Posted on July 14th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
More on managing a terrific Catastrophe Experience… Fail Whale’s new fan club reports a new contest for designing a beer label featuring Yiying Lu’s Twitter Disaster icon. It’s amazing so much celebration can come from so much failure.
I don’t ever recall seeing a Blue Screen of Death Fan Club.
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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 June 5th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Most paper bills are in circulation for 6 months and pass through hundreds of hands. Did you ever get a note back with a scribble on it from a previous owner? The premise of De-Noted is to capture interesting messages scrawled on money. It’s viral, you just won’t know where it [...]
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Posted on December 17th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
There’s a bunch of reports including this one from iJustine that US operator T-Mobile has banned Twitter. Apparently, the wireless provider explained it this way…
…Twitter is not an authorized third-party service provider, and therefore you are not able to utilize service from this provide any longer…. T-Mobile is not in violation of any [...]
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Posted on November 7th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
This is a mashup not for the faint of heart: Online dating, video IM, Twitter and speed dating! We finally got our invite to the closed alpha of WooMe. (thanks guys!) You sign up for a session - right now these are scheduled in the evening only - Pacific time. Once your [...]
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Posted on August 9th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
For 45 Euros, you too can proudly display the current time for everyone to see… why??? not really sure. Especially that you’ll be stretching your neck out to see the time yourself (upside down!). We’re also not sure what the usability of this clock is - but you REALLY DON’T want [...]
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Posted on March 19th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
Why should you have to tell Twitter “what you’re doing”? With Jaiku, your micro-posts are blended with all your other RSS-fed content: Flickr, blog, Twitter, and any other favorite Location Based Service… If you find any value at all with Twitter, Jaiku is worth checking out. The service was launched a couple [...]
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Posted on March 19th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
It wouldn’t work in Ottawa’s March weather and slush-soaked streets - but on Tuesday, March 20th San Francisco is bound to be pleasant for the first ever Mobile MeshWalk. This latest variant to “tech unconferences” was created by Shannon Clark. The events kicks off at lunch. Then the group breaks into three smaller clans and [...]
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