SensoryMetrics: re-inventing the User eXperience

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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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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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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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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LOL - ok - so super home producer FatBoy Slim - recruits David Byrne (of Talking Heads fame) and makes this retro 60s “group” party video. This may be slightly NSFW - as they say… but not really…
The best part is Pong with the “middle finger” ball!! Relax - just turn up [...]

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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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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. [...]

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In my early formative years as a designer (LOL) I believed the usability testing hype: it reduces dev costs, it makes products better, it makes customers happier. Soon I realized that was just crap spewed by “usability testing professionals”. The problem with the usability testing mantra is that it assumes all designers [...]

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Registering at a new social net site can be frustrating when your well-known tag/ID/handle/nick is already taken. “hey, someone else has Mitch69???” DANG!
Even offline, the issue of nicks can be contentious! In Wichita Kansas, C-Thug is a very sought-after nickname!
Sgt. Lem Moore said in a police briefing this afternoon that [...]

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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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