September 2007
13 posts
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Demystifying Data Analysis
Demystifying Data Analysis Nice article from Adaptive Path.
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12 Effective Strategies Apple Uses to Create Loyal...
Interested analysis on how Apple creates its loyal (some say “cultish”) customer base. Some of the techniques are excellent: Complete solutions: Apple’s products complement and complete each other. Buy an iPod, and you can download music via iTunes. For the average user, most Mac programs are produced by Apple. This sort of control over the entire user process, from hardware to...
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Birthday: Google is 10 Years Old
I heart Google. Yahoo! News via Lifehacker
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Scientists program a computer that understands...
Scientists program a computer that understands knock-knock jokes Via Collision Detection
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I'm increasingly convinced that the only thing...
I’m increasingly convinced that the only thing Facebook really has is critical mass. Noah Brier
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7 User Experience Lessons from the iPhone
7 User Experience Lessons from the iPhone The best explanation of “user experience” that I’ve ever seen.
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Making the case for ethnographic research to...
Making the case for ethnographic research to inform design A good article explaining a technique I’ve advocated for my entire career — so many companies still don’t understand this part of the user experience process.
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According to an AP poll, basically no American...
According to an AP poll, basically no American reads any books anymore. Well, the “typical person” claimed to have read four books, with half of respondents claiming to have read fewer and half claiming to have read more. God, was The Da Vinci Code too hard, guys? What about the work of Zane, did its hot pink covers not entice you? Or the Bible, or Danielle Steel? You people could not...
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Ban on Window Peeping Is Sought
Ban on Window Peeping Is Sought This is an assault on the primary rights of New Yorkers.
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Rather than forcing people to constantly update...
Rather than forcing people to constantly update [our] blog with full entries, why not pull from the content they’re creating anyway? So [the aggregator] pulls in content from del.icio.us, Flickr, Twitter and other people’s blogs and inserts it right into [the site]. In my mind, it’s an example of passive activity, which I define as tapping into people’s existing behavior in...
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Time Management: Put More Time In Your Day
21 Ways to Add More Hours to the Day. I’m sure I’m not the only one who needs this. Via Lifehacker.
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Firefox: Best Extensions for Web Developers
10 Awesome Firefox Plugins and Extensions for Developers and Bloggers Via Lifehacker.
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iGoogle: The Most Productive Gadgets
15 iGoogle Gadgets for Web Worker Productivity. Via Lifehacker.