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links for 2009-11-06
Nov 6th
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Website that digs up and displays conversations between any two Twitter users. Handy for stalking & memory-jogging. I like the fact that it bugs you for money while loading up tweets.
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T-Mobile (US) have released Android statistics. myTouch owners seem keen on browsing, apps and so on – 80% of them use the browser once a day, and 66% use it more than once a day. Indicates that smartphone buyers make good use of their features
links for 2009-10-30
Oct 30th
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Visual timeline of internet meme history, to before the creation of the first emoticon. If you ask me, though, the fun doesn't really begin until 1990 when the term Godwin's Law was first coined. Of course everything went haywire in 1993 once Eternal September began.
links for 2009-10-27
Oct 27th
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Since 1998 Rolf Molich's work has indicated that usability experts rarely form consensus views. His Comparative Usability Evaluations show that different teams will identify different issues, and their findings rarely overlap. Does this reflect flaw in methodology, or something more basic?
links for 2009-10-26
Oct 26th
links for 2009-08-17
Aug 17th
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"It is said that an economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders whether it works in theory. Twitter clearly works in practice…" – but how does it work in theory? In this articulate and erudite post, Kevin Marks explains the theoretical framework he uses to understand Twitter's undoubted appeal.
links for 2009-08-13
Aug 13th
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The WSJ's Numbers Guy looks critically at dating sites and their claims of success. Online metrics provide powerful insights but are very easy to manipulate, exaggerate and spin. The online dating industry is particularly prone to this sort of thing as these numbers are what their business live and die by
links for 2009-08-12
Aug 12th
links for 2008-12-31
Dec 31st
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"Welcome to the museum of lost interaction; a timeline of innovation. Nine exhibits ranging from 1900 to 1979, comprising audio recording machines, wireless morse communicators, portable video to the precurser behind iTunes. The museum holds an inspirational array of invention, guaranteed never to have been found, documented or exhibited ever before…"
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"Good user interfaces are crucial for good user experience. It doesn’t matter how good a technology is — if we, designers, don’t manage to make user interface[s] as intuitive and attractive as possible, the technology will hardly reach a breakthrough…"
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"This is a collection of small multiples of game controllers of the main gaming systems from the past 25 years, spanning from the Atari 2600 to the Nintendo Wii. The images have been normalized, and the hands are all approximately the same size as each other, and thus the controllers all to scale…"
links for 2008-12-10
Dec 10th
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Satirical advert about the impending bailout of the three largest American automobile manufacturers
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I've got a big presentation coming up this Friday and am elbow-deep in Powerpoint. In this post Seth Godin proposes three rules for Powerpoint presentations – tell just one story, don't use bar charts and make use of motion.
