Archive for the 'web 2.0' Category

Standoutjobs.com is out and it rocks

One of the rising stars of Montreal startups scene is out this week at DEMO 08
They announce RECEPTION, a web based tool that offers a completely new angle to the recruiting and online job market space.
The team, led by Ben Yoskowitz and Fred Ngo, gathers nice individuals with audacious coding skills. I personally had the [...]

User experience is story telling.

Everybody is talking about experience, or user experience, and, really, this is where we go.
Let’s make a simple analogy with the real world: we know that different buildings serving the same purpose, may (hopefully) offer various architectural experiences. Le Louvre doesn’t offer the same experience to its visitors than the Guggenheim Museum. Both are museums, [...]

Google Gears

Worlds are colliding* ! Are we going to talk about desktop… 2.0 ?!?
I installed Google Gears a few days ago, just for the sake of curiosity, and didn’t notice anything new since today when, browsing my news feeds in Google reader, I noticed a little green stranger after my name.
Devoured by curiosity I clicked on [...]

iPernity.com

Filed under UI, web 2.0

During a brainstorm for a European based start-up aiming at challenging the iTunes Music Store and the likes, I found iPernity.com — bêta, of course — via Go2Web20’s cool directory of startups.
iPernity.com is using the exact same UI paradigms and functionalities than Flickr’s. It extends Flickr’s concepts to any kind of files, not only photos, [...]