Sunday, November 4, 2012

Qik Founder’s Story

I can’t believe it.. They literally started out in a garage!

From that to being bought by Skype and then by translation Microsoft!?

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/03/qik-started-in-a-garage-discovered-by-scoble-survived-the-financial-meltdown-and-became-the-world-leader-in-mobile-video-before-merging-with-skype/

Thursday, October 25, 2012

fastcodesign:

A trip down memory (“memory” - get it? get it?) lane: Microsoft design flops through the ages.

UX Design… Don’t design for Experience?

Interesting contradiction on what is commonly accepted as user experience… Experience for the sake of experience is pointless? Maybe and maybe not. But I do agree that memories are something that should always be alluded to. Memories are what life is built upon. And memories are entirely human. The user can connect on another level to memory-based user experience.

“Memories are of the utmost importance. Creating “great experiences” for the mere sake of the experience seems insufficient and premature. Attempting to instill fond memories will be possible only via UX design, but it will require a different kind of UX design — one that’s laser-focused on the memories we hope will stick.”

- Koen AT Claes, http://mashable.com/2012/09/20/memory-user-experience/

Mind the gap: Is there a big enough gap to fill between the iPhone and the iPad?

Some say this is necessary, others say it’s pointless. There is probably a good enough niche that needs and would use this iPad Mini that the market is legitimate… But is Apple spreading too thin? Their goals are becoming blurrier since the passing of Steve. Or is it just me?

paulsillers:

The launch of the iPad Mini.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Great inspiration for budding young entrepreneurs. EMPLOYEE #2 AT PINTEREST AT 19?!

Wednesday, October 10, 2012
peaswithcarrots:

Advice on content curation from Maria Popova of Brain pickings.com

peaswithcarrots:

Advice on content curation from Maria Popova of Brain pickings.com

Monday, September 24, 2012
Kind of cool! -Smart too.. we are becoming so diluted by being on so many social networks!
newstartupideas:

Irrive is an app that jumbles up all your social network profiles and turns them into a singular place to preserve your memories as digital scrapbooks. The application reinvents the time consuming aspects of creating a physical scrapbook into a user friendly, fast and simple workflow to save your favorite memories from all your social networks.

Kind of cool! -Smart too.. we are becoming so diluted by being on so many social networks!

newstartupideas:

Irrive is an app that jumbles up all your social network profiles and turns them into a singular place to preserve your memories as digital scrapbooks. The application reinvents the time consuming aspects of creating a physical scrapbook into a user friendly, fast and simple workflow to save your favorite memories from all your social networks.