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Behance’s new blog: The 99 Percent is five nines awesome
Behance, plugs it's new blog, The 99 Percent as: At 99%, Behance's think tank, we focus on what happens after inspiration — researching the forces that truly push ideas to fruition. Our profiles of proven idea makers, action-oriented tips, best-practices sessions, and annual conference are all designed to help you transform ideas from vision to [...]
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Ze Frank is now working for Time Magazine
Ze's now working for Time, and as TechCrunch points out, you can't embed their videos for crap (see below). He's so great, I am very happy to see him doing some work that hits a broader audience. I am thinking he should run for office. Plz. Here's a great TED video of him as well.
Incredible video of a high speed robotic hand
This amazing video was passed on to me via Eric Leuschner. It shows a high speed robotic hand doing the kinds of thins we never would expect a robot to be able to do, like twirling a pen or catching an object flipping through the air.
Tiny Sketch: terse programming, crazy visuals
Recently found on Ben Fry's post, this great generative programming contest. The idea is to challenge programmers and code artists to create their most creative work using the Processing language and post it here. Tiny Sketch is a 200 Character Processing Competition that will run until September 13, 2009, 11:59pm. Examples on Tiny Sketch Entries are [...]
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New TypePad microblog service – Will this obviate Tumblr & Posterous?
Just yesterday, I wad discussing with Jason Wehmhoener whether folks and businesses should focus on services such as WordPress and TypePad or defer to simpler alternatives such as Posterous and Tumblr. As of yesterday, TypePad includes a microblogging capability and new tiny-templates. This may be awesome.
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Insights on designing for social traction
A tweet by @DrBaher pointed to this great slideshow by @bokardo, Designing for Social Traction. At the highest level, it posits that there are 3 core problems to designing social software: The Sign-up Problem The First time Use Problem The Ongoing Engagement Problem Product managers, developers and designers would do well to spend some time [...]
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Ruder Finn Intent Index
A great inforgraphic for the results of the most recent Ruder Finn Intent Index. You have to click through and check out the native display, it's really quite sexy. About the index (emphasis mine): Ruder Finn's Intent Index is an ongoing online research study that provides a comprehensive analysis of the underlying motivations or reasons [...]
Social F**King Media
If you still don't know the answer to the question "What he f**k is social media?" this slideshow will help. via Mashable: What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later View more documents from Marta Kagan.
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