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Archive for August, 2008

iCal Events

I love attention to detail and progressive disclosure, especially in interface design. I was amazed to see that Mac OS X “Leopard” rendered my ICS file icons with accurate dates and even summary data.

Windows “Mojave”

Apple fanboys can’t wait to tout the latest release, regardless of the bugs and inconvienences. What does it say about your corporate brand and product image, when it’s Microsoft has to convince people their current release is decent (by convincing them its the next release)?

Phelps ties Ewry!

Tomorrow morning everyone will be talking about Michael Phelps breaking the Olympic record by earning his 10th Gold medal. Has everyone forgotten about Ray Ewry, the Purdue University alumnus who earned his tenth medal (with an asterisk) in 1908?

Who’s the Boss?

Ever felt overworked, unsupported and the unofficial center of your company’s universe, while nobody else knows what you’re doing? A new study from MIT’s Human Dynamics Group is using reality mining to demonstrate how social networking in the real world may reveal your unrealized value.