August 2011
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June 2011
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Consumers Now Spending More Time on Mobile Apps... →
Not suprising!
Flurry compared its mobile data to stats from comScore and Alexa, and found that in June, consumers spent 81 minutes per day using mobile apps, compared to 74 minutes of web surfing. (See chart below.) The shift comes as combined tablet and smartphone shipments eclipsed those of desktops and notebooks for the first time, according to a recent report by Mary Meeker, partner at...
March 2011
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January 2011
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November 2010
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Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Grew 35... →
Android now #2 in market share behind Nokia. RIM falls behind Apple.
It’s going to be interesting to see what Windows Phone 7 does, but I think RIM and Nokia are in trouble.
October 2010
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I don’t know what’s worse. No flash video on the iPhone, or the...
April 2010
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March 2010
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February 2010
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Why You Can’t Work at Work from Jason Friend, the co-founder of 37signals.
This really hits home as a challenge for today’s corporate environment. The good news is that we have tools and people to overcome it, and the smarter we work, the better the output.
Controlling distractions is paramount for individuals, managers, and for success across the enterprise.
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Pleasure and Pain » The UX Design Process for the... →
Defining the interface from which we manage all of our media is one of the greatest UX challenges facing designers today. The Boxee beta is a great example of understanding the user’s goals, and making a complex task relatively painless.
I think there are still major challenges ahead for the media centers, but Plex, Boxee, and Hulu have a good handle on it, and are innovating.
January 2010
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Quicken Online + Mint.com = The Best of Both? →
I’m excited to see the upcoming outcome of Intuit’s acquisition of Mint.com. Mint is one of the best personal finance tools available on the web, and has a great iPhone app.
Wesabe.com is also a good personal budgeting contender
Let’s not forget about Cake Financial for research and brokerage insight
I’ve yet to make a personal loan Prosper.com, but it looks like...
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Thanks Bonnie!
bonniejarvie:
CNBC Original, Maria Bartiromo takes viewers Inside The Mind of Google for a rare look at the world’s most powerful technology company and its crown jewel, the Google Internet search engine. This is the fascinating story of how two grad students, in barely a decade, took a one-time research project and turned it into a global technology powerhouse…changing the way...
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December 2009
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OpenDNS Blog » Some thoughts on Google DNS →
I use OpenDNS for my home internet/network. Now that Google has announced a similar DNS offering, David Ulevish from OpenDNS shares some thoughts.
Personally, I think this is good news for OpenDNS. Competition breeds innovation, and as a Deluxe member of OpenDNS, I’m sure the service will continue to add features.
I’m not sure I want Google knowing every site I visit, which I a...
webocracy is changing
to the few people who wander this way, i’m moving my blog from wordpress to tumblr. i’m also separating work and personal life, so we’ll see how that goes.
here is the new thinking:
work & work related:
blog.rox.org (you are here) twitter.com/madwork
personal
stuff.rox.org - my digital scrapbook twitter.com/mad - my lifecast last.fm - the soundtrack of my life
thanks...