July 3rd, 2009
Limerick, ME
Nice iPhone pic taken at Pickerel Pond in Limerick, ME
March 3rd, 2009
Microsoft Office Labs Vision 2019
Microsoft Office Labs releases “vision of the future” videos every six months or so. Vision 2019 was launched a few days ago.
While much of the technology is Microsoft-centric (someday everyone will have a Surface table), the concepts are insightful and cool. Enjoy.
Also check out their Healthcare Vision demo.
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February 9th, 2009
Cool Presentation from TED - Grow your Own Fresh Air
Check out this interesting presentation given at the TED Conference by Kamal Meattle of Greenspaces, one of the world’s “greenest” office buildings.
The presentation shows that by using three common houseplants you can greatly increase the amount of fresh air in your workplace or home. Greenspaces’ researchers ran a 15-year test and the findings were nothing short of astounding.
The slideshare presentation is below. More info can be found here.
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February 2nd, 2009
Google’s Task List Goes Mobile
Google’s popular new Tasks application is now available to iPhone users via the browser. Task synchronization - especially for Outlook users - has been one a major downside of the iPhone that can only be solved by cludgey work-arounds.
The brief video below shows how easy it to use Google as a task manager. More details are also available at TechCrunch. I hope they’ll create a Outlook Task Sync application like they’ve done with Google Calendar.
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January 30th, 2009
Google Testing a New Adwords Interface?
Google has begun testing a new interface for Adwords. A few MCC users have received invites to experiment with the new UI (not me, unfortunately).
It looks like you can request an invite through the Inside Adwords blog.
Here’s a post from Tim Cohn that offers a brief preview with a screenshot.
At first glance, it looks like they plan to integrate more Google Analytics-like charting features and possibly more robust navigation.
Adwords is due for a UX upgrade. The current approach seems to be collapsing under the weight of all the new features. Some things I’d like to see:
- Easier exporting of tables and campaign information
- Better integration of reporting
- More robust integration with Google Analytics
- Improved role management between team members using MCC
- A better campaign or ad group comparison engine