comments
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It had to come... Launching this fall is this grand social net site. There doesn't even appear to be a closed beta going on. I guess these folks have a solid business plan because TheAlarmClock reports Grandparents.com just got funded by Laser Partners and is now headed by Jerry Shereshewsky - a ...

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