Microsoft has released a technical preview of streetside photos, a Bing service which will overlay Flickr photos into Bing Streetview – including historical photos.
For all lovers of history, this means that you’ll soon be able to enter 3D renditions of historical landscapes, and walk through them – like a Star Trek holodeck without the [...]
http://www.amazon.com/gp/events/gno/002-8547268-6055232
Sweet, sweet UI from the UI gnomes at Amazon
Costco is now carrying Disney/Ratatouille branded “Abondance” cheese – see Mariannes Motifs: Abondance Cheese and Armagnac. The cheese is a fine hard chesse, somewhat reminiscent of Raclette (but stringy when melted, like Emmental). Someone at Disney but be smiling about that deal…
The good folks at Juice Analytics maintain a blog rich with analytical hints and tips.
See for instance the “Top Resources for Analysts: Excel, Data Analysis and Business Intelligence, and Charting, Visualization and Presentation“
(this is a review of just one of many sessions of User Experience 2006 in Seattle)
As Smorgasbord-design noted, “with NN/g you have to pay for the privilege of dealing with the (experts)”. After almost a day with John Boyd of Yahoo!, there’s no doubt he is an expert, but he seems constrained by how he [...]
http://www.agilemodeling.com/style/activityDiagram.htm
Provides a great simple reference to process modeling with key themes and examples. The specialist can dig deeper into UML, and the beginner can quickly grasp essential concepts.
Why do so-called Web 2.0 sites all look like they came from the same style school? This came to mind as I was reviewing some of the entries in the Solutionwatch blog.
The evidence:
1. Zurpy
2. Flock
3. Ning
4. del.icio.us
5. Flickr
6. Even Microsoft…
My top candidate reasons:
1. All Web 2.0 sites/projects/users are controlled by Google, and they’re all using [...]