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Hey Genius

February 16, 2008 in Microsoft, Software Development | 1 comment

I dropped at this crazy and cool site http://hey-genius.com, while searching for sample recruitment advertisements to design an advertisement for Paradox.

Hey Genius calls for the genius inside you to work at Microsoft. This site has some cool challenges, a forum, videos and articles which shows you (may be also get a bit of experience) how it is like to work at Microsoft. It is a different site (ya, sometimes you find hard to navigate :P ) and worth giving a visit.

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Imagine Cup – Was it fair?

June 16, 2007 in Microsoft | No comments

They have given the results of Imagine Cup 2007 – Web Design competition. Few of my friends (Sandaruwan, Keshan, Nuwan and Kasun) participated and they had an innovative, useful and nice (beautiful) submission – Acso.

I was so sure that these guys would be selected to the top 6. When I heard that they were not selected and had a look at the submissions which were selected (iPhysics, Scrooba!, …), I felt that it wasn’t fair.

As far as I could feel their submission had all the qualities / characteristics the Imagine Cup organizer’s had asked for :

  • Reach : this site doesn’t require flash plug-ins or any other plug-ins to be downloaded and can be viewed on any browser
  • Accessibility : this is the only feature which is not preset on this, but I didn’t see it on other projects as well
  • Innovation & Differentiation : the idea, features and design was innovative and creative – I haven’t seen anything similar before
  • Usability : although it has not achieved zero-training, it can be used by any user who has used the internet before. The site is based on web 2.0 and it has a small help on the sidebar which guilds you in everything.
  • Maintainability : well I don’t know much about this as I haven’t seen their code, but I know for sure that they are good programmer’s who good programming practices since I have worked with them

    • I was passionate about Imagine Cup because of what I heard from them – the team work, innovation and creativity required (also the prizes ;) ), and I wanted to compete in next year. But now I’ll give it a second thought.

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