Little known fact: Sarah Palin invented the Internet | The Web Services Report – CNET NewsTwitter meme Mad Men obsessives Twitter away | Technology | The GuardianI love Don Draper Pattern Tap : Interface Collection for Design InspirationVia Sam Zaiss . : THOMPSON HOTELS : Hip luxury hotels in NYC, LA at the official Thompson [Keep Reading…]
Archives for August 2008
Marketing e-mails that actually help customers
If you’ve read this blog for long enough or follow me on Twitter, it should be no surprise that I’ve tried online dating. Many years ago in college, I signed up for Match.com, but my membership expired about three years ago. So imagine my surprise to get an e-mail from them the other day. The [Keep Reading…]
The Experience of Giving
I was just reading through some old e-mails when I happened upon something I wrote on November 4, 2004. I was about to finish grad school and move back to New York. President George W. Bush had just been re-elected. This e-mail is particularly apropos given my recent trip to Israel, the 2008 Presidential race, [Keep Reading…]
Philly Tweetup 08/27/08
If you’ve been reading this blog long enough, you probably realize I have a mild (okay, not so mild) obsession with Twitter. If you aren’t already following me, please rectify that now. Because I enjoy nothing more than a good conversation over a good beer, I’ve organized some “Tweetups” (Twitter meetups) in the past, both [Keep Reading…]
Week 1 of independence
I just finished my first week of independent consulting with 33.25 billable hours. I’m pretty proud of that. Before I decided to make this leap, I had calculated that I need at minimum 26 hours per week in order to comfortably pay my bills, pay taxes and put some cash away in my IRA. I [Keep Reading…]
I’m going solo
Today is my last day of full-time employment. I have resigned from my role of Design Communicator at Liquidnet, and as of tomorrow will officially be an independent user experience design consultant. The notion of working for myself has always been there, lurking in the dark recesses of my mind. My parents are entrepreneurs and [Keep Reading…]
Links from 8/8/2008 to 8/18/2008
UI-patterns.comBy Anders Toxboe, a Danish web developer Smashing Darling: A Tweet for Your NeckA Twitter necklace… Me likey! Pen Zen: Bring Clarity to Writing | ThinkSimpleNow.comvia @korf420 2008 US Movie Box OfficeGreat data visualization of box office earnings this year The "Mojave Experiment"What do people think of Vista when they don't know it's Vista? I [Keep Reading…]