Category Archives: Product Design

The New York Tech MeetUp- The March Edition

Image by ShanaLC via Flickr I know it is late.  I’ve had a humongously amazing, yet busy week. (and I don’t normally talk like that)  I feel so thankful that I am finally really starting to become less shy with people in the NY Tech Community.  Everyone I am meeting has been wonderful.  Y’all are great [...]
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The IPad UI stupidity

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Even though I don’t really care one way or another about whether I’m blogging about what everyone else is blogging about, after seeing pictures and having to deal with weeks of (over)-hype: With all due respect to the Blogosphere, Mr. Steve Jobs, and Apple Inc., that IPad looks like it has [...]
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Seesmic Look! Would it work for my Ex?

Image by David Berkowitz via Flickr So Loic Le Meur and Seesmic decided to release Look. And being Shana-licious, I stuck it on a netbook to test. As many people have commented, it is an extremely beautiful UI.  This doesn’t mean I am not going to nitpick at it.  The question is, Would I recommend this to my [...]
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FailProduct: Mendeley

Image by quinn.anya via Flickr This is one of those products which makes me so sad.  It actually could be a really useful product. As soon as I saw it, I realized why college is so depressing when it comes to research.  it’s because no matter what you do, the stuff out there, sucks. Part of this is [...]
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NYTech Meetup, The January Edition

Image by Marco Arment via Flickr Alright people, the New York Tech Meetup in ~4000 Words:
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Critiques In Tech

Image by qthomasbower via Flickr In effort to catch up on posts I am thinking about (I still need to finish Techstars boulder, write up about the last NYTech Meetup which I will have to watch post the event, and read up on all the crazy news about ATT&T and mobile phones…and school), I thought I [...]
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Crowdsourcing Starting Up 2, the Ideas

Part Two, And A very Terrifying Part Two
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quicky product review

So i finally got off thewaitlist for a product I really wanted to test. As in desperately.  Not sure even why.  This stuff is turning into my new crack.  And I am a nice kid who never even had pot.  And only drank legally in moderation.
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The New York Tech Meetup RoundUp Take 2

Image by Esthr via Flickr September is Education Month.  Which is awesome because I am heading back to my last quarter of actual class this September if all goes well.  Scary times for all.
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Walled Garden Social Networks

So some people out there think that totally open social networks are absolute brilliant and wonderful.  I’m inclined to agree with them that they are brilliant and wonderful for certain purposes. Walled Gardens are equally useful for the right people at the right time.  Certain parts of life have not are are always going to be [...]
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