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Hands On: eBay Desktop Opens to the Masses

By Alan Henry eBay has a history of releasing tools and widgets that make it easier for buyers to find items and for sellers to make money. Between the Firefox Companion and blog-compatible eBay widgets, the site has gone out of its way to provide a number of tools that make using the online auction site so easy that [...]

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Adobe – Adobe Press Room: For immediate release

Nearly 600 Entries Received from 30 Countries in Fifth Year of Competition ADOBE MAX 2007, CHICAGO — October 3, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the winners of the 2007 MAX Awards. Now in its fifth year, the global awards program recognizes innovative applications of Adobe software for creating engaging experiences. Adobe received [...]

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Facebook Interview On CRN

I was recently part of a group interview session with Stacy Cowley from CRN. Here’s a snippet of the article where I was quoted: ‘…Adam Flater, an EffectiveUI software architect, sees Facebook’s fluffiness as an essential part of its appeal. “Users are adopting things for their sheer entertainment value right now. When a client wants [...]

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effectiveUI eBay Project in the News!

My colleage, Sean Christmann, lead developer on the eBay Desktop application I’ve been working on, was quoted several times in an InfoWorld article about Adobe’s new Apollo framework. Original text from: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/01/HNadobeapollobeta_1.html MARCH 01, 2007 Adobe to launch Apollo beta later this month Program would allow users to run Web apps while offline By Elizabeth Montalbano | IDGNS [...]

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