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Nike Fuel has Klout

January 30, 2012 by

What Klout is to online influence, Nike Fuel could be to exercise.  And there isn’t a company better positioned to pull it off than Nike.   Mobile wellness sensors have been gaining steam for years, but exploded at this year’s CES.  Each product claims more axes of accelerometers, or data samples per second.  I don’t see [...]

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When I was younger, I’d go running with my girlfriend in the park.   When I chose our route, I would mix in hills (they are hard to avoid), and maybe stretch the distance a bit.   She was a runner, but hated running hills, and often  took the difficulty of my chosen route personally, as [...]

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Master Widget

January 20, 2012 by

With powerful applications you run into design challenges which defy rules of simplicity.  I was working on a hefty networking management system application which spit out unfathomable amounts of log data.  There were several different classes of users who needed individualized views.  I didn’t have all the scenarios documented, so I had to make a [...]

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If you’re like me you just wrote down some New Year’s resolutions.  I was on the site 43Things, and I noted that someone had listed using the Pomodoro Technique as one of theirs.  I looked it up and was intrigued.  I’ve tried Getting Things Done and a few other list-making methods that promised to make me more efficient, but I [...]

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Oh Behave!

January 20, 2012 by

Oh Behave! may be the simplest and easiest way to parenting an obedient child. One of the age-old problems with discipline is not knowing what to do, it’s being consistent.  Giving a kid a two minute timeout should be easy.  It’s not.  First, you need a clock.  You must watch it diligently to catch when [...]

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It seems as though the long drought of typography on the web is finally over. Type foundries and browser makers have come to an entente for the distribution of type faces over the web. The Babbage Blog at the Economist details the new WOFF File Format 1.0 which utilizes data streaming and online repositories rather [...]

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Coachella phone: http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrethegiant/ When I first saw Twitter in 2008 at the Web 2.0 show, I didn’t get it.  I still don’t.  And apparently I am not alone.  A recent Yahoo Research Study showed that .05% of Twitter users generate over half of all Tweets.  I’m talking about you Justin Bieber.  (#winning.) Being in the [...]

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Shoestring budget. Does it get the point across? Check out: Hüklüp

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Getting to firstrex

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