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
The internet and retail. Much has changed in 15 years. As the e-channel evolves, we’re seeing some very innovative business models. My favourite for a few years has been Woot- one product a day until it sells out. My lingering beef is that they don’t ship north to The Frozen Tundra.
The [...]
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Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
What a difference 73 years of technology makes! Some UX improvements: Twitter is now free, location-independent, and messages can be viewed longer than two hours!
via: Modern Mechanix
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Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Most “stupid usability tricks” are not intended… this is fun.
via: I don’t remember! lol
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
This is a wonderful email uncovered by Seattle PI and Usability News… a usability related rant from Bill.
“I tried scoping to Media stuff. Still no moviemaker. I typed in movie. Nothing. I typed in movie maker. Nothing.
So I gave up and sent mail to Amir saying - where is this Moviemaker download? [...]
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Posted on June 28th, 2008 by Jobe Roberts
Finally those difficult to use and awkward little buttons on iGoogle are about to be nixed. The problem with the UI is that the ‘remove this’ button marked with an ‘x’ is right next to the ‘expand this’ button marked with a ‘+’. If you’re like me you’re forever deleting the application you’re [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted on June 24th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Have you ever had to repair a small missing chunk of caulking? It requires a whole tube - when sometimes you just want a touch-up. This GE package idea is brilliant. No more caulking waste!
via The DieLine
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Posted on June 24th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
If you happen to be bored in France this week, you might want to attend the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)’s board meeting.
BTW - ICANN is the organization that “runs” the internet.
A few proposed changes could significantly change our beloved cloud. First, ICANN is looking at ways to [...]
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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 [...]
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