Microlending Blossoms
Backing a hot dog stand: Microlending via sites like Kiva is no longer just for the developing world; http://j.mp/8YLqxe
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Amazon Goes Facebook
Amazon connects to Facebook, suggests products and gifts for friends; http://j.mp/cbzd8B
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Print vs. Web
Center for the Digital Future: Readers are abandoning print, yet do not trust the Web; http://j.mp/d2Wtb1
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Zynga: the Google of Games?
Doerr: Zynga has the most revenue, growth, happy customers of any 3-year-old venture; http://j.mp/cRDpC1
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Web Design Application
Santa Maria: We should have native tools to do our jobs, a real web design application; http://j.mp/cpGqbU (via @rivva)
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Facebook: the Social Utility
A continuing contradiction: Facebook is widely criticized and yet millions can not resign; http://j.mp/dCsqoe
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Summary: Getting Things Done (GTD)
Great book summary by Josh Kaufman for Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen; http://j.mp/dBOJfo (via @pherwarth)
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Kaufman: Here are 10 big ideas from David Allen’s Getting Things Done…
1. If your day-to-day life is out of control, it’s almost impossible to think strategically or plan effectively.
2. Define what being ‘done’ looks like.
3. Mental work has five distinct phases: Collect, Process, Organize, Do, and Review
4. Get everything out of your head.
5. Projects and tasks are two different things: track them separately.
6. Focus on the Next Action required to move forward.
7. Use the ’2 Minute Rule’ for small tasks.
8. Use Reference and Someday/Maybe files for things that have no immediate next actions.
9. Build a trusted system that helps you keep track of your commitments.
10. Schedule non-negotiable time for a Weekly Review.Bonus tip: developing an effective personal productivity system takes time and experimentation.
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WikiLeaks vs. Secrets
Jarvis on secrets: The moral to the WikiLeaks war log story, you never know what might be leaked; http://j.mp/c1QW0j
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Advertising
Jarvis: Advertising [the advertising-based business model] is fucked; http://j.mp/9FymbY
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Facebook
500M Facebookers: but where in the world are they? Interactive map by visualization company Tableau; http://j.mp/dpgADQ
Gerrit Eicker 11:14 on 27. July 2010 Permalink |
Santa Maria: “The web and its related disciplines have grown organically. I think it’s safe to say the web is not the domain of just the geeks anymore – we all live here. And those of us who work here should have sophisticated, native tools to do our jobs. … So why not build a desktop app for web design around WebKit? I’m not talking about an in-browser AJAX toolkit for dragging elements around and changing fonts, but an actual desktop application built with WebKit as the core to its display. It could have accurate rendering and previews for the way page elements would look, but with some of the WYSIWYG tools desktop design apps have. We wouldn’t just approximate pixels in a flat comp, our CSS would be baked in to the layouts we draw and create on the page. And as Webkit grows, so to could this new app, always taking advantage of the latest and greatest functionality. Just like a browser, it could pull assets from remote servers; and just like a desktop app, it could make use of local processing power and OS level functionality. This would allow it to effectively combine some of the best of both worlds, with a foot firmly planted in the web. – The advantages would be monumental, allowing a strong creative and explorative process, while seeing how things could react on a live stage. It would fulfill many of the items on my wishlist because these are already part of core browser functionality. We would essentially be designing with live page elements; not a picture of a text field—but a text field you could click into and start typing, and then drag to a different area of the page entirely. – I know I’m generalizing; I’m a designer first and most certainly not a developer, but I’ve been occupying this space and using these tools long enough to have a hunch for what works and what doesn’t. An application like this could change the process of web design considerably. Most importantly, it wouldn’t be a proxy application that we use to simulate the way webpages look – it would already speak the language of the web. It would truly be designing in the browser.”