December 2007
15 posts
links for 2007-12-24 →
[Link it up] Mobile web app interfaces - (37signals) 37 Signals readers list decent examples of mobile interface design (heavy iphone bias) (tags: mobile+web+design mobile+ui)
links for 2007-12-24 →
[Link it up] Mobile web app interfaces - (37signals) 37 Signals readers list decent examples of mobile interface design (heavy iphone bias) (tags: mobile+web+design mobile+ui)
“People weren’t drinking coffee. … So the question is, How could a company...”
– P J O’Rourke reviews Starbucked -Taylor Clark in the New York Times (via my brother)
Amazon doing customer service right →
“We wanted to reassure you that your order ********* has been upgraded and dispatched Saturday December 22 via Royal Special Delivery for a delivery Monday December 24. We know that holidays can be stressful and wanted to relieve a portion of that stress by reassuring you that your package is expected to arrive in time for Christmas.” “Our system upgraded your shipment to a...
The core of teaching... →
I just saw this incredibly simple, but profound list on how to teach, linked from Eliot Masie’s blog:
Short: “Keep it small and short”
Draw Pictures: “Make a point by drawing a picture in the dirt or on
a piece of paper”
Laughter Reinforces: “Use jokes and kidding to ease the learning”
Teach it Back: “Ask them to teach it back to you.”
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“I have what I call the minus 24 hour genie test.
Imagine a genie poofed up 24...”
– Warren Buffet, second richest man in the USA (via O’Reilly Radar
Google's goldmine - your knowledge →
Techcrunch is running a story from Google’s press release on ‘Knols’ (Techmeme discussion links here), user created chunks of info that will be the ‘first information people will want to see on a topic’. It’s another adwords trade-off; we as consumers get free content, Google gets ad-revenue (split with the expert author). As Wikipedia seems to be the top link...
TomTom's user data goldmine →
I just posted this as a comment to a O’Reilly Radar post on Tom Tom’s new Google Maps integration, which is ‘post device’ (via syncing). (I’m recycling the effort I make writing comments/emails elsewhere). Actually, TomTom’s can ‘do internet’ on their devices in a non-integrated way - I have a two year old TomTom ‘One’ (the cheapest...
