Scott Stevenson’s Kodak Zi6 Review (13)
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Looks like Kodak is shipping the Zi6, their Flip-esque $180 HD video camera. Scott Stevenson: The hardest thing to explain is how satisfying the overall experience of using the thing is. If you just glanced at the product site, you might think it’s a somewhat awkward, bulky device. But that’s not the impression I’m left with. It completely gets out of the way and just delivers great-looking video with minimal fuss and super-simple import. ★
The Perils of FUI: Fake User Interface (58)
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As a software developer, tell me if you've ever done this: Taken a screenshot of something on the desktop Opened it in a graphics program Gone off to work on something else Upon returning to your computer, attempted to click on the screenshot as if it was an actual program. And let's not forget the common goating technique where you take a screenshot of someone's desktop, make it the desktop background, then proceed to hide ...
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andrin said:
Things like this will probably become everyday news in the future. Most website owners and even many developers are clueless to this phenomena.
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jmvidal said:
Clever, and scary.
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fmavituna said:
http://ferruh.mavituna.com/firefox-master-password-dialog-weakness-oku/
Subtraction: Messaging and Location, Location, Location (4)
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I’m already on the record about how I believe email can be a powerful interface to other applications. A large part of what makes that possible, for me, is Internet Message Access Protocol, or IMAP. I’ve been accessing my email account via this method for a few years now and it’s made the whole concept of email drastically more useful to me, primarily by liberating me from the specific location where I might have sent ...
Facebook’s New Social Video Ad Unit is an Engagement Magnet (6)
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Facebook launched a new kind of ad unit today that has the potential to drive much more engagement than any ad product on the site ever before has: embedded multimedia with comments visible to users’ entire friend list. Facebook has created new home page advertising inventory with its upcoming redesign. However, this is the first time we’ve seen Facebook fill the sponsored home page slot with this kind of unit. The behavior: Clicking on the ...
Facebook Launches Application Feed Filters - First Look (5)
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Two weeks after Facebook launched News Feed filters for status updates, photos, and posted items, Facebook tonight launched new custom News Feed filters for individual applications and friend lists. The new filters are available under the “More Filters” drop-down on the top of the News Feed: The new application-specific News Feed filters allow users to only show News Feed stories generated by a certain application. For example, here’s what my News Feed filtered by the ...
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Jamie said:
filtering by friends list is a killer feature. I can now easily separate out family/friends/work newsfeeds.
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Joe said:
Shame that it provides you with no way to configure Applications...
Subtraction: Highly Demographic Language (8)
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In a recent blog post, my friend Chris Fahey raises the question of whether or not an interface designer is a salesman. In a way, he’s tackling more seriously a subject that I wrote about three years ago in a post titled “Window Dress for Success,” in which I only half-jokingly inferred possible marketing motivations from the then-proliferating varieties of chrome in Mac OS X applications. In his post, Chris cannily argues that it’s the ...
Breaking: Facebook Launches Sponsored Video Ads (4)
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Facebook has launched a sponsored video ad offering as displayed in the image below. The videos display on the right hand side of the homepage in the area that Facebook announced would have sponsors when the site was redesigned. The only thing that the company failed to mention was that those sponsorships would be videos. The videos also enable comments. You can then view the comments that your friends have posted pertaining to that video. ...
Why Apple Doesn’t Do ‘Concept Products’ (45)
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Brilliant essay by Kontra at Counternotions: Why hasn’t Apple, the most innovative and visionary company in computing, produced a single concept product or vision in over a decade? Because, to paraphrase Jobs, real artists ship. ★
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bfernald said:
In other words, don't believe your own hype; build it.
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Anthony said:
That is so awesome.
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Eric said:
@stevej used to say that too.
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Tim said:
be sure to click through to thw original article. A really worthy read!
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Rob said:
Real artists ship, dabblers create concept products
BBC iPlayer Goes H.264 (11)
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The BBC iPlayer team works hard to release new versions of the BBC iPlayer frequently in its bid to make it as widely available as possible across different devices and to come up with the most exciting new features. Though not as sexy, the team also has to address the [inevitable] bug fixes. Over the past six months we added Flash streaming (Dec), added Most Popular, More Like This, etc. (Jan), and made BBC iPlayer ...
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Jamie said:
About time. So long Windows Media and Real Player streams
Facebook Expands Global Dominance (1)
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New statistics are out for comScore this month which reveal Facebook’s ongoing expansion has yet to slow. The company attracted over 132 million users over the year ending in June versus MySpace which attracted 117 million. The real story here is that the company continues to surge past the competitors internationally. In Latin America Facebook has grown over 1,000 percent over the past year, helping to catapult it’s worldwide growth to 153 percent in comparison ...
Pirating the Olympics, Then and Now (17)
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Back in 2004, I wrote about how high-quality videos from the Olympics in Athens were being digitized and posted online, in defiance of the networks and the IOC's rules. At the time, NBC's online coverage was pioneering, but still restrictive by today's standards — mostly highlight clips and no live video, delayed until after the events aired on TV, and required a valid credit card to verify residency in the United States. But that was ...
iPhone as advertising platform (3)
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It seems a safe bet that most of the money made by iPhone application developers will come in the form of advertising. That is the overwhelming lesson from the PC-based internet. So if Steve Jobs is right in saying that the marketplace for paid-for iPhone applications will eventually reach $1bn, how much bigger might the advertising market be? (Jobs’ prediction, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, is based on the $1m-a-day in sales ...
Users Fight Back Against the New Facebook (5)
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Facebook users are typically not receptive to change. When Facebook unleashed the News Feed a couple years ago, the Facebook user base fought back, creating groups to remove the news feed and challenging Facebook on the lack of privacy under the new system. Facebook eventually added privacy settings to control what would be displayed in your friends’ feeds but they didn’t remove the feature all together. Facebook is known for taking two steps forward and ...
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Jamie said:
Facebook users complaining about the redesign = the Facebook team did a good job.
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junal said:
as a user i like new design ! but as a developer ? not really ....
Launching Aqua Taskforce for Mac OS X users (6)
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One of the first requests I received after launching the Windows UX Taskforce was “when can you make one for Mac OS X”. This came at a surprise to me because I didn’t know OS X had user experience flaws, but apparently it did and still do. Having said that today I’m proud to launch Aqua Taskforce, a taskforce site for Apple users to submit, vote and comment on OS X user experience quirks. Windows ...
Launching Aqua Taskforce for Mac OS X users (3)
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One of the first requests I received after launching the Windows UX Taskforce was “when can you make one for Mac OS X”. This came at a surprise to me because I didn’t know OS X had user experience flaws, but apparently it did and still do. Having said that today I’m proud to launch Aqua Taskforce, a taskforce site for Apple users to submit, vote and comment on OS X user experience quirks. Windows ...
TV-Interactive (4)
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The dog days of August lend themselves to kicking back and letting the world slide by. Since the advent of the Web 2.0 ecosystem, they’ve also been the province of a tech company version of the summer shows the networks play off - failed pilots, reality programming being tried out for the Big Show or another writer’s strike, and ratings stinkers that can be buried outside of Sweeps months. But the DVR has changed everything, ...
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Quote "What kinds of programming will emerge as a second wave behind the repurposing of existing content? Perhaps a kind of reality show with mobile devices, where contestants roam the real world and use their phones as transaction wands to indicate their interest (or lack of it) in products, events, personalities, and so on. Team behavior is aggregated and mined by matching demographic profiles with reactions to produce “answers” to questions about news of the day, topic swarms on Twitter or other social networks, the race for the White House."
It is a sad day.. (1)
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Over the last 3/4 years, Burial stunned the music world with some beautiful music. His self titled album and the follow up "Untrue" were very well received by music lovers worldwide. His ghostly soundscapes and beats from a distant future have a mysteriousness that appeals to many, including myself. "I'm a lowkey person and I just want to make some tunes" is what Burial says on his blog. Therefor he chose not to reveal his ...
Q2 Online Advertising Scoreboard (1)
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For those of you keeping score, a roundup of Q2 online ad revenues: - Google. Own sites up 42% to $3.5 billion. Network up 22% to $1.7 billion. International outgrew US and is over half of Google's total for the first time. - Yahoo. Own sites up 14% to $1 billion. Network down 4% to $570 million - MSN. Up 18% to $618 million, but not all that growth is organic. Some of it's from ...
Facebook overtakes eBay to become third most visited website (4)
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Facebook became the third most visited website in the UK during July, overtaking eBay UK on the way. As the chart below illustrates, the social network received 2.75% of all UK Internet visits last month, equivalent to one in every 36. Facebook is also closing gap with Windows Live Mail (Hotmail), currently the second most visited website in the UK after Google UK. A couple of caveats here, the first related to eBay UK. We ...
