November 2007
29 posts
Monday Inspiration: User Experience Of The Future →
Over decades we’ve used to adapt our habits, behavior and mindset to technology. We’ve improved our productivity by using tools and devices designed especially for the tasks we have to deal with regularly. But we’ve also constrained our abilities to the features of the very tools and devices we’ve become dependant on.
We’ve got used to a number of things. To traditional mouse-keyboard user...
Jeremiah & Laurie's Wedding →
Jeremiah & Laurie’s Wedding Originally uploaded by shawncampbell
I finally finished developing and uploading photos from J’s wedding. LINK
Teaching Kids Charity and Clarity with... →
Today is “Black Friday”, the busiest shopping day of the year in the US and the official start of the Christmas buying season. If you have kids, that most likely means a new crop of the latest toys and video games.
The wholesale (maybe I should say “retail”) celebration of consumerism makes a lot of people anxious, with good reason. What kind of values are we modeling for our children when we...
5 Ways to Profit from Good Ideas →
Turning a good idea into a successful innovation requires the glass to be full. A half full glass simply isn’t enough. There are many things involved in bringing a product to market successfully or turning an idea into reality and each one of them needs to be right, or at least close enough. The innovator starts the process with a set of resources and draws upon them until the idea, product or...
Sorge's "Secrets of the Secret Place" →
Winseman's "Living Your Strengths" →
Amazon's "Zindle" →
Paper-like Screen Utilizing a new high-resolution display technology called electronic paper, Kindle provides a crisp black-and-white screen that resembles the appearance and readability of printed paper. The screen works using ink, just like books and newspapers, but displays the ink particles electronically. It reflects light like ordinary paper and uses no backlighting, eliminating the...
Rath's "Strength Finder 2.0" →
Cut through Advertising Clutter with Archetypes →
Advertising has changed a lot over the decades. What started as Here’s the product, now buy it! ads in the 1950s have turned into Here’s a feeling, now feel it! ads, in which products appear as personalities, metaphors, and emotions. Psychological theory can help you tap into archetypes that appeal to people at these deeper levels.
Go Daddy and Google offer easy access to Webmaster... →
Written by David Sha, Webmaster Tools Team Welcome Go Daddy webmasters to the Google Webmaster Tools family! Today, we’re announcing that Go Daddy, the world’s largest hostname provider in the web hosting space, is working with us as a pilot partner so that their customers can more easily access Google Webmaster Tools. Go Daddy is a great partner, and we hope to educate more...
swinging
pushing 3yo in swing in backyard Mobile post sent by shawncampbell using Utterz. Replies.
Coelho's The Witch of Portobello →
Coelho's The Fifth Mountain →
Where's my Gphone? →
Posted by Andy Rubin, Director of Mobile Platforms Despite all of the very interesting speculation over the last few months, we’re not announcing a Gphone. However, we think what we are announcing — the Open Handset Alliance and Android — is more significant and ambitious than a single phone. In fact, through the joint efforts of the members of the Open Handset Alliance, we hope...
Over-50s Invade the Social Networking Scene →
An anonymous reader writes “The Telegraph newspaper reports that over-50s are invading sites like Facebook and MySpace in massive numbers. A recent study showed that nearly one third of Facebook users are aged between 35 and 54, and that this group also made up 41 percent of MySpace users. “Because the mind of an over-50 is likely superior to that of a drink-addled undergrad, at first...