January 2012
22 posts
betashop: Knock-Offs Are Bad Design →
betashop:
Here at Fab.com we’re all about good design.
Authenticity is part of our soul.
We guarantee that every product we sell is authentic and that we are authorized to sell it.
We offer our own unique graphic designs on website.
Everything is home grown and original.
That’s what good design is all about.
Being true to designers, creators, and customers.
That’s why I take it as a...
The Gong Show: Timehop →
thegongshow:
Personal data on the web is growing rapidly. More people are spending a greater percentage of their time social networking (time spent per user on social networking sites has grown over 300% in the last two years). Additionally, there are more people coming online for the first time every day,…
Product Management Then and Now →
Organization: Old: Marketing New: Product (Product Management plus User Experience Design), a Peer to Technology and Marketing Education: Old: MBA New: Computer Science or User Experience Design Spends Days: Old: Writing Requirements Documents New: Product Discovery / Pursuing Minimum Viable Product Learns About Customer Behavior: Old: With Focus Groups New: With User Testing and A/B Testing...
Inside Breaking News: The Paterno story: What went... →
breakingblog:
Incorrect reports that long-time Penn St. coach Joe Paterno had passed away Saturday night were picked up and re-transmitted by, among others, us at BreakingNews and @breakingnews. We soon learned those reports were wrong, and we owe you both an apology and an explanation.
Our editor noted that CBS Sports — a trusted source — reported Paterno’s death around 9pm ET. The CBS Sports...
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,...”
– Alvin Toffler (via creatingaquietmind)
Up and down we go.: Dear Customer who stuck up for... →
sweetupndown:
you thought I didn’t really notice. But I did. I wanted to high-five you. Yesterday I had a pair of brothers in my store. One was maybe between 15-17. He was a wrestler at the local high school. Kind of tall, stocky and handsome. He had a younger brother, who was maybe about 10-12 years old. The only way to describe him was scrawny, neat, and very clean for a boy his age. They...
“You don’t walk into the future by looking back.”
– Steve Jobs and the sound of silence (via courtenaybird)
learn to let go. all that baggage isn’t worth carrying.
December 2011
23 posts
“Kim says that for his part, he evaluated the proposals in the same way he...”
– How Cornell Beat Stanford (And Everybody Else) For NYC Tech Campus | Epicenter | Wired.com
The Coming War on General Purpose Computation -... →
emergentdigitalpractices:
Part of Cory Doctrow keynote at 28C3…
“The last 20 years of Internet policy have been dominated by the copyright war, but the war turns out only to have been a skirmish. The coming century will be dominated by war against the general purpose computer, and the stakes are the freedom, fortune and privacy of the entire human race.
The problem is twofold: first, there is...
“GoDaddy may have backpedalled on SOPA but they still support PIPA. If you work...”
– Boycott GoDaddy
Focus on building 10x teams, not on hiring 10x... →
What sorts of people make other people better?
When we were building Spool’s founding team, we looked for people who were technically solid but especially good at making other people around them better. The following are the types of people we identified that do this. There are probably others.
The Lead Engineer sets the technical standard. She will conduct the hardest interviews and will...
24-Year-Old Asks Facebook For His Data, Gets 1,200... →
Be careful of what you ask for. That’s a lesson Max Schrems of Vienna, Austria learned the hard way when he sent a formal request to Facebook for a copy of every piece of personal information that the social network had collected on him, as required under European law. After a wait, the 24-year-old law student got what he was seeking: a CD with all his data stored on it — 1,222 files in...
November 2011
18 posts
“Men are more like Microsoft: They’ll just make a fake version of what that...”
– Louis C.K.: The Next Steve Jobs Will Be A Chick | Fast Company
