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Hello, Twitter, one year later

A year ago, today, I joined a small startup with a penchant for brevity. Many of my friends were using it. My mom had only heard mentions of it. I noted some risk, but saw greater reward. Variables...

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Theme files for my WP tweet archive

Last month, I posted a short little write-up about how I created my own tweet archive. It was a quick hack, pulled together one Saturday afternoon, and fairly incomplete, at best. But the archive...

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A Book Apart, Home

Started reading an advance copy of HTML5 for Web Designers. As with previous works by @adactio, it’s clear and concise: http://j.mp/html5fwd link

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An Inconvenient Drop Shadow – Brand New

Brand New notes the new Google logo. http://j.mp/bn9vPl This change was years in the making. We proposed similar changes in 2007. link

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20 Worst Drinks in America 2010 | Eat This, Not That

Enlightning: 20 Worst Drinks in America 2010 http://j.mp/9MhvDK via @clarkware link

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Responsive Web Design

Ethan’s “Responsive Web Design” is an eloquently worded, logical evolution of modern, responsible web design. http://j.mp/bCNN08 link

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Ball Pool

Love what creative minds are producing, no Flash required: http://j.mp/9S94YL link

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Frugal Day

Applied a few design changes to http://frugalday.com this weekend. Also added a mobile version that displays automatically. link

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SFpark

Concept sounds good. But I'm concerned about more people checking their phones while driving in the city: http://sfpark.org/ link

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How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online?

Visualization: How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online? http://j.mp/9KRvLc via @flowingdata link

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The Death of Depth: Less and Less of More and More

Good article on attention spans and what's affecting them. As any experienced meditator knows, the mind has a mind of its own. Left free to wander, that's just what it will do. When we manage the...

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Better Screen, Same Typography

Khoi Vinh on Apple's lack of full commitment to excellent typography, despite creating oft-superior devices seemingly capable of perfection: Steve Jobs’ vision for Apple, repeated in yesterday’s...

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Hovers (and power users) still have a healthy future

Ryan Singer on the power of hover states and non-tablet computers: But to the geeky or trained, the desktop is a fount of power and speed. Documents are side by side, text flies from here to there, IMs...

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My Measures & Dimensions

I just discovered an iPhone app named My Measures & Dimensions that lets you take any photo and quickly draw dimensions on top of objects or spaces in the photo. Typically, I use a piece of scrap...

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The Future of Self-service Banking

Spotted this link to an intriguing ATM prototype experiment by BBVA in the comments on Khoi Vihn’s post on ATM design ATMs were first introduced over 40 years ago and since then many features have been...

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Avoiding the Uncanny Valley of Interface Design

From Francisco Inchauste, on the topic of UI that imitates realism: It is so easy to love a certain effect and want to use that everywhere. Not all projects need to have the selections sitting on a...

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First Autistic Presidential Appointee Speaks Out

Go, Ari. In December, he [Ari Ne’eman] was nominated by President Obama to the National Council on Disability (NCD), a panel that advises the President and Congress on ways of reforming health care,...

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30-Second Rule for App Success

Those of you who saw my talks at either Future of Web Design in NYC, or at Webstock in Wellington may remember a segment where I urged delivering value as quickly as possible. In that segment, I...

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Cranking (by Merlin Mann)

Merlin writes so beautifully. “And, although I’m confident that I will always think my daughter is The Greatest Thing in the Universe, I’m also all too aware that this feeling will not always be...

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Testing tweet embeds

The Long and Short of It – super simple tweet embedding in WordPress wp.me/pf2B5-2pL — Doug Bowman (@stop) December8, 2011

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