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It's Hard to Predict the Future

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Slide, the company I work for, recently announced that we raised a round of financing. The additional funds will help us grow faster as we ramp up our infrastructure and bring on more engineers and designers to build out...

Advertising

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Monetizing Eyeballs As the online advertising market shot up from dollarsignr0 in 1995 to dollarsignr6B in 1999--with projections of hitting dollarsignr16B by 2005--there was a surge of companies building websites that could "monetizing eyeballs". With the advertising slump that accompanied...

3 (Controversial) Techniques to Improve Usability

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Usability is king. If you can help people accomplish something valuable, you'll succeed. But you already know this; the software industry has come a long way since the late-80s and early-90s. Other industries from grocery stores to snowshoes are...

F*ck Web Standards

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I spent the better part of a week in Austin, TX for the annual South by Southwest conference last March. The panel I was on was a bit controversial in that it tried to prove a contrarian point-of-view to...

South by Southwest

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Next month I will be attending South by Southwest Interactive. Most people know of South by Southwest because of the music festival, but there is also a film and interactive festival that precedes the music one. I will be speaking...

The World’s Information

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"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." Google's web keyword search has become an integrated part of many people's day to day life. Yahoo's Chief Financial Office Susan Decker told Bloomberg...

9rules Content Direct to Your Website or Desktop

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Mashups. Remix. How six months ago? The terms are not particularly new, but the underlying concepts don't seem to be faddish. The idea of aggregating content and providing filters (social, spatial, temporal) is something that embraces the promise of...

User Generated Content

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A friend of mine teaches art at a high school in Orange County. He sent me an email asking about Rupert Murdoch's acquisition of MySpace so that he could have more information to include during a lecture on media. Rupert...

Burrito is the New Black

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A little while ago Max told Sergio and I that he felt the ideal user interface for Slide would be like a burrito: satisfying, but not overly sophisticated. I suspect there is a widespread fear that a website that feels...

Successful Companies

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NOTE: If this post looked weirdly formatted and broken, it was because Flock inserted a bunch of line breaks in to it and wrecked a bunch of my hyperlinks, and deleted the last paragraph. :( The WYSIWYG editing is...

Want to Work with Me?

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Posted: 8/03/2005 Updated: 9/01/2005 I recently left Adobe to join Max Levchin in his latest quest to create useful applications/services. Max was a co-founder of PayPal, and left after he sold PayPal to EBay. At this point I am...

Introducing Slide: Personal Broadcasting

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Now that CNet has broken the story, I can talk about what I've been working on for the last 6 months. I'm the designer (there will be two of us shortly, which is good because my head is about to...

Google's (Changing) Philosophy

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Posted: 8/23/2005 Updated: 8/24/2005 Google has changed its philosophy. Their "10 Things About Google" page was recently updated: Here is Google's explanation (written at the very bottom of the page): "Full-disclosure update: When we first wrote these '10 things'...

Angelina Jolie Nude

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Comment and Trackback spam on my website has increased over the last couple months and is driving me crazy. Everything from promises of nude celebrity photographs to poker to subjects that are not family oriented were being advertised on...

Asking the Right Questions

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John Maeda: "What is Design?" Paul Rand: "Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions, there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is...