Web Form Patterns (5)
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Functioning Form: Interface Design (44)
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The UI Pattern Factory recently published some additional examples of two interface design concepts I outlined in Web Form Design.Primary & Secondary Actions: Match the visual presentation of actions to their importance to get users through a form as quickly as possible. Example imagesStacked Tabs: A potential solution for dealing with selection-dependent inputs for Web forms. Example ImagesTags: forms, patterns, interface
Playfish: Using Facebook As Its Gaming Console (9)
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If you glance at the top lineup of gaming applications on the Facebook or MySpace platform, you’ll notice an interesting fact. Not one is the product of a major gaming publisher. Instead a group of independent gaming startups have been the leaders in publishing games within social networks. Co-founders of the gaming publisher Playfish, Kristian Segerstråle and Sebastien de Halleux, chalk up the growth to a profound platform shift social networks have introduced into the ...
Facebook Connect going mobile on the iPhone (6)
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Facebook Connect, which allows for the use of the social network as a conduit for user data, is garnering a lot of buzz today at the f8 conference. The social news voting site Digg has signed on to use it, the micro-messaging service Twitter is on board, as is Citysearch, CBS, Hulu and others. But these are all standard websites, what about one of the hot trends in computing: Mobile? Well, Facebook Connect has an ...
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Malcolm said:
This could be stupidly useful
Facebook Platform: The Fanfare Revisited (35)
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When the Facebook platform debuted last year it was touted as the next big thing. Media, VC, startups and big companies shared the enthusiasm for its future. And no wonder: Facebook enabled access to 50 million users. You no longer needed to bring the audience to your app. Instead your app could be delivered to one of the largest audiences around the web. And not just delivered, but injected into a massive social network. While ...
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Devlin D said:
If Facebook can make their mobile/iPhone application run Facebook applications that would be killer. In all honesty I think Facebook should allow developers to charge for their applications similar to Apple. That way you start to develop a real economy around the platform and at the same time kill off incredibly stupid applications. I bet there would be a high percentage of their user base that would be willing to pay 50 cents or 1 dollar for something like FunWall, and for a company looking to justify it's valuation it seems like an established stream which they could tap for some revenue that isn't advertising based.
Watch the growth of Wal-Mart across the country as time passes. (4)
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New Facebook iPhone app tells Twitter and SMS what it’s doing: Gunning for them (3)
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Today, Facebook has launched a new iPhone application, that directly targets messaging service Twitter as well as for-pay mobile text messaging services. The new application is a mobile status service that includes instant messaging functionality. It builds on Facebook friend relationships, but ignores a lot of the traditional social networking features of the site, such as profile info about what your favorite movie is. See screenshot. The new app integrates with Facebook’s existing “Chat” IM ...
Bit.ly: Please Use This TinyURL of the Future (16)
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URL shorteners like TinyURL are a wildly popular way to share long links over email, IM, microblogging and other contexts. The millions of shortcuts that have been created through such services represent a huge opportunity to capture interesting data - but to date those opportunities have all just gone down the drain. Bit.ly, a new URL shortening service from the innovation network Betaworks, is launching today with a staggering feature set for both end users ...
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Felix Banuchi said:
This looks promising...
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Jesse said:
Very cool. Love the total clicks feature. Lets you see if people actually are listening to your tweets, friendfeed posts, etc.
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hominid todd said:
i'm starting with the next link i find.
Flying saucer to use air as fuel (2)
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A University of Florida researcher is designing a flying saucer that uses plasma and surrounding air as its fuel to generate lift. The aircraft's skin will be studded with electrodes that ionize the air, converting it into plasma. Mechanical and aerospace engineering associate professor Subrata Royh hopes to have a six inch working prototype in the next year. Using an onboard source of energy (such as a battery, ultracapacitor, solar panel or any combination thereof), ...
UFO turns out to be, er, something commonplace (4)
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Police in South Wales, UK, were dispatched to respond to a 999 emergency call to investigate a "bright stationary object" in the sky above a concerned citizen's home. The BBC News posted a recording and transcript of the conversation between the control room, the caller, and the police: Control: "Alpha Zulu 20, this object in the sky, did anyone have a look at it?" Officer: "Yes, it's the moon. Over." Link
It's All Too Much (15)
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Originally posted in Cool Tools I moved to California hauling a lot of boxes still unopened from at least two previous purges of epic proportions. Sound at all familiar? It's All Too Much is a terrific book that inverts the typical approach to dealing with existential kipple. Rather than helping you find new places and novel ways to "organize" all your crap, author Peter Walsh encourages you to explore why you ever kept all that ...
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Heinz Wittenbrink said:
Kevin Kelly on Peter Walsh's "It's all too much". Thx c3o!
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Dan N. said:
Merlin writes a review of Peter Walsh's book for Cool Tools. Yes.
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Matt said:
The space limitations I have in my apartment mean that I pay a serious price for things that I don't regularly use. The snowboards take up tons of space, even though they get used every year. So I think tonight I'm going to put my skim board on craigslist.
LA Times on YouTube's Fred (1)
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insanely popular with tweens, he has 242k subscribers and a sponsorship deal; here's an interview
Sound Chaser (1)
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Tom Taylor's Delighting with Data (2)
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Old Stadium Turned To Lush Urban Garden Metropolis (1)
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Profit plays a big part in how urban spaces are used. Luckily, we sometimes see that low profits are good for the environment. Osaka Japan housed a baseball stadium that few people cared to visit. In 2003, the stadium was shut down, but with its prime location near the Namba Train Station, folks knew it was a waste not to convert the building and utilize it for something that would indeed turn a profit. The ...
EA star leaves to start iPhone games company, Ngmoco (1)
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The iPhone’s remaking of the cell phone business is creating opportunities for new start-ups, particularly in the game field. That’s why one of the game industry’s leading executives left his job to create Ngmoco, an iPhone game start-up. Neil Young was one of the rock star game development executives at Electronic Arts, responsible for games that sold millions of video games, from “The Lord of the Rings” titles to “The Sims 2.” He was the ...
Web 2.0 Start-Ups = Social Science Experiments (4)
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Recently I had the great pleasure to hear the inventor of the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, give the keynote at the Tetherless World Conference organized by Rensellaer Polytechnique Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY (see RWW's live blogging of the event). He is such an entertaining and thought-provoking speaker that it is hard to isolate one nugget, but after a few weeks I am still thinking about one comment he made about start-up entrepreneurs conducting social ...
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Watch the growth of Wal-Mart across the country as time passes. It's like a viral infection...you know, in a good way! (via migurski) (link)
