Posts Tagged ‘service’

Bill Gates at TED 2009

In Discussions on 5 February 2009 tagged fundamentals, science, service, visionaries with View Comments

Bill Gates talks about two of his latest philanthropic efforts at the annual TED conference going on this week; conquering malaria and making teachers great.

IDEO/BUG Concepts Posted

In Products on 21 January 2009 tagged fundamentals, service, technology with View Comments

Yesterday IDEO posted some very well presented in-process concepts for BUG UI design opportunities. They started by presenting some Mid-Project Concept Sketches. Download the PDF. Seriously, it’s inspiring. They followed up with a post on each proposed concept: Concept 1 – e-Ink over Tactile Switches Concept 2 – Color LCD w/ Capacitive Touch Concept 3 [...]

IDEO Product UI Design Process Will Be Public

In Products on 20 January 2009 tagged service, software, technology with View Comments

The modular DIY gadget platform, BUG, has teamed with IDEO to redesign the BUG user interface. IDEO has agreed to BUG’s request to do the project in the open, soliciting feedback from the user community along the way. I’m not aware of a design effort of this magnitude, with a firm of this stature, happening [...]

Simplify Media

In Products on 15 January 2009 tagged service, software with View Comments

Judging from the response to yesterday’s post about iConcertCal it seems I have quite a few music fans in the audience.  Here is another application that my friends and I love.  Simplify Media lets you access your media library from any internet-connected computer or iPhone (even works over EDGE).  I know there are other apps [...]

iConcertCal

In Products on 14 January 2009 tagged service, software with View Comments

Wouldn’t it be awesome if someone went through your iTunes library and found all the album release dates and concert dates for all the artist in there? Wouldn’t it be better if they did it for free? Instantaneously? iConcertCal does just that, which is why it’s a great idea. iConcertCal is a free iTunes plug-in [...]

Lifehacker Posts their Top 10 CES and Macworld Announcements

In Discussions on 11 January 2009 tagged fundamentals, service, software, technology with View Comments

I don’t necessarily agree with all of these, but interesting nonetheless. 10. iLife/iWork new features and tweaks 9. Apple/Jobs won’t dominate Macworld anymore 8. Palm is back in the game 7. Built-in media streaming on TVs, DVD players 6. Better laptop batteries 5. Smarter voice-activated car systems 4. Wireless charging, for real 3. Picasa for [...]