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Well, no wonder we’re ad-blind…

every. single. time. we. go. online…. fail.

Wanted: juggling lessons and *Extreme* Time management course

Wow. I just got back from Spring Break in Beijing and it wasn’t much of a break at all. I was working on Bettr@ stuff and trying to nail down a final set of requirements and interaction flows, and was jetlagged the entire time I was there.
I knew I shoulda taken DEMO (MDes [...]

x marx the spot

in light of recent *cough* national events surrounding wall street, i just wanted to point out that the word “ussr” is used more often in common language than the word “innovation”.

do your part and send your favorite hedge fund manager or ibanker exec a singing telegram: *you don’t know how lucky you [...]

San Fran trip + TechCrunch50 Redux

I’m back from San Francisco and really missing it–a shout out to Ani for putting me up and showing me around and giving me the real startup scoop– Which would have taken me months to catch up on!

awesome breakfast place: Zazie

Techcrunch50 was generally pretty awesome — Jason Calacanis wanted bloggers to answer the following in [...]

How come you don’t Twit, Ash?

Because I’m not a freaking Nazi.

pretty fun stuff, via techcrunch.

Brand monopolies and design deficiencies: Case Study, eBay

Attention venture capitalists that have some extra money to throw around, or motivated and interested entrepreneurs:
You should invest in creating a good auction site. Wha-What’s that you say, eBay already exists and has monopolized the online auction market?
Have you ever tried to USE eBay recently? as a buyer OR a seller? [...]

rejoice!

Daily Show and Colbert on Hulu. My decision to renounce TV years ago vindicated once more.

obligatory apple fanboy 3G iPhone post

Ok, explain to me… why WOULDN’T it have a cut and paste functionality, remind me again? I mean… c’mon! If you’re going to make it a fully featured mobile device, you better have the basic functions that I’d use between Safari and mail, like copy and paste.
…and THAT’s why I’m not going to [...]

This… is….Spartaaaaaaaaaaaa!

When I was wee little lad, I loved this book so much. It’s a book in the time machine series (of which I’ve read quite a bit), it’s from the makers of choose your own adventure. Back before the interactive days of the internet, Choose Your Own Adventure books were the best way [...]

links for 2008-05-30

Harpers Ferry Center: NPS Maps
(tags: map symbols illustrator)

Blog-lite Summer

Hi everyone…. This summer is going to be blog-lite, okay? I am taking too many classes for my own good as well as working on two pretty interesting projects that could turn into a venture soon; there’s probably little chance that I will get out of this summer unscathed from the wrath of [...]

Hyper personal tracking: Where’s it all headed?

I feel like you’re going to see a lot more personal tracking applications in the near future– Imagine GTD on steroids, where you’ll know everything you spend time on.
When there’s stuff like MeeTimer and Microsoft Research doing some serious inquiry into personal time tracking, you have to wonder where this is all going to end [...]

Does this already exist?: Backscratch

At design school, I get surveys all the time. I do some of them. Actually, I do a fair number of them if they are for a class or to help the school improve in some way. Surveys are a easy way to get quick quantitative information from a large sample size [...]

Holy cow Blogman (聖牛,博客?)

For a country with a political climate like China, this is stunning:
Top markets for blogging –
China 70% of internet users write a blog, Philippines 66% and Mexico 60%

blogs, socialmedia, emergingmarkets

Social Networks based on pre-subscription

Before there were social networks like the Facebook or CafeMom, people used real social networks to tell other people what products they liked to use.
American Express just launched a social network (or maybe foisted is a better term) that is for all card members that subscribe to the American Express credit card. (I’m sure [...]



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