Archive for February, 2009:

Zombies Attack Austin

Published on February 3rd, 2009 4 Comments

With SXSW looming, Austin may need to clean up its zombie problem. I’m in a local news mood for some reason, maybe because I rewatched Anchorman last night and just ran through the video from KXAN’s coverage of a roadside sign hack from last week. Here’s the video: This made the local news here last [...]

Reply-All RIFF’ed

Published on February 2nd, 2009 4 Comments

When I read this one, I had to wonder if April 1 had come early. “Nielsen Deletes Reply-To-All Button” But it’s true. Nielsen’s CIO sent a memo alerting all Nielsen employees that that they “Reply to All” feature from Microsoft Outlook, their corporate email client. Oh, the irony if the memo had been an email. [...]

Want to Help with Mobile Usability?

Published on February 2nd, 2009 4 Comments

Continuing today’s theme, which is, at least for me, mobile apps, a team within our usability group contacted me about a survey they’re running. If you own one of those fancy-pants cellular telephones that does more than make phone calls, like an iPhone, an Android phone, or one of those BlackBerrys (or is it Berries) [...]

Optimized for iPhone

Published on February 2nd, 2009 4 Comments

Did you know that for quite some time now (months), this blog has been optimized for iPhone/iPod Touch and Android phone viewing? Rich installed the WPtouch plugin what seems like years ago. I know, time has lost its meaning for me. In the past, I rarely came here on my iPhone, forgetting we had this [...]

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