April 2010
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[Steve Jobs] did the same thing with the original Mac, although then, Flash was...
– Bruce Tognazzini, Mac & the iPad - History Repeats Itself
Tog founded the Human Interface Group at Apple Computer. His latest article has been making the rounds with people getting all excited about Steve Job’s fearlessness as a leader and long-term perspective. While rare for a CEO and...
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The secret to Farmville’s popularity is neither gameplay nor aesthetics....
– A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz, Cultivated Play: Farmville
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Big Data presents new opportunities for understanding social practice. Of course...
– danah boyd, Big Data: Opportunities for Computational and Social Sciences
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The 1950s was the era of the 90 percent top marginal tax rate, and by the end of...
– Henry Fetter, How Taxes Changed Boxing
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If cities serve, as I believe, primarily, to connect people and enable them to...
– Edward Glaeser - Why Humanity Loves, and Needs, Cities
I haven’t heard that much overwrought Polish drama since I cancelled by...
– Chuck Bass
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Kids can control cartoon vehicles by jumping or leaning side-to-side, and can...
– Chris Cameron, “Do Crew” Augmented Reality Cartoons Help Get Kids Off the Couch - Read Write Web
He’s talking about one of my new jams; people seem to be excited about it—awesome.
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L.A. is the apocalypse: it’s you and a bunch of parking lots. No...
– Geoff Manaugh, Greater Los Angeles | bldgblog
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Some Thoughts on iPhone Apps + Network Latency
In applications, latency can be a killer. Google, Facebook, and others constantly talk about how speed of response is one of the most critical metrics they track in their applications and web properties. Most web application interaction designers and developers have accepted that wisdom as well.
However, there’s still a strong acceptance of latency in mobile applications—particularly...