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User Experience

Today’s iPhone WTF

Huh. I just realized you can create events in the calendar on the iPhone, but you can’t invite people to those events. How big of an oversight is that?

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Web Analytics

EMetrics Canada

The 2009 EMetrics Canada conference has been announced and runs March 29 – April 1 in Toronto. This will be the second year the conference has been in Canada and I’m looking forward to seeing the lineup Andrea Hadley puts together. For more information visit: www.emetrics.org

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Web Analytics

MS Word as a Blog Posting Tool

I’ve been playing with MS Word (Windows) as a blog posting tool. It’s pretty easy to get it up and working too. Create your blog post in a Word document Go to Office Button and select PUBLISH > BLOG. Word supports Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, SharePoint, Community Server, TypePad, WordPress and others Then publish your […]

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Apple User Experience

My iPhone wishlist

The more I use my iPhone, the more I spot things that bug me that I’d like to see improved: Calendar Don’t fix the all day events area, allow it to scroll as I move up and down in day view. I use all day events a lot and sometimes this means I can’t see […]

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Information Architecture User Experience

Upcoming conferences: IDEA and CanUX

I’m off to a couple conferences in the next few months: IDEA Conference The IDEA Conference is a yearly conference about Information: Design, Experience and Access that is sponsored by the Information Architecture Institute. I’m looking forward to seeing David Armano (Critical Mass), Chris Crawford, Bill DeRouchey, Dave Gray, Andrew Hinton and Edwina von Gal. CanUX This Canadian UX conference is a great […]

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Web Analytics

Many Eyes

If you haven’t toyed with it yet, Many Eyes is an interesting tool for sharing and visualizing data buried in spreadsheets, tables or text. Created by scientists at IBM, it’s a compelling for visualizing information, discovering unexpected patterns or insights. I haven’t had the chance to run some web analytics data through it, but I suspect […]

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Miscellany

Environmental impacts of sales and marketing

Two interesting pieces I came across this week that speak to the environmental impacts of everyday marketing and sales activities: Drink Outside the Box A standard wine bottle holds 750 milliliters of wine and generates about 5.2 pounds of carbon-dioxide emissions when it travels from a vineyard in California to a store in New York. […]

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Miscellany

Bert and Ernie Mashup

Gotta love stuff like this. Brilliant!

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E-mail Marketing

WhatCounts/Pivotal Veracity Webinar

The ever-talented team at WhatCounts has teamed up with Josie Walls (WhatCounts) and Michelle Eichner (Pivotal Veracity — without a doubt the worst web company name ever!) and is holding a free webinar August 21, 2008 entitled Email Deliverability Secrets Revealed. Should be a good way to get on top of the ~20% of email that is […]

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Analytics Vendors Web Analytics

ClickTale upgrades

The folks at ClickTale have upgraded their app to include some new features. Included in the changes: Form analytics (read about form analytics on their blog post) Improved recording and playback so you can now see all visitor actions inside online forms including mouse movements, keystrokes and interactions with controls such as drop-down lists, check boxes, […]