Visual design and story telling..

Posted on: August 22nd, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Design, User Experience, Zigron Inc

This week I had the pleasure to attend An Event Apart design conference. It was a great experience to hear some great presentations and learn new approaches towards design. In next few posts I will try to share all of my experiences.
Starting off the best presentation of the day one was by Jason Santa Maria who is the Creative Director at Happy Cog studios. It was about “Storytelling by . [More]

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Mobile Development Overview..

Posted on: August 21st, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Development, Mobile, Zigron Inc

Mobile space is the next paradigm of computing where more and more mobile devices are getting the computational power to now host interactive native applications. Offcourse iPhone has taken a giant leap but now other devices are also catching up. Recently we spent sometime to figure out which development environment will be best suited for new generation of mobile applications. In this report we have not covered FlashLite and iPhone.  As a result we produced . [More]

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Technology + Transparency = Helps you hire better

Posted on: July 26th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: PingMyCompany, Zigron Inc

PingMyCompany.com was started with a pure and simple intention to gather more data about ourself as a firm and know about others too. I have explained it before and Rashid also shared his development story. 
Now after 3 months since its launch I have witnessed a change which I was hoping to happen but didnt expected to happen so quickly. Before PingMyCompany’s launch people hardly knew about Zigron and what it does. It . [More]

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Wherever.Tv is launched and brings international tv to you…

Posted on: July 10th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: WhereverTv, Zigron Inc


Wherever.tv was launched yesterday in SINO Consumer Electronics Show, China. It recieved great reception from both conference attendees and press. It was covered on Forbes.com , Engadget.com , PittsburghLive.com and Examiner.com
Wherever.tv is a sleek new device that delivers hundreds of international TV channels straight to your television instantly over a broadband internet connection. You can learn more at their site.
Wherever.tv is one of Zigron’s Inc startup based . [More]

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User Xperience + Technology + Real World

Posted on: July 1st, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Development, User Experience, Web 2.0, Zigron Inc

For some time I have noticed that in blogosphere, User Xperience has mostly been associated with Web 2.0 companies and hardware devices, well actually only one hardware i.e iPhone. So I decided to go out and see where I can find innovation in UX apart from the web.
On this great adventure the first experience I stumbled across was Bank Of America’s ATM on Van Ness street in San Francisco. I had this old . [More]

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PingMyCompany reviewed by Mashable

Posted on: June 5th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: PingMyCompany, Zigron Inc


PingMyCompany is a Zigron Inc product. It was recently featured on Mashable.com. You can read the post here.

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HR: Behind the scene action…

Posted on: May 31st, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Zigron Inc

This blog post covers the behind the scene action for any resource we plan to hire. For this I conducted an internal survey with few of the individuals who actively participate in selecting new hires for Zigron as we need to make sure that our vision is in aligned with what our team practices.
First I need to share what is Zigron’s philosophy behind hiring. Our main goal is to find resources who are truly excited . [More]

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PingMyCompany.com is launched

Posted on: May 8th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Web 2.0, Zigron Inc


After reading some really interesting comments on a post about Zigron Inc on Green & White blog I decided that we need a site where people can share their positive and negative opinions about different firms.
So as a fun project we decided to create PingMyCompany.com. Its a simple project where users can add different companies and give comments in favor or against different companies. Its more like . [More]

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Wherever.TV on Pop City…

Posted on: May 7th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: WhereverTv

WherevetTV recently got a post on Pop City Media. You can read the post at here.

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Startup School 2008

Posted on: April 20th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Web 2.0, Zigron Inc


Today I had the great pleasure of attending Startup School 2008. It’s a brain child of Y Combinator which invests into young startups by students/hackers to come up with really cool ideas. Its like summer camp for startups. It was a day long event and following are few key highlights:

First of all I loved the way everyone got connected with each other via Chat room on [More]

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