Is Twitter Everything Twitter Needs?

Mar022010By shervin

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Alex Payne, Lead for the API team at Twitter, sent out a Tweet hinting at new features that may render Twitter third-party clients useless.

This led me to wonder… why hasn’t Twitter been able to self-sufficiently maintain a user-friendly interface?

It seems like I end up using third-party clients like TweetDeck and Seesmic more often than I use the actual Twitter site.

While features like List, ReTweet and the less noticeable timeline count in a browser’s tab are features that make it more convenient for users to go straight to the site, the alerts/notifications are still lacking, at least from my point of view.

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Video on Demand: Walmart Buys Vudu

Mar022010By shervin

Although I can list many reasons why shopping at Walmart is horrible, I have to admit that Walmart’s recent move to purchase Vudu—a video on demand Web service—is very smart. This seemingly random move puts Walmart into yet another money making category for competitors to envy. I’ll leave the antics of why you should avoid Walmart to PeopleofWalMart.com, and focus on how Walmart is about improve!

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Get Informed with the White House YouTube Channel “Citizen Tube”

Mar012010By Melissa

A while back I wrote a blog on the best websites to learn about healthcare reform. The websites mentioned were official sites with lots of information from both sides of the political spectrum. But what would be better than hearing it directly from the horse’s mouth? I’m not sure how many American citizens know about the White House-backed YouTube Channel called Citizen Tube. The issues surrounding Healthcare Reform have not gone away and today (Thursday, February 25th), the White House streamed a live feed of the bipartisan healthcare reform debate.

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Yahoo and Bing Come Together For a Better Search

Mar012010By Melissa

Google has really been giving the search world a one-two punch with daily developments for user interaction. Both MSN Live Search (now known as Bing) and Yahoo have re-invented their search platforms, but Google is still on the up-and-up and maintaining firm control in the search market. To cut costs and raise revenues the two other search engines have joined forces. Now that they have gotten together, what shall we call this duo? YaBing!? I hope it catches on!

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Proof of Print in the iPad: The Wired Magazine App

Feb192010By Melissa

Apple created a huge buzz and a sense of mystery and anticipation for the iPad, but it ultimately fell victim to mixed reviews. Most headlines about the iPad pinned the product against the Kindle by Amazon. I was one of those consumers that were not very motivated by the new product, but then I saw the new application released by Wired Magazine and I quickly saw how this product will play a big role in being a game changer in the print industry.

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Vancouver Winter Olympics Online Coverage

Feb192010By Melissa

Can’t get to a TV to watch the Winter Olympics? Online, there are some websites that are doing a great job of covering the Olympics with up-to-the-minute coverage and organized information. These sites have designed their pages for great user interactivity and have the most up-to-date feeds. I will go through each site and let you know, which one has unique information that the others do not have.

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Changing the Landscape for Computing: Gesture-Based Interfaces

Feb192010By shervin

In the beginning of the year I looked back on the last decade and many of the major milestones we’ve reached in regards to new and innovative technology. I also said that although I see major improvements to the technology we use today, I don’t see anything as major as we did in the last decade. Well, I may have spoken too soon.

In the article “You, Too, Can Soon Be Like Tom Cruise in ‘Minority Report’,” written by JENNIFER 8. LEE, we are given a major dose of the future of computing. Lee introduces John Underkoffler, co-founder of Oblong Industries, and the creative brain behind the futuristic computer interface that is used in the movie Minority Report.

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Reminder: Google’s Main Focus is Search!

Feb192010By shervin

It seems that with all the hoopla of Google’s latest ventures (i.e. Google Buzz, Google Wave, and the various other new application and updates) we tend to forget what Google’s focal point is… SEARCH! But with all the extra add-ons and applications I don’t think Google has forgotten its strongest seller and are still trying to gain new users and retain the old ones by maintaining a major focus on search.

Not too long ago Google enlarged the size of the search box on their homepage. Soon after, they cleared all additional information (anything that wasn’t the search box or the logo) from the homepage and have all additional links on the page appear after about a two second delay.

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Flash vs. HTML5

Feb132010By Jorge

As times change, technology changes and the world is introduced to new ideas. The World Wide Web is no better evidence that change and turn of events are constant and part of our experience every day.

Many web developers are constantly looking for new and innovative ways to bring interactivity to the web. With new methods like HTML5 and CSS3 starting to pop up, will old technology like flash disappear from the face of the internet?

Don’t get me wrong, I like Flash as much as anyone, but sooner or later something is going t to give. Now-a-days, many effects created in Flash can be replicated with JavaScript and JavaScript libraries like Ajax, J-Query, MooTools, etc.

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