Archive for March, 2009
Posted by Matt on March 24th, 2009 under User Experience Tags: User Experience, userfly, ux •
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While Userfly‘s promise is promising, it isn’t working very well after the first few days of use on www.tourvista.com. My biggest objections so far when reviewing Userfly recorded sessions: can’t review pages past sign in: once logged in, as the user is linking to different pages and managing their account, the review is booted back [...]
Posted by Matt on March 22nd, 2009 under All, Cool Stuff, Technology Tags: connect, facebook, rss, sync, twitter •
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Surprisingly more challenging than I would have expected, it’s nice to have this working now so I can just use Facebook to broadcast what I’m doing. Of course you don’t want to post your status manually to both Facebook and Twitter, and there are plenty of free services out there to help you do this [...]
Posted by Matt on March 19th, 2009 under All, Business Lessons Learned Tags: frustration •
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It seems to happen on a daily basis lately. Usually in the second half of the work day, I will get stuck on something and progressively “spin my wheels”, not able to solve the problem and getting really frustrated and flustered. When this happens, I typically get into “grind mode” and really dig in. And [...]
Posted by Matt on March 17th, 2009 under All, Cool Stuff, Technology Tags: sharing, syndicate, syndication, tube mogul, tubemogul, uploading, video •
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I’ve known about TubeMogul for a while but today was the first time I have used it, and let me tell ya, I’ll be using it again! TubeMogul lets you post your video onto many websites at once, versus having to manually upload your video to a bunch of different sites. The entire upload process [...]
Posted by Matt on March 15th, 2009 under All, Cool Stuff Tags: beer, dance •
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I still haven’t gotten tired of this one yet. Not a huge fan of Heineken, a bit too skunky for me. But this commercial is my all time fav. Remember David Elsewhere? He’s the first guy that really gets down dancing. Any party is instantly cool when Elsewhere is busting his moves. A few other [...]
Posted by Matt on March 12th, 2009 under Photography Tags: d60, nikon, photo, Photography, photos •
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I recently purchased the Nikon D60 camera for shooting virtual tour photos for my company TourVista Virtual Tours. This is a great camera, and my buddy Boosh who is a seasoned professional photographer passed along this advice for getting the most out of my pix: With the D60 you should have the capability to shoot [...]
Posted by Matt on March 6th, 2009 under All, Cool Stuff Tags: camera, cameras, cars, cop, police, surveillance, video •
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Being a software developer and lover, I can’t help but put this video on my blog. Conceptually, this all makes perfect sense. But the fact that a software team was able to pull this off is very inspiring!