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- November 2008 (24)
- 02: DNA-Based Social Networks: Googleribonucleic acid? (1)
- 03: Freshly Squeezed in Florida: Nude voting! (0)
- 03: Oops, I wanted to vote, really!! (0)
- 04: ya know, that’s not a bad idea! (1)
- 05: What a difference a century makes (0)
- 06: Social Justice Meets UX (0)
- 07: Whatever happened to Kathy Sierra? (1)
- 07: Measuring the User Experience (3)
- 07: Bacon Girls, Bacon Flash Drives, and Bacon Air! (0)
- 07: Product Naming Blues: Sixent, Workamajig, Publishit, Nahalem (7)
- 10: Greening the Poppy (1)
- 10: Starbucks’ Social Net: Golden ideas in action (1)
- 10: Where did Hi-Fi go? (0)
- 11: Goodnight John, Goodnight Nortel, Goodnight Moon… (0)
- 11: If the cap fits… (0)
- 12: DemoCamps & Evil Peanut Butter (1)
- 13: Vista 350 Telephone: Remembering when “Vista” was a good thing… (0)
- 13: Holographic Fireworks to Help You Find Your Car (0)
- 13: Don’t Blink: Today is World Usability Day! (0)
- 14: Rice Speaks: Re-inventing the USA (0)
- 17: The Universe is Watching (0)
- 18: Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me (0)
- 18: More Missing Apple Applications (0)
- 18: Old Dog, New Tricks: A startup primer, Nov. 24th (0)
- October 2008 (34)
- 01: Driving Me Batty: Why isn’t anybody re-inventing the coffee maker? (0)
- 01: RjDj on iPhone: Your very own personal drugged-out soundtrack (0)
- 02: Apple re-invents the cursor (again) (0)
- 02: Plaid, Twitter & Sprint: Tweet topples terrible telephone tab (0)
- 03: Logo Disaster: France’s trans-gendered moose-cow (0)
- 03: Ecuador Re-invents Constitution: Introduces Bill of Rights for Nature (1)
- 06: Woof Water: Stay away from the chihuahua if you’ve got a peanut allergy! (2)
- 06: Are You a Pinocchio Environmentalist? (5)
- 07: Neuro-Design: Where brain science and product design meet (0)
- 07: Breakfast Innovations for a Post-Sub-Prime World (0)
- 08: National Do Not Call List a Big Web Success (0)
- 09: Viral Explosion via YouTube Failed! (2)
- 09: New Microsoft Patent Application Targets Google Ads (0)
- 09: 2009 Trademark Expo: Are you a Doughboy groupie? (0)
- 09: SeaMonkey Browser for CodeMonkeys (0)
- 11: The Environment? Poverty?? Get out of your house, not your car! (0)
- 13: Buying and Selling Frog Futures: Re-inventing your pathetic mortgage-broker career (1)
- 14: Hot Lab Study: Playing Brain Age doesn’t improve password recall (0)
- 14: New Parking Meter Technology: Good for city pirates, bad for drivers (0)
- 14: Eeyore Saves the American Economy! (1)
- 17: Zack & Miri Make a Startup (0)
- 20: Yahoorrific: The bubble is bursting for social media (0)
- 20: bOKnow: Another VoIP bites the dust (1)
- 20: Redecorating Your Online Store? Get an art director (1)
- 21: Johnson Controls: Designing creative work spaces for millennium babies (0)
- 21: ZOMBIE-Camp: Looking for BrAiNz (1)
- 23: GoogleJuice is bad for US democracy (1)
- 26: The Tyranny of Cheap Nuts (0)
- 27: If You Like Headless Frogs, You’ll Love Black & Decker! (0)
- 28: Embedded With Microsoft: Quebec sparks will fly (1)
- 29: Intel’s Next Internet: 6 anthropological perspectives (2)
- 29: Forrester Announces Groundswell Social Media Winners for 2008 (1)
- 30: Geek Wine: 480 Mbit/s & 20% alcohol (0)
- 31: I Am Barbie the Barbarian (1)
- September 2008 (14)
- 02: Isa the Iguana Loves the new Green IT (0)
- 03: HP Printers: Perfecting the art of self-destructive consumerism (1)
- 03: All Browsers Welcome Here (0)
- 08: Hamster Cages: The office of the future (1)
- 09: Kentucky Fried IPR (0)
- 11: Cool! Lijit now works on SensoryMetrics (1)
- 17: Nortel Comments on CBC (1)
- 17: What??? U’z usin a GAS BBQ?? Isn’t that so last decade? (0)
- 18: …it appears that Photoshop doesn’t work so well on Dell laptops… (0)
- 18: Talk Like a Pirate! (0)
- 22: I remember when croissants were made of real cat! (0)
- 22: DemoCamp10 - Do something “velvety” (1)
- 24: I Want To Break Free (0)
- 26: Re-inventing Travel Irons with Global Terrorism (0)
- August 2008 (25)
- 02: Sex, Computers, and Marketing circa 1978… (1)
- 03: Hey China, censor us again and the duck gets it! (2)
- 03: Rapidz = Slowz: A lesson in branding, a lesson in un-branding (0)
- 04: Microsoft’s Mojave Experiment is an Embarrassment to Science (0)
- 08: Summer Essentials: Hot, fast and sticky things (0)
- 08: Google’s Quatro-Click: Changes to Ad-sense gives advertisers an edge (2)
- 08: Ok ok… Rock Band is pretty addictive… (2)
- 08: Get Off the Grid and Become Self-Sufficient (2)
- 13: Maslow’s Needs® now Branded (2)
- 13: Making a Great Last Impression (2)
- 13: Lies, Lies, and Advertising (2)
- 15: Warning Dialogs: Awash in insanity! (0)
- 15: Giant Haptic Mice Are Really Gonna Suck On iPhone! (0)
- 15: Sega In Serious Need of UX Designers! (0)
- 19: Dell’s Audacity™: Cloud Computing™ (1)
- 19: Rue-La-la: Exclusivity makes the eXperience (0)
- 20: Blog Action Day: POVERTY (0)
- 21: Modern Lawnmowing: You too can have grass balls! (0)
- 21: Another Installment of Dumb Warning Dialogs (0)
- 21: SPAM BAM - SensoryMetric’s pulse on great spam! (0)
- 24: The Fine Line Between Innovation and Desperation (2)
- 27: Fake Amish ad Redraws Canada’s Map (2)
- 28: Guitar Hero Finds Its Long Tail (0)
- 28: Happi Meal™ Toys We’d Like To See (0)
- 29: The Mushroom Matrix (1)
- July 2008 (41)
- 01: Canada Day: 141 year old cheese (0)
- 01: The Ultimate Coca-Cola (5)
- 02: Retro 1993: Bill Gates Demands Better Usability (0)
- 03: 10 Easy Steps: How to start an online petition and get a free iPhone (2)
- 03: Usability Pranks (0)
- 03: The Notificator: What Twitter was like in 1935… (0)
- 03: SuitUpp: The magical evolution of e-commerce (0)
- 04: The Green Shaft: What if politicians highjacked your corporate identity? (1)
- 05: Your Accounts have been Linked - Resistance is Futile (0)
- 05: Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth Sans Sickly Sugar Substitutes (0)
- 06: Tank Girl vs Apocalipstix (1)
- 07: Alcohol and Gas: You’ve had it before (0)
- 07: Bad Design Causes Crashes: Literally (0)
- 08: Business Metrics that Add Up to Chapter 11 (0)
- 08: Burning Down the House: What’s your backup strategy? (1)
- 09: Don’t Badger Harry: Real life pop-ups! (1)
- 10: Alternatives to Rogers iPhone Package (0)
- 10: PlanetEye versus TravelPod (6)
- 13: Heat Pumps + MicroCHP = DIY Home Generators? (3)
- 13: Cisco & Sysco: Trademark fun and vacuum-marinated reconstituted chicken (0)
- 13: Spiral: A conversation about web-induced insanity and ethical design (2)
- 14: FreshBooks: 5 pillars of the billing experience (0)
- 14: First Interplanetary Fail Whale Pale Ale Label Contest (1)
- 16: Death Race 2008: Mayflies versus Windows (0)
- 18: Quiz Time: Spot the fake “fake spam headline” (0)
- 20: 4Poyntz Dezign: The hierarchy of customer-centered design (0)
- 20: Tribalization of Business: It takes a village to sell a product (0)
- 20: Cooler Mouse: Your sweaty surfing palm is history! (0)
- 21: User Centric: Defining the Chinese ecommerce eXperience (0)
- 23: The Webcrebibles: Usability Disneyfied! (0)
- 23: The Jeep Brand: Death by design (0)
- 23: iBeer versus iMilk: Stupid iPhone tricks? (0)
- 23: Clairtone circa 1967: When Canadian innovation ruled, man! (0)
- 26: …but that ethylene glycol is so refreshing on a hot summer day… (0)
- 27: We’ve created technology for stupid people, sorry ?;+) (2)
- 27: 1-2-3-4, Vista Magazine needs an editohrr… (0)
- 28: New Beer Brands: Top signs you need to hire a new maketing director (2)
- 28: Cuil-de-Sac: New search engine can’t find itself (5)
- 30: Harvey’s Frings: Greasy corporate greed and a non-existant loyalty experience (2)
- 30: Silverback: Ambush usability testing made easy (0)
- 31: It’s Lovely, I’ll Take It: The real bad-estate experience (1)
- June 2008 (34)
- 02: Our server took Sunday off… (1)
- 02: iBeatYou: na na nana na! (2)
- 02: A vocal minority wants to change your product. Now what? (2)
- 02: The inventor is the product (0)
- 03: When IT service mattered (0)
- 04: $30 Salt: Kickin’ it up a notch to the DELUXE edition (0)
- 05: World Environment Day: Chuck the PlayStation 3 (1)
- 05: Legal Tender Tweets: It’s like internet-free Twitter (0)
- 10: TinEye Rescue: Who Are These Guys? (0)
- 10: TinEye Invitations: Try it now (5)
- 10: Must Read: Alec’s take on the iPhone (0)
- 11: Santa Monica’s Green Ferris Wheel (0)
- 11: Cruzin Cooler Calamity: “but Engadget made it look like so much fun!” (0)
- 16: It’s a bad time to be an Angus cow! (0)
- 16: Bill Gaytes won’t be in the Pride Parade… (0)
- 16: SensDol: Our contender in the Big Orange Internet Balloon Race (0)
- 16: Graaaaaains: Zombie micro-brews we’d like to see (0)
- 17: You Gotta Fight For Your UserID! (0)
- 18: Your Product suX: Why usability testing is bad for design (4)
- 18: The Toddler Cashier eXperience (0)
- 19: Today’s Wacky Patent: Microsoft re-invents “Do Not Disturb” (0)
- 19: Today’s Wacky Patent (2): Apple re-invents “Gift Card Carriers” (0)
- 20: Bad 2.0 Logos (0)
- 22: Back to the 50s: Having the boss over for dinner (0)
- 22: Pricing to Value: The software entrepreneur’s challenge (2)
- 23: Wordle: These are just some of my favourite things… (0)
- 23: FatboySlim will take over YouTube any second… (0)
- 24: ICANN 2008: Personalized Top-Level-Domains without Tasting (0)
- 24: GE Innovation: Is that a Mini-Caulker, or are ya just glad to see me… (1)
- 25: iotum Goes Warp Speed: Calliflower takes off (0)
- 26: JC Penney / YouTube / Teen Sex: Vampy vandal’s viral video may vanish (0)
- 26: Consumer Reports 1941: Exposing the ink pirates (0)
- 28: iGoogle iMproves iTs Ui (1)
- 30: Stride Gum’s Where The Hell is Matt: Earthly appeal and understated marketing (2)
- May 2008 (15)
- 01: Computer Viruses Are Crawling up your Nose (0)
- 02: Dell: Speaking of horrible keyboard eXperiences… (1)
- 04: The Geriatric OS: Vist-aged (0)
- 13: The Collective Deconstruction of the Brand (0)
- 14: The Drop-Down UI: Sweet home Alabama (0)
- 18: Tin Eye Visual Search: I C U 2 (2)
- 20: I’ve come to test your tubes with my new Jackson! (0)
- 22: On the internet, everyone knows you’re a stock photo (24)
- 22: Einstein: Information is not Knowledge (0)
- 27: Great Fun @ DemoCamp 9 / Ottawa (2)
- 27: Artificial Meat vs Artificial Stomach (0)
- 27: UI & Software: Flaky pie crust (0)
- 28: miZunderstood: Two Profound Questions. (0)
- 29: It’s Official: Bloggers are crazy! (0)
- 31: Going the Distance - Cake videos (1)
- April 2008 (32)
- 01: The hour that lasted all weekend (0)
- 03: Tic Tic Tic: DemoCamp (2)
- 04: Heathrow Terminal 5: Very fishy indeed (1)
- 05: MarsEdit 2 the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1)
- 06: YS@PS 10: Vanishing Point (0)
- 07: Maritime Angels: DYI community financing (1)
- 07: Boozy Mondays: Preteen Martinis, Teen Tequila, and Absolut Alamo (1)
- 08: Jisus Goes Dutch (0)
- 09: A Day Trip to Russia: Leningrad Vintage Tech, Radioactive Worms, A Tunnel to Nowhere (0)
- 09: Technophile or Technophobe? (0)
- 11: Web facilitates bill payments, Gatineau unaware of “new” technology (0)
- 13: Wow! Gregory Hoskins makes it to the top of YouTube (2)
- 13: Go Pink Sens Go (0)
- 15: Help! (0)
- 15: I Think You Don’t Like Darth Vader, Either (0)
- 15: Blockbuster + Circuit City: It’s mating time (0)
- 15: 1984 - 24 years later… (0)
- 15: Tungle: Launching your Beta (0)
- 16: Usability Studies: Scientifically discovering the obvious (1)
- 16: OttawaTechWatch: One-stop tech news (1)
- 17: Scrabble is Cool / Hot ???? (0)
- 21: Reinventing the Pedestrian Crossing: a virtual hit & run (2)
- 21: In a WordPress minute… (0)
- 24: Commodore is dead, Happy Commodore Day! (0)
- 24: Cheeseburger-flavoured water (yes), Wiener Schnitzel Water (no way) (1)
- 24: Tatra 603 - A Rare and Beautiful Classic Car (4)
- 28: Don’t pirate malware code, or the parrot gets it. (0)
- 28: DemoCamp 9 to be held in DIY yurte! (1)
- 28: Losing my Bacon at Walmart (0)
- 29: Logo Pitfalls: Office of Government Commerce shows off its firm grip (0)
- 29: Logo Pitfalls (2): Branding disaster for new CanAm baseball team (4)
- 29: The Long Tale of Beer: Beau’s organic lagered ale eXperience (0)
- March 2008 (36)
- 01: Another Window Closes (3)
- 01: Repurpose Your Waste (0)
- 02: The Code Factory Sets Up Shop: Open source papaya (1)
- 02: The Evolution of LOGOs (1)
- 03: Geek pic of the week… (1)
- 03: So ya wanna be an inventor… (0)
- 03: The Wiggles show you how to use Russian GMail (0)
- 05: March 31: DemoCamp8 Ottawa (0)
- 05: My Desktop & The Side Effects of Spam (3)
- 05: Björk Visits SensoryMetrics! (2)
- 07: Exceeding Expectations (0)
- 07: rOomBa gOeS sTrEeT pUnK (0)
- 07: The Case of the Amazing Disappearing OS (0)
- 08: St-Patrick’s Day Patents: Reinventing the drunkard’s hat (2)
- 08: Viva 1984: Two floppies and a Hitchhiker’s Guide (2)
- 09: The Ever Growing List of Obsolete Skills (0)
- 09: Hot and Heavy Mousing Around (0)
- 12: The Logo Rip is in the Eye of the Beholder (0)
- 13: Photoshop Disasters (2)
- 13: Canada: The 3-point constellation (0)
- 15: Love Potion Number 9 (0)
- 15: Spice: The Opposite of iPhone (1)
- 17: Crack Quiz: Who’s Gerry McGovern and Why Should you Care? (0)
- 17: The Concert Line Up eXperience (0)
- 19: Forrester Research: Better cheese-buying eXperience in 2008 (0)
- 19: Radio-Free Bedrock: The Flintstone user interface (1)
- 19: Dow Jones: Bubble 2.0 reaches peak (0)
- 20: iZombie: Apple Patents 3-D Display (0)
- 21: Signs of the Apocalypse (3)
- 24: When’s the last time someone re-invented the bottle label? (1)
- 24: VC Roundtable: Face to Face with Rick Segal (0)
- 24: Really?? Reel-2-Reel Real Audio (0)
- 25: Microsoft granted a US patent for “Weather” (0)
- 25: This blog is garbage! Long live garbage!! (0)
- 26: The Simplicity Haiku (0)
- 27: eXpress Yourself: Adobe gives it away (0)
- February 2008 (46)
- 01: Fun with Fractal Postage Stamps (3)
- 01: Design Interpretive and Criminal Intent (0)
- 01: Vintage Tech: Part 1, The birth of home video porn (1)
- 01: Vintage Tech: Part 2, HP selling “usability” (0)
- 01: Vintage Tech: Part 3, Build-It-Yourself consumer electronics (0)
- 02: There is imminent danger lurking. Ok? (0)
- 03: Secret Microsoft Blog: Vista DOA, Get ready for Seven deadly sins (0)
- 03: Microsoft-Yahoo Bores Me Already… (1)
- 04: PICNIC: Your Users Are So Stupid… (1)
- 05: The Ea$y Button: Office supplies, Money, Travel, Strippers (0)
- 06: Lessons in Design: Don’t pee on the sidewalk (0)
- 06: If you could own the first .COM? What would you choose? (0)
- 07: SXSW: It’s March… It’s Texas - Don’t settle for tea… go for the hold’em! (1)
- 07: Woot: Wii-type gyroscopic air-centric mouse thing (0)
- 08: 30 Minutes: Your window to eCustomer retention (0)
- 08: Nissan’s Fast Car & GPS Speed Bandits (2)
- 09: 1,2,3,4… Went onto the Apple store… (1)
- 09: The Free Energy Race is Heating Up (3)
- 10: Navigation part 1: Show where the action is (0)
- 10: Navigation part 2: Describe the buckets (0)
- 10: Navigation part 3: Reduce the commute (0)
- 11: Overunity Engines: They Just Can’t Be! (2)
- 15: Living in the Surreal World: Hacque’s Remote (0)
- 15: Fiftymen Rock (1)
- 16: In 2008, filing your 2007 taxes requires 2006 browsers (2)
- 16: I Can Haz Six Wordz Storyz (1)
- 18: Coup D’etat: Canada to be renamed “HP” (0)
- 18: Accessibility Design: duh… (0)
- 18: Year of the rat??? BS! It’s the year of the beagle! (0)
- 20: Drunken Lemurs Will Get You Fired. (0)
- 20: Your Ugly Mug Is Leaving Me Cold (0)
- 21: ScalperCamp: Toronto sells out (14)
- 21: Microsoft Patents “Failure Recognition” (2)
- 21: Grandpa’s Dentures Are Floating In Your G&T (0)
- 22: Mister LED: 2008 Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees (2)
- 22: The Future of Software: If penguins could fly… (0)
- 24: IRAP: Research grants for Startups. IRAQ: Something else altogether… (0)
- 24: Ultimate Fight Club: Bacon Versus Tofu (0)
- 26: Man’s Symbiotic Species Necessary for Survival (3)
- 26: Get Oil from Sand the Cleaner Way (0)
- 26: Hobo 2.0: Thirty bucks buys a NY bum a Happy Meal! (1)
- 26: Doesn’t Remind Me Of: Iraq, Afghanistan, War, Death, Pain. (0)
- 27: Avoid malware, surf in Chile (0)
- 27: The Long Tail of eCommerce: Your very own *legal* marijuana grow op (0)
- 28: Google: VoIP for the Homeless (0)
- 28: The Blue Frog: eXtreme club eXperience in Mumbai (2)
- January 2008 (45)
- 01: 2008: It’s catty & toxoplasmostic! (0)
- 01: Giant Space Mirrors to Cool Earth & Send SOS (2)
- 02: Business Models: Don’t count your Ponzi pigeons until they’re hatched… (5)
- 02: Wi-Fi Predictions from 2003 (0)
- 03: A billion ants on Facebook could buy the Ottawa Senators! (0)
- 05: RabbitHoles: Elmer Fudd’s not going to like this! (0)
- 06: Google SmartAss: Telling it like it is… (0)
- 07: Queen Victoria was a BIG Ubuntu fanboy! (0)
- 07: UX Designer: one of 31 best careers of 2008 (0)
- 08: Top 5 Bad Service Complaints of 2007 (2)
- 08: Prototyping is Dead. (2)
- 09: snapshots Over Linking is Welcome (3)
- 09: DemoCamp 0111 (that’s seven) (0)
- 09: Battle of the DJs: Get your hands off my PaceMaker ™! (0)
- 09: Trademark Wars: Obama vs Doyno, Apple Computer vs Apple Urinals (0)
- 10: iRing: Photoshopping your VaporGadget (2)
- 11: Social Media Trend: Collaborative Blog Surfing (3)
- 12: Rodent Surfing Takes Off (0)
- 12: The Vegas Mall eXperienceMa (1)
- 12: Dotster Scams Their Customers (3)
- 13: Flying Spaghetti Monster GingerBread (0)
- 13: The Flushing eXperience: The crapper 2.0 manifesto? (0)
- 13: Trademarks, Scrabble, Facebook, Scrabulous, Addiction, Withdrawal (0)
- 14: The Enticing Virus Made Me Do It! (0)
- 15: Microsoft: Viral marketing powerhouse (1)
- 15: SensoryMetrics Now Touch Sensitive (1)
- 16: Amazon eMail Phishing Scam (1)
- 16: Social Media Goes Condo (1)
- 17: Your Home Page: Drop-kick FrontPage, Get Flickr