Archive for November, 2009

This is marvelous – I love it. iLingual from Lean Mean Fighting Machine is a new translation app for iPhone. Pick your phrase, hold it up to your mouth, and let ‘er rip. Check out this brief – and hilarious – video: First saw it at the Edible Apple.
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Check this short video (1:30 minutes) to see what a smart creative Swedish agency did to promote a new IKEA store: Cheap, easy, fast. And very, very smart.
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I recently spent a week in Japan and while there had the opportunity to visit the national gallery in Ueno park, in Tokyo. The visit was wonderful and I had the chance to see amazing 500-year-old pottery from all over Asia, including this Ming bowl. That, of course, was one of the younger pieces...
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FourSquare is an up-and-coming social web app that provides context to place and people, allowing you to: Find your friends Get points and badges Discover cool things to do To all those who are endlessly plugging it – many people in the web2.0, social media sphere – I have a few questions: Do you...
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WestJet is having HUGE issues right now with a reservations system conversion … which means that it has been extremely hard to book a flight with them for at least 3 days. I just posted this to their customer feedback form: I cannot book online because I’m doing a round-trip to Calgary on the...
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Everything is sales. When you’re telling your boss what you think should be done, you’re selling. When you’re explaining to your spouse what big-ticket item you want to buy, you’re selling. And when you’re talking to a client and negotiating new features, you’re selling. So, don’t you want to be good at it? I...
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The dogs are barking and the birds are singing. First light hasn’t yet hit Porto, Portugal today, but I’m awake, a victim of jet lag and an inability to sleep in spite of being dead tired. Ah well … gives me a chance to catch up on my blogging! I flew into Lisbon, Portugal...
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This is all speculation, but here is an interesting analysis of where short-cycle news publishing might be going in the Apple ecosystem: Publishing 2.0. What Would Apple Do? View more documents from Freek Bijl.
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It’s always neat to see your software pop up in places you didn’t seed it … Here’s a great use: our touch-friendly Blue Dolphin user interface on a MID (mobile internet device) called a Viliv: FYI, when I say “our,” I mean EasyBits Software.
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From Brian Cray’s excellent recent post: Web form design guidelines: an eyetracking study An in-depth comparison of three form designs—Google mail signup, Hotmail signup, and Yahoo! Mail signup. The selection of forms are ideal because each form is long as well as unique in terms of label positioning, field grouping, and identification of required...
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