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- WorldWide Telescope - It's all about the Experience
- Robert Scoble has a really good post up about the WorldWide Telescope, a project just announced out of Microsoft Research. Why am I blogging about a Microsoft Research Project? Because it sounds like an awesome experience. And frankly, when we think of experience, all the things that are important are...
- Tags: Experience, Blogging, Internet, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Hot Racing 2 (exe)
- Ready! Set! Go! Hot Racing 2 gives you the ultimate racing adventure experience. Pick your favorite car and choose from over four dozen different tournaments. Grab bonuses and be the first to the finish line. Amazing 3D graphics and exciting music enhance your driving experience. Feel the rush. This version...
- Tags: Experience
- Software downloads 2008-02-08
- Microsoft memo: Windows 7 and Windows Live to be even more tightly joined at the hip
- The "plus" in Microsoft's Software+Services strategy is going to get a lot more oomph in the not-too-distant future -- at least according to a planning memo for Windows Live Wave 3 that I had a chance to see recently. The memo -- authored by Chris Jones, Corporate...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Experience, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- MXPlay Web (9)
- MXPLAY is an Internet Explorer and Firefox add-on that provides an unprecedented social media experience. Discover, experience and bookmark music & video (YouTube) from the Web. Chat and instantly share your media with other users. Additionally, MXPLAY Web gives users the unique ability to view streamed live interactive concerts, in...
- Tags: Experience, MXPlay Web, Web Browsers, Corporate Communications, Internet, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-12-17
- Creating the Ultimate Customer Experience in Retail
- Survival in today's highly competitive retail environment requires more than just low prices and unique products. To stand out from the rest, businesses must focus on the customer's shopping experience. This webcast discover the surprising secrets to successful retailing. The attendee will learn how to use technology to transform the...
- Tags: Experience, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Webcasts 2007-12-02
- MB Free Dowsing (exe)
- MB Free Dowsing Software is an advanced yet simple to use dowsing software. This software lets people record their dowsing experiences and also explains the meanings of the different symbols that occur in one's dowsing. It allows one to keep track of the different dowsing experiences in the form of...
- Tags: Software, Experience, MB Free Dowsing Software, Tools & Techniques, Performance Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Software downloads 2007-11-23
- Why a gPhone (Google Phone) is a lovely... no, an awful.. no, a lovely idea
- At last count, "consumers" was the No. 1 answer to Dana Blankenhorn's survey question asking who a Google Phone (gPhone) will help the most. Some are speculating that the gPhone will get announced along with some other news that Google is releasing on November 5. I...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Phone, Mobile, Google Maps, YouTube Inc., Apple Inc., Experience, Truth, Service, gPhone, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- 1-800-Flowers CIO: Steve Bozzo - Transcript
- Dan Farber: Steve thanks for joining me. Steve Bozzo: Oh, my pleasure Dan. Dan Farber: Steve, you've been at 1800 flowers for just a short time, and prior to that you were at the MetLife insurance company in the international division. What's...
- Tags: Web, Flower, Environment, Customer, ROI, Experience, 1-800-FLOWERS, Technology, Roi/Tco, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Marketing, Internet, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- Usability Testing for Flash Applications
- Adobe's Flash technology has become one of the leading contenders in the Rich Internet Applications (RIA) market, with over 9 % of all browser users able to access Flash content. Providing users with a content rich, interactive user experience places a significant emphasis on the quality and look and feel...
- Tags: Experience, Internet Application, Adobe Flash Technology, Internet, Web Browsers
- White papers 2007-08-08
- SunRocket-to-TeleBlend reader: I can't get incoming calls
- A reader of this blog who has moved from SunRocket to TeleBlend just pinged me to tell me that according to his experience, incoming call service on TeleBlend service has been out for a day now."My (new) business is undoubtedly suffering," he writes. "There is nothing on the Teleblend...
- Tags: Network, Experience, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- Travelocity CTO - Transcript
- Dan: Barry, Thanks for joining me. Barry Vandevier: Thanks Dan for having me. Dan: Now Sabre Holdings has been around for a while in the travel industry as an infrastructure provider to many other travel companies, and it seems to me...
- Tags: Performance, Product, Customer, Experience, Travelocity, Technology, Dan, Vandevier, Performance Management, Web 2.0, Data Centers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- Wyzo (exe)
- Wyzo is a new Web browser that focuses on optimizing your online media experience. Wyzo gives you easy access to all your favorite media sites, to make it easy to download media content and inform your friends about your discoveries. Wyzo integrates your torrent downloads inside our download manager. Now...
- Tags: Web, Experience, Wyzo, Channel Management, Web Browsers, Marketing, Internet
- Software downloads 2007-06-20
- Bill Gates and Steve Jobs sound excited about Rich Internet Applications
- I didn't have a chance to watch all of the video from the D conference but I was pointed to part of the discussion in which Bill and Steve talk about software and I came away with the impression that both men were very excited about what the blending of...
- Tags: Rich Media, Rich Internet Applications, Experience
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Microsoft Surface could be a great Rich Internet Application platform
- I am very, very impressed with Microsoft Surface. I haven't touched it and I don't know all the specifics, but after watching the videos on the site and reading some other reports, I'm excited about what this means. Now, is it going to be affordable? Heck no. Is it going...
- Tags: Experience, Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- To browser or not? It doesn't really matter
- Rich Internet Applications have gotten a lot of great attention recently. The technologies and acronyms are blending together in a seemingly endless soup of technobabble. Part of that comes with any new technology and in the hyper-attentive world of the web people are quick to make judgments and even quicker...
- Tags: Apollo, Experience, Flash, Flex, Silverlight
- Blog posts 2007-05-28
- Did anyone complain about the graphics in Super Mario Bros?
- There's an open thread going on over at Web Worker Daily that asks, do Rich Internet Applications matter to you. Anne Zelenka has some commentary about what she thinks of RIAs and makes the point I see a lot, that things like Gmail, and del.icio.us offer "more-than-acceptable" interfaces with a...
- Tags: Experience, Rich Enterprise Applications, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- More validation that a rich Experience is becoming a must
- Great news from eWeek that IBM is taking a long, hard look at enhancing the user experience of its products. According to the article, IBM is placing a huge emphasis on a better experience in Lotus and across its entire product line:"We're reacting to market realities," [Mike Rhodin, General Manager...
- Tags: Experience, Rich Enterprise Applications, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- RIA summit: "Unleashing the Power of Rich Internet Applications"
- Adobe and effectiveUI are putting on a free Rich Internet Application Summit on Thursday, May 3rd, in Denver that Ill be a speaker for. While its obviously targeted at Adobe products, its going to be one of the first conference Ive seen that focuses on the business side of Rich...
- Tags: Apollo, Adobe, Rich Internet Applications, Experience, effectiveUI, eBay, Design
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Why Rich Internet Applications are important for the browser
- At Ignite Seattle this evening I hung out with Ted Leung for a while and we chatted about Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Coming from the open source world, he always has a very interesting take on the RIA world and I always learn a ton from him. In this case,...
- Tags: XULRunner, XUL, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, WFP/E, Windows Presentation Foundation, Rich Internet Applications, Flash, Experience, Dekoh
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Desktop vs. Browser - when to deploy applications for each
- Since I talk so much about browser applications versus desktop applications, I thought it would be a good idea to blog about some thoughts I have regarding when to choose one delivery mechanism or the other. In a lot of ways, it isnt even a matter of richness anymore. Most...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Experience
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
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