Travis Vocino Experiments in Art, Science & Technology.

Now I’ll rant a little about usability. If you’re offering a solution to my problem (as all products, services or applications should be, obviously), you have to be open to the possibility that I’ll be tailoring my experience to what best suits me. After all, I’m the only with the problem to be [...]

When talking to James Mathias about a recent project, Dine Magazine’s site and infrastructure, we touched on how many designers and developers lose money on jobs because they don’t bill for their thoughts.
Most companies don’t seem to realize that a large part of creative technology work is simply thinking. “How do you solve this [...]

Why don’t “normal” companies do this?
Today 9rules had a streamcast hosted by Tyme and Scrivs (Mike was in the chat). Basically, they went over some opinions on sites that were submitted during yesterday’s open call for blogs using Ustream.tv.
Now, 9rules is a younger company of course, but what stops other larger sites from doing [...]

There are a ton of easy-to-use, lightweight, out-of-the-box invoicing applications out there. So when I set out to find something that meshed well with my style, it was no simple task.
Luckily, I found Freshbooks — which does all and more than I could ask for. The best features, in my opinion, being (1) [...]

There’s situations where the benefit of change does not outweigh the cost of going back 5 steps to make it happen. Branding is not one of them.
You don’t want to get into a situation where you are clinging to old and tired solutions simply because you feel like you’ve invested a certain dollar amount [...]

As most people in technology business, a couple days ago I woke up to CNBC yelling at me about how Microsoft came out of absolutely nowhere and offered billions of dollars to little ‘ol Yahoo! early that morning.
Even though I updated my iPhone stock ticker to include MSFT and YHOO for the rest of the [...]

One thing I hate about blogs is too much non-styled crap on the home pages and side bars. In an effort to generate traffic a lot of bloggers sign up for all kinds of widgets and other nonsense.
When I first heard about BlogRush, the blog syndication network, their concept was pretty good. It’s [...]