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19 Things Startups Can Do to Save Money

As the economy spins small companies and startups are looking at what they can do to cut costs to save money now. Here are some ideas: Everyone does not need a phone. Sure you need one in the...

Extended Off-Screen Keyboard

This is a quickie concept.  A while back I had an idea for a multi-touch keyboard. It was an interesting idea and I'm sure at some point it will become reality. However we're a software compan...

Resolution Independent Computing

Turns out that a large percentage of people adjust their monitors to use a resolution that's lower then the native resolution. As many as 55%. What does that tell us?  Well the most likely thi...

Scrollbar UI and Search Results

File this under awsome. A while back I posted an idea about having an ABC or Heatmap scrollbar. The idea was that you could show suplimentary information in the scrollbar area.  Turns out that...

TechCrunch50 Roundup

This year I had the pleasure of heading out to San Francisco to join 1700 other tech-startups, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs in an event called the TechCrunch50. The event brings toget...

Google Chrome Browser Review

Google surprised everyone when it recently released a web-browser named Chrome. The surprise was primarily due to the fact that Firefox seemed to be the Google darling for many years. As Googl...

Command Line Interfaces

I've been playing with a new tool from Mozilla called Ubiquity. The best way to explain it is that it's a fixed grammar command line interface for the web.  This basically means that there are...

Iphone Clipboard Concept for Cut, Copy, Paste

One of the current drawback of certain touch devices (Iphone) is it's lack of copy/paste functionality. The difficultly in creating this functionality on a mobile device is that the interaction...

Gas icon

Next time you're in your car take a closer look at the gas icon on your dashboard. Most modern cars use a subtle graphical arrow next to the gas icon.  The little arrow shows the side of the ...

Make it easy to navigate

A couple months back I heard a good talk by Steven Krug. The talk was entertaining and had a simple core point. Let people know where they are on your site so they don't get lost. Lately I'v...