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How did my family react to receiving these gift boxes from The Onion? In order to have a little fun over my Christmas break on Cape Cod, I decided to package a select few presents inside these gift boxes. On Christmas Eve, four boxes were distributed. One, the Sounds of the Rainforest Smoke Alarm, went [...]
First Round Capital has put together an awesome holiday video in the Where the Hell is Matt? style. They feature 70 companies in their portfolio, many of which are Web 2.0 companies. A few of my favorite organizations in this video are Mint.com, Stumbleupon, and Ambient Devices (I love my Baseball ScoreCast). [via Laughing Squid]
Netflix will lay off 50 tech support workers not because of the recession, but because they simply don’t need them. The Los Gatos-based company claims that their Web-based player is so easy to use that they don’t need all of the tech support staff that they hired. While this is clear proof that usability can [...]
Here’s a fascinating video that teaches seniors how to use computers and the Internet through metaphors. When it popped up in my feed reader, I was about to write it off as a nostalgic video with only comedic value. However, its two metaphors may still be useful today: The controls on a claw crane can [...]
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