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Well, another great CanUX has come and gone and we're left to only dream about the beautiful crisp mornings in Banff. As usual, some of the best content was found in the hallways talking to peers and colleagues. But, many of the presentation were also inspiring and insightful.

Here's a roundup of some of the presentations given at CanUX this year...

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Well it's that time of year again. I'm off to the Canadian User Experience '07 conference in Banff. This years looks like it will be a great event (as was last year) with a wide range of talks and topics.

Check out the list of speakers:

• Lou Rosenfeld, founding figure in modern information architecture, author of the best selling Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, and publisher at Rosenfeld Media.
• Dave Armano, VP, Experience Design for Critical Mass. An active thought leader in the industry, David authors the popular Logic + Emotion blog currently ranked in the top 20 media + marketing blogs according to Advertising Age.
• Derek Featherstone, leading authority on accessibility and its implications for user experience.
• Gene Smith, author of the definitive book on tagging, coming early 2008 from New Riders, and principal at nForm User Experience.
• The Banff Leadership Arts Ensemble, world-renowned facilitators who work to help executives develop leadership capacity through the combination of the arts, creativity, and leadership principles.
• Kes and Sue Sampanthar, founders of Metamemes, producer of generative thinking tools and experts in moving beyond brainstorming for innovation.
• Jess McMullin, business and design evangelist, advocate for increasing practitioners’ influence in the organizations they serve, CanUX program chair and nForm User Experience founder.
• Brad Nemer, Product Portfolio Manager for Motorola’s Asian 3G business, and pioneer in combining business and design thinking.

Speaker write ups from: http://www.canux2007.com/

See ya in Banff!

Time Magazine has announced the iPhone as the Invention of the Year.

Here are their reasons:

1. The iPhone is Pretty
2. It's touchy feely
3. It will make other phones better
4. It's not a phone, it's a platform
5. It is but the ghost of iPhones yet to come

Can't disagree with that decision.

All of the hype around Google's supposed gPhone that's been keeping tech writers busy for the past few months has finally come to realization. Yesterday Google announced a new open source mobile operating system called "Android". So no gPhone (as of yet) but instead we get an operating system which will create millions of gPhones... or Androids.

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