Wow This is Awesome Tech

Here are links to two of the coolest tech demos I’ve seen in a long time sent to me by my great friends Blake and Jimmy respectively. The first one is an iPhone app called Word Lens that automatically translates any words the camera sees. I’ve played with the app and it works very close [...]

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I Have Officially Become a Digital Book Snob

There’s no denying it. I love my Kindle and I hate paper books. I don’t like holding them with two hands, I don’t like keeping the pages pulled apart so I can read the words near the binding (often the best words are located there), and I don’t like lugging them around with me on [...]

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Seriously, iPhone, Stop Being Stupid!

It happens about once a week — I get frustrated, then angry then sad. Why? Because the iPhone is such a great product but has a small shortcoming that makes it completely unusable as a business phone for me. That feature is push technology or multiple application capabilities. At work, we communicate via Google Talk [...]

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The Ultimate Versioning

In E-Commerce, versioning is common place and done in a hundred different ways for various results. Which product pricing converts better? What ad texts get the most clicks? Which web page results in more newsletter signups? The list goes on. I consider myself to be pretty well versed in versioning strategies and methods, but I [...]

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Finding the Motivated

When Chrome was announced, I immediately sent an email to our usability team to make sure they began looking into compatibility issues with our website. While I was doing that I wondered how many of our team at BuildASign.com a) knew that Google was releasing a new browser, and of those people b) how many [...]

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Web 3.0 (Semantic Web) Find Success in Twitturly

When I posted about the Semantic Web (3.0) and corresponding filters I had yet to see a good example to point to that illustrated the point I was trying to make at the time. At that same time, a new company called Twitturly was just beginning to break into the news — I just took [...]

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Where Were You When The 3G iPhone Launched?

Everyone and their grandmothers were talking about following the WWDC’s keynote address this year to follow Steve Jobs as he unveiled the new 3G iPhone. Thousands were flocking to twitter to listen in live as the action took place. Those flocking people had the wrong idea; twitter is not ready for that kind of tuning [...]

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Soon Your Phone Will Be For Anything But Phone Calls

I realized something for the first time today: I don’t like getting phone calls. I don’t like having to dial into my phone to retrieve voice mails, I don’t like waiting for the computer to take my code and I don’t like listening to the entire message. I don’t like having people call me when [...]

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Online Pictionary!

There is apparently a website that was developed by Online Pictionary. Groups of people join and watch someone interactively draw a series of pictures while they to guess what is being drawn. The things to draw are displayed on the screen to the drawer and the fun begins. You do need a critical mass of [...]

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