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Marco.org
Google dominated search and online ads with a lot of great engineering and hard work, then they leveraged their search dominance and more great work to build a strong presence in webmail, maps, and many smaller categories. Geeks like us commended them for how well they operated their business, seemingly (mostly)…
Both Sides of the Table · Mark Suster
ParisLemon
Zuckerberg's S-1 Letter: The most interesting part: By helping people form these connections, we hope to rewire the way people spread and consume information. We think the world’s information infrastructure should resemble the social graph — a network built from the bottom up or peer-to-peer, rather than the…
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from what I hear, it was done with 10 minutes' notice to Flickr management
visualjazz.com.au · Thomas Ruffie
Marco.org
Sennheiser has outdone themselves with the higher-end sibling to the HD 280 Pro. I’ve written often on this site about how happy I am with the pair of 280s that I’ve had, going strong, since 2005. They’ve always been my office headphones, staying at work through three different jobs, affixed to my head for many hours…
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I first encountered 955 Dreams about a year ago when I came across a magical iPad app called The History of Jazz. When I sat down with co-founder Kiran Bellubbi to talk about the app for a TechCrunch story, it was immediately apparent that his vision extended far beyond just one beautiful app. I kicked off my story…
Boxes and Arrows · Stephen Turbek
Design patterns are generally considered a good thing, but do they actually help run a user experience group? As a user experience group manager and an observer (and sponsor) of design pattern exercises, I’ve come to have serious questions about their actual utility. It’s not that design pattern libraries are bad,…
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The Street Blows At Predicting Apple Part 2,383: Philip Elmer-DeWitt breaks down how analysts — both Wall Street and independent — did in guessing Apple’s lastest insane quarterly numbers. Check out his spreadsheet at the bottom of the page. You’ll note that almost all of the green is at the top (Independent…
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The Brilliant "Don't Be Evil" Bookmarklet: Kudos to Facebook (with some help from Twitter and MySpace) for having the balls to do this. It’s a bookmarklet that replaces Google’s new “People and Pages” area, the hardcoded social search area, and the search completion drop-down, with organic results. In other words, it…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Quantified Self · Rajiv Mehta
The Art of Less Doing · ari@lessdoing.com (Ari Meisel)
I was speaking with a friend the other day about using a virtual assistant and he asked "What kinds of things do you have them do?" I started telling him about some specific-to-me tasks that I like to outsource but than mentioned that I also have them do some very basic quick tasks like google searches and phone…
Schneier on Security · schneier
Long (but well-written and interesting) story of someone whose Gmail account was hacked and erased, and eventually restored. Many interesting lessons about the security of largely support-free cloud services.
Neil Gaiman's Journal · noreply@blogger.com (Neil)
How on earth did that happen? I promised a blog tomorrow, and that was over a week ago. I wrote an essay, and I wrote a short story, and I went to Sydney and did a reading with a string quartet, but I didn't blog. And now I'm sitting backstage at Revolt in Melbourne preparing for a New Year's Eve Party-…
I Will Teach You To Be Rich · Ramit Sethi
Google Analytics Blog · Google Analytics
Quantified Self · Ernesto Ramirez
Quantified Self · Alexandra Carmichael
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report · Jeffrey Zeldman
KK Lifestream
Originally posted in The Technium [CES Image by Jaymi Heimbuch] I know the feeling. You are wandering around a huge harshly-lit hall full of tables displaying electronic stuff, new devices that all look the same but claim to be different. It is the CES show, the largest consumer electronic show in the world. The hall…
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any list that starts with Paul Ford is solid, in my book
Marco.org
An iPhone alarm disrupted a Philharmonic performance: Actually, [the iPhone owner] said he had no idea he was the culprit. He said his company replaced his BlackBerry with an iPhone the day before the concert. He said he made sure to turn it off before the concert, not realizing that the alarm clock had accidentally…
Bustr Bensn
Almost every recent book on positive psychology (Flourish, Redirect, and The Happiness Advantage to name a few off the top of my head) mention one exercise that has been proven in studies time and again to have not only immediate positive effects, but also effects that last for months after the exercise has ended.…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Marco.org
There are two stories here. First, it’s remarkable that Instagram has surpassed 14 million users with only an iPhone app so far — not even a useful web interface. It’s also interesting that the Instagram CEO believes that an Android version will “nearly double” the user count. Given Android’s significantly higher…
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Yesterday, Alexander Macgillivray, Twitter’s general counsel, wasted little time in speaking out against Google+ being fully baked into Google Search — even before Twitter officially did on the record. Today he’s elaborating a bit. Why doesn’t the ex-Google employee like Search+? This is why: Folks asked for…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Big Spaceship · Benjamin Bojko
Digital Buzz Blog · Aden Hepburn
One of the bigger launch stunts that Google pulled off for Google+ was the live hangouts with “The Muppets” who put on about 40,000 followers in pretty quick time and it looks like round 2 is on, with Google just launching a new TVC for Google+ Hangouts featuring The Muppets rocking on in a pretty [...]Related…
Digital Buzz Blog · Aden Hepburn
Blippar’s image recognition based Augmented Reality platform is getting more and more popular around the world, so JWT have teamed up with them to issue staff with Augmented Reality business cards, and here is the demo video to give you a quick taste! The Blippar image recognition engine reads the graphics on the…
ignorethecode.net
I typically use xScope for all of my on-screen pixel measuring needs, but recently, I’ve often found myseful using SnapRuler instead. It’s very simple, but has three really useful features. First, hitting shift immediately snaps the measuring rectangle to the nearest visible edge (like the border of a button or…
Signal vs. Noise · Ryan
Back when 37signals was consulting, we gradually weaned ourselves off of documentation. It’s normal practice in the design world to produce lots of artifacts. You see IA diagrams, flow charts, OmniGraffles, and all kinds of illustrations of what the final product will be. In the early 2000s we noticed that our…
Quantified Self · Rajiv Mehta
Quantified Self · Seth Roberts