January 2010
43 posts
“What is awesomeness? Awesomeness happens when thick — real, meaningful — value...”
– The Awesomeness Manifesto - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review
December 2009
37 posts
“The persistence of hierarchical thinking, particularly a reliance on experts...”
– The Promise (and Perils) of Open Collaboration
“… saying what I have to say in the way I want to say it is orders of...”
– Merlin Mann - Free as in “Me” | 43 Folders
This is a good perspective to have. What’s the name of those people whose views are the opposite of this again?
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“Trust is the most important currency online.”
– Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, Product Management, Google - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html
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“Apple has been telling some app makers to prepare apps for a demo next month,...”
– Apple would seem to be prepping a tablet announcement for early next year, according to Business Insider. I’m looking forward to 2010 being another great year of hardware announcement, whatever Apple has in store.
Maybe we’ll need another AppStorm site for iTablet software…
(via davidappleyard)
Knowledge Games » Why games? →
“For me personally, news is not only timely information on the current state of...”
– Screening The News
“Obviously the first requirement to be a planner…Is to be fucking BRITISH....”
– What’s a Planner? - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy
“As people become increasingly comfortable with drawing their culture from a rich...”
– The death of uncool « Prospect Magazine
schematic » Blog Archive » Adobe AIR – The... →
Isn’t it sort of, not surprising that a lot of the next wave of digital publishing will be done with Adobe? Whatever it says about the AIR technology platform specifically is one thing, but the idea of Adobe being a leader doesn’t surprise me.
They are already part of the workflow for many print publishers, and there’s also countless online publications that use some sort of...
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The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret |... →
Thanks @joshdavey
“You have to get to the detail to understand the larger principle—and then throw...”
– Inside the Design Thinking Process - BusinessWeek
What’s Your Flavors? – Web.AppStorm →
This site is amazing. I want an account now!
Watchdavesenior:
davidkaneda:
Outside is an upcoming weather app for the iPhone with a beautiful UI and push notifications.
(※) tools you should use
mnmal:
mrtoto:
…to simplify how you create and consume content on the web. These bookmarklets sit in my browser’s bookmarks bar; in fact, they’re the reason I display the bar in the first place.
tumblr — the best ‘blogging’ platform out there when it comes to sharing and the quick and simple creation of content
pinboard — bookmarking the way it should be (simple, effortless)
instapaper...
“I don’t use Twitter for friends. I use it for participating in the...”
– Anonymous
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Who Are You Unfollowing?
Anon: bam look at my following count
Anon: and its still dropping
Me: well done
Anon: down to 170
Anon: I feel awesome
Me: like, who exactly is it that you're unfollowing?
Anon: people who's tweets I don't like or care about anymore
Anon: people that promote their own shit too much
“However, in the long term, I am still of the opinion that articles that generate...”
– The Drawar Blog
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Smashing Magazine Killed The Community (Or Maybe... →
This is the best thing I’ve read on the internet in all of 2009.
‘nuff said.
iUofT
Wow. UofT acutally has a real iPhone application, that looks pretty feature rich to boot. Again for reference, Ryerson’s mobile offering is only a web interface. I mean… It’s ok… http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/iuoft/id330251012?mt=8
Who Is Getting Rich Off the iPhone? | GigaOM →
seanmcdonald:
Take a guess….
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“Begin with the end in mind.”
– Karl Burrow
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Notes from Gary V. at DemoCamp24
Everybody loves these right?
Gary is “completely motivated by gratitude”
Knows what it’s like to not have stuff
“You have to do everything right, not just one thing”
People “underestimate our ability to appreciate effort”
“I think people respect effort”
“What I don’t do wrong is that I genuinely care about people”
Gary...
Thirty must-have games for the iPhone or iPod... →
Dangerous.
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My First Contribution to TechVibes.com →
This is the first post I’ve written as a contributor to the TechVibes blog. This post in particular recounts how the demo session from the first day of NextMEDIA Toronto 2009 went.