Went to a local iPhone-developers’ meeting last night (March 30, 2009), which I found on Gary’s Guide – a great resource for meet-ups, conferences, networking opps in the Boston area (oddly enough the iPhone meet-up is no longer listed on the site). The event was organized by Raizlabs, a small dev firm in Brookline. It [...]
Welcome to the era of digital creativity – building an audience and a creative career in the digital age. The era of digital creativity is a term coined by Scott Kirsner in his new book Fans, Friends, and Followers – Building an Audience and a Creative Career in the Digital Age. The premise behind this [...]
Kodak Gallery, the online photo storage sharing service that I have been using since 2005, then known as Ofoto, advised me this morning: “To store photos at the Gallery, members with photo storage of more than 2 gigabytes (GB) must make annual minimum purchases totaling at least $19.99.** Failure to meet this requirement may result [...]
Today TechCrunch, and The Globe over the weekend exposed a rather ugly lawsuit filed by Carbonite against Promise Technology Inc. The Globe quotes: “Carbonite lost the backups of over 7,500 customers in a number of separate incidents, causing serious damage to Carbonite’s business and to its reputation as a reliable source for backup data service.” [...]
Made it to the MITX User Experience event this morning. Panelists included: Kerry Bodine, Hill Holiday Adamaya Ashk, Usability at Staples Toby Bottorf, WGBH Interactive Alex Jenkins, Microsoft Start-up Labs Fred Leichter, Fidelity Investments Chauncey Wilson, Autodesk You can find the Twitter event feed here. The discussion started around defining what good user experience is [...]
