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MakeweekendMakeweekend · kal
By Kal Joffres When we look back on 2014, I think we’ll see it as a turning point for the maker community in Malaysia. The idea of a community of innovators who tinker and prototype is going mainstream. Over 2,300 people took part in 34 Makeweekends across the country this year. Another 1,000 youth took [...]The post…
asymco.com · Horace Dediu
According to ITU data, Internet usage reached about 2.2% penetration in the US (2.2 users per 100 residents) in 1993. The figure in 2012 was 81%. The history of penetration is shown in the following graphs. Similar graphs can be drawn for other countries (data is available for 193 countries/territories.) I chose the…
Becoming Databetic · Doug
As we close out 2013, I’ve taken one final look back at 2012. We’ve visualized my yearlong quantified self project as a poster (pdf here). With so much data to make sense of, we printed it big. Never before in my … Continue reading →
BBH Labs · Mel Exon
“We are sensation junkies, predisposed to excitement, and if that means danger and death, we are ready for it.” ~ Doris Lessing, ‘Under My Skin’ (part 1 of her autobiography) Since Labs was founded in 2008, at the end of every year we’ve written a round-up of our favourite memories of the previous 12 months: [...]
Subtraction.com
At Christmas, we flirted with a Sonos sound system in my household, but ultimately decided to return it. I know smart people who adore their Sonos systems, but when I’ve played with the hardware and software in the past I’ve never been more than mildly impressed. So when it came time to commit to installing another…
I Will Teach You To Be Rich · Ramit Sethi
Quick post. I wanted to share 3 quick tidbits that I thought you’d enjoy today. Nothing to sell. Just some of my favorite things I’ve stumbled across recently. 1. The trouble with snooze buttons. How many times do you hit the snooze button in the morning? Here’s the science behind why we do it and […]3 things I’m…
I Will Teach You To Be Rich · Ramit Sethi
When I was trying to figure out what to do with my life, I got a lot of random pieces of generic “find-your-passion” advice. You know what was 100x more helpful? Meeting people just like me who were doing the things I wanted to do. For example, when I was interviewing at Google, I met […]“I get paid to do this?!”…
Inside Facebook · Guest Post
Hugh Malkin is Co-Founder and CEO of Hugecity, a website and app that helps people discover Facebook events in their area. In the past 3 months our Facebook posts were clicked on 1.25 million times without setting up...
Inside Facebook · David Cohen
Facebook announced Wednesday that the redesigned like and share buttons it introduced last month are now available to all pages, and that page administrators can now adjust the width of embedded posts to anywhere from 330...
Cognition by Happy Cog · Katie Kovalcin
There’s something that’s hard for some of us web designers to just flat out admit: we stubbornly hate to code. I’m a designer, dammit. I live and breathe Creative Suite. Give me Photoshop or give me death. My former coding knowledge included two things: what a div is, and how to stylize my MySpace page (circa 2004).…
Rands in Repose · rands
My friend Kevin Simler on Quora: In other words, the selfishness of neurons incentivizes them to be useful — to hook up with the right network of their fellow neurons, which is itself hooked up with other networks (both ‘up’ and ‘downstream’), all so they can keep earning their share of life-sustaining energy and raw…
Signal vs. Noise · Jason Fried
When evaluating a redesign, your first instinct is to compare the new design to the old design. But don’t do that. The first step is to understand what you’re evaluating. If you just put the new design up against the old design, and compare the two, the old design will strongly influence your evaluation of the new…
Rands in Repose · rands
Good managers act like servants to their team but far too many like the power and let it go to their heads. Treehouse removed all their managers back in September – the whole series of posts is worth a read. I am avidly watching the no manager movement. Current thoughts are: This type of horizontality […]#
Rands in Repose · rands
Design firm Ideo has cultivated an image of being the creative minds behind the idea. As a consultancy, their job is to not take credit for the ideas, but rather design such ideas for other companies. This makes their iPhone video application a beautiful mystery. Spark is a gorgeous and well-defined video iOS…
RescueTime Blog · Robby Macdonell
In about two weeks, I’m moving from Seattle, WA to Nashville, TN. This is awesome for a number of reasons. Nashville has less depressing winters, some great friends and family live there, there’s an NHL team, and I’m really excited to reacquaint myself with the city I grew up in. (That said, I am going […]
ParisLemon
Where Google Ventures is pinning its hopes: What I do when I’m not busy reblogging movie posters and pictures of beer. Nice behind-the-scenes look by Miguel Helft.
The Art of Non-Conformity » 3×5 · Chris Guillebeau
Hi, everyone—the 2013 Annual Review continues! All posts will be open for comments from readers. In this post: a few
asymco.com · Horace Dediu
When describing the process of disruptive innovation, Clay Christensen set about to also describe the process by which a technology is developed by visionaries in a commercially unsuccessful way. He called it cramming. Cramming is a process of trying to make a not-yet-good-enough technology great without allowing it…
asymco.com · Horace Dediu
What’s the point of an agile standup meeting? Gone are the days of 30-minute status meetings where most people are half-asleep or pecking away on their laptops, oblivious to what’s being said. Agile standups are the leaner, more efficient cousin of status meetings where attendees actually stand up. On our feet, we’re…
Feed: stratēchery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
Thanks to AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, subsidies are once again in the news: AT&T’s top executive says the era of big subsidies for devices is coming to an end, as wireless operators can no longer afford to fund a constant smartphone upgrade cycle. Speaking at an investor conference in New York City on…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
The Art of Non-Conformity » 3×5 · Chris Guillebeau
Hi, everyone—the 2013 Annual Review is here! All posts will be open for comments from readers, and I'll share a
A Whole Lotta NothingA Whole Lotta Nothing · Matt Haughey
A few weeks ago I started keeping track of a list of things I’ve fallen in love with over the last year or so, in hopes of putting them all together, and this is the result. In no particular order, these are all items that I’ve used and have impressed me, hopefully they’ll give you some gift ideas for other nerdy…
Marco.org
Entire industries rely on trying to convince us that we need things that we really don’t, or that the things we have aren’t good enough and need to be upgraded. The older I get and the more stuff I accumulate, the more I realize that most stuff, especially the crap on cool-stuff sites and gift guides, is wasted on…
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Both Sides of the Table · Mark Suster
Without DogVacay my Thanksgiving would have been ruined. That’s a fact. And I’m not an investor. I just had to tell this story. It’s a great one about entrepreneurship, friendship and the collaborative economy that is helping families in need…Read more ›
The Art of Non-Conformity » 3×5 · Chris Guillebeau
Big news: it's time for our once-a-year, everything-must-go sale at Unconventional Guides. This year, there's something special: after a long
Blog | Ushahidi · Chris R. Albon
We are looking for a full-time senior developer to help launch a new project to make crisis data more available to citizens, media, and responders. What we are looking for: Experience designing scalable applications. We need an architect, not a code-monkey. Experience building back-end data management platforms,…
Blog | Ushahidi · Chris R. Albon
This image is the most important of my professional life. It depicts Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812, with the width of the line representing the size of his army and the two line colors marking the attack and retreat. It was created by Charles Joseph Minard using casualty data recorded during the campaign.…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Marco.org
I recently wrote that I wouldn’t use auto-renewable subscriptions again after extensive experience with both non-renewing in Instapaper and auto-renewing in The Magazine. A lot of developers have asked me to elaborate, especially as Apple has gradually allowed some apps to use them outside of Newsstand.1 Support and…
A List Apart: The Full Feed
One of the many beauties of working with Sass is how easy it is to get organized. In the past, importing different CSS files wasn’t good practice and in fact made for more HTTP requests. With Sass, you can have many different partials which allow you to isolate styles in a logical way. What is a partial? The Sass…
Quick Sprout · Guest Author
About the author: Jaime Tardy is the founder of Eventual Millionaire, a blog where she interviews millionaires. Over the last few years, I’ve had the privilege of getting to know over 100 millionaires. And I didn’t get to know them just casually either… some of them have become my mentors while others have become…
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Warren Lee
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golis: This is the best data viz I’m seen in a long time. Basically, the case against cars in a single GIF. (via pieratt)
Cognition by Happy Cog · Greg Hoy
Ever since Jeffrey Zeldman founded Happy Cog in 1999, educating our industry has been a cornerstone of the company. Taking Your Talent to the Web, Designing With Web Standards, and A List Apart started this heritage, and over the years, Jeffrey has continued it with An Event Apart and the A Book Apart series. Happy…
Cognition by Happy Cog · Mark Huot
Deploying a website to a web server is hard. Not “It’ll take some extra time” hard or “We’ll need some help” hard. It’s “Get a whiteboard and plan out the thing A Beautiful Mind-style” hard. It’s easy to look at your code, look at your server, and just drag/drop files to production. It’s a lot more difficult to set…
Cognition by Happy Cog · Aura Seltzer
As the web evolves, there will always be two ever-growing lists: one of all the pieces of content that will need to appear on any given site over time and another with all the ways we can access that content. Creating flexible, modular design systems makes both of these lists a little less daunting and a lot more…
CreativeApplications.Net · Filip Visnjic
John Lennon: The Bermuda Tapes in an interactive Album App that tells the story of John Lennon's life changing journey sailing through a mid-Atlantic storm to Bermuda in June 1980, the creative discovery during his time on the island and the artistic collaboration from abroad with wife Yoko Ono at home in New York.
Google Analytics Blog · Adam Singer
Rands in Repose · rands
Many dear friends wish I would shut the fuck up regarding the Gotham filter. This article is for you. In the 2.0 release of Instagram, for reasons never explained, they removed my favorite filter: Gotham. I remember the moment vividly because I was in the midst of falling in love with Instagram. I’d found a […]
High Performance Web Sites · Steve Souders
A favorite character from the MASH TV series is Corporal Walter Eugene O’Reilly, fondly referred to as “Radar” for his knack of anticipating events before they happen. Radar was a rare example of efficiency because he was able to carry out Lt. Col. Blake’s wishes before Blake had even issued the orders. What if the…
Rands in Repose · rands
Sticking with our Keynote theme for the week, Andy has solid and usable advice for building your non-boring slide deck. One thing I would add is to create a test slide at the beginning of your deck which contains the following: A border which represents the expected resolution of your slides, A set of colored […]#
Schneier on Security · schneier