December 2010
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Stowe Boyd: Part-Time Career? →
stoweboyd: The Netherlands has transitioned very quickly to a worl culture where many people — professionals included — work 4 day weeks. Is this likely to happen in the US and other advanced economies? Katrin Bennhold, Working (Part-Time) in the 21st Century For reasons that blend tradition and…
Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
The Social Guardian demonstrates a new way to...
Brunton-Spall says that while the site is still under development, he’s tempted to monetise it in order to pay for a bigger server to keep it running. The Guardian allows developers to profit from apps that use its API on a revenue sharing basis. “It’s liable to forever remain an experiment,” says Brunton-Spall, “although I dare say over the next few weeks it will result in several...
Dec 27th
“All website design is informed by tablet design now”
– Exclusive Hands-on With HuffPo’s Elegant New iPad App [PICS]
Dec 27th
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“The developers at Facebook overlooked one of the crucial components in the...”
– You’ve Got to Have (150) Friends - NYTimes.com
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Anon
There is constructively anonymous and cowardly anonymous - neither of which should be confused with pseudonymous. Sadly, the distinction is nearly impossible to make a priori.
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Amy Jo Kim Gamification Workshop
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“There is great value in a philosophy of ignorance that teaches that doubt is not...”
– Richard Feynman (via tmblg)
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Santa Claus Hides in the Phonograph 
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Eclectic Holidayish Mix
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“Your acrimony towards bloggers, your iron clad commitment to containment and...”
– Thomas Hawk Digital Connection » Blog Archive » An Open Letter to Carol Bartz, CEO Yahoo Inc.
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“7. Develop relationships, not features. Today, we have multiple personalities...”
– The Seven Principles You Need to Know to Build a Great Social Product
Dec 16th
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Foursquare check-in unlocks a door
Dec 16th
“Social networking is not actually a product. It’s not a technology....”
– Inck ~ Facebook is Microsoft
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Clicker Gets Personal: The New Way To Discover Internet TV (by Clicker)
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Customer needs a new name
The time has arrived that three communities–the business, design, and technology communities–have independently discovered the same thing. That the best way to build new technology products, services, and the businesses that deliver them is to work in small, cross-functional, highly collaborative teams. To use lightweight, informal methods. To use rapid cycles of designing, making, and...
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Contextual Discovery
This is what Google is calling “contextual discovery”. This means being able to look at either a person’s browsing profile or their location profile and serving up interesting data to them without them searching for anything. Yes, it’s Google results without the search. “The idea is to push information to people,” Mayer said. She noted that on mobile devices this is particularly interesting...
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“Eight percent of the American adults who use the internet are Twitter users. It...”
– Overview: The people who use Twitter | Pew Internet & American Life Project
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“Over-the-air is the new basic cable”
– Digital TV Antennas Find Frugal Young Fans - NYTimes.com
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“Empathy and the human connection is so fundamental to understanding our audience...”
– At the Heart of Good Design - Emotional Intelligence and Product Design | Studio Notes - Musings on design matters, technology and culture
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