Everyone in the Twitterverse — @efortiz, @arainert, @jonesabi — is talking about the launch of Shine today so I had to check it out for myself. Shine from Yahoo! is a new website that is meant to be a destination for women between the ages of 25 and 54. On their About Us page, they [...]
Entries from March 31st, 2008
Yahoo!’s Shine
March 31st, 2008 · 10 Comments · Design
Tags:Design·Onboarding·Pain·Pleasure·Social Networking·User Experience
Feed Reader: Inbox Zero
March 31st, 2008 · 7 Comments · Productivity
Oh happy day!
As I’ve said before, I find it nearly impossible to keep up with the steady stream of information that gets pushed at me all sorts of ways. In the case of my RSS feeds, I’ve opted in, chosen to receive this deluge of content, and yet it still feels like a job to [...]
Tags:Pain·Productivity·RSS
Spam that sells
March 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Marketing
I’ve received all sorts of crazy spam over the years, as I’m sure you all have. But this week I got a spam message that was targeted, personalized, and appealed to my deep desire for self-promotion:
I thought about telling you the company that sent this to me, but that would justify their unsolicited email. Suffice [...]
Tags:Blogging
People you may know
March 30th, 2008 · 7 Comments · User Experience
Earlier this week, Facebook released a new feature called “People You May Know.” Three random friends of friends are displayed in the right sidebar of your homepage in the hopes that you’ll make more connections.
When you click the “see all” link, a longer list of possible friends is offered up. Of the 27 people displayed, [...]
Tags:Community·Facebook·LinkedIn·Social Networking·User Experience·Webapps
Google goes dark
March 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Activism
No this is not an error. This is actually what the Google homepage looks like today. Google has “turned the lights out” on their homepage in support of Earth Hour.
On Saturday, March 29, 2008, Earth Hour invites people around the world to turn off their lights for one hour – from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in [...]
Tags:Community
