Adventures Around the Globe
I use and love Spotify. I use and love Turntable.fm. Together they would be amazing. Where is the video version of this? My Consumer Desire: I want to be able to play any television episode, without ads. I want to be able to play any movie without ads. {Current “in theatre” all the way back [...]
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Snarky MAILER-DAEMON from my servers. Hi. This is the qmail-send program at cpoproxy2-pub.bluehost.com. I’m afraid I wasn’t able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I’ve given up. Sorry it didn’t work out.
Using your finger is the best way to interact with apps on the iPad, no doubt about it. But for drawing and creating sketches? The finger is sadly lacking. It blocks your view, is not accurate, and it can be tiring to use it as a pen all day. Enter the iPad Stylus. But, for [...]
What can you learn about employee freedom and values from a company that is known for promoting both? Culture View more presentations from Reed Hastings.
I work for http://www.couchsurfing.org and we are 100% remote with no central office. We have 30 full time contributors spread over 15 time zones in every contenant but Antartica and have been working this way for over a year. Our critical toolset consists of: Basecamp: Project collaboration and task management. This has proven to be a valuable assest as [...]
Originally posted on Quora: I envision a situation where interface design will involove more conceptual work based on user personas. We currently use AB testing to find the best design for a particular goal, but it is becoming possible to track user trends across multiple sites thanks to the interconnectivity of the social graph. This would [...]
When I spend a few minutes filling out a long web form, I cringe every time I click Submit, because I know that I will have to correct something, it will time out, or there will be an error. Many times is is a format I did not know I needed to use (MM/DD/YYYY), or [...]
Google has put together a great storybook about what the internet is, how it works together and how web design has changed over time. Take a look at it if you have even a fledgling interest in web practice! http://www.20thingsilearned.com/ (Image copyright of Google)
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PayPal is a great service, leading the charge towards a digital currency that skips over borders. Unfortunately, they too have fallen towards the sentiment that your private information shoudl be public by default to further “advertising and marketing.” This is enabled by default. I had to read halfway down through a muti-page email they sent me today before [...]
I jailbreak my iPhone religiously. I love what it allows me to do, and now that there is a legitimate marketplace for jailbroken apps (yes, these do now cost money) there are services that manage them – and they have CUSTOMER SERVICE! One of these is Rock Your Phone (www.rockyourphone.com). Several months ago i purchased [...]
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Every day I speak / chat / work with many of my colleagues and friends. Normal, right? Kinda… My housemates here in Istanbul are from the US, Germany, Spain, Brazil, and Mexico. The people who work for me on my team are multinational as well – a woman from Poland who is currently living in [...]
We have entered a new era of need. One that depends upon being connected. Connected to the most recent, relevant information, connected to to energy, and most importantly, connected to other people. Humans have an obvious baser desire to be connected to other people. This is evident in the trend of urban growth, online social [...]
