January 2012
7 posts
The Great Tech War Of 2012 | Fast Company →
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Jan 29th
“We don’t know for sure what’s going to happen when we have our first full...”
– Coyote Tracks
Jan 28th
Thinking Bigger about the Future of iOS Computing... →
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Jan 28th
Amazon's Hit Man - Businessweek →
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Jan 28th
Ringing Finally Ended, but There’s No Button to... →
The thing about this, is that you’re delighting a user when this alarm goes off when you’ve accidentally left it on mute and you’re not late for your flight. Should there be a setting? Yeah, I guess, but the default should still be exactly as designed.
Jan 24th
Amazon Kindle Owners Are “Borrowing” Nearly... →
infoneer-pulse: According to the company, customers borrowed nearly 300,000 (295,000 to be exact) KDP Select titles in December alone, and KDP Select has helped grow the total library selection. With the $500,000 December fund, KDP authors have earned $1.70 per borrow. In response to strong customer adoption of the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, Amazon says it has added a $200,000 bonus to the...
Jan 19th
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The world's best pancake recipe →
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Jan 14th
December 2011
2 posts
MIN MING - All things design, UX, and other random... →
Android UI fragmentation.
Dec 12th
Some Thoughts on Teaching →
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Dec 11th
November 2011
5 posts
Design is becoming a competitive advantage for... →
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Nov 29th
Don't. Waste. Time. - humbledMBA →
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Nov 23rd
“One tool would be chosen as primary and the others reduced and simplified to...”
– Beautiful seams | otrops
Nov 14th
“The Kindle, much like a paperback book, is just as happy “asleep” as it is in...”
– Asleep and Awake – Blog – BERG
Nov 14th
Linear Dollars Per Win, Again | FanGraphs Baseball →
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Nov 8th
October 2011
1 post
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WatchWatch
azizisbored: YES! Cannot overstate my love for Chris Pratt or his alterego Bert Macklin. I just wish this was the opening title sequence to a full on Macklin feature film.  gigglemonster: SABOTAGE: You thought he was dead? So did the President’s enemies. [music: the beastie boys] [for tobyziegler & fujiidom]
Oct 10th
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September 2011
4 posts
free - List of freely available programming books... →
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Sep 11th
Aha! Moments When Learning Git | BetterExplained →
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Sep 11th
7 Steps to a Kick-Ass UX Portfolio →
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Sep 9th
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Shadows →
americanmccarver: The AP: A day after Albert Pujols complained about hitting in late-afternoon shadows after a loss to the Milwaukee Brewers, his manager backed him up. Tony La Russa said Tuesday he’d been hesitant to criticize conditions after a 4-1 loss because it might be perceived as sour grapes. I don’t understand. Why don’t they just rotate Busch Stadium so that it...
Sep 7th
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August 2011
2 posts
Neven Mrgan's tumbl: The Apple Logo →
mrgan: The logo of Apple Inc. is among the best-known and best-designed in the world. It has lasted thirty-four years, and we have little reason to think it’ll be replaced any time soon. It wasn’t designed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Paul Rand, or Jonathan Ive. It was designed by an advertising… Great story, and I think the real reason is a great one. Practicality is underrated.
Aug 30th
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Aug 25th
June 2011
5 posts
“The only text more useless than “learn more” is “click here”.”
– Quite the snipe. LukeW | An Event Apart: The Secret Lives of Links
Jun 24th
Mea Vita (My Life): Tricks I Learned At Apple:... →
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Jun 11th
College students’ use of Kindle DX points to... →
Jun 1st
Kindle typography →
Excellent approach to this problem.
Jun 1st
Luna’s Café: Typography is about reading –... →
Jun 1st
May 2011
3 posts
“The berry-picking model is supported by a number of observational studies...”
– Models of the Information Seeking Process (Ch 3) | Search User Interfaces | Marti Hearst | Cambridge University Press 2009
May 19th
The PLA Blog | Official Blog of the Public Library... →
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May 18th
College students’ use of Kindle DX points to... →
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May 5th
April 2011
3 posts
Cranking | 43 Folders →
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Apr 26th
Living in the zone | jacquesmattheij.com →
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Apr 16th
“A given culture cannot be understood simply in terms of content or parts. One...”
Apr 13th
March 2011
1 post
Five Emotions Invented By The Internet « Thought... →
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Mar 16th
February 2011
7 posts
Feb 23rd
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Feb 16th
“FAILING WITH STYLE”
– I can’t tell you how good these podcasts are. Everyone must listen to these. Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin do amazing things and cover a variety of subjects. They touch on productivity, but more importantly, philosophy (listen carefully, you’ll hear Kant’s Categorical Imperative in...
Feb 16th
Feb 16th
“The MTA wants you to build great tools for our riders.”
– http://www.mta.info/developers/
Feb 4th
Feb 4th
Feb 4th
January 2011
16 posts
“Abracadabra: Wireless, High-Precision, and Unpowered Finger Input for Very Small...”
– http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/abracadabra/
Jan 27th
Jan 27th
“The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the...”
– http://www.netflix.com/Jobs The Freedom and Responsibility Culture slideshow made me want to do 3 things: Buy Netflix stock, get a new subscription to rentals, and get a job there. 
Jan 25th
“To summarize the first principle: Use URIs to identify everything that merits...”
– http://www.instapaper.com/go/119810502/text This seems to really be something you need new-world librarians to be in on when developing application, especially for content-rich applications.
Jan 25th
Jan 20th
The Russians Used a Pencil: Idea to Market in 5... →
russianpencil: On July 11th, 2010, Tom Gerhardt and I had an idea for an iPhone accessory: a tripod mount that doubled as a stand. Five months later, customers began to receive our product, the Glif, in the mail. This turnaround, from idea to market in five months by two guys with no retail or manufacturing… Let’s make stuff.
Jan 20th
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“”We envision literally a billion people getting inexpensive,...”
– http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/eric_schmidt_all_googles_strategic_initiatives_in_2011_are_mobile.php
Jan 20th
“[Craig Newmark, craigslist.org] was totally engrossed in his work, looking up IP...”
– I think the beauty here is having the ability to ignore the big picture; it allows you to deal with each problem one-by-one and not get overwhelmed with the enormousness of the bigger problem (because the best solution hasn’t been found yet). Can’t solve the big problem yet? Solve the smaller,...
Jan 17th
Jan 6th
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“Bob Cohen, a committee member particularly opposed to the project, suggested...”
– Streetsblog New York City » With 34th Street Design Due in Spring, CB 6 Is Ready For Busway to Fail Wow, that’s some pretty misdirected effort there on the committee member’s part.
Jan 5th