Posted on January 25th, 2008 by Fake Alec
Those crazy folks at NetLifeResearch have launched this year’s version of the infamous Bad Usability Calendar. NetLife is a usability firm in Norway. The calendar features 12 humourous design tips, poking fun at the over-use of web 2.0 glitz, social net apps, and iTunes interfaces.
I’ve printed out copies for all [...]
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Posted on January 19th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Honeywell had it right in this vintage magazine ad from 1981. Email: confounding blasts of out-of-control electrons. Sometimes it’s useful, most of the time it’s anatomically and/or financially incorrect.
Back in 2003, tech blogger Paul Soltoff wrote about his predictions for email. There’s a tendency when one predicts the future to focus on [...]
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Posted on January 16th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
The premise is interesting… ResidentsIQ people moving into a close-knit environments may not have the skills to get to know each other… A new condo… you don’t know your neighbours… It’s not easy making connections. Although it’s a good concept, it still leaves me skeptical… Residents IQ? [...]
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Posted on January 14th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Everyone wants to be viral - not from a biological or pathological perspective (not very enticing) - but a web perspective.
A few local startups have had great success at creating enticing applications. We’ve talked before about iotum’s Free Conference Calling on Facebook. The really interesting twist from iotum: it’s not [...]
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Posted on January 13th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
It took Nadine and I about 20 minutes to create this Scrabulous masterpiece. Its combined worth is a mere 57… but really it’s priceless!
Since the Facebook Goldrush began last year, Scrabulous has become one of the top ten apps. No wonder. Nobody wants to play scrabble with you! Especially if you’re [...]
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Posted on December 20th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
As if email and Facebook weren’t distracting enough… Montreal-based Visicommedia just released their Facebook Toolbar for Explorer. You can track your notifications, access your friends, and launch your zombie applications all from the convenience of IE. It’s nicely done… no plans for Firefox though. Visicommedia has been a prominent developer [...]
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Posted on December 10th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
Despite all their Beacon Blunders recently, Facebook won’t allow people to sell their own ads on their profiles. Facebook privacy czar Chris Kelly claims that he doesn’t want profile pages to “become cluttered”. Considering how esthetically-challenged Facebook already is, that reasoning is a load of crap for sure! In all likelihood, The Berg [...]
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Posted on November 27th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
SM friend Alec Saunders announced yesterday that his Ottawa-based company iotum secured funding from VERDEXUS as well as appointing chairman Randall Horward. Now iotum has two Horwards!
iotum has had great success in the past few weeks with its Facebook application Free Conference Calls. It offers a super easy interface to schedule [...]
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Posted on November 2nd, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
6 million users and growing by 300,000 new users a day according to iLike team blog.
Facebook has the potential to become more than just a social network. It’s an online application environment that is changing and evolving and becoming more intelligent by the minute. I think we’re only touching on its ability to [...]
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Posted on October 31st, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
Yes it’s BarCamp time again in Ottawa, Canada. It’s our 4th edition here, and it looks like it’s going to be an overflowing house. Attendance is (unfortunately) capped at 120 people. It’s back at BitHeads. It’s totally free thanks in part to these great sponsors: The Ottawa Angel Alliance (cheer!); bitheads [...]
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