I was just going through Google’s results for MoodLogic, a company I used to design software and webistes for (I was *ahem* Director of Product Design *ahem*) to see if I showed up anywhere, and I came across this blogger’s old review of our MP3 jukebox software. Here’s some of what he had to say:

Ran into the MoodLogic 2.0 MP3 organizer this morning, and I think it’s the best answer I’ve seen to everyone’s growing MP3 libraries.

It’s really nice to see grassroots appreciation like that for something I helped create, even if it was so long ago. MoodLogic had its problems, but many of them were due to the time it was founded (right before the dot-com crash in 2000) and there were a lot of smart, hardworking people who put their best efforts into the company. Now if iTunes would just incorporate MoodLogic’s technology, life would be sweet — no more untagged MP3s and useless genre information!

BrowseGoods (currently in beta) is a new visual search engine for shopping. It aims to help shoppers quickly visually scan through large numbers of items rather than by paging through endless text-heavy lists of search results.

The UI will be immediately familiar to anyone who’s used Google Maps, with the familiar pan & zoom functionality (and UI widgets), and also to anyone who’s read Jef Raskin’s The Humane Interface. After a quick intro screen, you start by selecting a department (currently they have shoes, toys, watches, and sports), after which you’re shown a high-level overview of all the products in that department. From there, you can click on a product category to zoom closer.

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