This might sound stupid, but I was struggling to find out what font Microsoft used in their menus in Office 2007. I thought it was Calibri, but that was incorrect. It turns out to be Segoe UI. Google sort of let me down there. I googled and googled and couldn’t…
John McCain has proposed a 300 million dollar prize for a better battery. Although I certainly am in favor of a significant increase in funding for batteries, I don’t understand why this is a prize. Why not just invest 300 million in R&D grants for better batteries? Is it really…
I recently upgraded my DirecTV so that I get HD and DVR in one box. It took a week to get it actually working. Some technical problem, lets skip that. The device has an ethernet port so I bought a special ethernet to wifi connection. It took a little while,…
I don’t have a Blackberry. I appreciate it’s UX very much for the primary user. It’s downright addicting. However, the UX of the person WATCHING the person using the Blackberry isn’t nearly as good. Hold on a sec. Click. Spin ball. Type. Wait. Wait. Ok, I’m back. How lame is…
I just noticed something this morning. I always knew the arrow was sort of a smile. The M and the A were the eyes and the arrow was the smile. However, I didn’t notice that the arrow goes from A to Z until today. From A to Z. They don’t…
Check out the chart showing history of online advertising spend. It’s fascinating. This is why Yahoo still exists, even though they are getting clobbered by Google.
Business Model #1: Enterprise This is when your product costs over 100k. Maybe even in the millions. The sales cycle is pretty long. It requires lots of documents to make the sale and build the product. RFI, RFP, MRD, PRD, Roadmap, the list goes on and on. This is a…
This is EXACTLY how Katie and Matthew interact. Except replace Lois with Katie.
This is an update to my post previously about income in the United States. Based on 111,617,402 households in the US as of 2006. Household Income, 2006 Total People Percent Less than $49,999 57,218,480 51% $50,000 to $74,999 21,221,889 19% $75,000 to $99,999 13,214,551 12% $100,000 to $199,999 16,145,482 14%…
A nice review of Marketo. I really feel like Marketo is starting to gain momentum in a serious way. Articles like this make me feel all warm inside that I was able to have a positive impact on a company and on the people who use the product. This raises…
I am so far behind in my usage of Microsoft technologies. I haven’t installed Windows Server 2008 anywhere. I haven’t installed Exchange 2007 on any system. I haven’t tried Sharepoint Server 2007. I feel so lame. They have SP1 on these for crying out loud. I am way behind. I…
This will probably never make it to someone who actually matters on the Microsoft Windows team, but who knows. It’s worth a try. You never know. The Microsoft WIndows team should spend the next 3 years NOT adding new features. They should spend the entire time improving performance and quality. …
jQuery has just released version 1.5 of their user interface module called “jQuery UI”. Maybe not the most snazzy of names, however, the module is a major leap forward for web developers and application developers. You can see the details at http://ui.jquery.com although the high interest has crash the server,…
Every once in a while, I do a little exploration on the web to look for interesting things. I don’t do it that often because it is a road that leads to everywhere and I could get lost for hours. However, I feel compelled to do it a little bit…