Jeff Chausse
Digital Strategy + Design
Imagining the Tenth Dimension
OK, my mind is officially blown. Enjoy:
Skyhook Wireless gets USA today treatment
I guess it may be unhealthy for me to obsess over companies that I unsuccessfully interviewed at, but Skyhook Wireless just has a really cool technology that’s fun to keep tabs on. Their big news is that they just got their stuff built into the iPhone, which is something they were considering a longshot bet when I interviewed there just 4 or 5 months ago. Congrats to them. They just got written up in USA Today. Oddly, USA Today lists them as having 270 employees. When I interviewed there, last summer, I think they had about 15. Either USA Today needs to do its fact checking, or they’re counting the part-time drivers as employees, or Skyhook had an impressive 2,000% increase in headcount in just a few months.
A bit of an ironic twist: I got a tad lost when I was heading to my interview there, and was on foot with only a Blackjack cell phone to guide me. If I had a Skyhook enabled iPhone, it would have made things a lot easier.
You Can Stop Watching American Idol Now
Nothing, NOTHING, can possibly top this guy’s performance.
Well, That’s One Way to be Accessible
The West Midlands Fire Service has certainly gone out of their way to make their web site accessible – to the deaf. Kudos to them for figuring out a way to convey information to the deaf via the visual medium of the web.
John in the Snow
New Blog Coming…
I think I’ve threatened this a few times, but this time it’s for real. I’ve always been a bit bothered by the schizophrenic nature of this blog – is it professional? Is it personal? Well, I feel that having discovered my true calling as a User Experience designer, I have plenty of fodder to support a full-fledged professional blog site. In fact, it’s already built and ready to go, but I’m keeping quiet about it until I get a few posts in there. If you happen to find it, well, congrats 
Launching this new blog will definitely increase, rather than decrease, the content on this site, because I’ll no longer feel guilty about decreasing the serious/silly content ratio here. To commemorate the split, I will also be moving this site to a new WordPress theme, which I’ve already chosen and tested out, and just needs a few tweaks.
So, I want to thank those of you who’ve bookmarked, subscribed, and/or blogrolled this site. For those who appreciate my diverse interests, writing style, and or skewed sense of humor, I appreciate your attention, and there’s much more to come! I’ll keep you posted.