Category Archives: Efficient

BarackObama.com’s Interactive Infographic

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I received an email from Jim Messina of BarackObama.com telling me that They had passed the 1 million grassroots donors mark. 147,281 donors were from California. 43 donors were named Charity. …like me!  But best of all, it sends me to a great interactive infographic. A few good points for online e-government/political outreach: User Personalization is pretty awesome when you want to make me feel specific in a group of a million. Infographics are a fun way to break Read more [...]

EyeGuide™ Makes Eye Tracking Affordable and Accessible (Video)

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Grinbath, a developer of affordable usability and assistive technologies, just released a great overview video of their eye tracking product EyeGuide™.**  The product that released today is a complete suite including hardware, capture software, and analyze software.  Best of all, it’s under $1500.     Eye tracking technologies can be extremely expensive, making it inaccessible to those looking to broaden their understanding of user behavior and actions.  EyeGuide™’s Read more [...]

Efficient: Facebook Site Governance Vote

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Well...sort of efficient. When I tried voting the first couple of times I received all these error messages. In any case, if you haven't heard voting has now begun for the new Terms of Service (TOS) on Facebook - revised version with an input of comments from users and experts or reverting back to the 9/08 version before the mass hysteria of libertarian-esque outcry (It's the internet. We're still the wild, wild west). Go here to get to the vote. Way more efficient than Mark Zuckerberg's Read more [...]

Efficient: Facebook – Events and Lightboxes

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I kind of hesitated writing "efficient" and "facebook" next to each other, but there are a few changes to facebook I have liked (and I'm kind tired of being a 'negative nancy' - where does that phrase come from? all the nancy's i know aren't negative - 'cause I'm generally pretty chipper).  The thing that striked me recently  that I liked was when I created an event listing. Well... When I finished creating an event.  The process of creating the event itself is quite annoying.  As I do Read more [...]