Tips from an expert on how to master the chaos of smartphone app placement. Your fingers (and brain) will thank you. Read on—>
Happy to find that my iPhone is already organized in many of the ways they suggest, including intuitive app placement and folders named with verbs.
This Guy Has My Macbook, A Laptop Thief Photoblog | laughingsquid
urlesque asks:
Anyone else think this is a clever commercial for that app mentioned in the intro?
Pintrest
After about an hour of playing around I guess Pintrest is part Tumblr, part Instapaper, part Stumleupon, part Corkboard… with self-created categories?
SocialFlow Company Blog >> Breaking Bin Laden: visualizing the power of a single tweet
A full hour before the formal announcement of Bin-Laden’s death, Keith Urbahn posted his speculation on the emergency presidential address. Little did he know that this Tweet would trigger an avalanche of reactions, Retweets and conversations that would beat mainstream media as well as the White Retweets and conversations that would beat mainstream media as well as the White House announcement.
Keith Urbahn wasn’t the first to speculate Bin Laden’s death, but he was the one who gained the most trust from the network. Why did this happen?
SelectOut
SelectOut lets you opt out of all cookies and similar services tracking you on the web. I just opted out of 103 tracking domains.
I opted out of of 45 companies; however, upon returning it still says I am being tracked by 13 companies. The 32 companies I — apparently — was successful in dumping accounted for 103 domains.
NOTE: if you use multiple browsers, you need to run SelectOut in each of them.
(via nedhepburn)
This Chrome extension + site have made my day. This does so many things I don’t even know where to begin. It’s a music player. It’s an organizer. It’s a notebook. It’s a song post feed.
Here, they explain themselves much better:
“Exfm is a browser extension for Chrome that turns the entire web into your personal music library. As you browse, exfm runs in the background indexing every MP3 file you come across, building a music library for you. Exfm will continue to check the sites you’ve visited, adding new music for you to listen to every day”
If you really like music, I suggest you get on it. You can find me by clicking through.
New Twitter.
Similarly to buying Tweetie, making a few adjustments, and making it the official Twitter for iPhone app, Twitter have taken some of the best ideas from other third party clients and made it their own in this redesign.
The video they made feels very “Apple” to me - in a good way. It personalizes technology by showing things people Tweet about everyday (record shopping, wine shopping, date nights) & bridging it to the platform with simple paper-looking Tweet birds.
It just may lead me to abandon Brizzly as my main non-mobile client.
The Splinternet.
The golden age of the Web is coming to an end. Prepare for the Splinternet.
The whole framework of the Web (and Web marketing) is based around the idea that everything is in a compatible format. Any browser, any computer, any connection, you see pretty much the same thing…. Now with iPhones, Androids, Kindles, Tablets, and TVs connecting to the Web, that’s not true. Your site may not work right on these devices, especially if it includes flash or assumes mouse-based navigation. Apps that work on the iPhone don’t work on the Android.
Lesson: Chose your devices wisely.
Read the full article by Josh Bernoff here.
