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Multitouch UI on Firefox!

A wicked smart and industrious Felipe Gomes has posted a video of some of his work getting multitouch support on Windows 7 using Firefox… More information on this here and at his blog here…

Multitouch on Firefox from Felipe on Vimeo.

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Watch some documentaries for free…

Snag Films (Beta) has just launched an interesting service, which allows users to view and share different films.  Right now you can view a bunch of different documentaries, but I believe the intent is to expand the library significantly.  Very cool.

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The importance of user experience innovation…

One of the areas that I am constantly discussing and debating with friends and colleagues is the importance of user experience, particularly in how it relates to how we as humans interact and communicate with/through technology.  There are some fantastic examples of user experience innovations that are in market today (Apple iPhone, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Surface…etc), which have [...]

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Mashable’s 2nd Annual Open Web Awards…vote away!

Open Web Awards is the only multilingual international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. Through an online nominating and voting process, the Open Web Awards recognizes and honors the top achievements in 26 categories. This year, they’re partnering with over 100 blog partners, Poll Daddy for extra security and ease of [...]

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Steve Ballmer talks Google, W7 and what’s next for MS

I just finished watching the Steve Ballmer keynote speech at Gartners ITxpo and I I have to give the two analysts that interviewed him credit.  With such a large, confident and conflict comfortable personality like Steve Ballmer, many people would throw soft balls.  In contrast, David Mitchell Smith and specifically Neil MacDonald, asked hard questions [...]

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A Mac moment between a 4 year old and an old PC user

About a month ago I noticed that my wife and I were not spending as much time as I would have liked with my eldest son on the computer.  Now I know that in a few years we will have the opposite issue, but as someone that works on a daily basis with computers and [...]

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