Tynt

I was looking for something else and discovered this collaboration tool. A cool way to share thoughts and insights.

It could be used to virtual design collaboration...

A lighter shade of Palin

I'm not sure where to start. I know, here. No wait, here. And I thought Heather Mallick's article was quite clever and a little vicious. Too bad the corp ran home to momma.

Biden may not be RFK or Johnson, but he's gonna mop the floor with her. A pig with lipstick is still a pig. Reminds me of this debate.

UPDATE: Introducing the Sarah Palin automatic interview generator

UPDATE the 2: This was on DailyKOS today. Gaw, that debate was painful to watch.

UPDATE the 3: She spent $150K on pant suits. Cripes!!!

Broken Telephone

Finally, Canada is going to have a national DNC list. Users will be able to opt-in and telemarketers are out of luck. What does this mean? Well, email spam will likely increase, direct mail dollars will go up. OOH advertising may also increase.

UPDATE: Oops, we broke it.

Does Del.icio.us mean anything to you?

"It means customers are listening to each other rather than you"...This whole social marketing thing should be scaring the crap out of traditional marketers. Some key highlights from a recent white paper by Blast Radius:

- Consumer voices are part of the ethos surrounding every brand
- People you don’t know or understand are influencing your customers
- A flood of new product options makes it harder to differentiate
- Traditional advertising is on the decline as consumers flock online for information and entertainment
- Consumers are not paying attention to passive advertising

Paranoid Android

We've all heard the hype about the iPhone and other smart phone devices. Now Google is trying to get into the action with a device that runs their mobile software, Android. "Analysts say T-Mobile could sell as many as 500,000 G1 devices before the end of the year." We'll see. I like my new crackberry, thanks.

DOOH!

No, not Homer. And not the Olympics, The Canadian Out-of-Home Digital Association. An interesting article in the recent Strategy magazine. The OOH market in Canada will hit $507 million by 2012, so we should pay attention.

UPDATE: In today's Marketing, CODA have announced proper guidelines for Digital OOH advertising.

Quick and Dirty

Found this today on BoxesandArrows. A simple way to do quick usability testing. Jacob Nielsen says it best, and I'm paraphrasing, but testing with 1 user is better than not doing any testing at all...Just read this.

Roger Hargreaves

A random thought in my head yesterday about "Mr Grumpy" led me to some old memories. I bought a few of these children's books on a trip to London. So clever for their visual representation of emotions. So, a nod of the cap to Mr. Hargreaves. These might be kids books, but they speak volumes.

Sticky Note Ninja

One of simplest and most ubiquitous techniques to categorize and order information is the card sort or sticky note exercise. A recent presentation at UX Summit 08 put a finer point on this art. But, you can have fun with them, too.

UDPATE: This is cool!

Poll of Polls

This is a cool widget. You can certainly see the regional differences, although they don't seem to be as important as they used to be.

Visual Thinking, Muppet Style

This is a little trippy, but Kermit had it right.

John from Calgary...

I'm not a strong user of social media sites. Actually, wait...I use Linkedin, Flickr and delicious, and of course wiki and YouTube. I also read select things on Twitter and do use stumble.
What I don't use is Facebook. Not interested, thanks. But, even if I'm not a user, it's worth paying attention: "With more than 100 million users each, MySpace and Facebook..."

Considerable work is currently being done in Social Media Marketing. It is incumbent on marketers to keep tabs (pun intended).

Oh, and be careful what you do out there. The man is watching.

UDPATE: Kids are doing this more than ever. "According to a recent study, more than 750,000 kids between the ages of 8 and 12 have set up a profile on the big social-networking sites." A disturbing, emerging trend.

UPDATE #2: Porn is no longer king. Social Media sites are...wha?

More Cowbell

Christopher Walken is one of my favorites. There was even a move afoot a few years ago to get him to run for President. In an example of how we 'are teaching the machine', I uploaded an mp3 from ACDC to www.morecowbell.dj for a quick mash-up. Here is the result:

UX Week 2008

If you're into User Experience, we missed an opportunity to learn from the best. Or did we? BoxesandArrows and Adaptive Path both have online repositories full of all kinds of stuff.

Nice try

Came across my desk that the PC party was going to try a social marketing campaign for the upcoming election similar to what Obama did. Wow. FAIL. Despite the Social Marketing ribbon, it still looks like, well, I could have done better.

UPDATE: OK, I take it back. This other site is quite clever and is trying to engage 'South Park Conservatives'.

Shiny, New

Google introduced their new browser this week. I've downloaded it and used it. Me likey! Makes perfect sense that they'd try and take on the 2 big boys. It will interesting to see what happens to penetration rates.

UPDATE: Apparently some people I like, don't like Chrome. I'll make up my own mind, thank you.

UPDATE: I read this yesterday. Apparently both FF3 and Chrome have this silent running feature - 'just call it porn mode'.

I seriously Grok you

Grok: To grok (pronounced /ˈgrɒk/) is to share the same reality or line of thinking with another physical or conceptual entity.

I had forgotten about this rich internet application. It's a seriously cool visualization tool.