Month: March 2013
March 31, 2013
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“Lame April Fool’s” is redundant.
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Twitter for the next 24 hrs will be:
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BBC News – Robot learns to recognise itself in mirror
Hey a robot just passed the classic test of self-awareness. No biggee. http://t.co/0AQK29Sh via @SaraLerner
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The Power of Value Stream Maps
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When Simplicity Is the Solution
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March 30, 2013
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Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple? – James Allworth – Harvard Business Review
The web has been alight these past few weeks with the details of the Apple v. Samsung lawsuit . It’s been a unique opportunity to peer behind the curtain of how these two companies operate, as the trial seeks to answer the question: did Samsung copy Apple? But there’s actually another question that…
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Since 1979, Brian Murtagh has fought to keep convicted murderer Jeffrey MacDonald in prison
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The Brains of the Animal Kingdom –
http://WSJ.com
http://j.mp/103oNl3
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March 29, 2013
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Pumped! (@ SilverCity Newmarket Cinemas & XSCAPE Entertainment Centre – @cineplexmovies for Spring Breakers)
http://4sq.com/10kAMcC
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Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 App Analogy | A Designer Life
We’ve all seen the joke . Those of us in app development love to talk about how ridiculous it is that people will drop $4 every other day on a cup of coffee but will not “waste” 99 cents on our hot new app. I hope by now we’ve learned something: This comparison doesn’t work. Why haven’t we seen…
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Futurist’s Groundhog Day | The Odd is Silent
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“Why Wasn’t I Consulted?”
Think about that contraction for a moment. English is weird.
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My #FF is me. I’m on a roll today folks.
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I’m embarrassed for my species:
“Half of Christians Think Jesus Is Coming Back Soon”
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/map_of_the_week/2013/03/pew_study_shows_christian_views_on_second_coming_of_christ.html?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=sm&utm_campaign=button_toolbar
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“Twitter: The Comic” is pretty darn clever.
http://twitterthecomic.tumblr.com
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Let’s see if I can traumatize @zoeschafer with these creepy easter bunnies…
http://www.happyplace.com/15235/the-creepiest-easter-bunny-photos-ever-taken
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Product Managers! This is how you find out about your customers:
https://ting.com/blog/trevor-peck-long-hauls-and-heavy-data/
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For contrast, here are early selfies they’re probably embarrassed by now. This is how you learn. pic.twitter.com/E1bkGO9jfX
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I’m completely biased, but a lifetime of taking selfies has made my daughters artists. pic.twitter.com/pWZ8YDaj7R
March 28, 2013
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Your Product Chooses Your Community, Marketing Scales It
Brad Hargreaves | Building Things Brad Hargreaves on entrepreneurship, community and life Great businesses are known and grown by the communities that use their products. Apple’s brand was reinforced by the hip designers and musicians that used it through the company’s worst days. Facebook’s initial…
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♫ “Zou Bisou Bisou” ♫
March 27, 2013
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Slam poetry. LOL.
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I’m going to see Spring Breakers at a suburban multiplex on opening day. Hoping for a full house of guileless teens.
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Joho the Blog » Authors don’t scale. Topics do.
Joho the BlogAuthors don’t scale. Topics do. – Joho the Blog Hard to Read? Style 1 Style 2 Default Toggle Sidebar Authors don’t scale. Topics do. Posted on:: August 16th, 2012 I suspect there’s a lot of truth in Richard MacManus’ post at ReadWriteWeb about where Web publishing is going . In…
March 26, 2013
March 25, 2013
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Somewhere in the world there is a cat named “Mitten Yahoo”
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The Power of Defaults
One of the seminal moments in the early days of the Web 2.0 era, was a simple default setting. At launch, a new photo service called Flickr set the default on images shared to “public”. This was a stark contrast to the rest of their competitors at the time who all defaulted to private. This default…
March 24, 2013
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The Universal laws behind growth patterns, or what Tetris can teach us about coffee stains | Empirical Zeal
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Toward a Complex, Realistic, and Moral Tech Criticism – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic
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Writing Wednesdays: The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned
What It Takes How NOT to Tell a Story By Shawn Coyne Published : September 30, 2016 I’m re-running an article I wrote fifteen months ago about a full page advertisement in The New York Times . The reason why is this article from Bloomberg Businessweek, How Hampton Creek Sold Silicon Valley on a…