June 2012
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“Moon landing was real. Evolution exists. Tax cuts lose revenue. The research has...”
– Austan Goolsbee, on the idea that tax cuts will pay for themselves by improving the economy. (via theatlantic)
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The Verge and Monday Note
Recently I’ve come across two websites, The Verge & Monday Note, that are totally kicking butt when it comes to technology content. The Verge is a slick, polished site that covers technology in depth but with some serious style. Think of the content that it delivers as a cross between TechCrunch, AllThingsD, and ArsTechnica, but beautifully displayed and really nice interaction.
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Orbitz's attempt to target Mac users with nicer... →
Stupid WSJ. Orbitz found that Mac users were booking hotels $20-$40 per night more than PC users. They started showing Mac users hotels that were commensurately more expensive - experiences that were MORE RELEVANT. Of course, the WSJ chose to position this as Orbitz ripping off Mac users.
I don’t need journalism like this. What a load of crap.
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CMU Design League Carnegie Mellon: CD at Work:... →
Go Sahana!
cmudesignleague:
Hi again.
This past week, I was lucky enough to have a short internship with one of my idols, Jessica Hische. She is an illustrator and designer specializing in typography based in San Francisco. She is most well known for her font, Buttermilk, and more recently, designing a font specially…
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“I am driven by two main philosophies, know more about the world than I knew...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via crookedindifference)
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Why I Wish Microsoft Started Making Computers...
joannastern:
And if Microsoft did that when touch became so important to laptops, I might have never changed the subject to terrible trackpads when I sat down with Angiulo, and never started recommending Mac laptops over Windows PCs for the last couple of years.
My full editorial
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WatchMark Cuban takes apart Skip Bayless. I love it. I can’t stand 90% of sports analysts like Bayless and Cuban expresses my frustration beautifully.
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Why We Use Node.js and Grunt to Build JavaScript -... →
processanditeration:
Flite’s engineering blog discussing our Node.js and grunt usage and process.
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Microsoft Is the Most Exciting Company in Tech,... →
That sounds over-hyped even to me. However, I think we are definitely on our way to getting our mojo back. The competitors aren’t going to be standing still and we have to out-execute them. The energy and enthusiasm are there and just as important so are the resources. As Steve Ballmer said, “We are persistent.”
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Great Article on The 10 Principles of Good Design... →
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Microsoft Surface Just Made the MacBook Air and... →
Whoa! This is pretty amazing. They have a lot of content on Surface at Gizmodo.
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Microsoft Advertising Takes On Conversion Funnel ... →
This interview with Rick Chavez and Natasha Hritzuk - both colleagues on the Marketing Solutions Team - outlines the deep research that Microsoft has done on consumer buying. Fundamentally, the funnel model is too simplistic. Congratulations, Natasha and Rick!
The conversion funnel has become a cliche in marketing circles. Worse than that, while it’s convenient shorthand for how to target...
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The Microsoft Surface Details →
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Hybrid Audi Wins Le Mans - The Most Grueling Car... →
I am surprised that a hybrid won the Le Mans and even more surprised that it was an Audi. I always thought the Germans were behind when it comes to hybrids.
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Windows 8: You’ll Absolutely Hate It At First (But... →
I am one of these people who are consummate early adopters. I just love trying out new things. With Windows 8, I didn’t absolutely hate it, but it did take me some time to adjust to it. It’s a completely different user experience. However, after I used it for a couple of days, it’s really nice. In the interest of full disclosure, I do spend a lot of my time in the Windows 7 mode...
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Farhad Manjoo's article - RIP, Nokia (1865 –... →
Farhad Manjoo is as usual incisive and brilliant. However, I think his conclusion on this is overblown. Nokia is not going to die. There is no question they are going to have to make an extremely difficult transition. It’s not clear to me (from the article) that they can’t do it. There are enough forces on their side that it could happen. Nevertheless, his writing and analysis is...
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Rumor: Microsoft to Introduce Tablet? →
I have no knowledge of this, but this sounds a bit far-fetched. I doubt that MS would want to challenge their channel partners. However, they did have a great tablet that they cancelled called Courier - so who knows?
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Mother-of-All-Microsoft-Leaks Details Xbox 720... →
Not only is someone going to get fired, they are going to be bankrupted by Microsoft’s lawyers.
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Putting Agile Marketing to Work | Conspire: A... →
Great piece on agile marketing. This is going to be one of the biggest impacts on digital marketing - the other being leveraging audience data.
processanditeration:
Worth reading.
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on{X} from Microsoft - make your Android phone do... →
Now we just need to Isaiah Mustafa (the Old Spice Guy) to do our ads. :-)
Imagine you could program your Android to text your wife when you left work. Now imagine your Android reminding you in the morning to grab your umbrella if it’s going to rain later in the day.
Now look back at your Android Phone! Now look at Microsoft! Wait, what? Microsoft?
That’s right, your favorite Redmond...
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Can You Handle the Truth? Aaron Sorkin’s Steve... →
Farhad Manjoo takes apart Aaron Sorkin and the problem with his projects. The more I read Manjoo, the more I like his writing. He is incredibly talented and his logic is inescapable.
