All the articles of September, 2008

• Sep 22, 2008 Innovative product selection on YouTellMe

  YouTellMe is a new social shopping / price comparison site currently launched in beta in Netherlands. As described by the team behind it: [...] we started YouTellMe out of frustration with the existing product and price comparison websites. Our goals was to build a web application where everyone can easily compare products and determine their [...]

• Sep 19, 2008 hProduct revival

  After months (should I say years?) of inactivity, there have been several signs of interest for the hProduct microformat proposal in the past 3 months. Posted by Hayes Davis on the Appozite blog in June’08: hProduct has the noble goal of describing a product itself outside the context of a classified-style listing of that product for [...]

• Sep 18, 2008 GoodGuide provides health, environmental and social facts about products

  GoodGuide is a new US start-up demo’ed at the TechCrunch50 event last week. In its own words: GoodGuide provides the world’s largest and most reliable source of information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of the products in your home. [...] Our goal is to provide the most comprehensive, credible, and useful information in [...]

• Sep 14, 2008 From Twitter

  from registration to customization, twitter is damned simple..

• Sep 14, 2008 From Twitter

  trying twitter

• Sep 11, 2008 Book review: “Subject to change”

  I’ve just finished reading “Subject to change – creating great products and services for an uncertain world“, a book written by people at the design company Adaptive Path. Despite the facts the book can be considered as 160-pages long advertisement for Adaptive Path, the book is pretty inspiring for designers looking to produce WOW products. [...]

• Sep 08, 2008 The rise of the awesome search bars

  The recent months have seen the emergence of new concepts / prototypes / products related to search bars, either on web sites or directly embedded into browsers. The following examples, with various degrees of maturity, shows that innovation in this area will mean simpler access to data and services in the near future. Firefox 3 [...]

• Sep 04, 2008 How Efficient is Google for Product Search?

  Read on the StyleFeeder tech blog: We’ve recently been working to improve the experience of users who are discovering StyleFeeder through search engines, and were intrigued to find that 55% of shoppers are not finding what they are looking for using Google and the like. When natural search users land on one of our item [...]