Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Our friends at iotum released their latest product yesterday amid a lot of positive industry buzz, and Hollywood-style excitement. Calliflower extends the functionality of iotum’s Free Conference Calling service on Facebook. FCC has been used by 200,000 people.
Calliflower is a web-based conference service that features an engaging easy to use interface [...]
Popularity: 10%
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Posted on June 23rd, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
TagClouds were born out of Social Bookmaking - trying to represent relative content popularity… Here’s a tool that let’s you visualize the complexity of your world, as you define it. It’s Wordle by Jonathan Feinberg! This is terrific for spicing up a Powerpoint presentation!
BTW - no offense to anyone / anything I [...]
Popularity: 9%
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Posted on June 22nd, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Driving through the small Quebec town of Portage-Du-Fort this afternoon, I came across this real-estate jewel. The seller’s marketing approach is oddly contradictory! It’s for sale (implying value), yet it’s dangerous… go away!
This got me thinking about the dozens of chats I’d had with software startups about pricing models - or lack of. [...]
Popularity: 10%
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Posted on January 17th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
If you’re a small business, there’s no doubt you need a web presence. But why mess around with novice tools like FrontPage, only to create an amateurish-looking home page? Here’s an interesting idea from Jung von Matt - A swedish advertising designer. [update - Jung von Matt is a full ad [...]
Popularity: 25%
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Posted on November 14th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
We all love to hate terrorists. But a small news item last week in an Isreali website made me realize that Al Qaedans are just like everybody else when it comes to the whiz-bang design of web 2.0 apps. Planned for November 11th, Al Qaeda apparently tried to launch a massive Denial of [...]
Popularity: 28%
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Posted on August 17th, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
Adobe is about to attempt to compete with Microsoft’s Word by investing in BuzzWord an online word processor made by Virtual Ubiquity.
If you’re from Ottawa you’ve probably heard of Corel, the makers of CorelDraw and the current home of WordPerfect. I have not been a fan of Corel since they took my beloved Fractal [...]
Popularity: 45%
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Posted on July 8th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
It seems that “Generation So-Net” equates web 2.0 User Interface with glossy Aqua-like graphics. The big problem with most sites is a poor information architecture. Navigation is usually unpredictable and scattered. Bad design is common even in the most popular sites. For your consideration:
Facebook. I suppose millions have gotten used to their clumsy layout. Recently, [...]
Popularity: 48%
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Posted on July 2nd, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
A good idea and a bit of Ruby - and voila… l8r.nu (as in Later, dude!). This Dutch web service is barely a month old. It allows you to compose email messages and schedule their future delivery. For bloggers it’s similar to scheduling posts in WordPress.
Using it is super easy, although L8R’s creator has had [...]
Popularity: 45%
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Posted on May 22nd, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
Salesforce.com is of course the big gorilla of Software as a Service. This is software so good that Salesforce has the audacity to charge people $65 a month to use it. But this company isn’t just CRM - through its AppExchange, it’s also become the largest on demand catalog of other SaaS [...]
Popularity: 47%
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Posted on April 28th, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
On the web, you’re never more than about two clicks away from anything and everything. You can’t control who talks about you nor who links to your site. However, you can control who you link to, unless you use Google’s AdSense or the equivalent. At SensoryMetrics, we’ve resisted the temptation to generate cash using this [...]
Popularity: 50%
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