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by farlington 15y ago
A bunch of big brands have them already, like http://www.facebook.com/nike and http://www.facebook.com/cocacola . They do have a lower information density, but I think the old page design was cluttered. The new pages look better. In my
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by farlington 15y ago
This is real pretty. I love the stacked paper visual analogy of the 'focused' view in a project, it's so instantly visually apparent what's going on. I wonder how many trends this UI/UX is going start.
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by farlington 15y ago
No, and thank you, that's totally cool. It kind of illustrates the value of having an extension that does this with omnibox queries. Without the 'blind test' aspect, obviously.
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by farlington 15y ago
It's really tough to switch search engines when Google's results are so good the majority of the time. The crux of the problem is that you have to choose. It's more arduous to navigate to a different search engine than it is to repeatedly t
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by farlington 15y ago
Wolfram Alpha's is pretty too: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%09sqrt%28cos%28x%29%29...
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by farlington 15y ago
I like timelapses like these, because often, finished work can appear obvious to people who aren't designers. They can't imagine that it would take several hours to complete something seemingly simple or minimal. But watching a designer wor
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by farlington 15y ago
Oh, absolutely, in the present and for the immediate future. But the not so distant future, like five or ten years out? Do you think the lead in terms of design and marketing is less surmountable than the hardware design and manufacturing?
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by farlington 15y ago
It's hard to look at stuff like this and think that western companies have much of a future in China.
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by farlington 15y ago
I think that's an overly reductive assessment to say 'mobile phones and banner ads.' Mobile computers are extremely sophisticated communication tools and platforms—stuff that used to be science fiction—the social, cultural, scientific benef
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by farlington 15y ago
Uxbekistan and—in the South Pacific—R'Iyeh, fictional city in Lovecraft where Cthulhu is held prisoner.
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by farlington 15y ago
For many people, high intensity/high contrast also causes eyestrain. There's nothing wrong or unreadable about medium contrast text, despite what the somewhat triumphalist contrastrebellion would have you believe.
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by farlington 15y ago
> For all I know, my Motorola may have been made there as well. Yes, Foxconn makes Motorola phones too. Farley admits the obvious: that making it about Jobs and Apple sells more tickets and makes a more interesting story, and that it's
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by farlington 15y ago
I don't know if I can answer your question, but I could maybe clarify what I think are a few misconceptions. The first misconception is that artists are generally opposed to new revenue models. Artists, designers, craftspeople have absolute
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by farlington 15y ago
You can still do that if your news feed is set to show "Recent Stories" and not "Top Stories". The mini sidebar is mostly stuff that hasn't been in the news feed for years, like when your friends comment on or like other friends' posts.
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by farlington 15y ago
> What is the usefulness of this information? My guess is that it's there for the sizable population of facebook users who check it compulsively. For a lot of people, the appearance of constant activity is going to be a lot more interes
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by farlington 15y ago
That's cool. I use many different means to communicate too, mostly for work. But my friends and family members? For personal messages, like stuff that really matters, they send messages on facebook. My brothers, my sister, my mom, my dad—I
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by farlington 15y ago
I think it's a great idea. Don't most people you know use facebook instead of email for personal correspondence?
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by farlington 15y ago
It looks to me like it's going to improve the experience by making the experience more like facebook's messaging app. Most of my friends send messages via facebook rather than through email, because it's a better and more personal experienc
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by farlington 15y ago
Beautiful and functional. There are things to nitpick of course, but this is light years ahead of the old blogger. It's nice to see Google making a concerted effort to elevate the design of products across their portfolio. I used to think
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by farlington 15y ago
It's a brilliant strategy, and I'd be very surprised if it doesn't lead to some antitrust litigation.
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by farlington 15y ago
I'll bet at least some of the difference in facebook search traffic is offset by the rise in popularity of mobile devices. Most people with mobile devices have an app to go to and would be less likely to search 'facebook'.
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by farlington 15y ago
It's at around 50:20.
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by farlington 15y ago
For the ability to watch them on demand, rather than via DVD through the mail. Netflix streaming is increasingly not available for popular new releases. This is like the Google equivalent of iTunes's movie and TV rental offerings.
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Live - the Senate's mobile privacy committee hearing(live.thisismynext.com)
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by farlington 15y ago
Nice breakdown, but this is a pretty old article (2008). But it's interesting to cross reference with the description here: http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2 I'm really curious if webkit2 is going to be widely adopted, and if so, if and
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by farlington 15y ago
I think the Mac version is a 32/64 bit universal binary. That might be an explanation, anyway.
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by farlington 15y ago
You should try it. http://www.facebook.com/download . It's basically a two-click process. It gives you most of the data you'd be interested in as a user (photos, videos, messages, wall posts). Not so much the data that Google might want, l
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by farlington 15y ago
It's a one click download. OK, actually two clicks, but it's a very clean, unconfusing process. https://www.facebook.com/download/ Not to mention the graph api. They're very good about giving you all the information you as a user might wa
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by farlington 15y ago
Apple has open sourced a lot of their projects. Check it out: http://opensource.apple.com/ http://developer.apple.com/opensource/
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by farlington 15y ago
You're absolutely right, I did conflate 'closed' and 'private'. But what about my second point? You can download your facebook data. Or is it not 'strongly portable' enough, in your opinion?

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