The Uniform Project is a fundraising concept being executed by Sheena Matheiken. For an entire year she plans on wearing the same dress with 365 different accessories and looks. Last Sunday's creation features a crocheted necklace designed by Sarah Peters of Museum of Useless Objects fame.
I've spent a lot of time lately designing software to monitor essential services and hardware. Remote Monitoring platforms attempt to monitor cloud services, but this is difficult to do. A refreshing alternative comes from Washington DC-based Unitz. Last week they launched DownRightNow. It aggregates any service disruption news for popular ...
DEX, an "easy to use CRM" solution was created by some talented Ottawa BarCampers from Mercury Grove. Unfortunately for them, the product name got into trademark trouble. Today, DEX becomes NetworkHippo. The SaaS-based CRM tool also features some nice UI improvements. Hippo's key differentiators include the ability to rate your ...
In the world of UX, we're either creating new products, or re-inventing old ones. What if we "pre-invented" something? Take a successful modern product and imagine what it would look like decades ago. That's what filmmaker "whoiseyevan" did with the beloved classic Ghostbusters. In this retro-fit, the film stars Dean ...
Toronto based start-up Sysomos recently published an exhaustive report on Twitter usage based on an analysis of over 11 million user accounts. Some of their key findings: 72.5% of all users joining during the first five months of 2009. 85.3% of all Twitter users post less than one update/day 21% of users have never posted ...
The folks in Sweden are apparently all hot, twittered, and bothered! Stockholm's public health department has a launched the Kondom project: handing out 100,000 condoms that are individually numbered. To capture the "user experience", there's a social website where people can write about the tale of their condom... so to speak. ...
We've written before about SM friend Gene DeRose's House Party. House Party launched a Kid-tribution House party hapenning August 15. Apply to host a Children International party to explore child sponsorship. The party pack from House Party includes a Family Feud game! Woot! Apply now! Social Media for ...
It's too fun too ignore! Like a late-night info-mercial!! Twitter-Power System WILL make you successful, and only cost you $77. C'mon it's gotta be a joke - 10 CDs of Twitter marketing insights??? The spelling mistakes alone are worth it... "Barack Obama become the president thanks to Twitter..." OK - judge for yourself...
Reportage is a new Twitter client for your iPhone. With it, your friends' feeds become radio stations. The innovative UI navigates like a vintage radio tuner, while taking full advantage of the iPhone's paging architecture. This was created by Montreal-based WhereCloud. The company's founders Martin Dufort and Fred Brunel are active members ...
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