On April 11th CMP announced the 2007 25 Innovation Showcase Winners selected by Sand Hill Group.

We’re excited to hear the news here at Momentum. Personally I was involved with the SuccessFactors platform prior and during its early explosion as the sole contract UI designer and we’ve continued to work with them in various capacities since. I had the pleasure to work with them for two years to design some revolutionary pieces of technology and I’m very proud to see them where they are today. One of the only publicly available pieces of technologies from SuccessFactors, Managers Edition, was probably my favorite of all projects as it used Flex, my favorite technology, and allowed us to break from the HTML mold we were at the time constrained to. SuccessFactors Manager’s Edition, was nominated for Best New Product or Service category in The 2006 American Business Awards.

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Atlantis Computing, another Momentum customer, also made the list. I can’t exactly disclose what these guys are up to, however, this indeed is the best technology we’ve ever seen. I wish Chetan and his group the best and hope to hear some more great news out of them soon.

A designer here got randomly drawn to participate in the new Search results. The rest of us still get the old 1990s version. Google is finally Web 2.0ing it’s self. New Gradient breaking out the header from the results. They additionally added the additional search options from above the search box to the left of the results which makes it much easier to find those options. Currently they are partially buried under the “more” link popup menu which makes it two clicks to get to something that is much easier to find under this new model.