Month: September 2012
September 27, 2012
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Saving Android From a Second-Rate Future | Wired Business |
http://Wired.com
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What a jerk. RT @DalaiLama: I like to point out that our nature is basically compassionate because we are social animals.
September 26, 2012
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I LOVE time travel movies.
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Holy crap is there some great UX work in the new Firefox OS!
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Dwolla
version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? Ben Milne founded Dwolla There’s a tiny 12-person startup churning out of Des Moines, Iowa. Dwolla was founded by 28-year-old Ben Milne; it’s an innovative online payment system that sidesteps credit cards completely. Milne has no finance background, yet his little…
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Cellphones Are Eating the Family Budget –
http://WSJ.com
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I’m getting stuff done today but not the stuff I wanted to do. Never know how to feel about that.
September 25, 2012
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Startup = Growth
http://j.mp/PwoefR
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Breakfast Club:
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Essential UX Layers for Agile and Lean Design Teams
by Jared M. Spool on May 11, 2011 It was puzzling to see how our team was so wrong in this design. At the time, it had seemed like the team made all the right decisions. But now, seeing the real users interacting with it, our only excuse is we just didn’t know what we were doing. This little piece…
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Rethinking Sleep –
http://NYTimes.com
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Identity checks coming to Whois | DomainIncite – Domain Name News & Opinion
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September 24, 2012
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Off with their heads.
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FYI, here is my “Hello World” blog post, dated July 4th, 2001, giving a tip o’ the hat to @davewiner:
http://schafer.com/2001/07/well-since-this-is-imho/
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Citing a blog post I did in 2008 that cited a blog post I did in 2003 just now made me happy.
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Who’s making your private Facebook posts public? Same folks who damaged windshields in 1954:
http://schafer.com/2008/02/who-cut-the-cables/
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Are You Saying “No” When You Could Be Saying “Yes” in Your Web Forms?
Error messages seem like an unimportant and incredibly boring part of crafting a user experience. But the tonality of error messages can swing the experience around from an almost certain abandonment to a conversion. Some years ago, while checking in at the airport in Stockholm on my way to the…
September 23, 2012
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Why Apple made the right decision with iOS 6 Maps
http://j.mp/Vr7QQ2
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September 22, 2012
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Reading the dictionary – Joi Ito’s Web
I have some amazing friends who tell me that when they were young, they read the dictionary from cover to cover. Other friends of mine have read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. My sister calls me an "interest driven learner." I think that’s code for "short attention span" or "not a good long…
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With my girls (@ Joey Don Mills w/ 2 others) [pic]:
http://4sq.com/UoNyEn
September 21, 2012
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Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? – Magazine – The Atlantic
"Curating the exhibition of the self has become a 24/7 occupation." – The Atlantic: http://t.co/0QmohVZG via @pkedrosky
September 20, 2012
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TAKE MY FRIGGIN’ MONEY ALREADY TWITTER!
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Twitter just needs to charge us $25/yr to avoid Twitter #lockdown and we couldn’t complain.
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The thing that drives me crazy about Twitter’s asshat moves is that optional Twitter Pro accounts would fix ALL OF THIS.
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https://alpha.app.net/kenschafer
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The Wireâs David Simon Teaches Us How To Spot Fabulists Like Mike Daisey – The Daily Beast
The Wire’s David Simon Teaches Us How To Spot Fabulists Like Mike Daisey: http://t.co/yjO9gdTf
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A VC: Cross Network Utility and Networks
http://j.mp/Utzuw8
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@NPsteve I guess I stepped right into that one didn’t I.
BTW, I had my kids for the good of the country.
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A box of 48? #zing
MT @NPsteve I won a contest years ago giving me a lifetime supply of condoms.