February 2012
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Feb 7th
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Feb 7th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 2nd
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Feb 1st
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January 2012
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Jan 31st
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“Path is pretty in the same designy way as our modern museums…These museums are...”
– Sexpigeon  This is the best thing I’ve read about Path, and it perfectly articulates something I’ve thought not only about Path, but also a lot of other exemplars of the fussy, post-Apple wave of “high design” in tech products. Khoi Vinh has written about the same phenomenon, arguing that the...
Jan 31st
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Jan 30th
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TechCrunch misses the point on personalization →
caterpillarcowboy: TechCrunch published an article yesterday about the challenges of personalization and why no one has been able to innovate beyond what Amazon did 10 years ago. Leena Rao makes a good effort in trying to understand the challenges, mentioning the need for intent-based data, making sense of social, and privacy concerns. All are true. But the framework with which she’s approaching...
Jan 30th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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“Information and power are inherently related. Our ability to process and...”
– The Information Diet – Clay Johnson makes a case for conscious consumption in the age of “information overload.” (via curiositycounts) Best new diet for 2012?
Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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“The word that best describes this subtle blend of chance and agency is...”
– Ian Leslie on what we lose when we lose serendipity online. For a related must-read, see Eli Pariser on the filter bubble. (via curiositycounts)
Jan 18th
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