Internet Week New York edition

Last night was the monthly NY Tech Meetup at IAC. Instead of the typical 5-minute presentations by new start-ups getting their feet wet, this month was a rather impressive line-up of successful Internet companies operating in New York.
As always, it was a sold-out room of 400+ developers, designers, entrepreneurs, writers, business [...]

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I recently discovered Wakozi.com, what TechCrunch called “Kozmo for booze.” For those of you who never knew Kozmo.com, they were a movie-and-snacks delivery service that operated in Manhattan (and later in other cities) in the late-90s. Their angle was that they delivered your order for free in under an hour.
I was one of their first [...]

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As you may have read on Wednesday, I bought a book through Amazon’s new service TextBuyIt. I was really impressed by the user flow and was able to buy the book I was looking for in about two minutes.
Even more incredible is that the book showed up at my house yesterday morning, just two [...]

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Amazon launched a new service yesterday called TextBuyIt in which you can look up and compare product info via SMS and purchase with your pre-existing account.

I tried it out this morning by texting “Purple cow” to short code 262966 (”Amazon” on the keypad). A moment later I got a response that read:
Reply w/1 or 2 [...]

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Apple - Pro - Tips - Make the Most of Quick Look
One of Leopard’s coolest new features — a way to look at the content of your files without opening them.
(tags: Apple tips Leopard productivity)

intentionallies
Interior design site with cards navigation — torque movement
(tags: flash inspiration interaction cards design)

Thibaud’s portfolio
Portfolio site with amazing interaction design
(tags: cards [...]

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