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Archive for the 'videos' Category
Why it is better to under-promise and over-deliver
Published 18 December 2008 software , videos 4 CommentsTags: capoeria, fight, video
Meh for Mapple
Published 6 December 2008 Apple , MacOSX , software , videos 2 CommentsTags: Apple, mapple, parody, simpsons
** update **
There was a link to a few minutes of the Simpsons making fun of Apple. The video has now been removed due to a “breach of terms of use”. I wonder whose lawyers got to it first, Apple or Fox?
Visualization
Published 13 November 2008 miscellaneous , software , videos 4 CommentsTags: air travel, aircraft, movie, visualisation, visualization
This video shows all commercial air traffic in the world during a 24-hour period. Although the technique used is very simple in principal, it conveys a huge amount of information in a short space of time.
From gdyel2007 at dailymotion via TechTalk Newsletter.
I use various simple visualisation techniques in my table planning software, for example males can be shown in blue and females in pink. This allows the host to check at a glance whether they have a good distribution of genders.
Could you use colour, shape, size, positioning, motion or other visual cues to better convey information to your users?
ISVtube
Published 6 November 2008 microISV , news , resources , software , videos ClosedTags: isv, microISV, software, talks, videos
ISVtube was launched recently by Thomas Holz of easy2sync.com. The site aggregates videos of particular interest to microISVs and could be a very useful resource. To suggest additional videos email Thomas at:
Hacking the press
Published 17 October 2008 marketing , software , videos 5 CommentsTags: journalists, mac, pr, press releases, public relations
I came across a link on the Mac small business mailing list to a video of a talk called “hacking the press”. In it Mac journalist and author Adam C. Engst talks about the dos and don’ts of using the press to promote your software. While the talk has a Mac slant, I think 90% of it is also relevant to those developing commercial software for other platforms. It is particularly interesting to hear how things work from a journalist’s point of view.
