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Do you know anyone who is still saving up for an iPad? I bet you don’t. That ship has sailed. The iPad did not really disappoint, but it never proved itself as a necessity. Sure, I’d like one to keep on my living room table, but I’d much rather have the new Kindle. But, I [...]
Flowtown has wisely and cleverly updated XKCD’s 2007 “Map of Online Communities”. I love how they organized the map. My favorite parts on the map: “Bay of Tags” surrounded by Flickr, WordPress, LJ, BlogSpot, etc.; “AIM Tundra” (if you haven’t noticed, many people don’t use IM anymore); “Former Kingdom of MySpace” complete with the “Lake [...]
Despite efforts like the reCAPTCHA project, we still hate CAPTCHAs. Famed web form guru Luke Wroblewski posted on his blog about an alternative from They Make Apps. All you do is slide to submit a form. I can’t believe this would actually work. It’s pretty simple, but Luke notes that we still need an accessible alternative [...]
This blog post by a game designer was intended to poke fun at contemporary trends in games. But, I think it also applies to a trend in usability. In usability, it’s cliché now to joke about putting something in the manual. Everyone in the field pretends that manuals don’t exist when they’re designing products (unless, of course, [...]
Ben Folds is playing with the NC Symphony this week, and I just ran into a fun video from March 20th of Ben having fun with Chatroulette in Charlotte (I love the irony): Chatroulette is a very simple site that sets you up in a webcam chat with a random stranger. The site was created [...]
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