Articles Posted July 2009
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Is your car a sculpture?
Somewhere in the halls of the Minneapolis Institute of Art the Tatra87 is on display. You’ll be forgiven for not knowing that this is a car because cars and their makers have been under much…
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Twelpforce, my hero?
With over 5,000 followers, Best Buy sure has an online entourage for their new twitter-based help service. Best Buy stresses its commitment to customer service and has several Geek Squad employees as well as tech specialists responding to consumer complaints. All…
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Organizing with gadgets
So you’ve lost your tenth charger and your laptop’s almost out of battery and you’ve just barely made it to your gate for your flight to Timbuktu. And in these harried moments you left your…
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Twitter is for getting noticed
At home eating my delicious ham and cheese sandwich with gourmet chips and a pickle. Also drinking a very cold glass of raspberry lemonade. That’s what you might be doing now but should you really…
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How to keep ‘em coming back
In the FAQ section of a company, a customer outlines the type of swimming pool pump and the subsequent problems then asks – “Is my pump broken?” The FAQ genie answers – “NO.” And technically…
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From search to fashion merch
3 ex-Yahoo engineers created a user-generated content-based online magazine. Collages called “sets” are compiled by aspiring fashionistas and shared among other users. The site, Polyvore, is rapidly growing.
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Blu-ray, Flash drive or DVD
Even as physical music has given way to digital downloads and various companies are looking at live streaming movies, enquiring minds want to know what types of players to invest in. Should it be a…
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Outside the box design
True outside-the-box thinking took over when a creative group charged with assembling an unusual advertising for Yellow Pages in New Zealand went into the forest and up a redwood tree. Sure, all sorts of folk…
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