SensoryMetrics: re-inventing the User eXperience

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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As a Product designer, one of the first things I do in planning the “architecture” of software is nail down the colour palette - that’s the range of colours developers will use, and the guidelines for using them. The magic of colour palettes isn’t just for software though - it’s for all products, [...]

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