Pleasure and Pain

Measuring the impact of new technology on human experience

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

Update on Amazon’s TextBuyIt

April 5th, 2008 · 1 comment so far

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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Text message your order to Amazon

April 2nd, 2008 · 7 comments so far

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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The JDate Toolbar

March 7th, 2008 · 2 comments so far

I’m Jewish and I’m single, so it shouldn’t be any surprise to you that I’m on JDate. It’s raining and I’m home on a Friday night, so obviously I signed on. And what did I see? The JDate Toolbar!

I’ve used JDate on and off for years, and one day when I have the time and [...]

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Links from 3/2/2008 to 3/5/2008

March 5th, 2008 · No comments yet

Facebook Hires Google Executive as No. 2 - New York Times
iPhonic: Steve Wozniak has another pop at the iPhone
Will Tomorrow’s World Still Need Designers? / frogblog / frog design
35 Ways to Stream Your Life - ReadWriteWeb
Data is the New Links
Tim Berners-Lee Says Sites That Don?t Give Users Their Data Back Are Boring
Official Google Blog: Hello, [...]

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links for 2008-02-27

February 27th, 2008 · No comments yet

clash flowchart
Song lyrics meet flowcharts, Via Livlab: http://twitter.com/livlab
(tags: flow diagram infographics fun music)

Touchpad for iPhone
Turn your iPhone into a wireless mouse for your computer. Via Gizmodo
(tags: Apple howto wireless hardware mouse hack iphone)

Macworld | Master your image library
Explore hidden powers in iPhoto ’08
(tags: Apple photography iphoto tips)

Ironic Sans: Keming
Via Core77
(tags: fonts funny design typography)

Super Screenshot!
Enter [...]

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