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Archive for November, 2006

YouTube as instructional medium

By slawrence • Nov 27th, 2006 • Category: Business

It just occurred to me how easy it would be to convert any PowerPoint or other instructional material to video and upload it to YouTube. Any organization could then create channels for different training, presentation, or procedural materials and disperse them as they saw fit. I need to write this down.



Borders and Wishlists as gift registry

By slawrence • Nov 27th, 2006 • Category: Business, Operations, Optimization

For the life of me I can not understand why Borders doesn’t give customers the ability to access their amazon wishlist. You don’t even need to allow them to login, all you need to do is search for it. Not only could you look up other people’s wishlists for gift ideas but you [...]



Another smart move by Adobe

By slawrence • Nov 7th, 2006 • Category: Technology

So what might this really be about? Let’s see, Mozilla is the one browser really supporting the SVG standard and what happens when you have an Ecmascript compliant vector graphic-enabled browser? Flash begins to look expensive. It’s still a long way off but making this move early on is a smart move [...]