April 2011
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March 2011
“Since Google’s business is advertising, shifting industries away from paying...”
– Kyle Baxter (via marco)
Free might look great for consumers but nothing is free without repercussions.
Color Founder Bill Nguyen: Why You're All Wrong... →
Castles in the air?
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Apple's Jonathan Ive: How did a British... →
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Where Do Bad Moods Come From? →
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Nerds, we need to have a talk →
“You’re doing it wrong, and you should give up because you suck at it.” or “if you’re not using $hip_new_language, then you’re a loser.”
Guys, why do we do this? Most of us were nerds when we were younger, and this attitude of “you’re not cool enough to be in the $cool_designers or $cool_programmers club” is exactly the type of stuff we had to deal with. It’s the high-school lunch room all...
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Which Traits Predict Success? (The Importance of... →
[…] those with grit are more single-minded about their goals – they tend to get obsessed with certain activities – and also more likely to persist in the face of struggle and failure. Woody Allen famously declared that “Eighty percent of success is showing up”. Grit is what allows you show up again and again.
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How to Get to Genius →
Whatever it is, explore it more deeply. This may guide you to your true passion. Your true potential. If you’re not passionate about something, it will never consume you so it won’t resonate in your mind long enough to find true genius within it.
WatchA History of the World in 100 Seconds (by Gareth Lloyd)
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Many wikipedia articles have coordinates. Many have references to historic events. Me (@godawful) and Tom Martin (@heychinaski) cross referenced the two to create a dynamic visualization of Wikipedia’s view of world history. Watch as empires fall, wars break out and continents are discovered.
Impulse donations
Donating through iTunes should be always available. It’s the easiest way to donate. Why not have impulse donations for a change?
“The magic happens when you find the sweet spot where your genuine interests,...”
– Scott Belsky (via mnmal)
Lingon →
onethingwell:
Lingon is a graphical user interface for creating and editing launchd configuration files for Mac OS X Snow Leopard. You can use launchd on a Mac to launch scripts and applications whenever something special happens or at a specific time or periodically.
Writing launchd files by hand is a right faff, so it’s great to see Lingon return.
Update: I just finished converting all...
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Which Traits Predict Success? (The Importance of... →
[…] there’s a major contradiction between how we measure talent and the causes of talent. In general, we measure talent using tests of maximal performance. Think, for instance, of the NFL Combine. […] The problem with these tests, however, is that the real world doesn’t resemble the NFL Combine. Instead, success in the real world depends on sustained performance, on being able to...
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The resilience of the Japanese →
Plumes of smoke are still rising from the wreckage and the roads all lead to nowhere.
But nothing was going to stop this Japanese businessman arriving at the office as usual.
Walking through the ruins of the port of Sendai, the unnamed worker symbolised a whole nation’s determination to get back on its feet in the aftermath of the disaster.
According to reports in Japan, many workers turned...
Apple's Role in Japan during the Tohoku Earthquake →
[…] hundreds of people were swarming into Apple stores to watch the news on USTREAM and contact their families via Twitter, Facebook, and email. The young did it on their mobile devices, while the old clustered around the macs. There were even some Android users there. (There are almost no free wifi spots in Japan besides Apple stores, so even Android users often come to the stores.)
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“ 3 years, 2 months and 1 day. The time it took from the first Tweet to the...”
– Twitter Blog: #numbers
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Social media's role in Mexican drug wars →
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The Mideast uprisings and the role of social media in galvanizing revolutions have been front and center at SXSW this year. But Saturday morning, I attended a panel on the use of social media in Mexico, and was reminded of how technology is impacting crisis communication in our own backyard.
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Google’s Quest to Build a Better Boss →
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Why Nokia failed: 'Wasted 2,000 man years' on UIs... →
“In certain cases my weaknesses are that I’m too idealistic. Realize that...”
– Steve Jobs (via jacks)
“Based on Horace Dediu’s prediction, Apple will possibly make more money selling...”
– The billion dollar Smart Cover
Here's my GarageBand for iPad review.
I just lost the track of time playing around with GarageBand for iPad. It’s incredibly good.
I can imagine how it will blow my dad’s mind when I show it to him next weekend.
Magical indeed.
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