Please link to your press

A cool new company starts.  Great. Gets some good press.  Great.  Shows all the big name logos of people who covered them on their homepage. Great.  Fails to link the image to the review.  Not great.

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Please link these.  I want to read your reviews.  I want to learn more.  Just link them!

Interesting idea about using Games in a nonprofit

If you don't have time for 20 slides, skip to the end.  The last 3 slides pretty much sums it up. 

Basically by rewarding people, non financially for behaviors we want, (donating to a cause, sharing info with someone) it helps make it fun and increase conversion and retention.  

Something to use with helpcapeverde.org/?

Subliminal Advertising – wow

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyQjr1YL0zg?wmode=transparent]

Of course the skeptic in me pointed out that it was a very specific example.  What else are you going to call a taxadermy company.  And introducing it, you show a giant bear?  Ad agencies want the client to like their work.  They are already trying to do what the client wants. It was "relatively easy" then to get the ad guys to do what he wanted.  But still kind of cool. 

Subliminal Advertising – wow

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyQjr1YL0zg?wmode=transparent]

Of course the skeptic in me pointed out that it was a very specific example.  What else are you going to call a taxadermy company.  And introducing it, you show a giant bear?  Ad agencies want the client to like their work.  They are already trying to do what the client wants. It was "relatively easy" then to get the ad guys to do what he wanted.  But still kind of cool. 

App Tip – Demos should be good

I recently tried out an iTunes cleaning app called TidySong.  

I was quite excited for it.  Until it didn't work.  

There are a couple different options, from adding album art, or fixing metadata. But every time I tried to do one of those options I would get this message. 

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Ok cool.  I'll fix 100 songs and see if I like it.  But when I could click on anything the app would go dead. 

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Ummmm ok?

Tip – Your app demo should make me want to buy it.  It should make my life easier.  Rainbows and butterflies should start flowing out of my computer because of your app.  It shouldn't be endlessly annoying.  

So goodbye TidySong.  It looked like such a promising relationship. 

BYU beats Florida in Double Overtime

Finally.  After going 17 years without a first round NCAA victory, my Cougars put away Florida.  Amazing Game.  Jimmer had 37 points and Loyd Jr. had an amazing 26.  The last picture is a blurry shot of the Varsity Theater filled with screaming fans.  Such a fun game to watch.  Now we just have to beat Kansas St.

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Make it easy – Passwords

In general everything should be as easy as possible on the internet.  Since programmers and designers can control just about everything on a page, they should make it simple and easy.

So when I see a difficult sign up page, I get depressed.  I have abandoned signing up for plenty of services, just because their sign up page was so hard. 

For example this one. 
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It is a simple newsletter type thing.  Why should I have to pick a NSA quality password?  

Remember, if you design on the internet… Make it easy.

Too many Updates! – the need for a unified updater

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It may be noted that I am not quite the typical iPhone or Mac users.  I download just about any App that looks interesting.  But this is getting ridiculous.  I can not go a day, without getting prompted to update or download an update.  So I decided to track which apps and when I was prompted to update.  

The stats are this.  One month. 39 updates.  Over 1 a day.  

I don't know what the solution is but something has to happen.

I propose an integrated platform for all updates.  I can then once a month view all the apps (iPhone and Mac included) that need updating and can approve all at once any and all updates.  

For the curious here are the apps and days.

Jul 16 skitch   Foxmarks for safari
Jul 17 iPhone
Jul 19 tweetdeck
Jul 21 safari and Java for mac os 
Jul 22 – for iPhone
Animoto
Evermore
Shazam
Aroundme
Facebook
Taptap2
Enigmo
Midomi
Things
June 29 – TweetDeck
June 30 skype 
topple 
loopt 
remote
July 3 backgrounds
Goodfood

July 4th adobe indesign cs4
July 5th dictionary
Evermore
Lose it
Requall 
Tap tap 2.6
Things
July 6 istat pro
July 9th tweetdeck
July 10th rescue time
July 12 tweetdeck ihandy level
July 17th evermore
Mormon channel
Tunepad
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