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Entries from November 2007

World of Warcraft–Meet “T”!

November 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Check out Mr. T’s World of Warcraft commercial on Youtube, simply awesome…
I pity the gamer that mess with T!

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Tags: YouTube · marketing · Funny · Video · Social Networking · New Media · news and entertainment

Bob Herbet of the NYT on the current Dem candidates

November 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment

This is a pretty good account (login mat be required) of where things stand with the “top 3″ Dems in the race.  What I would like to know is–what it will take to get Bill Richardson up in the ranks of the media darling elites.
Change is needed–but just noting we need change is not making […]

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Tags: US · Politics and News

Ikea Kitchen’s–this is cool

November 26th, 2007 · No Comments

http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/rooms_ideas/ckl/default.html
Seriously, give it a shot

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Tags: Web Apps · User Experience · marketing · New Media · Web 2.0 · Tech

23 lessons from eye tracking studies

November 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments

(ht: to UX Magazine)
Virtual Hosting.com has a great 23 point summary of results from eye tracking studies.
Few interesting points I took away:

Text is the first thing noticed–not images
Upper left is the sweet spot
User scan pages in the F shape
Use numbers; 1,2,3 instead of spelling them out

Go read and let me know what you think.

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Tags: UX · User Experience · marketing · Tech

Test your vocabulary — donate rice

November 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment

(HT:  mi amiga Ruth)
Check out Free Rice.  The site is a English vocab game that donates 10 grains of rice through the UN to developing countries for every answer you get correct.  The funds are provided by the companies advertising on the site.  Take a look at the current tally.
The genius is the spin–turning charity […]

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Tags: New Media · Development · Online Community · Non-profit tech · International · US

Zoho: awesome online apps!

November 21st, 2007 · 2 Comments

I was looking around last night for a free online project management tool. In the search results I saw two familiar names: Basecamp and Zoho. I tried Basecamp before and wanted to take a look at something new so I decided to try out Zoho Projects and am so far very impressed […]

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Tags: Business · Web Apps · New Media · Online Community · Web 2.0 · Non-profit tech · Tech

DC’s big day with Supreme Court is coming

November 20th, 2007 · No Comments

But not for voting rights–for gun rights….
Obviously I am missing the point here; we don’t have the right to a representative vote in the Federal government BUT the case to repeal the hand-gun ban makes international news and gets a date with the Supreme Court.
The Second Amendment states: “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the […]

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Tags: Washington · DC · Politics and News