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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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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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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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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We’re still raving about it… so much so that our friends at Idee sent us 50 private beta invitations. If you want to skip the waiting list and try out TinEye now, send us your email…
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You’ve probably heard already of Tin Eye. We just got our entry into their beta… beta late than never!!
It’s a Toronto-based startup that’s re-inventing image search>> you upload an image, Tin Eye finds the matches. This is a bonus for web designers and publishers who need to know [...]
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One of the benefits of being an Ottawa-based technology company is the number of tech news sources available: OBJ, Scan, Tech Now, Tech Bytes, OCRI, NRC, and of course a ton of great blogs: Alec Saunders and startup Ottawa but to name a few.
To SM friend Peter Rochon, keeping tabs on all these news sources [...]
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