“Confidence in a connected world.” That’s Symantec’s current corporate tagline. We have been endlessly barraged by security and antivirus companies about computer viruses, attacks, and threats. Most of it is self-serving: the more scared people are, the better marketing you’re doing, the more you sell. Now we find out that Symantec had a breach...
Amazon.com is an interesting adventure in user experience. For a time, it was the sine qua non of web UI, just because it was so successful. And many tried...
Most who regularly visit this site know what SOPA & PIPA are. If you don’t, watch this: It’s not just a US issue … if your blog, for instance,...
I’m working with some friends on a really cool iPad app for kids, The Wonderful Colorful House. We’re getting a little closer to reality – publishing to the app...
If you’re clicking to see photos in an embedded gallery on a page, you should still be able to see the story, right? Wrong, according to Gizmodo: Not only...
One of the newer Facebook features I really like is the ticker. It helps you see what’s happening quickly, instantly, across your entire circle of friends: When it first...
Apple is the epitome of simple, right? Well yeah, but not always. And one example is right in your pocket: the well-known iPhone lock screen. Do we really need...
I just got schooled on innovation and patents by a 12-year-old. My 12 year old, to be precise. “I just invented a new way of putting wheels on,” he...
This Christmas marks an important milestone for me: every single gift for family members has been purchased online. Every. Single. One. My wife, my sons, my daughter: all wonderful...
The Kindle is absolutely killing it. Amazon doesn’t release sales numbers, but the whisper number in Taiwan is 4 million Kindles over the last three months of 2011. That...
I remember reading somewhere lately about the lack of vision in new startups and entrepreneurs in the technology industry lately. Apple was about unleashing creativity and bringing humanity to...
Gamification is great. However, the game that is being “ified” should not just be the promoting company’s financial or statistical wellbeing … it should be something the user him...
I had the great privilege of going to TEDx Vancouver this past weekend … It was in UBC‘s Chan Centre, a great venue – although it’s hard to sit...
Foursquare, the location-based social app based on “checking in” to locations for fun and deals, has massively updated their site. Yes, the old-fashioned, actual, website thingie for embarrassingly large...
When you’re searching on a mobile device, and you enter the letters B-A-R, you are probably not looking for the Bureau of Automotive Repair in California. You are even...
Yeah, whatta nerd: I just wish I had been using Foursquare while I was doing all my travelling for EasyBits Software a few years ago. A bunch of checkins...
So last week Friday I had a little dentist appointment. Actually a long one – almost 90 minutes – at which I was informed that I hadn’t had a...
I just finished the Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs. Wow. What a book. What a bio. What a character. Some things about Steve were really astonishing – like...
I guess all of us in the industry are pretty familiar with the mobile-first development philosophy prevalent these days. However, as mobile-optimized everything and not-so-plain-old-web just kinda seem to...
Wow. Just submitted the latest Canpages iPhone app for local search in Canada yesterday afternoon … and was blown away by the approval speed. From submission to review to...
Siri is Apple’s new personal assistant on the iPhone 4S. It’s artificial intelligence: fairly good understanding of natural human speech, plus context awareness. And it’s pretty cool: I’ve used...
If you’re looking for a massive social media fail, look no farther: Obviously, what’s happening is that the user on Twitter is sending out automated direct messages. They are...
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