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 [Keep Reading…]
Archives for 2008
Design — Architect — Engineer
I’m talking about the verbs, not the nouns. To design. To architect. To engineer. These words are often conflated — a common source of despair for those of us in the related fields, misunderstood and misidentified. This issue has been tackled by many people far more seasoned and insightful than me. But if I may [Keep Reading…]
Text message your order to Amazon
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 [Keep Reading…]
NY Tech Meetup — April 2008
Just got home from this month’s NY Tech Meetup, which Scott said is the 42nd meeting so far. I’m talking about Scott Heiferman, CEO and co-founder of Meetup.com. He started NY Tech and is the MC for every event. This month they packed in eight presenters at five minutes each, so things moved pretty swiftly. [Keep Reading…]
Links from 3/30/2008 to 4/1/2008
Leading With Insight » SlideShareVia Armano Good UI Design: Make It Easy, Show Me You Care – ReadWriteWeb Find your Pals on Flickr ? via Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo Mail!From Photojojo Top 5 reasons why ?The Customer Is Always Right? is wrongVia Kottke adaptive path » Conversation with Matt Jones, Co-founder/Designer, Dopplr Sign Up Forms [Keep Reading…]
How Bebo Ruined My Life
My story, sad but true. While doing research for the blog post I wrote on Sunday comparing the “People you may know” feature of various social networking sites, I made the soon-to-be regrettable decision to add friends to my Bebo account. Like many services of their kind, they allow you to import your address book [Keep Reading…]
Yahoo!’s Shine
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 [Keep Reading…]
Feed Reader: Inbox Zero
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 [Keep Reading…]
Spam that sells
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. [Keep Reading…]
People you may know
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 [Keep Reading…]
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