August 2012
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July 2012
31 posts
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Don Norman & John Maeda on #innovation #design... →
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The Story of Steve Jobs: An Inspiration or a... →
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Photo Essay Reveals The Explosive Growth Of... →
This is absurd. We should decriminalize drug use, stop spending money on prisons and fund education, healthcare, and yes even high-speed rail.
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Old Spice is not just creative but data driven.... →
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Steve Ballmer and Marissa Mayer Face the Same... →
Fair and balanced analysis of Microsoft’s and Yahoo’s problems.
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Google’s Marissa Mayer Becomes Yahoo’s Chief →
Wow! She doesn’t need the money, it must be the challenge, which is good for Yahoo! The folks at Yahoo! deserve a great leader and by all accounts, Marissa Mayer is one.
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14 reasons why this is the worst Congress ever →
Hating on Congress is a beloved American tradition. Hence Mark Twain’s old joke, “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” But the 112th Congress is no ordinary congress. It’s a very bad, no good, terrible Congress. It is, in fact, one of the very worst congresses we have ever had.
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Twitter & LinkedIn Are Taking Their Users For...
Twitter and LinkedIn are taking their users for granted. For a long time, I’ve been looking for a way to cross-post across Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Finally, I found a way to setup Tumblr so that it cross-posts to Facebook and Twitter. I had connected my Twitter and LinkedIn accounts so that my tweets would end up on LinkedIn. I mostly use Tumblr for professional stuff (though not...
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FastCoDesign: Octofeed Puts A Slicker Skin On... →
The amusing thing is that Octofeed’s design is very reminiscent of Co.Design, the Fast Company Design site - the source of this article.
Octofeed takes Facebook’s design ethos, which emphasizes visual and temporal storytelling to create an emotionally charged UI, and distills it down to its essence. Paging Facebook’s design team!
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“Yesterday’s announcement that Microsoft would write-down the 2007 acquisition of...”
– Hal Berenson has written a good post on the write down of Microsoft’s aQuantive acquisition and the history behind it.
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The Insidious Power of Brand Content →
Brilliant blog post in Monday Note by Frédéric Filloux on the power and risks of brand advertising.
In advertising, Brand Content is the new black. You can’t bump into an ad exec without hearing about it. It’s the new grail, the replacement for the other formats that failed and the latest hope for an ailing industry. But there are side effects.
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Wising Up To Facebook →
Bill Keller has a brilliant op-ed piece in the NY Times about privacy and Facebook.
[W]e deplore the violations exposed in the phone-hacking scandal at Murdoch’s British tabloids, while we surrender our privacy on a far grander scale to Facebook and call it “community.” Our love of Facebook has been a submissive love.
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