Month: July 2013
July 31, 2013
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I’m pretty excited that @tingftw is one of the top stories on CBC’s The National tonight.
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LOL
Kudos to the Phoenix @suns for registering the domain name beat.la.
http://smartwhois.com/whois/beat.la
/ht @DomainNameWire
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Woman Flattered Complete Stranger Would Say Something So Nice About Her Tits
http://onion.com/13sdNOV
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Google’s Lost Social Network – BuzzFeed Mobile
This post originally ran in December of 2012. Today, Google Reader, the eight-year-old RSS reader that became an industry standard, has been given a funeral date : July 1st, 2013. “We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite…
July 30, 2013
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I just lost The Game.
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“Don’t Drop That Thun Thun”
http://mklnd.com/1clNGjI
Kids these days with their words and the twerking an stuff.
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Cute Kids! Covering one of my favorite songs!
PS22 does “Young Folks”
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Review: Asana—Breaking Open the Cage | UX Magazine
When Asana was announced, founder Dustin Moskovitz posed this problem: No matter how enthusiastically a company or team may adopt project management software (e.g. Basecamp, SharePoint, Pivotal Tracker), and no matter how purpose-built, how feature-laden it may be, the users inevitably end up…
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Holy crap! The lake at the North Pole is now frozen solid!
July 29, 2013
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Continuous Discovery
HOME Services Product Marketing Technology User Experience Public Workshops Articles Clients Resources Company Team Manifesto Contact Us Posted by marty cagan on October 24, 2012 I have written recently about how product teams do product discovery in parallel with product delivery . I have also…
July 28, 2013
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You know about Dazzle Ships?
http://www.oobject.com/category/dazzle-ships/
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Seth’s Blog: The cycle of customers who care
Organizations that grow start by selling their services and products to people who care. These organizations are staffed by people who care making something that demands "caring-about" for people who have chosen to care. It can be colored shoelaces or vinyl records or handmade medicine balls. These…
July 27, 2013
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Alan Sepinwall on the origins of ‘Lost’ – Grantland
T he story of Lost makes no sense. And by that I don’t mean the story on the show — though this is the point where you can feel free to insert jokes about the numbers, the outrigger shootout, or the reasons why Walt was “special” — but the story of how Lost itself got made. The creation of Lost…
July 26, 2013
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American Giant hoodie: This is the greatest sweatshirt known to man.
Can the American Giant hoodie revolutionize "Made in the USA"? Courtesy American Giant. Early in October, I got a call from Bayard Winthrop, an entrepreneur who claimed to have created the world’s best hooded sweatshirt. Because I found this claim amusing—who sets out to make the world’s best…
July 25, 2013
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Lockdown
http://j.mp/1aB2aNi
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The Decline and Fall of the Book Cover —
http://www.newyorker.com
— Readabilityhttp://j.mp/15j1MyA
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The tyranny of category
http://j.mp/1737wKN
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Why are these caterpillars climbing over each other? The surprising science behind the swarm. | Empirical Zeal
http://j.mp/12OGqG4
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How ‘Gamification’ Can Make Your Customer Service Worse | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
Image: Flickr/ MoreSatisfyingPhotos.com Abusive customers. Low pay. Tuberculosis infections . Customer support can be a miserable job. Software makers have long promised to improve the life of customer support reps, and now they’re at it again. This time, they want to turn customer support into a…
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Hey @munificentbob “You listen to Coldplay, but only because Brian Eno produced it.” is genius. You’ve unintentionally defined “Music Nerd”.
July 24, 2013
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For you Zoe:
MT @zoeschafer: To distract myself I organized my coat closet… By season, person, and usage…
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How Kanban visualisations and conversations enable process improvement « Benjamin Mitchell’s Blog
"The #kanban board showed us that our behaviour wasn’t producing the goals we wanted." Visualize! (@benjaminm) http://t.co/ZvyXzCHm
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Today I am thankful for Sweater Weather replacing Sweat Weather. #dlws
July 23, 2013
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I don’t care about politicians’ sex lives. I assume they have sex. Their interests may not be mine.
It doesn’t matter.
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Bhangra remix of Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’:
http://j.mp/1bL0nWz
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Final season of Breaking Bad starts August 11th. pic.twitter.com/WEKxsCB72u
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Helen Mirren – hubba hubba.
http://j.mp/1bKYLfs
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We all have bad days. We can all be jerks.
Let’s give each other the benefit of the doubt every now and then.
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But what if a girl baby has a cool dad?
RT @jessespector: Gender roles! pic.twitter.com/ZGzxxO5v2P
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Masayoshi Son, Softbank Prepare for New Battle – WSJ.com
In Japan, Masayoshi Son is known as the eccentric Internet billionaire who upended the country’s telecom industry. In the U.S., he is about to become the cash-strapped underdog who picked a fight with two corporate giants—AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless. "It’s like the poor kids fighting against the…