February 2012
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You’ve Won a Badge (and Now We Know All About You) →
Is gamification over saturating the market? As discussed in this NYTimes Article we are quickly approaching a time when tangible rewards are being overshadowed by those that return no value to the individual.
“There is probably a backlash coming,” Ms. Robertson says. Pretty soon, she predicts, companies may differentiate themselves with anti-gamification promotions like “No points. No annoying...
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January 2012
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“Find the users who see your vision and talk to them. Find out why they love the...”
– Dave Morin, CEO of Path
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Meaningful Transitions →
The purpose of Meaningful Transitions is to illustrate the process of the interaction and the structure of the user interface. They focus on specific events, or clarifying the user’s interaction by animation
An amazing resource to examine the use of motion graphics in the user interface.
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December 2011
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Focus on building 10x teams, not on hiring 10x...
Avichal Garg CEO of Spool
Software development, however, is more like rowing. It’s a team sport that requires skill and synchronization. This applies at all scales. On a three-person boat, one person out of sync will stall your boat. As you get bigger, no single developer can impact your team’s performance, so again synchronization is key.
Making your team as efficient as possible is what...
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November 2011
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Soup: Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi →
soupsoup:
18 November 2011
Linda P.B. Katehi,
I am a junior faculty member at UC Davis. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, and I teach in the Program in Critical Theory and in Science & Technology Studies. I have a strong record of research, teaching, and service. I am currently…
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October 2011
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“Starting a company is like starting a fire—harder than it sounds, and you have...”
– Ev Williams
Start with Kindling
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The Steve Jobs I Knew →
Great reflection on some of the more intimate interactions with Steve Jobs that Walt Mossberg was privy to during his coverage of Apple over the years
All Things D
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September 2011
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Everything the iPad is not
Rather than taking on Apple on their own court, they’re moving to keep a lock on a game they’re already kicking butt at (the e-reader market), while upping the odds that anyone weighing “iPad or Kindle?” will be swayed in their favor. By launching with a 7″ tablet (and only a 7″ tablet), Amazon is making it clear: they don’t want the Kindle tablet to be the iPad. They want it to be...
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August 2011
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One More Thing
Steve Jobs is a remarkable person. He’ll go down as perhaps the greatest business leader and one of the greatest innovators of not just our time, but of any time. But he is just a man. What he’s built in Apple is much bigger. We’re emotionally tied to Jobs because of the belief that Apple is tied to him. His last act is to show us that it’s not. That would be truly amazing.
Great article...
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WatchThe Power of Curiosity and Inspiration by Jack Dorsey
Great lecture by a game changing entrepreneur. This is the full 1 hour lecture but you can also view specific segments here. He covers everything from his philosophy on product to the birth of both Twitter and Square. Well worth the time spent.
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John Gruber’s reaction to the various press opinions on the Google Acquisition of Motorola
Look at Google’s financial results. They reported $8.5 billion in net income this year, and $6.5 billion last year. That’s for all of Google. They’re offering $12.5 billion for Motorola. So Google just spent almost two years of its profits to buy a second-rate phone maker that itself is...
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“Yet there’s one profound difference between this series and the other...”
– Chuck Klosterman on why Breaking Bad is the best show ever on television.
via Grantland
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July 2011
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June 2011
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Breaking Bad: The Finest Hour on Television That...
Newsweek just ran an article on my favorite show Breaking Bad. In it Vince Gilligan recounts the effort to getting the landmark show made.
“I’m still to this day astounded and amazed that it came to exist,” says Gilligan, a lumbering native of Farmville, Va., who has something of the Southern raconteur about him, with a boyish face and bourbon drawl that mask a wicked sense of story and...
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