Posted on July 5th, 2008 by Jobe Roberts
Last time it was Yahoo swallowing Flickr, now my YouTube & Google accounts have been linked to the collective.
Um, ok. Now what? What exactly just happened? Don’t worry, they’ve simply merged the member databases and now you can probably share information between the sites. Oh, and by the way your gMail contacts can see [...]
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Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
1. Choose a target that everyone loves to hate: for example Canadian duopoly / cableCo / wirelessCo Rogers.
2. Choose a cause that everyone lusts for: for example the Canadian launch of Apple’s iPhone.
3. Put them together: for example, Rogers has the most expensive plan on the planet for the iPhone.
4. Choose [...]
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Posted on July 1st, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
For our international readers - it’s Canada Day here in the frozen tundra! We’re turning 141 today! Most Canadians will be celebrating the day by enjoying a bit of snowshoeing. Others will partake in a friendly round of competitive moose racing. Another quaint tradition here involves trapping some beavers and [...]
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Posted on June 19th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
This morning, BallmerCorp published an application with the awkward title of “Providing Modified Notifications When Inferring a User Might Not Want to be Notified”. The implication is that the user doesn’t really know what he/she wants, so Microsoft will decide.
From the first claim:
when it is inferred that the user [...]
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Posted on June 16th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
It’s really hard finding time-wasting activities on the interweb, isn’t? Well, the UK’s orangest telco - Orange - is hosting an internet balloon race… Our humble dolphin named SensDol is trainin’ & carb’n up. The race starts in only 6 days (June 22nd). To make your balloon travel faster, you need [...]
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Posted on June 11th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
You’ve probably seen these things: beer coolers that double as motorized scooters. Manufactured by Cruzin Cooler of America, they offer three models: 300, 500 watts electric, and a 33cc gas-powered version. If you’ve got a “supersize me” kind of frame, you’ll want to opt for the gas model which can carry a [...]
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Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
SM friend Alec Saunders’ has the best perspective on the new iPhone that I’ve seen yet (in the past 12 hours, anyhow…)
Favourite quote:
I think RIM has to play catch-up on the handset, but I expect they can and will do that. The bigger issues to me are the structural ones around business model and marketing. [...]
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Posted on June 5th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Most paper bills are in circulation for 6 months and pass through hundreds of hands. Did you ever get a note back with a scribble on it from a previous owner? The premise of De-Noted is to capture interesting messages scrawled on money. It’s viral, you just won’t know where it [...]
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Posted on April 16th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Don’t get me wrong - usability testing is a good thing. Some researchers though, it seems, have too much time on their hands and grant money in their pockets.
Consider the psychologists at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Their studies have shown that kids who talk on cell phones while crossing intersections have [...]
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Posted on April 8th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
There’s a lot of things I like about Holland. Heineken is good. Tulips are nice. Those Philips’ Compact Cassettes used to rock! This year (on May 25) Dutch electronics company Van Der Led is launching a new micro PC, running Ubuntu. It’s obviously targeting Asus’ ultra-popular eeePC. Its 299 [...]
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