May 2008
50 posts
WatchGecko Reflow Art: How Firefox’s engine lays out a page. Doug T, Webmonkey
Can a Dead Brand Live Again? →
Fascinating article including brand speculation and selective consumer memory manipulation from The New York Times Magazine.
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Budget Hero →
An e-learning Flash game that gives you a chance to balance the U.S. federal budget. Despite its cartoony appearance, it is an extremely sharp way to use the interactivity that only games can provide in an entertaining way. Business & Games
How Dopplr teaches us about owning our identity... →
Being gracious to a customer on the way out may be the best way to get them back in.
Import your profile at Get Satisfaction →
A wonderfully easy, low barrier-to-entry way to start a new profile. All sites should be this easy.
Network TV Records Worst Ratings Ever →
“The word design is everything and nothing. We think of design as not just the...”
– Jonathan Ive
Does technology drive history? →
Who says big ideas are rare? →
Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker. Nathan Mhyrvold’s Intellectual Ventures is also discussed.
“Everyone fawned over the curly-haired, rosy-cheeked twins Information...”
– Aarron Walter, giving personalities to common web design roles.
Disney to create an "emerging media and... →
Beyond Madison Avenue
WatchStop-Motion Graffiti
“Any community—online or off—must start slowly, and be nurtured. You cannot “just...”
– George Oates, of Flickr.
A New Mantra for Creativity →
by Bill Buxton, Principal Scientist at Microsoft Research.
Is Facebook worth your time? →
Not as an advertiser, unless you have a genuine cause to rally people around.
“It is no coincidence that virtually all of the Brandz top 20 most valuable...”
– Hayes Roth, CMO at Landor Associates
Advertisers have yet to unlock the power of play →
Business & Games
IDEO’s Extreme Customer Experiences →
Too often the value of looking for these extremes is rejected. In probing the extremes not only can we get richer information, but we are more likely to arrive at a ‘common truth’ than from an arbitrarily mashed-together Franken-persona. Celebrate differences in perspective, and the path to the solution will be easier to find.
3M: Fail or Die →
[BusinessWeek’s Next]
“We put the community first, the consumer second and businesses third.”
– Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp CEO and co-founder, on its operational principles.
“To sustain an edge in any market you must make better products than your...”
– Fake Steve Jobs. Spot on. But never underestimate the importance of process innovation in a services company.
“The future of advertising is NOT in the advertising; it is in “Service Design”....”
– Idris Mootee, in Can We Fix Marketing?
“Neither of us stands a chance against Javascript. Why persist with this pitiful...”
– Ruby proponent Why, imploring the Ruby and Python communities to unite Compiler
Twistori →
A clever Twitter-based art project, in the spirit of WeFeelFine. Compiler
Developer activity on Facebook's platform is... →
Fake Steve Jobs
Bookmarkable Advertising →
Smart thinking into an overlooked issue by Ilya Vedrashko.
It reminds me of an issue that is oft-overlooked: Printable Ads. Far too infrequently do art directors take the time to make sure that their ads have a high-quality static counterpart that looks good on the printed page. Of course, once an ad hits paper, the dynamics change. A bit of underlined text indicating a link no longer does...
“Thank you for staring at our banner! You are subliminally causing other...”
– Kinkos banner found in-store - AdRants
Dragonfly: Opera Releases Free & Open Developer... →
Sen. Ron Wyden emerges as Network Neutrality... →
New eye tracking technology incorporates gestures... →
While a mouse (or my personal preference, a pen tablet) works well for the manipulation of data, eye-trackers make so much more sense for pointing at data.
Let's banish the term "non-traditional media" -... →
The Ampersand: Its History and Variations - H&FJ →
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“I believe there are just three things wrong with being an agency today: 1) How...”
– Andy Fletcher, president and CEO of Fletcher Martin, The Trouble With Agencies - Adweek AdLab
Data Centers Are Becoming Big Polluters, Study... →
Inappropriately appointed patent judges may call... →
TechShop →
A soon-to-be-nationwide fab lab. It resembles a gym-like paid membership system to the shop lab your school never had.
BB TV
10 Lessons in Fostering Innovation from Pixar's... →
Herd Your Black Sheep
Perfect is the Enemy of Innovation
Look for Intensity
Innovation Doesn’t happen in a Vacuum
High Morale Makes Creativity Cheap
Don’t Try To “Protect your success”
‘Interaction = Innovation’
Encourage Inter-disciplinary Learning
Get Rid of Weak Links
Making $$ Can’t Be Your Focus
John Gruber
IPv4 Exhaustion Counter →
Onward, to IPv6. Compiler
Recession? Not in the Advertising Business - Wired →
“Almost De Beers like, wireless providers have managed to somehow maintain the...”
– The Five ForcesCircles of Hell - Going Private
“Facebook is Webkinz for adults. Facebook is a Ponzi scheme.”
– Fake Steve Jobs
“The story of innovation has not changed. It has always been a small team of...”
– Eric Schmidt, How Google Fuels Its Idea Factory - BusinessWeek