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Richard Branson on Identifying and learning from mistakes(livemint.com)
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A diary from a correspondent at Foo Camp(economist.com)
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by fun2have 16y ago
Holland has some very good tax breaks for start-ups. To encourage innovations income from innovations is taxed at 10%. Also if you a foreigner living there, there are some over tax breaks. You can also get tax breaks on employing people. Be
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Jacob Appelbaum, Wikileaks editor, detained by US customs(nzherald.co.nz)
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Amazon kindle 'most highlighted books of all time' list, (kindle.amazon.com)
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by fun2have 16y ago
I think the difference between www.peerfx.com and currancyfair is that the later is already doing transactions peer to peer while according to peerfx they have not launched a p2p service yet. Maybe peerfx.com where too fast with a MVP.
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by fun2have 16y ago
Do we need banks? Normally when we transfer money the bank gets nearly 5% on the spread. And it looks like they are only charging $4 per transfer.
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Peer to peer currency exchange(currencyfair.com)
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Ok Nielsen did this test with 7 users We have moved along way since the simplistic rule of thumb that 5 users is enough. A very good argument in why 10 is not enough is Woolrych and Cockton 2001. They point out an issue in Nielsen formula (
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I don't think anybody that knows about Usability Metrics takes "Neilsen" that seriously. Neilson is more popular with the 5 user is enough camp while most people dealing with Ux Metrics believe that you need to be testing with at least 50 t
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Usability Ain’t Everything – A Response to Jakob Nielsen’s iPad Usability Study(johnnyholland.org)
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I agree with you. Participatory design is not the same as testing a Hypothesis, which is what CD is about. The easiest way of thinking about it is what Henry Ford said "If had listened to my customers I would have bread faster horses". What
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by fun2have 16y ago
Our product webnographer.com is very much following Steve Blanks ideas of testing the Hypothesis. Webnographer is a online tool for remote usability testing. To start off we have been offering the tool combined with a consulting service, t
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Early humans may have bred with other species – twice(newscientist.com)
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Normally in Software there is two approaches a single software solution , or a best of breed. I.e. Office vs Lotus 123, word perfect, etc.. Or in the world of ERP having HR, Accounting, Planning software from different vendors. The interest
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by fun2have 16y ago
We are using Grafico which is based on based on Raphaël and Prototype.js. It lacks PieCharts which g.Raphaël has. See: http://grafico.kilianvalkhof.com/
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by fun2have 17y ago
Totally agree there is nothing wrong about it been Turtles all the way down, but it would mean that "a little old lady at the back of the room" in 1927 came up with a ground breaking theory :)
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Is this not a Turtles all the way down theory. We are in a Black hole which is inside a Black Hole? A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around
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by fun2have 17y ago
Grafico is really good but lacks pie charts. You have to use http://g.raphaeljs.com/ for Pie's. But that is not so bad as Grafico uses raphaeljs.
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Oriental yeti' discovered in China(telegraph.co.uk)
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A Deep Dive Into Toyota Sudden Acceleration Accident Stats(businessinsider.com)
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The judges have also adopted the US ruling over a libel action over a scientific controversy :- We would respectfully adopt what Judge Easterbrook, now Chief Judge of the US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, said in a libel action over a sc
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Scientists maybe able now to speak their mind in the uk(5rb.co.uk)
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Visualizing Fitts’s Law(particletree.com)
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Our startup Webnographer is run by my partner and me. It works well. We have had the funny situation of having separate hotel rooms booked, as a client did not know that we where together.
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Google faces anti-monopoly probe by European Commission(guardian.co.uk)
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Some in Academia have debunked that testing with 5 is enough... See http://uxexchange.com/questions/328/ideal-number-of-candidat...
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Groovy?
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Users can't give you the solution, but they can give you the challenge that needs solving. By listening to your users you can see that they want a faster means of transportation. The issue is to listen to them for the solution will point yo
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by fun2have 17y ago
The article is in fact wrong. See my comment above....

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