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• Data, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Review, Thoughts

  Design In The Wild: Weather Underground and their personal touch

  03.28.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Weather Underground has been my go-to source for weather on the web for the past 5 years ever since my buddy Gabe introduced me to it. At first the site felt way too information heavy for me but after giving it a chance I’ve grown to love all that data, partly due to the care […]

• Gold Star, Process, Thoughts

  Marketing + Advertising. Never the same again (and that’s a great thing)

  03.23.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

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  If you want to see, in 5 quick minutes, how these industries are changed forever (in a way that makes them infinitely more interesting than they were before), watch this presentation by Paul Isakson . Frankly, if it wasn’t for these changes, I wouldn’t be so interested in doing […]

• Customer Service, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Social, Thoughts

  Design In The Wild: Vineacity - an interesting take on the display of public reputations

  03.19.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  A colleague at work recently pointed me to Newsvine’s concept of “vineacity.” For them, “vineacity” is a quantifiable measure of your behavior on and relationship to, the Newsvine community.
  That behavior boils down to 6 key metrics that get represented as branches on a, you guessed it, vine. These vine icons, concisely denoting varying degrees […]

• Customer Service, Design, Gold Star, Interface, Mobile, Thoughts

  iPhone + Starbucks: now with movement

  03.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Remember those super slick mockups from a while back for what a Starbucks + iPhone integration might look like? Well, follow this link and check out what they might look like in action - its a nice peek into what a well-executed retail app on a phone might look like.
  Big bonus points for a little […]

• Gold Star, Process, Thoughts

  Steve Jobs speaks about Apple’s approach to the iPhone, hiring, process and other things

  03.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I was going to post this in the Links section but ultimately felt that it was important enough to warrant its own post. There’s a lot to be learned form the brief missives about products, process, people, etc.
  A lot of it is inspirational but one that particularly stood out to me was:
  “We don’t get […]

• Gold Star, Reading List, Social, Thoughts

  Clay Shirky: Here Comes Everybody

  03.01.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Karen, Dennis and I went back to ITP last night to celebrate Clay’s book release for Here Comes Everybody.
  Clay was so instrumental to our experience at ITP and served as a inspiration for a lot of the ideas we ultimately explored with dodgeball. I feel very fortunate to have been able to cross paths […]

• Design, Design in the Wild, Gold Star

  Design in the Wild: The Cadillac of Sippy Tops

  02.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The best top to a To Go coffee cup I’ve ever encountered was found at the awesome Grey Dog’s Coffee. No longer are you faced with a “no turning back” approach to opening your coffee. Instead you can open and close your coffee at will should you come across a bumpy patch on your way […]

• Gold Star, Interface, Mobile

  Socialthing’s launching some great looking updates at SXSW

  02.23.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  …and I’ll be there to give them a test run. Amongst other things, it looks like they might launch some of the features that will let you update various sites from their unified interface:

  As well as a great looking iphone interface:

  The most exciting piece of news to me is the sneak peak at a slick […]

• Design, Gold Star, Thoughts

  As amazing a bookshelf as I’ve ever seen

  02.21.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Incredibly clever way to turn limited storage space into a highly functional (and whimsical) bookshelf.
  The staircase is both the way to access the bedroom and a perfect place to store books, movies or CDs. “With a skylight above lighting the staircase, it becomes the perfect place to stop and browse a tome,” says Levitate’s Tim […]

• Customer Service, Gold Star, Process, Social, Thoughts

  Web 2.0 and the developer dialogue (+ invites to Socialthing beta)

  02.18.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Not long after my post about Socialthing, I got a comment from one of the developers:
  Alex, you’re very right that more will come out of it. Subscribing to all of your friends’ RSS feeds can be completely overwhelming. A service like ours allows a user to see everything on all of their networks without being […]