Tom MacWright · Tom MacWright
2013
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jane.dallaway.com · Jane Dallaway
GeoGuessr
I came across GeoGuessr yesterday and sent it around the office this morning as a bit of Friday fun - we have a room full of consultants and technologists who use maps and photographic representations of places as part of their day to day work and so it's interesting to observe how they've been detecting where the…
WebAppers · Ray Cheung
How to Create a Retina-ready Responsive Menu
WebAppers · Ray Cheung
Deal of the Week: Spy on Your Competitors
Exploring Local · admin
Waze-Crazy – Would Facebook Drop a Billion on Waze?
As often happens lately, I had no intention of writing about anything in the news due to lack of interest. However, Marc Prolieau wrote an article this morning on the rumor that Facebook would pay one billion dollars for Waze, and then wrote me to ask my thoughts. I, then, saw an article [...]
dullneon.com - random notes, links and pixels · Jaffry Jalal
Adobe Edge Reflow.
The Ad Contrarian · BOB HOFFMAN
My New Gig
Today I'm launching a new venture. It's called Type A Group. Type A is going to be an interesting company. It's not going to be an agency. Fortunately, I am in a position where I can work only on stuff that interests me. So Type A is going to specialize in only three areas that I have a particular interest in:1.…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
John McAfee Answers Questions From Slashdot Readers
Marketing Interactive News Feed
Omnicom agencies bag NEA account
Singapore - The National Environment Agency has appointed DDB Group Singapore and OMD as its creative and media agencies of record for its Dengue Prevention campaign.
timoni.org
Where to Find Open Data on the Web
Where to Find Open Data on the Web: Nice list from ReadWriteWeb.
Interconnected · Matt Webb
BERG Cloud press
Recent press on BERG Cloud, the new Dev Kits and Little Printer: Twitter Tests a Toolkit That Puts the Internet in Things: Platforms that combine networking with user interfaces will help companies test post-PC ideas: But according to Berg CEO Matt Webb, the basic engineering challenges of connecting physical objects…
Marco.org
→ So Jerry Seinfeld Called Us To Talk About Coffee
On why coffee is so central to our culture “I think the answer is we all need a little help, and the coffee’s a little help with everything — social, energy, don’t know what to do next, don’t know how to start my day, don’t know how to get through this afternoon, don’t know how to stay alert. We want to do a lot of…
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Danny Sullivan
How “Not Provided” May Make BuzzFeed Think Google’s Search Traffic To News Sites Is Down
Subtraction.com
Common Misconceptions about Touch Interfaces
Really superb article on how touch screens really work, and how to design interactions for them. Read here. To follow me on Twitter click here.
TechCrunch » GreenTech · Kim-Mai Cutler
The First Ever Synthetic Biology Kickstarter Is About Growing ‘Glowing Plants'
Waxy.org Links
Fictive Kin on the shuttering of Punchfork
after Pinterest acquired them, the founder demanded others not scrape the user data
David Simon · David Simon
Dead children and monied politicians.
What is left to say? A sane man’s contempt for the United States Senate must now be certain and complete. Given the inertia on even the most modest legislative response to the mass murder of schoolchildren, those still credulous enough to believe that our governance is representative of popular will are either…
The Art of Non-Conformity » 3×5 · Chris Guillebeau
Special Broadcast from the End of the World
Bustr Bensn
explore-blog: Hand-lettered awesomeness from the notebook of...
explore-blog: Hand-lettered awesomeness from the notebook of Debbie Millman, maker of amazing things. Complement with Michio Kaku’s The Universe in a Nutshell.
timoni.org
"Want to make people run? Don’t give them a badge for running. Give them a ball and shove four sticks..."
“Want to make people run? Don’t give them a badge for running. Give them a ball and shove four sticks in the ground. They’ll run around the field chasing the ball (and each other) for ages. The experience is intrinsically challenging and amusing, and the running is a by-product. Games rely on dynamics like these and…
timoni.org
"The interior of behavior change and building better habits is your identity. Each action you perform..."
“The interior of behavior change and building better habits is your identity. Each action you perform is driven by the fundamental belief that it is possible. So if you change your identity (the type of person that you believe that you are), then it’s easier to change your actions. The reason why it’s so hard to…
timoni.org
"As Stephenson has pointed out, a good science fiction story can save us from hundreds of hours of..."
“As Stephenson has pointed out, a good science fiction story can save us from hundreds of hours of meetings and PowerPoint presentations by immediately getting everyone on the same page about a potential breakthrough.” - Hieroglyph: Neal Stephenson project from ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination imagines…
timoni.org
"SxSW 2013: Behavior Change as Value Proposition"
“SxSW 2013: Behavior Change as Value Proposition” - SxSW 2013: Behavior Change as Value Proposition Excellent talk. Definitely worth a look-through if you’re a designer interested in doing something with all this data we’ve created.
timoni.org
"The studies have suggested that the phenomenology of enjoyment has eight major components. When..."
“The studies have suggested that the phenomenology of enjoyment has eight major components. When people reflect on how it feels when their experience is most positive, they mention at least one, and often all, of the following: 1. We confront tasks we have a chance of completing; 2. We must be able to concentrate on…
timoni.org
"These scenarios are not uncommon, though. Even a great app like Moves, an app that is basically..."
“These scenarios are not uncommon, though. Even a great app like Moves, an app that is basically doing everything right, faces these hurdles. How many people would: • notice an app was missing? • take the time to search for it and download it again? • continue using it if previous data, scores, achievements were…
Marco.org
→ High Scalability: Scaling Pinterest
From High Scalability, condensing lessons from a talk by Pinterest engineers Yashwanth Nelapati and Marty Weiner: When you push something to the limit, all technologies fail in their own special way. This led them to evaluate tool choices with a preference for tools that are: mature; really good and simple; well…
Marco.org
The market for paid iOS apps isn’t dead
I’ve seen lots of discussion about the paid-app market recently, but most of what I’ve read hasn’t sat quite right with me. Lex Friedman’s piece tries to persuade customers to pay more, which is a nice sentiment, but it won’t achieve meaningful change. Nobody can yell loudly enough at enough people to change the app…
LukeW | Digital Product Design + Strategy · info@lukew.com
All Mobile Apps Expand Until...
From phone calls to SMS, mobile devices have deep roots in communication. So it's no wonder that people use them to talk to each other -a lot. In fact, this behavior is so dominant it could become "law". Jamie Zawinski's popular Law of Software Envelopment states: Every program attempts to expand until it can read…
LukeW | Digital Product Design + Strategy · info@lukew.com
Data Monday: Impact of Responsive Designs
As people continue to use an ever increasing number of devices to get online, there's no shortage of companies exploring multi-device solutions for the Web. Some are even sharing data about the impact of their new responsive designs and the numbers look good enough to get even more organizations on board. Time Inc.…
Dr. Jay Parkinson
slavin: emergentfutures: Hi cureforbedbugs I think that you...
slavin: emergentfutures: Hi cureforbedbugs I think that you make some excellent points so I have reblogged your post. As a partner of someone who is pre-diabetic and at risk due to a family history this is something dear to my heart. I think that this sort of approach can be useful for some people but thank you for…
ignorethecode.net
Facebook Home
Facebook has announced a lock screen and home screen replacement for Android. Basically, it shows content from Facebook on your home- and lock screens. A sentiment I’ve heard from many technology journalists is that Facebook Home is too intrusive. I think they’re making the mistake of extrapolating from their own…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Motion as an Aspect of Interface Design
Marco.org
→ The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency
Great overview of the Bitcoin situation and why it’s interesting, especially if you don’t know much about it yet, by Felix Salmon. ∞ Permalink
jane.dallaway.com · Jane Dallaway
The hacked pacemaker
A couple of days ago I was reading Cory Doctorow's blog post I Can't Let You Do That, Dave: What it means to design our computers and devices to disobey us and stumbled across the following paragraph: In November 2012, a security researcher in Australia, Barnaby Jack, presented research showing that he could…
Bustr Bensn
teampunchbag: Channel your inner barber (just me?) with these...
teampunchbag: Channel your inner barber (just me?) with these genius erasers designed by Chen Lu Wei for Megawing. (via)
Marco.org
iPhone 6
Ken Segall’s iPhone Naming: When Simple Gets Complicated argues for the next iPhone to be named “iPhone 6” rather than “iPhone 5S”: More important, tacking an S onto the existing model number sends a rather weak message. It says that this is our “off-year” product, with only modest improvements. If holding off on the…
Schneier on Security · schneier
Elite Panic
I hadn't heard of this term before, but it's an interesting one. The excerpt below is from an interview with Rebecca Solnit, author of A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster: The term "elite panic" was coined by Caron Chess and Lee Clarke of Rutgers. From the beginning of the…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
New Leaked Picture of the BlackBerry R-Series Smartphone
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Matt McGee