SensoryMetrics: re-inventing the User eXperience

SM friend Tom D’ sent us this fun error dialog! Since Outlook is working so hard at conflict resolution, maybe we could send it to Afghanistan…

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Normally you try to design web pages so that users don’t need to scroll down to view important information or buttons… The site Visuals of the World takes the opposite approach - it’s trying to become the world’s longest page by collecting images from users - it just appends them to the bottom. [...]

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There are two ways of ensuring customer loyalty: 1. Provide excellent services so that the customer continually chooses to do business with you, or 2. Lock them in and treat them like inmates if they misbehave. For Microsoft, number 2 is the strategy of choice when it comes to their Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) [...]

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I was forwarded a job listing for a Vancouver-based software startup last week… In the post read “420 Friendly”… huh? Thankfully the Urban Dictionary solved my mystery…
This is a way to express the acceptance of smoking pot or accepting somone who does so, without overtly mentioning pot or marijuana.

Tags: 420friendly, urban-dictionary, [...]

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The countdown is on to show off your Apple-geek selves! Tomorrow (August 29th), PodBrix releases a “lego-like” playset featuring the young Woz and Jobs. Pictured circa 1972, Jobs is even dreaming of a future iPhone… It seems these days you can now sell absolutely anything related to Apple and easily get the [...]

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A lot of people read Seth Godin’s blog - it ranks under 10k in technorati. If you don’t read it - here’s a repost from 2003 that should convince you to bookmark it and buy the books. The post on the scarcity economy is so absolutely right-on. Look [...]

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Created by a few Australian bloggers, the action day - October 15, 2007 - is meant to unite bloggers in discussing environmental issues from the perspective of their particular expertise. So far there are 2,976 blogs signed up, including SensoryMetrics. Only a month and a half left to think of some [...]

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This month’s Goofiest USB gadget award goes to Japanese company Thanko for their USB-powered cooling necktie … I can’t image anyone seriously wearing this thing to work! (maybe to your brother-in-law’s wedding!)

via: everythingusb.com
Tags: usb, gadgets, necktie
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So everyone by now knows about disgraced NFL star Michael Vick’s guilty plea for dog fighting. Some Canadian vets around Toronto are using Facebook to hammer home the cruelty to animals message… They’re asking anyone with Vick licensed items (sweatshirts, tees etc) to mail them to them for use as “cage lining”… [...]

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We stumbled upon this eBay store (strangely because this blog was getting referred traffic from it…) It’s a simple new age store selling the usual magic crystals that guarantee you money, love and well-being. No sane individual should go out the door without their crystals on… They also sell variants of hieronymous [...]

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