Archive for the ‘ Review ’ Category

Smart Companies know when to say goodbye

Google made the right move here. Wave was revolutionary. And it had potential. But a failed product launch is failed product launch. Knowing when to pull a product and not to invest in the marketing and continuing development of it is the mark of a brilliantly mature company. I am sure we will [ READ MORE ]

Trust Dusty

I rarely make product recommendations, but I realized this morning that I was using something all the time.  It was so reliable and useful that I forgot I was using. After losing my USB Iphone charger and the Laptop USB Iphone Cable I found myself in Gatwick needing a charger for my iphone.  I bought the first thing [ READ MORE ]

Yummy business card design

  • June 28th, 2010
  • Posted in Review

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The way things are supposed to be

Every now and then something is exactly as it should be. Maybe its a painting you see, a restaurant you visit, or customer service you receive at a store. Creative Commons is a perfect example of this. Ordering a phone line from Telefonica in Spain is the exact opposite. I came across Mutopia when searching [ READ MORE ]

Three Frames

  • July 4th, 2009
  • Posted in Review

Hat tip to the fellas at Projectionist, thanks for tuning me into threeframes.net [ READ MORE ]

Innovations that matter

  • December 4th, 2008
  • Posted in Review

I love it when innovations really make a difference. You know the roomba , the AirBlade and now this. The video is a bit slow getting started but worth watching. [ READ MORE ]

Danish Film Festival in Austin

  • June 3rd, 2008
  • Posted in Review

So we watched Reconstruction last night. It had my second favorite Danish actor – Nikolaj Lie Kaas as the main character. It was avant-garde and romantic. Very non-linear narrative, like a dramatic romantic version of Stranger than Fiction. Still. One of the major problems I had actually “loving’ this film was the [ READ MORE ]