Inconsistency

I really enjoyed Malcolm Gladwell’s popular book the Tipping Point and was anxiously waiting for his new book “Outliers” to come out.  It finally did, but with a harsh review from the New York Times.
“Malcolm Gladwell’s two humongous best sellers, “The Tipping Point” and “Blink,” share a shake-and-bake recipe that helps explain their popularity. Both popularize scientific, [...]

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The accuracy is a hit and miss.  The app is quite good in recognizing words with distinctive sounds.  I said “IKEA brooklyn”,”The Chocolate Room Brooklyn” and “The Spotted Pig New York” and it returned the right results.  It didn’t understand my name (of course, who knows Hui is not pronounced wii?) or “Ugg Soho”.
However, the [...]

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There is this pair of shoes I really want to return to Zappos. I keep on delaying on the return because the box is huge and is hard to bring it into the office. There is no rush thanks to the 365 days return policy.
On Friday night we happened to have rented a [...]

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According to the website, Protonotes are
“notes that you add to your prototype that allow project team members to discuss system functionality, design, and requirements directly on the prototype. You can think of it like a discussion board/wiki in direct context of your prototype.“
It is an extremely useful tool to have if you ever do HTML [...]

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WallSwaps have a pretty cool interface.  Just hold the ctrl key and move the mouse and the screen will follow wherever your mouse pointer goes.

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I know this post is a bit late seeing that the panel was last week but I just got around to watching it.  The conference in question is the Web 2.0 Summit in SF.  The panel is the infamous Jerry Yang’s interview.  There are a lot of reviews online on his performance and definitely some [...]

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