Category Archives: Links

Links, 3/13/2008

How the Barack Obama Campaign Uses Wikis to Organize Volunteers Workplace Experiments If anyone ever asks me what I think of the guys at 37 signals, my answer will be, “If they are nothing like their online personas, I’m sure they’re great!” The Forces of Mediocrity Productivity tips for programmers (Good for workers in general, if you […]

Links, 2/29/08

Navigation Trends and Examples Kluster — an interesting site that has a bit of crossover with The Point. Well designed… possibly too complicated for people. Facebook Graduates: Now Do Something For the World Includes an analysis of the top 5 Causes on Facebook Graceful Email Obfuscation

Links — February 25, 2008

The Importance of “People like Me” features When Change Is Not Enough: Seven Steps to Revolution http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/21/fb_nielsen_fall/ Inspired Misfires — Joel Spolsky talks about how he thought eBay & Wikipedia were stupid ideas. “Real innovation happens when someone tries anyway, overlooking an obvious flaw, and finds a way to make an idea work.” Pingg — new invitation site. […]

Links, February 1, 2008

Design: Great Examples of Web Typography The Social Affordances of the Internet for Networked Individualism Gaia Online on Bebo, and other apps that span sites and work great The Art of the Sign Up Page Startup Handbook: How to identify and deal with the slow masses, knowledgeable skeptics, and savvy dreamers E-democracy.org: What’s the best technology to sign-up new participants? […]

Links, January 1, 2007

Word of Mouth more important than reaching key influencers Get rid of that pesky “this is an application you downloaded from the Internet” message in Leopard New version of Chax has unified contact lists (see ya, Adium!) Developers: Updated will_paginate plugin Three Web Trends of 2007 Startup Math: 1 + 1 = 1/2

Links: December 9, 2007

Daniel Burka, creative director of Digg, talks about interpreting user feedback Podcast with Jeremy Stoppelman of Yelp, talking about Yelp’s early days and how they changed focus SVNMate — Nicer textmate svn integration PledgeBank podcast Web Design in Quotes The Millennials are coming!