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Links for April 7th through April 8th
2008 Webby NomineesLots of stuff to get through in this one. Check it out. Shoutout to Schematic for Best Navigation/Structure nomination.
Early notes on GoogleApps (Scripting News)Nici initial impressions of the Google App Engine.
GroupTweet"Send private Twitter messages to specific groups of friends!" There are a bunch of neat things you could do with this.
Harvest On Twitter [...]
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Customer Service, Design, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Interface, Social, Thoughts
Design in the Wild: Beautiful Barcodes
Leave it to the Japanese to take something as mundane as the barcode and make an artform out of it.
Update: Check out this post filled with awesome barcodes that safoocat sent me via Flickr.
This reminded me of those super cool Japanese manhole covers from a while back:These are great examples of how anything (even [...]
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Links
Links for April 3rd through April 4th
Great Rant on a Misguided Semacode Project in San Francisco - Semapedia
Twitter Local - Find Out Who’s Tweeting Near YouSurprised more people haven't leveraged the location field of the Twitter API to make messages more geographically relevant.
Josef Desimone: Facebook hires away Google’s top chefFacebook being made up of 10% of ex-Googlers is interesting. Poaching their [...]
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Links
Links for April 2nd through April 3rd
The RFID Weblog: RFID Ecosystem project: Wireless Social Networking for you
Top 5 reasons why “The Customer Is Always Right” is wrong
Qr Codes: Japan’s QR Codes Being Tested in SF
kip/bot/blog » Finally, a tight design argument against Agile
Pleasure and Pain >> Text message your order to AmazonWhitney does a great walkthrough of the Amazon TextBuyIt feature. [...]
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Mobile, Thoughts
Amazon’s TextBuyIt: all you need to know
One would think that the last thing I need from Amazon is another way to make buying things even easier (Amazon Prime, I love you) but they’ve found one: let me buy stuff via SMS!
The best description of the feature I read today comes via CrunchGear:
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Process, Thoughts
Google 20% time: The Carl Pavano Google Bookmarks Corollary
Kip does a great job summarizing what I’ve come to believe is an inescapable problem in our industry (particularly for those on the client/services side): how do you maintain a creative and innovative environment, and attract people for whom that is a draw, when it becomes increasingly more difficult to offer the opportunity to flex [...]
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Links
Links for March 31st through April 2nd
10 Reasons Why You’re Going to Love Toluu - ReadWriteWebI signed up earlier this week and am giving it a shot. One potential problem is that I tend to want fewer feeds, not more feeds.
Flickr’s New Friend Finder: Data Portability or Privacy Violation? - ReadWriteWebAddressing the issues to consider when implementing "import contacts form your [...]
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Design, Design in the Wild, Signage, Thoughts
Design in the Wild: Settle down with the labels, muchacho
04.01.08 | Permalink | 4 CommentsThis is the door to the men’s bathroom at Mexican Radio in New York City (great restaurant, btw). You know its the men’s room because of that cleverly placed “gentlemen” sticker, right? Were that not there, you may have incorrectly believed this to be a door to a room full of mustaches.
I thought this was [...]
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