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Author Archives: Tim Cederman-Haysom
Web Usability panel
I just got home from a presentation organised by WebGuild which was a panel discussion on web usability. Met lots of interesting people of course, but the highlight for me was of course hearing Tom Chi, Jeremy Ashley, and David … Continue reading
“Social layer” vs “Social network”
This afternoon we (Trovix) released Trovix Connect, the new version of our Trovix job portal. (incidentally, we’ve been using that as internal name well before Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect!) I feel like we’ve kind of jumped on the … Continue reading
Spamming users
One of the great things about Australia is we have a very strong department in the government called the ACCC. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission does a great job of keeping things fair in Australia between businesses and consumers. … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer issues, Usability, Web products
Tagged email, spam, Usability
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Silicon Valley pictures
Some photos from around the Silicon Valley area. Apologies for the quality, but they’re all from the iPhone. The Computer History Museum presents – the original Utah teapot: The Crittendon end of the Google campus – you can see NASA … Continue reading
Posted in Bay Area
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Bubble 2.0
Annoying parodies aside, this is pretty spot-on. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I]
Posted in Amusing, Bay Area, Startups, Web products
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The curse of updates
One of the worst things about the ubiquity of the internet is the crutch of automatic updates. Who cares if our code isn’t feature complete? So what if there are bugs galore? It works okay – let’s ship and just … Continue reading
Posted in Design
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Unsubstantiated statement of the day
The US will not get rid of $1 bills until $5 becomes the norm for minimum tips.
Posted in Miscellaneous
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The best feature of Firefox
I may be a little late to the party, but in the last 3 months I’ve begun using this feature more and more: Typing something in the address bar does an I’m Feeling Lucky search on Google. Sounds simple, and … Continue reading
Real World Ubiquitous Computing – Skype Video Calls
There are few people who would count Skype as ubiquitous computing. However I’ve found it is not the technology that defines ubiquitous computing, but how it is applied. Since I moved to the US I’ve really enjoyed having a Skype … Continue reading
Posted in Gadgets, Ubiquitous computing
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Picasa photo tuning
This is a continuation of Part 1 of my Picasa discussion. I am continually surprised by how powerful the relatively simple photo tuning tools of Picasa are. Take for example this photo my wife snapped while flying from Seattle to … Continue reading