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by farlington 16y ago
What's the advantage of open information in the context of social applications? Excluding of course social networks built on mutual interest, like twitter or quora. With real-world friends, family, contacts, etc., the closed nature of faceb
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by farlington 16y ago
Except the nomenclature is so nerdy. You can't really say it out loud. Like is a nicely descriptive verb; 'plus one' is a phrase you see on a formal event invitation.
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by farlington 16y ago
They could just build it into Chrome. Problem solved.
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by farlington 16y ago
No disrespect to Bertrand Serlet, but I thought Avie Tevanian was the 'father of Mac OS X'
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by farlington 16y ago
UnderConsideration's Quipsologies and For Print Only (FPO) are design metablogs that regularly feature great print work: http://www.underconsideraton.com/quipsologies http://www.underconsideration.com/fpo/ There's also idsgn: http://i
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by farlington 16y ago
Proof: http://f.cl.ly/items/0T010H1W0X2r3w1B2z3K/keyboard.html
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by farlington 16y ago
Youtube's recent policy change replacing Youtube accounts with Google accounts makes me wonder if this is in anticipation of larger social initiative Google Me.
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by farlington 16y ago
I wasn't suggesting that anyone has 'single, flat, unified persona'; the concept of persona itself is rooted in a notion of social roles and masks. But the idea of the 'authentic self' being compromised by blurring social contexts is what I
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by farlington 16y ago
Contrary to the author's opinion, I think the facebook comment system almost forces a synthesis of various online personae into a single facebook persona—one that's at least based in part on your real-world self. And while that may often in
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by farlington 16y ago
I saw it on Chromium/Mac and I just confirmed it (9.0.597.107). Also seeing it on Safari/Mac. Screenshot: http://cl.ly/092a1U1Z1i3G2D2x1Z19
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by farlington 16y ago
I logged in to check out my own, ancient Google profile (which I just about barely set up—bare minimum of info and hadn't logged in since the day I'd heard of it) to discover that has a picture in it that I'd never given Google permission t
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by farlington 16y ago
More controversy, more clicks.
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by farlington 16y ago
You've got a minor css issue on your frontpage with the 'shdtxt' class positioning for your text shadow effect, where the shadows appear misaligned/flow differently than the callout text. Maybe try using text-shadow instead?
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by farlington 16y ago
They've tried to solve the blurring social contexts problem of facebook with something called 'aspects.' Aspects are user defined sets based on social context, eg 'work', 'school'. You can choose to make any activity on diaspora visible to
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by farlington 16y ago
It's unclear why they haven't integrated Facebook with their iOS apps, but iMovie and iPhoto both have pretty good Facebook integration. Apple wanted to launch Ping with Facebook Connect, but Facebook shut it down. Whether Apple 'hates and
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by farlington 16y ago
Browsing Pad, a combination web browser and notes app, addresses the author's need to browse the web and take notes simultaneously: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/browsing-pad/id385931831?mt=8 He has a great point about the distinction be
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by farlington 16y ago
It's worth mentioning that last year's Google I/O featured some intense competitor bashing from Vic Gundontra that actually did a lot to strengthen the Android brand, and cemented its status as the primary anti-Apple underdog (now uberdog?)
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by farlington 16y ago
The portable media player industry was a still a relatively small market when Apple introduced the iPod, and the iPod itself was in its third iteration or so before it really became a runaway hit. It's not the early days of the tablet marke
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by farlington 16y ago
Thanks for this response, it's really thought provoking. I have a few questions: 'The ghetto of siloed client/server apps'? Would those be like ActiveX controls and Java applets? Isn't JavaScript fundamentally different? Does the definition
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by farlington 16y ago
Hear hear. I can think of many cases where ajax loaded content and the attendant hashbang URLs are far preferable, like with twitter's web interface or with gmail. It just makes sense for web applications to work differently than static con
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by farlington 16y ago
Friendships don't normally form on the basis of shared mobile platforms. I hope they're thinking outside the Apple campus. Even if MobileMe is brilliantly integrated with iOS, it'll be mostly useless if it only works among people with iOS d
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by farlington 16y ago
I doubt that this was solely intended as a 'screw you' to jailbreakers. More likely, it's because Apple can't guarantee the integrity of DRM on a jailbroken system, and that's one of the terms in their contracts with publishers.
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by farlington 16y ago
Posts like this make it all sound so simple. Of course you don't need a PR Agency if you're good at PR and you're going to do it yourself. Just be prepared to allocate time and resources, and to not lose your head during the occasional shit
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by farlington 16y ago
This is a beautiful icon, but I'm going to risk saying something unpopular here. This is less a design exercise than it is an application of current design trends. Linen textures, subtle gradients, noisy gradients, glowing text—even the con
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by farlington 16y ago
from their faq ( http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/articles/3109-questions-and... ): "uncontacted tribes will have seen aeroplanes on numerous occasions. The idea that this damages their self-image and/or spiritual beliefs belongs in the rea
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by farlington 16y ago
Great point. It's interesting to think of crowdsourcing websites as just another channel through which designers can sell templates. If the customization/client service end is kept to a minimum, a 10% conversion would probably be a pretty n
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by farlington 16y ago
To back up my somewhat inflammatory comment, I'd like to add that a quick perusal of sites like http://www.freepsd.com/ or http://www.elegantthemes.com/ will back up the contention that it looks like a template you could get anywhere mu
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by farlington 16y ago
Looks like a cookie cutter template. Why not just use a premium wordpress theme, or the like? Get your '$25,000' website for closer to $100.
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by farlington 16y ago
I've heard it stated (and I can't remember where) that the major difference between the social behavior of women and men online is that women tend to use social networks to extend existing real world relationships, and men tend to use socia