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Nailed It (Not): Our First Twitter Post, Circa 2006
I often point to my first post on Twitter, the day it launched in 2006. Why? Mostly because of how wrong I was. Best line: I imagine most users are not going to want
iTunes Ping And Facebook Were Friends Yesterday. And I’m Still Connected.
There seems to be some confusion out there right now about iTunes Ping, Apples new music social network, and Facebook. Some people seem to think it was never a part of iTunes,
Fora.TV Triples Traffic. Wait, That Many People Want Hour-Long Videos on Economics?
Fora.TV has always been playing a dangerous game—trying to sell long-form online video about intellectual ideas. That’s like trying to sell sunblock to the cast of Jersey Shore. Fora calls
Look Out Yammer – Zyb Founder Joins Podio, The Hot New Social Work Startup
When Danish entrepreneur Tommy Ahlers sold his social phonebook ZYB to Vodafone in 2008 for €31 million and joined the company, it didnt seem like he would stay forever at such a slow-moving corporate entity. And
Fwix Shifts From Local News To Places: “We Are Automating Patch”
For the past two years, Fwix has been building a hyperlocal news site for cities and neighborhoods around the country in a very automated fashion. Its homepage for every city has been three columns filled with recent news
HipChat’s Enterprise Communication Platform Adds Video Chat And Guest Access
HipChat, a recently launched private instant messaging service for companies, has added support for voice and video chat as well as guest access. Similar to Campfire, HipChat provides a simple application for communication within businesses. HipChat offers both
Hands-on Video With The Samsung Galaxy Tab (Spoiler: Wow)
Well, as promised, here’s a handy video of the Samsung Galaxy Tab in action. Apologies if it’s gets a little hairy at times—juggling two cameras while trying to navigate a GUI touchscreen isn’t exactly the easiest trick to
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How Social Data Built a Better Health Care App
Alexander B. Howard is the Government 2.0 Washington Correspondent for O’Reilly Media, where he reports on technology, open government and online civics. He’ll be reporting live from the upcoming Gov2.0 Summit in Washington, D.C., on September 7-8.Every year,…
Google Chrome Version 6 Arrives on Browser’s Second Birthday
It’s hard to believe that two years have passed since the Chrome browser first hit the web. In that time, Chrome has come to control more than 7.5% of the worldwide browser market, according to Net Marketshare.…
Ambitious Online Banking Alternative Scores $2.9 Million in Series A
Banksimple has just raised $2.9 million in a Series A round to fund their ambitious alternative online banking startup for full-service, fee-free banking. The round includes investments from First Round Capital, IA Ventures and Village Ventures, a collection of industry…
Check in on Foursquare Using Your Voice
It may not be the most socially acceptable way to check in, but Vlingo has created a way for Android app users to check in on Foursquare with their voices. It’s a speech-to-checkin feature that will save time,…
Announcing MashBash BlogWorld: Win a Free Pass
Mashable is excited to announce MashBash BlogWorld, the opening party for this year’s BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas on October 15-16. To kick off the Expo, we’ll be hosting the first night’s official party…
15 Essential Back to School Podcasts
Alexander Hotz is a freelance multimedia journalist and public radio junkie based in New York City. Currently he teaches digital media at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Follow Alex on Twitter at @hotzington.With another long hot…
Google to Power AOL Search for the Next 5 Years
Google and AOL have signed a deal that extends the search and advertising partnership between the two companies for another five years. The agreement also includes mobile search and adds a content sharing partnership with YouTube. In…
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Skype Doubles Down with 10-Person Video Chat
Skype announced today that the latest beta version of Skype 5.0 would up the ante in terms of group video chat, as well as introduce a more stable and sleeker experience for its Windows users.When the company first
Sock It To Me With Socat
Weve all been there. You want to isolate an issue with a server running on a port but want something quick and easy to verify if it is a host firewall problem or something
Texting: It's Not Just for Teenagers Anymore
Lately, the discussion about texting has mostly focused on teenagers, who now often send hundreds of text messages per day. While voice calling is still the primary use of cell phones for
Tablet Computers Will Thrive Because They Are Shareable
...a tablet is, crucially, a more shareable computer. A laptop, with its fragile hinge-ware and space-gobbling keyboard, is just not comfy to share. A tablet is easier to bring to the café, easier to hand across the
5 Plugins for Outlook Users with Gmail Envy
The announcement of Googles Gmail Priority Inbox likely made more than a few enterprise knowledge workers stuck with Microsoft Outlook and drowning in e-mail quite envious of Gmail. That is, if they werent envious already. Marshall also
10 Things You Need to Know about Apple's New Social Network, Ping
Ping, Apples new social network, is the standout feature in iTunes 10, the most recent update to Apples music management application. Within Ping, you can find and follow your favorite bands and your friends as well as recommend
Google and AOL Renew Search Agreement for Another 5 Years
Google and AOL just announced that they have renewed their global search alliance for another five years. Google will continue to power search on all of AOLs properties. For the most part,
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HP Will Pay $2.4 Billion for 3PAR
UPDATED: For months at length, Fremont, Calif.-based storage company, 3PAR could barely get above $10 a share. And then a couple of weeks ago, Dell changed that with a $18 a share offer to buy the company. Now, HP is
AOL vs. Yahoo: A Tale of Two Search Deals
As AOL renews its existing search partnership with Google for five years, and expands the terms of the deal to include mobile advertising and a YouTube distribution agreement, Yahoo announces that it has lost a lucrative search-advertising deal with NHN,
Sponsor post: Sponsor post: CrowdConf: 1st Annual Conference on the Future of Distributed Work
CrowdConf: 1st Annual Conference on the Future of Distributed Work Oct. 4, 2010, San Francisco, Calif. at the St. Regis Hotel We bring together researchers, technologists, outsourcing experts, legal scholars, and artists to discuss the rapidly democratizing and flattening of the global
Twitter for iPad Review: Ahead of the Pack
The folks at Twitter took their time releasing an app for the iPad, but it was time well spent. Having used more Twitter apps than I can count on multiple platforms, this iPad version is better than any of them
Android Devs Wait Patiently For Profitable Future
Apples iOS platform has paid out more than a billion dollars to third-party developers through the iTunes App Store, but such success is yet to be found in Googles Android Market. Developers tell Bloomberg they still have high hopes that
Ping, Facebook Break Up: It Happened Last Night
At one time, Apple and Facebook were best friends forever. It was rumored that Facebook would form the underpinning of what is now Ping. No more -- apparently the two companies are not working on Ping together, and consumers are
BuzzFeed Opens Up Access to Its Viral Dashboard
BuzzFeed, which tracks online topics that have gone viral, is offering a version of the analytics dashboard that the site it uses to monitor the spread of these Internet memes to any website, brand or publisher that wants to track
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QUOTE: Sometimes the problem has to mature before…
Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.—Kent Beck
A couple of interesting UI techniques at Flickr
1) Interesting use of unicode characters for the UI on Flickr:That triangle up top is actually two triangle characters side-by-side. Sucks that we still have to resort to such hacks for such a common
Smiley: An app in 24 hours
Late Monday afternoon David, Kiran, and I were discussing how we could begin to measure how our customers felt about our customer service. We’re already measuring things like response time, average tickets per day per person, average tickets in a
QUOTE: If you ask an artist why, the greatest artists…
If you ask an artist why, the greatest artists will tell you, “Well, it was beautiful. It inspired me. It touched me. It reminded me of this or that.”But you ask a designer why and he says, “Well, I’ve got
VIDEO: Oxxford Clothes is the last factory in the…
Oxxford Clothes is the last factory in the U.S. making custom tailored suits by hand. They are based in Chicago. Pitch perfect simple promotional video. One of the best I’ve seen.
VIDEO: Octopus ballet. Nature does it again.
Octopus ballet. Nature does it again.
The first step is to start
Many people ask me, “How can I get started in web design?” or, “What skills do I need to start making web applications?” While it would be easy to recommend stacks of books, and dozens of articles with 55 tips
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Toward a local syzygy: aligning deals, check-ins and places
Three significant trends in the local sector -- deals, check-ins, and place pages -- are on a bender and headed for an exciting convergence. When they meet we will see one of three things: a train wreck of incompatibility, an
Data Week: Becoming a data scientist
Note: Data Week is a new series that collects notable stories and developments from the data world.Data visualization and artArtist and scientist Stephen von Worley announced the launch of a new blog, Data Pointed, showcasing his data visualization research. One
Four short links: 2 Sep 2010
Guardian Science Blogs -- the latest in a series of science blog aggregators. Nobody is too sure what benefits a blog umbrella like Discovery or Nature (or the Guardian) offers bloggers. Regardless of this, the content is fantastic.v2ex: A Community
TOC's Wednesday Devices, and Gadgets and EReaders Update #2
With the IFA Consumer Electronics Unlimited techno-smorgasbord set to open this Friday, theres a lot of buzz going around about upcoming announcements and unveilings. Much of the pre-show buzz is centered around Android-based competition for the Apple iPad.The IFA traditionally
View From the Trenches: Surviving Change
I am a veteran of the format wars. I started as an innocent civilian, caught on the side of Beta while the DVD army pushed the front closer and closer to my home. Later, I joined the motion picture special
What we can learn from data, 3-D and a giant globe
Rows and columns are great for spreadsheet vendors, but end users have to jump through all sorts of cognitive
Four short links: 1 September 2010
R Library for Chernoff Faces -- faces represent the rows of a data matrix by faces. plot.faces plots faces into a scatterplot. Interesting emotional way to visualize data, which was used to good effect (though not with this library) by
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Media Companies Must Divide To Conquer
The following essay is also my Forbes.com column for August.Media Companies Must Divide To ConquerThe media is something that for most, if not all, of our adult lives, we have taken for granted.
Hot or Not: E-mail Marketing vs. Social-Media Marketing
Image credit: Rapportive at The Next Web ConferenceThe following is also my column this week in Advertising Age.Contrary to popular belief, video didnt kill the radio star, YouTube didnt knock off TV and Twitter
Presentation: Six Digital Trends to Watch
One of the best aspects of my job is that I get to learn from incredibly smart people. Working for Edelman is like playing for the Yankees. Richard Edelman has an approach to talent that in some ways resembles the
Tip: Tweetify the Lead of Your Emails
In this age of information abundance, we all get a little too much email. Its highly likely that - thanks to the message preview function - your recipient will make a decision about what to do
It's the End of the Web as We Know It
The following essay is also my AdAge column this week.Wither the web? Its hard to believe but soon, if not already, the web is going to become a lot less interesting to consumers -- and just
Study: 43% of Online Americans Addicted to Social Networking
Experian Simmons is out with a new package of stats that document the incredible growth of social networking in the US. (Experian is an Edelman client.) Here are some of the notable highlights... First, some 66% of online Americans use
Essay: The Apple Threat to Online Advertising
The following essay is also my column this month on Forbes.com.Caption: Safaris new Reader view could rob publishers of page views especially if it finds its way into iOS devicesWatch Out: Apple May Aim To Reshape
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Amazon Reduces EC2 Pricing
Amazon Web Services keeps reducing pricing on their cloud computing services. This past June they reduced pricing on their cloudfront CDN offering. Today they announced a reduction of up to 19% on High Memory Double Extra Large (m2.2xlarge) and Quadruple
Why Digg Won’t Change and Who Moved My (digg) Cheese?
This will be my last post about the new Digg site. I’ve found watching the new site go live and the reactions from both passionate Digg users and the blogs that have reaped the big cash rewards of a busted
What If Google Priority Inbox Worked Like Digg v4?
Google launched their new Gmail Priority Inbox today. The service helps push the important emails to the top. So I wondered, what if Gmail Priority Inbox worked like the new Digg version 4 currently works?Find more stories about: Digg, gmail,
Tuesday Jobs are Better Than Monday Jobs
The Digg fiasco pushed our jobs post back a day. Check out the latest jobs posted on the CenterNetworks Job Board. Subscribe to the CN Jobs feed and get all of the latest Web industry jobs delivered directly to you.Featured
Digg Becomes Reddit For a Day?
I’ve got two more Digg stories to write — actually I only had one for tonight but then I noticed something worth sharing. It’s certainly been an interesting week for the social news aggregator. They traded oxen for wheels and
Is The New Digg Just a Prettier, Faster Twitter?
Yesterday I posted some of my comments about the new Digg site along with a video from several of the top digg users (aka power diggers).  I took some time out of my coding session to take a deeper look
Power Diggers React To New Version of Digg (video)
Yesterday the big news wasn’t that Lindsay Lohan is out of rehab. The real news was that the new version of the social news site Digg launched to the public. Alex from Next Web has an overview of the new
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Survey: E-mail eats up your time off
Outlook add-in maker Xobni finds Americans and Britons are having trouble getting away from the workplace because of the reach e-mail has into their lives. Originally posted at The Digital Home
Google and AOL renew their partnership
The companies say theyll keep their worldwide partnership going for five more years, in an arrangement that now factors in YouTube and mobile search. Originally posted at The Digital Home
Two years on, Chrome reshapes browser market
The influence Googles browser has had on the market is broader than its use. And on Chromes second anniversary, Google releases another update. Originally posted at Deep Tech
Tab tweaks land in Chrome Canary
Google adds a new labs feature to its bleeding-edge version of Chrome to make it easier for users to test features that are still in development, but at least partially ready for users to explore. Originally posted at The Download
Sony announces cloud-based music service
On the same day Apple displays its digital music dominance, an electronics rival says itll offer streaming music over the Net. Originally posted at Deep Tech
Skyfire promises Flash video playback on its iPhone app
Mobile browser-maker Skyfire submits its mobile app for the iPhone, whose big draw will be playing back Flash video thats been transcoded into HTML 5 standards. Originally posted at iPhone Atlas
Target to be first to sell Facebook Credits
The megaretailer plans to sell $15, $25, and $50 Credits cards in its brick-and-mortar stores and on its site, the company announces. Sales will start on Sunday. Originally posted at The Digital Home
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Enrolled.in
Enrolled.in is a place for classmates, friends, and professors exclusive to your university.If you don’t have an educational email address from your school, don’t plan on getting in! URL: Enrolled.in
Paper.li
Organizes links shared on Twitter into an easy to read newspaper-style format. Newspapers can be created for any Twitter user, list or #tag. URL: Paper.li
LibriVox
This site provides free audiobooks, volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. URL: LibriVox
Roomorama
An affordable alternative to staying in hotels. A marketplace for short-term rentals, appealing to travelers. Post “shoutouts” so hosts will know where you want to stay, and pick your host based on their reputation score, calculated based on user feedback.
iStopover
Direct short-term rental for three groups: home rentals, office rentals and short-term rentals for groups and events. Renters and hosts deal directly with each other, instead of through a third party. URL: iStopover
Route4Me
Advanced map planner that can search and map multiple routes, and gives you the best overall results. You can export results to Google or to your GPS device. Available as an app for the iPhone. URL: Route4Me
fflick
Movie reviews by you and your friends. URL: fflick
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Mozilla Skywriter
Mozilla Skywriter(in Mozilla Labs)Mozilla Skywriter is a fast, customizable programmer’s editor, written for modern web browsers. With it, you can enable “coding in the cloud” on your website (using Skywrier Embedded) or on any website (using Skywriter
CCC
CCC (german)Der Chaos Computer Club ist die größte europäische Hackervereinigung und seit über 25 Jahren Vermittler im Spannungsfeld technischer und sozialer Entwicklungen.(an organization of hackers) | Blog |
Gmail Priority Inbox
Gmail Priority InboxPriority Inbox automatically identifies your important email and separates it out from everything else, so you can focus on what really matters.Email overload? Try Priority Inbox | Blog |
Loved.by
Loved.byCollect and share cool products from web shops and get rewarded for your best findsLoved.by monetarisiert Produktempfehlungen im Social Web | Blog | @loved_by |
Cookblast
CookblastCookblast is a search engine for recipe videos and cooking how to guides, currently with over 16,000 videos. Featuring recipes, techniques, tips and tricks from around the web. |
ChatPast
ChatPastSynchronize your chat history from multiple chat clients (Live, Skype, etc.), across multiple computers. Search them, slice them, and get just the data you want. Find everything you’ve ever talked about.
Add-on Builder
Add-on Builder(in Mozilla Labs)Use Add-ons Builder to quickly and easily develop an extension for Firefox using common web technologies. | @mozlabs | |
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Twitter Opens the Floodgates, Slightly
Push is the new pull. And everyones doing it. If youre still pulling, its probably about time you stopped all of that, as Twitter announced on Monday that they are opening up
What Happened to Enterprise Mashups?
Once touted as the future of business intelligence, providing quick and easy access to disparate information in one place, Enterprise Mashups, at least as a term, appear to have fallen out of favor. The topic was once written up in
Finally, Some Fonts to Play With
Web designers are rejoicing. Real fonts have finally come to the web and theyre easier to use than ever before. Gone are the days of Cufon and sIFR, as @font-face is finally beginning to
Face Detection API: Face Detection Made Simple
If you are building an image sharing service or a social network mashup, its likely that you will want to incorporate face-tagging in your images. Maybe youd like to go
Topsy is Twitter Search Without an Expiration
With Twitter reducing its search history to four days, it is a challenge for applications that are dependent on search results, that went not days but even months back. Several applications have taken on the
Putting Rap on the Map. Literally.
Rap enthusiasm site, Rap Genius has gone through the impressive tasks of combing rap and Google Maps. Rap Genius Rap Map is a Google Map-based visual almanac of all things rap. You can scan
OAuth-only Twitter: What it Means for JavaScript Apps
Today could be the last day for some web applications built purely with client-side JavaScript and the Twitter API. According to Twitter, Basic Authentication has been permanently shut off, as promised. While the move should
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Study: Young More Likely to Pay for Web Content
One of the most surprising results of a new, more wide-ranging survey by the marketing and media information firm Nielsen was that some people are actually prepared to pay — and theyre probably not from the demographic youd expect.
Massive cyber attack simulated in U.S
Security experts launch a cyber attack war game to test the nations cyber security defenses.
Facebook gripes protected by free speech, ruling says
Miami, Florida (CNN) -- A former Florida high school student who was suspended by her principal after she set up a Facebook page to criticize her teacher is protected constitutionally under the First Amendment, a federal magistrate ruled.
China Alarmed by Threat to Security From Cyberattacks
BEIJING — Deep inside a Chinese military engineering institute in September 2008, a researcher took a break from his duties and decided — against official policy — to check his private e-mail messages. Among the new arrivals was an electronic
Wi-Fi Turns Rowdy Bus Into Rolling Study Hall
The students call it the Internet Bus, and what began as a high-tech experiment has had an old-fashioned — and unexpected — result. Wi-Fi access has transformed what was often a boisterous bus ride into a rolling study hall, and
Email as Identity: Google Turns on WebFinger
If youve been on the Internet for long enough, you may remember the old UNIX finger command. With finger, you could just type in a command like finger email@readwriteweb.com and the email server would return more information about this person.
Google analyst: U.S. Internet needs to get faster
Mountain View, California (CNN) -- Google long has been an advocate of a single Web, one thats free of government censorship and barriers to information access.Thats not the reality in todays world however.
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Episode 74 - Neil Patel of KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg
Episode 74 features Neil Patel (@neilpatel), Co-founder and Director of Marketing at KISSmetrics. Neil talks about metrics-based decision making, user feedback and more.
Episode 73 - Prfessor and Piggy Back / Pitch the Show
Jim Kukral of Prfessor and Avand Amiri of Piggy Back pitch their business to Adam, Jonathan and Jim Rogers of i2E.org
Episode 72 - The Lean Startup / Eric Ries
I had a chance to talk with Eric Ries – Eric is the author of the blog Startup Lessons Learned and the creator of the “Lean Startup” methodology and “The New Entrepreneurship“.
Episode 71 - Capital Factory / Josh Baer
Adam speaks with Josh Baer, a Parallel entrepreneur and the Managing Partner at Capital Factory, an early stage accelerator program for tech startups.Adam rates this show as: MUST LISTEN!
Episode 70 - Flowtown / Ethan Bloch
Adam speaks with Ethan Bloch, Co-Founder & CEO of Flowtown to talk about the wonders of serendipity, following your gut and the ins and outs of product development following Eric Reiss Lean Startup model.
Episode 69 - InfoChimps / Founding Team
I sat down the Founders of InfoChimps.org. Infochimps mission is to increase the worlds access to structured data. We talked about handling large data-sets, Mentorship and the importance of Pitching your business.
Episode 68 - Carsonified / Ryan Carson
I spoke with Ryan Carson, a Co-founder of Carsonified, to talk about building a creative agency, separation of personal and business brands, hiring and retaining great designers, running a World Class conference circuit and more.
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Links for 2010-02-03
Middle Management: The Importance of Being Michael Scott - Andrew McAfee - Harvard Business ReviewWill Enterprise 2.0 displace middle management, asks @amcafee? http://bit.ly/7zcqat
Exploring Why Social Business Will Drive 21st Century Enterprises
Below is an new core visual -- which is itself a work-in-progress -- for thinking about social business models.  It's part an ongoing strategic line of thinking that I've been developing lately to do some direction finding on strategic uses
Links for 2010-01-28
Is Social Media Worth Your Time? - The Conversation - Harvard Business ReviewIs Social Media Worth Your Time? | Harvard Business: http://bit.ly/7fB9tD Useful discussion of motivations.
Links for 2010-01-20
http://bit.ly/5tj2hnSix Must-Read New Topics in Enterprise Social Computing: http://bit.ly/5tj2hn http://bit.ly/5w0e6gDeep new exploration and sum up of SOA governance by Software AG's @mikojava: http://bit.ly/5w0e6g
The K-factor Lesson: How Social Ecosystems Grow (Or Not)
Recently for some work that I'm doing I had to revisit the techniques for creating successful online social environments.  This is a surprisingly deep and nuanced topic that we as Web application architects or enterprise social computing practitioners are just
Links for 2010-01-04
Three Enterprise 2.0 Themes You Should Be Watching in 2010 « I’m Not Actually a GeekThree Enterprise 2.0 Themes You Should Be Watching in 2010: http://bit.ly/61pQ3O The Personal Enterprise | Socialwrite.comRT @leebryant Nice post from @jevon on the personal enterprise:
Links for 2010-01-03
Collaborative Innovation through Social Competition | SocialComputingJournal.comCollaborative Innovation through Social Competition: http://bit.ly/57tUdi 21 Enterprise 2.0 Success Stories - Your-On-The-Job Mentorship System from the bright ideas factory21 Enterprise 2.0 Success Stories: http://bit.ly/5SSIq3 Great list, we really must create a full database
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The Undesirable Middle
James Surowiecki on how companies without a clear focus on either the high end or low end are in trouble. As we move out of mass media (TV) as the primary way people learn about things into a web-driven era,
On the Origins of Avatars
As I sit looking at Tweetdeck this morning, scanning over 40 avatars of people I know and dont know, I wonder how much of my interaction is influenced by what a particular avatar looks like. Am I more willing to
The Most Important Feature of a Multi-Device Web: Syncing
If you sync seamlessly across devices, people will love you for it.
Looking for examples of microcopy
Ive set up a new Flickr group with the express intent of aggregating examples of microcopy, that tiny copy (often shorter than a sentence) that helps clarify, explain, reduce commitment, or otherwise assuage someone performing (or considering) a task. You
Dunning-Kruger Effect: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is Part 1
A fascinating read about the Dunning-Kruger Effect, which to my observation is enjoying somewhat of a heyday in certain circles. I see reference to it everywhere…well here is an interview with David Dunning, the one who originally thought of it.
Are You Fun to Follow on Twitter?
Over at Harvard Business Review, Tammy Erickson observes most tweets are not very interesting: Frankly, most people’s tweets are neither interesting nor fun to read — certainly not on a daily or hourly basis. Many, not at all. I say
Google: Forms & Landing Pages are Key
A fascinating post by Googler Gavin Doolan:If you are considering making changes to your website design, take a moment to consider the potential revenue impact of your redesign. (This graph) shows a theoretical overview of the ROI impact of various
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