Tag Archives: Web / Interactive

Evidence of Designers Using Their Own Product

By NUAMPS on 13 Sep 2010 – 3:44 pm
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I love it when you get the sense that developers/designers are using and responding to their own products. A few weeks ago, there was a little UI update to the Facebook iPhone app which came across as evidence that some designer or developer at Facebook really, intimately understands how the application is being used – [...]

MyOncofertility.org Relaunches with a Spanish Version

By NUAMPS on 1 Sep 2010 – 11:35 am
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This morning the MyOncofertility.org website has been re-launched with a Spanish language version of the site.  If you can habla espanol you should check out the Spanish version here:  es.myoncofertility.org NUAMPS worked with a team from the Oncofertility Consortium and the Woodruff Lab to translate all of the content and build out the enhanced site.  [...]

IPR – Workshops, Part 2

By NUAMPS on 31 Aug 2010 – 3:39 pm
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Now that the video crew is well into chewing through their 10 TB of video, we on the web team are beginning to put together the interactive IPR Summer Research Training Institute presentations which will include streaming video synced with slides and searchable transcripts. (The 2008 presentations can be seen here.) Sarah Marcus had been [...]

NIH Director Webcast Today…

By Harlan Wallach on 24 Apr 2010 – 9:17 am
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We have a great presentation set to go live in a few hours. A joint production of the University of Chicago, University of Illinois, and Northwestern University, it will be a public talk from the current NIH director to the Thorne auditorium on the NU Chicago Campus, and broadcast via webcast to the Internet. The [...]

Tonight Live Chat with the New NU President

By Harlan Wallach on 7 Oct 2009 – 10:29 pm
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As part of the inauguration festivities, today, tomorrow and Friday, the New NU president Morton Schapiro is on live video chat with the NU student community. http://www.hersongroup.com/nw/live.cfm NUIT is supporting the infrastructure for the getting this presentation to the network, but it is designed and implemented by the Herson Group event planners.

It’s generational, or are you still using e-mail gramps ?

By Harlan Wallach on 18 May 2009 – 7:31 am
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from today’s NYTIMES : Social Networks Eclipse E-Mail By TEDDY WAYNE Published: May 17, 2009 Alongside the explosive growth of online video over the last six years, time spent on social networks surpassed that for e-mail for the first time in February, signaling a paradigm shift in consumer engagement with the Internet. According to a [...]

An opensource testbed … Fishsticks

By Harlan Wallach on 9 May 2009 – 8:43 am
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to follow up on Chris Mackie’s recent comment on facebook… “Christopher J. Mackie is thinking that every unexpected software-vendor merger (Sun-Oracle, Angel-Blackboard, Yahoo-anybody) in these recessionary times strengthens the argument that community source software is more stable than the proprietary alternatives. What a turnaround from the conventional wisdom of just a couple years ago!” We’ve [...]

From the Whiteboard #5

By NUAMPS on 30 Apr 2009 – 2:23 pm
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IPD Blogs go Live

By NUAMPS on 6 Apr 2009 – 11:42 am
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The IPD Blogs site is now live.  Built using WordPressMU this site was designed to host multiple blogs with multiple users.  One of the exciting features of this site is the advanced integration of geo tagging and Google maps.  The site currently has two blogs but has the intention of expanding to 10+ blogs. This [...]

Firefox vs IE6: and the winner is Firefox!

By NUAMPS on 5 Mar 2009 – 2:21 pm
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It’s official! Firefox 3.0 has now taken a larger share of the market that IE6.  If you’re a web developer, you can understand the pain in making a site compatible with IE6.  And if you are still an IE6 user, you’re probably starting to find alot of things on the web do not work properly. [...]

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