Controlling computers with your brain

Imagine being able to move objects with only your thoughts. Simply thinking a thought, and then an object does your bidding. For many humans struck with paralysis such as Lou Gehrig Disease or Locked In Syndrome, this isn’t only a sci-fi pipe dream, but a much hoped reality.
Now it is a reality. [...]

Example of an “intuitive interface”

The Sherpa! team recently released a big improvement to one our client’s partner/reseller portals — Lexicon Technologies.
According to the press release, the update allows Lexicon’s partners to “powerfully, yet simply, manage all of the barcode scanner, printer, and enterprise mobility assets in use anywhere in their organization, via the Repair Engine™ online portal.” [...]

Review of Cuil

A competitor to Google has entered the stage. The new entrant is Cuil (pronounced COOL). As their press release states,
Cuil provides organized and relevant results based on Web page content analysis. The search engine goes beyond today’s search techniques of link analysis and traffic ranking to analyze the context of each page [...]

Can Google Index Flash?

After years of the rather defined rule that use of Fash equates to search engine optimization death, Google has figured out how to crawl flash content. Sorta. Mostly. Not really.
How Google Crawls Flash
The technologist in me asks: how did they do this? Apparently, Google (and Yahoo) had a little [...]

Sherpa! Guides Cbeyond’s PartnerAccess Portal Launch

Atlanta, GA – (June 21, 2008) – Sherpa! Web Studios, Atlanta’s leading digital experience marketing firm (sherpawebstudios.com), proudly announces the launch of Cbeyond® PartnerAccess — the new website portal for Cbeyond’s partners and resellers.
Cbeyond PartnerAccess (cbeyondpartners.net) enables partners to maximize their partnership with Cbeyond by more effectively managing their customer accounts. Partners can use [...]

Sherpa! makes heroes of Cbeyond team

One of our clients, Cbeyond, recently shared a success story with us. The internal team that worked on the recent Cbeyond PartnerAccess project received a prestigious internal team award for ” demonstrating operational excellence on a major initiative with significant impact to the company.”
And it was well deserved. Cbeyond PartnerAccess is Cbeyond’s [...]

Devil in the Details, or at least Free Coffee

First, let’s get the important stuff out of the way — Starbucks is offering free ground coffee samples.
Now, the web stuff.
Take a look at the StarbucksCoffeeAtHome.com website. Now take a closer look. Look at the details that make this such a vivid experience.

The use of a chalk board, consistent with Starbuck’s [...]

The Year of E-Paper

First there was Kindle, Amazon’s eReader. Now we have Readius — a mobile phone/eReader hybrid.
The difference, and it’s a mighty one, is that Readius uses ePaper’s inherent ability to fold and bend to expand out to 5 full inches of display. That’s quite a 43% increase from one of the largest [...]