by Schehrezade Davidson | Dec 30, 2009 | Usability
We all think we’re pretty observant people. We notice things that are important to us – a friend’s new shoes, the boss’ new briefcase. If we sit down with one of those “Spot the difference” puzzles we can find 5 things. In our own...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Dec 28, 2009 | Usability
Making it to the top of the BBC Technology page, a video posted on YouTube shows how the latest HP face recognition technology fails to “see” a black person. The video is pretty funny to watch. Have you seen it? If not, here it is for your viewing pleasure. In light...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Dec 23, 2009 | Retail
We’re thinking Blippy may be just a proverbial blip on the radar. The passive social networking site (meaning, it updates your status for you) tells your friends how much you’re spending, and where. It updates a twitter-like status about your credit card...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Dec 21, 2009 | Trends
Did you see this? Christian Harris put up a nice blog last week calling alphanumeric logins obsolete. Thanks for the shout-out Christian. The same article tells us that identity theft is up 33.1%, according to CIFAS, and that’s before taking into account the...
by Schehrezade Davidson | Dec 18, 2009 | Usability
Don’t you know that December is a great time to blog? There are end of year reviews, predictions for the next year, holiday hubub – this stuff nearly writes itself. Speaking of which, Earl Perkins at Gartner put up an interesting question the other week...
