Archive for the 'Reviews' Category
Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
I hadn’t heard of PayPerPost before reading Robert Scoble’s stance on it earlier today. The gist is that a blog author signs up with the service and then browses for “topics” of interest. These are topics that were hand chosen by paying advertisers. The author write an article on the subject and if PayPerPost approves […]
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Thursday, June 15th, 2006
It’s been a little while since I critiqued (or mercilessly attacked, depending on your perspective) an application’s UI. Actually, it hasn’t been that long at all, but I just downloaded and tried the Mac OS X version of Meetro, and we might as well learn from some of their successes and mistakes. Let me just […]
Posted in Cocoa, Software Reviews, Usability | 12 Comments »
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
I had an off-line chat with Andrew Stone, to see what his reaction was to my recent entry about the design of Videator. He agreed to let me publish his response here as a counterpoint to my pretty strong criticism. He makes some good points and at the end of the day, he’s right: it’s […]
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
(Note: Now updated with specific UI criticisms of Andrew Stone’s Videator application. Scroll down to the middle if you’ve already read the first part) John C. Welch has posted a scathing critique of Andrew Stone’s new Videator core video application. In fact, he’s used his reaction to the application as an opportunity to confess that […]
Posted in Book Reviews, Cocoa, Software Reviews, Technology, Usability | 28 Comments »