soonisnow

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A few accumulated thoughts on media(gigaom.com)
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by soonisnow 14y ago
"It’s less about Reed Hastings answering your questions — he has too much to lose by being blunt. It’s more about a guy from Netflix answering them. The everyday people that actually create the products, sites, and movies we love. The previ
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by soonisnow 15y ago
Agree, it's about the how, not the who. Methods evolve, and truly good design is as much about resource efficiency and user experience as it is interaction dynamics and look and feel. Today, if our most iconic, beautiful buildings required,
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by soonisnow 15y ago
It's about the how, not the who. Methods evolve, and truly good design is as much about resource efficiency and user experience as it is interaction dynamics and look and feel. Today, if our most iconic, beautiful buildings required, like t
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by soonisnow 15y ago
Humility about oneself and the path and process to being better, at anything, I think, is core to the constant asking of questions. As the @tmac721 touches on: ask to challenge one oneself (and others), ask to listen (truly listen!), and as
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by soonisnow 15y ago
"The bottom line is this: Not every talented programmer in the world is from a city with “Silicon” in its nickname. But many of those programmers would love to live in one." This makes tons of sense. Apart from Forrst and GitHub (and Dribbl
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by soonisnow 15y ago
Absolutely agree re: typography. Or to quote this great post from @iA, "Treat text as a user interface" http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/the-web-is-all-about-... It includes its own great list of other resources, including A List Ap
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Debating Privacy in a Networked World for the WSJ(zephoria.org)
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by soonisnow 15y ago
If anyone is interested in learning a bit more deeply some of the underpinnings of OWS and the fallout of the financial crisis (most/all of which has not been appreciably cleaned up yet), check out Yale Professor Robert Shiller's course on
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by soonisnow 15y ago
(Correction: "choosing to shuTTer something..", I meant. I often confuse those two, and it makes me shudder.)
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by soonisnow 15y ago
As a purely strategic and tactical decision, I for one applaud Adobe's ability to make one of the most difficult choices in any endeavor: choosing to shudder something that has had success in the past. Chambers iterates this well and succin
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by soonisnow 15y ago
Agreed. Like Google+ and gTalk etc? This is clearly the UX standard ahead yes?
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by soonisnow 15y ago
For sure the fact that Apple/Steve passed (violently so) on Flash made it mobile DOA, but is it possible the actual frame/second rendering on Flash 10.1 was actually better-performing than HTML5? These tests are from 2010 but suggest so..
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Amazingly, AOL still has 3.5 million dialup subscribers(splatf.com)
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by soonisnow 15y ago
What strikes me most about this announcement today is how transparently it's for the benefit of Amazon, and not readers or users. With just 5,000 titles and no big 6 publishers signed on, and open to _only_ Amazon Prime subscribers, it seem
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by soonisnow 15y ago
Is this from 2002?
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by soonisnow 15y ago
Very interested in the "internet of making things" (or project-driven, as @ataugeron iterates it here. Have been working closely on incentives around learning by doing and so far feel that these will help: 1) Recurring and consistent "promp
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by soonisnow 15y ago
While timing in sales, as in most everything, is, as they say, everything, it's very difficult to optimize for this (in an enterprise sale, hurricane forecasting, stock market).. The variables (and processes) that a team can most impact, ar
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Early Funding Mistakes Can Be Fatal(startupcfo.ca)
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by soonisnow 15y ago
Clearly not every investor is as explicit, prolific (nor as insightful!) as Wilson or Suster, but many, even the most modest-sized and earliest-stage investors, have posted something specific about what attributes in teams they look for and