Archive for January, 2006

Bank of America gets oddly personal

Bank of America gets a bit too odd and personal as I set up my SiteKey account. SiteKey, for those unaware, is a new security protocol BoA has adopted to authenticate the online banking customers.
First, there is the notion of being “challenged” with a picture for which you have to type in [...]

drink more water

Exciting day at the office: our very first water dispenser arrived. We got ours from Poland Spring, and on their website for office delivery, there is a page called healthy & hydration, with seven “hydration tip”, my favorite being “Try not to wait until you’re thirsty to drink water.”

in memory of King

Here’s another look at Conscience, a multimedia piece we created two years ago with Benedict Fernandez, who was Dr. Martin Luther King’s photographer in the last year of his life.
Conscience, the Ultimate Weapon
The video is about 19-minute long, with photos taken by Mr. Fernandez of the protest movement of the 1960s. We took the [...]

MySpace is all for closeness

Denouncing openness as an Internet media company with a social network is simply going to earn you bad press and unhappy users. MySpace recently made a move which did exactly that:
The 38 million subscribers to MySpace, … discovered that when they wrote to each other about rival video-swapping site YouTube, the words were automatically [...]

Iridesco and the Big Three!

Wishing all a very happy new year. As the year came to a close, the Iridesco crew took some time out to travel, see the loved ones, and otherwise relax as the little company officially turns three years old! That’s three years of sweat, adventure, follies, and rewards. We wouldn’t have it [...]