Apprendre de Las-Vegas

Voici un article très intéressant sur l'interaction design et l'expérience usager.

...Vegas understands user experience. Aside from Disney, few people think about creating total experiences. The carpet is designed to keep you in the building. Oxygen is pushed into the room to keep you there. The ceiling is painting like the daytime sky. Vegas understand both the macro and micro levels of designing experiences.

Las Vegas is not made like an ordinary city. Instead it is organized around a pattern of activities. You have gambling and shopping and hospitality in the same way that MySpace is organized around a pattern of activities. You can perform complimentary activities in one place...

Ayant participé à la conception du site MGM Grand, comme interaction designer, je trouve que nous avons réussi à comprendre et à transmettre cette vision. Faire vivre en un instant sur le site, ce que la personne sur place aura la chance d'expérimenter.

Bugatti Veyron - Plus vite que la F1 et aussi confortable qu'une Mercedes

Testé pour nous, voici la voiture la plus rapide du monde : La Bugatti Veyron.

Je ne vous dirai pas qu'elle vitesse cette automobile peut atteindre .... la surprise restera totale si vous ne connaissez rien de ce véhicule.

Bugatti Veyron at top speed
Uploaded by Flabber

What a car....

Miscrosoft Photosynth - L'ultime panorama virtuel

Je viens de lire un article sur le blog de Austin Hill qui était à la conférence de TED 2007. Il a fait une entrevue avec Adam Shepard du département de recherche de Live.com sur le logiciel Photosynth. Ce dernier permet la composition de multiple images prises de différents points focaux en une seule murale 3D. C'est absolutment captivant. Le nouveau département de Live.com semble vraiment éléver le niveau d'innovation qui se fait en général chez Microsoft.

Voir la vidéo

HighRise est là - Et voici la meilleure façon de gérer vos contacts

Et voici simplement le courriel de Jason pour le résumé de cette superbe plateforme :

RING: IT'S FOR YOU
It's a new contact, a lead, a customer, a journalist.
It's someone saying something important you need to remember.

NOW WHAT?
What do you do now? Where do you log notes from the
conversation? Where do you put the contact information?
Where do you set up your next action? In Highrise.

THE ANSWER TO THE AVALANCHE
So many people. So many phone calls, emails, notes,
follow-ups, and tasks. Who's this person again? When
did we last speak? What did we talk about? Has anyone
else in my company talked to this person? What's supposed
to happen next? Highrise is here to keep track of it all.

A PERSONAL ASSISTANT FOR EVERYONE IN YOUR COMPANY
When you use Highrise, contacts and communication history
can be shared across your entire company. No more "Jim has
the client's number and he's out of the office today."
No more "I don't know what Jane told the printer last week."
No more "Oops, I didn't know you already called her
back - I just did too." With Highrise, everyone's on
the same page.

ONE HISTORY, MANY INTERACTIONS
Highrise is your homebase for everyone that's important
to your business. It puts together all those little points
of contact so you can see the bigger picture. It makes
one history out of many interactions. Highrise helps
you make sense of it all.

NOT TOO LITTLE, NOT TOO MUCH
Your address book doesn't do enough. Traditional CRM
(Customer Relationship Management) software tries to do
too much. That's why we built Highrise. It's the just-right,
more thoughtful way to keep track of the people,
conversations, and tasks that are the
lifelines of your business.

GIVE IT A TRY TODAY
http://www.highrisehq.com

Apple - le meilleur magasin au détail

Article très intéressant dans Forture du mois de Mars sur Apple.

Best Buy rapporte 930$ US au pied carré... Apple en rapporte 4,032$!!!

Et dire que David Goldstein, un important analyste dans le domaine du retail, leur donnait un maximum de deux ans avant de mourrir!

Fait intéressant, Apple a loué un entrepôt et y a construit son premier concept de magasin avant de le lancer nationnalement. Bonne idée pour pas se planter.

Apple: America's best retailer

Voici les rois du Stop Animation

Et que dire la musique... J'en suis acroc.

Sebastian Mullaert and Marcus Henriksson came from opposing backgrounds. Sebastian was trained as a classical musician playing the organ, piano and the violin among other instruments. He even became involved in teaching them until his coming of age at 18 when he formed a band and began experimenting with the sounds in a more contemporary way. Marcus lived on a diet of Kraftwerk and the Front 242 until realising his true calling in the techno parties of the 90s. Through promoting parties he moved on to become one of the bigger DJs in Southern Sweden. It was in a party where they met and decided to combine Sebastian’s musician’s perspective and knowledge with Marcus´ DJ skills and experience from the scene. They got together in 1996 and after 10 years in the music business under successful guises such as Son Kite and Trimatic, Marcus & Sebastian are now Minilogue - an animalistic music concept without the boundaries of genres. They hail from Malmoe, a small town in the south of Sweden with a population of less than 1/4 million,
an unlikely setting for such underground and innovative project. Through the years their music has expanded and moved through a variety of sounds appealing across the board of electronic music.

Their recent material touches on influences from a simplistic early 90s sound of electronica, filled with apocalyptic climaxes, warped and wondrous sounds creating textures with true depth and portraying a true sense of the duo’s vision. They make music that is built for peak-time dance floors as well as laid-back listening,
producing a sound that is industrial, vivid and continually provocative, and offering a reminder of the fundamental beauty and intricacy of true techno. Minilogue’s music is playful, ambitious, simple and melancholic. Often referred to as way ahead of their time, this year looks set to carve out some well-deserved success for the eccentric Scandinavians with releases out already on Traum, Audiobahn, and Crosstown Rebels. They have received strong international press attention with features in Trax, Debug and Raveline and support from a huge range of DJs including James Holden an appearance on Sasha’s compilation. Boasting a forthcoming release on Wagon Repair
and an album, “Animals” completed and ready to drop in 2007 Minilogue are definitely an act you will be hearing a great deal more from.

Auteur : www.minilogue.com

Google rajoute la couche trafic à Google Maps

Légende :

* Vert: Plus de 50 miles à l'heure
* Jaune: Entre 25 et 50 miles à l'heure
* Rouge: Moins de 25 miles à l'heure
* Gris: Pas de renseignement disponible

Bientôt sur Montréal ce bidule?

Source : Google OS

Scrybe, enfin une vraie application en ligne et hors ligne

Scrybe c'est l'organisateur personnel par excellence.

La problématique des différents organisateurs en ligne comme Google Calendar et autre et qu'ils n'offrent pas la capacité d'accéder à vos données lorsque vous êtes en déplacement et/ou n'avez pas accès à Internet. Le remède: Scrybe; et bien au delà de ce que vous pouvez espérer...

Regardez cette démo pour vous en convaincre.



Je suis présentement beta tester pour Scrybe, et je peux vous dire que l'outil rempli emplement ses promesses. Le tout devrait voir le jour au grand public dans les jours qui suivent.

Source : iScribe et TechCrunch

Star Wars Kid - La vidéo la plus virale de tous les temps

La vidéo de Ghyslain Raza, dont la vidéo avait été volée par ses rivaux de son école pour ensuite être distribuée sur le Web, a été vue plus de 900 millions de fois! Ça fait de celle-ci la vidéo la plus virale de tous les temps. Ses plus proches rivales sont Numa Numa (700 millions) et One Night in Paris (400 millions).

En mémoire de Ghyslain, voici la vidéo originale



Et probablement la meilleur parodie qui a été fait de Star Wars Kid : The Drunken Jedi



Pour référence, voici Numa Numa :



Source : BBC International