After a brainstorm session, Kirk, Michael and I finally came up with a project proposal for the Design Interactions class. We wanted to do something that we could relate to, that we’re passionate about and that we could work on long after class is done. The winning idea came from the concept of Kirk’s existing [...]

For a market leader like Microsoft, it has to be brutal to be the second — a far second — in the market portable of music devices. According to NPB study quoted on The Seattle PI, the Zune has 8-10% of the market vs. iPods’ 80%. Does this mean Microsoft should give up on?
I don’t [...]

Some people out there really dislike slides because they dumb things down and make us think in linear way (See Edward Tufte’s essay on PPT cognotive style). But I love when I find a digestible slides that can summarize complex topics and can tell a story. I spent some time on Slideshare and found this [...]

For those of you who are wondering about baby-boomers and pre-boomers attitude towards communication technology, here’s a bit of insight into a fabulous 88 year old Episcopalian minister (my father-in-law). In a recent visit to Seattle we got to talking about technology and I pulled out my little Canon Elph to record him. Check out [...]

Skype has long established itself as the leading VOIP solution for the world. Many competitors have challenged that position mostly by undercutting Skype prices, however none seem to gain such popularity. For example, compete.com data shows that two of Skype competitors, Jajah (a Yahoo VOIP solution) and OovoO, have significantly less traffic (43K-55K monthly visitors [...]