August 2010
bijan sabet: Clones vs the real thing →
Last night I bought a few things on Amazon. The shopping experience on Amazon hasn’t changed much over the years except for Amazon Prime (which I love). In my opinion Amazons check out experience is one of the best out there.
I always wondered why other ecommerce sites don’t just lift the Amazon…
Excellent Examples Of Icons In Navigation Menu... →
Top 10 Lost Technologies | Top 10 Lists |... →
A VC: What A CEO Does →
The new Campaign Monitor office - Blog - Campaign... →
The Wilderness Downtown →
This Arcade Fire/Google collab music video is so cool. hat tip @bennettk
Flood Lite: I'm a Coors man →
Larry Percy, Strategic Brand Management: … Percy and his peers wanted to find out how people respond to strong brands, so like most curious people, they decided to conduct an experiment. They rounded up a group of people and had them taste six popular beers: Coors, Pabst, Miller Lite,…
GameStop the ScapeGoat: Why Used Games Debate... →
Spectacular rebuttal to the “buying used games is the same as pirating it” argument from game developers.
“Are the game industry’s sales woes the fault of jerkface used games buyers peeing in the pool and causing every game publisher not named Nintendo or Activision Blizzard to lose money?
Or is it that not enough people want the games that they’re making for the price at...
How Costco Became the Anti-Wal-Mart - New York... →
I love Costco. I hope they continue to strike the balance between making a profit, charging bottom of the barrel pricing and paying employees well.
Kris Medlen- Road to Recovery: Week 1-Entry 1 →
Kris Medlen, pitcher for the Atlanta Braves, is documenting his recovery from Tommy John surgery. I hope he keeps it up, this is a unique view into one of the most common surgeries pitchers undergo.
How to tell if a CEO is lying →
bobulate:
The Economist summarizes a study from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business showing how to tell when a CEO is lying:
Deceptive bosses, it transpires, tend to make more references to general knowledge (“as you know…”), and refer less to shareholder value (perhaps to minimise the risk of a lawsuit, the authors hypothesise). They also use fewer “non-extreme positive emotion words”. That...
Why Traditional Ads Work, and Digital Ads Don't... →
Flood Lite: Apple's Attention to Detail →
In July 2002, Appled filed a patent for a “Breathing Status LED Indicator” (No. US 6,658,577 B2). They described it as a “blinking effect of the sleep-mode indicator in accordance with the present invention mimics the rhythm of breathing which is psychologically appealing.”
The average…
ignore the code: Opinions vs. Data →
Re: the new widget in the latest Gmail update:
“[The new widget] is odd. And yet, both the checkbox and the menu part tested very well in the lab. The people who hated the widget outside the lab also understood how to use it but promised others wouldn’t because it was so «weird.» There were some optimizations I wanted that didn’t make it in (highlight the current selection state in the...
CNN Money: Inside the secret world of Trader Joe's →
I really love Trader Joe’s because of the limited selection. Makes shopping so much quicker.
"90-9-1" Rule for Participation Inequality:... →
The 1/9/90 Rule of UGC & Why It’s OK to Have... →
via @msuster
“What’s most unsettling, however, is that we are completely ignorant of how...”
– Choice Blindness | Wired Science | Wired.com (via joshuakaufman)
My Darker Competitive Side →
This is a pretty spot on description of my approach to games. It’s pretty bad, honestly. But I can’t shake it; I can’t play just for the experience, I have to play to shatter the hopes and dreams of the other players. It’s scorched earth all the way. And when it doesn’t work out for me? Well, it’s self-inflicted scorched earth all the way.
This is why I quit...
probertson: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game →
AWESOME sprite graphics for the game. Click thru to see them all.
Console game sales shrink slightly in July, but... →
What If We Are Wrong Again About Steroids? →
Damn good rational article by Joe Posnanski on the knee jerk reaction to steroids.
“What if we are wrong again? What if we find that all the angry articles we’ve written about how steroids will make you a great home run hitter are wrong (articles were no doubt read by children wanting to be home run hitters)? What if we find that the home run spike in the late 1990s were not because of...
WatchAmazing projection touch UI for DJing. Need this now. NOW.
“emulator” on töken concept
The New Man in Charge →
fuckyeahlost:
Can’t wait 18 more (Fara)days to see it? Click the link and watch before it’s taken off of YouTube.
I guess this is the final LOST ‘spoiler alert’ ever.
Why Gay Marriage Needs to Legitimized (and why... →
fillup:
Good for you, @msuster
