January 2012
16 posts
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This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The... →
The future of business is pure chaos. Here’s how you can survive - and perhaps even thrive.
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Font.js: A Powerful Font Toolkit for JavaScript →
badassjs:
Mike Kamermans has been working on a little font toolkit for your JavaScript that is kind of akin to the built-in Image object but for Fonts. It gives you font loading events using a technique perfected in Mozilla’s pdf.js project, metrics information, and a better version of the canvas…
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Exit Interview: The creators of no-longer-with-us...
A great post by Matt from 37signals in which creators share insights as to why their products failed:
Marc Heclund on why Wesabe (personal finance) failed and Mint succeeded:
“Mint focused on making the user do almost no work at all, by automatically editing and categorizing their data, reducing the number of fields in their signup form, and giving them immediate gratification as soon as...
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“Too much choice actually makes it less likely [users] will take advantage of a...”
– “Paradox of Choice” by Barry Schwartz commenting on Google+ circles
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JavaScript MVC Frameworks Compared
I read a nice article posted by Gordon Hempton on his Top 10 JavaScript MVC frameworks and pointed out that he had missed my favorite angular.js.
Gordon checked into angular and made it number 2 after Ember.js from Jehuda Katz and is billed as “SproutCore 2.0”.
The angular community have answered Gordon’s questions. Vojta Jina, one of the angular developers at Google, also...
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The Sean Ellis Test
Sean Ellis ran a consulting company, 12in6, that specialized in helping startups during their growth transition stage (post Product/Market Fit). As a condition to taking on a client, he conducted a qualitative survey across a sampling of the company’s users to determine if their product had achieved Product/Market Fit.
The key question on the survey was:
How would you feel if you could no longer...
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Eat Better Using The Crowd's IQ
Here’s how it works: You snap a photo of your meal and caption it. The app guesses where you are (you can adjust this as well as your portion size) and then you drag the picture onto a sliding scale from “Fit” to “Fat” based on how healthy you think the food is. You are then given the anonymous images of a few other people’s meals to similarly rate. After...
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“What most users don’t know is that the new features being introduced are all...”
– Leaked Details of How Facebook Plans To Sell Your Timeline to Advertisers
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Post-Artifact Books and Publishing — by Craig Mod →
Digital’s effect on how we produce, distribute and consume content.
We give form to our private telepathy through marginalia - marks, highlights, notes in the margins
This is the post-artifact system. A system of unlocking. A system concerned with engagement. Sharing. Marginalia. Ownership. Community. And, of course, reading.
It’s the system that transforms the book from isolated...
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The Rise of PerSocial Web →
Leveraging what your social network (Facebook) or other random people (Amazon) do, read or buy to generate an experience that is more relevant to you is good. But designing a whole persocial experience is even better. That means taking into account countless personal data: sex, location, age, education, political and religious views, cultural tastes, all sort of affiliations, groups etc. and...
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“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you...”
– Maureen Dowd
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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks...”
– Thomas Edison
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