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Category Archives: Twitter

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Twitter Digest

August 14, 2009 – 3:30 PM

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Wait, is today Friday? Crazy.

  • UNDERSTAND/FIX THE WORLD
    • Future Now has a good post about making the case for avoiding jargon and acronyms: http://bit.ly/m1vTe
    • Wired: some last minute excitement for the Netfilx Prize …. more crowdsourcing madness: http://bit.ly/NXDIt
    • Dan Roam draws helpful pictures that explain the healthcare crisis, or should I say insurance wars? http://bit.ly/onbqL
    • Kate Rutter’s Slime Mold post is brilliant. Let’s use other biological metaphors other than “viral” http://bit.ly/13LyEe
    • Seven lies about lying, a great NY Times piece by Errol Morris (via kotkke) http://bit.ly/W9pxe
  • MARKETING
    • Choose your own adventure YouTube video: stop knife violence: http://bit.ly/2CsZqu
    • Why is Johnny Walker my standard scotch? A brilliant video advertisement http://bit.ly/VBQ7S
    • Hello crowd, take a look at the universe! Astronomers engage the crowd: http://bit.ly/lInSN
    • Google wants SEOs to help: http://bit.ly/TCpeU
    • Marketing Vox: Eye tracking used to assess display ads: http://bit.ly/104a76
  • DESIGN
    • Maker Faire is coming to Africa: http://bit.ly/7GPus
  • SOME FUN
    • Wired: Six reasons to hack your iPhone http://bit.ly/E2ErQ
    • Post Advertising: Mad Men yourself http://bit.ly/ayd7I

Have a great weekend.

By Roland Smart | Comments (0)

Twitter Digest

August 7, 2009 – 3:31 PM

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Welcome to Friday.
I have a bunch of stuff from Kottke.org, so I just wanted to mention that it’s an awesome feed.

  • UNDERSTAND/FIX THE WORLD
    • Seven lies about lying, a great NY Times piece by Errol Morris (via kotkke) http://bit.ly/W9pxe
    • Hot Waitress Economic Index (via kottke) http://bit.ly/J62Y2
    • Google’s tools to make the web faster: (via kottke) http://code.google.com/spee…
  • MARKETING
    • Google wants SEOs to help: http://bit.ly/TCpeU
    • Marketing Vox: Eye tracking used to assess display ads: http://bit.ly/104a76
    • Fascinating DigitalBeat article about the future of search: http://bit.ly/JnO8F
  • DESIGN
    • Youth design clube are forming: http://bit.ly/sJ3ly
    • The NY Times has a great interactive graphic to see how people spend their time: http://bit.ly/zjsti
    • Once again, artists inspire use with video projections on buildings (via adaptivepath) http://bit.ly/Cn92r
  • SOME FUN
    • Interesting video that captures insect flight patterns (via Kottke) http://bit.ly/goi5

Have a great weekend.

By Roland Smart | Comments (0)

Twitter Digest

July 31, 2009 – 12:11 PM

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It was another week.

  • UNDERSTAND/FIX THE WORLD
    • Dare I say, get smart? http://smart.fm/
  • MARKETING
    • A cool tool for updating all your social media sites at once: http://ping.fm/
    • Good news for customer service: http://bit.ly/14vKLS
    • Video of Jeff Bezos about Amazon and Zappos http://bit.ly/2xUfJp
  • DESIGN
    • A great post by Alexa Andrzejewski on the experience design process: http://bit.ly/DfMkw
    • YouTube now has 3D: http://bit.ly/PwFeE
  • SOME FUN
    • This is gorgeous (via Kottke): http://vimeo.com/5606758

Have a great weekend.

By Roland Smart | Comments (0)

Twitter Digest

July 24, 2009 – 4:30 PM

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This was the week. FYI, I’ve put the links in as short URL …. not sure if this is better, but it is easier.

  • UNDERSTAND/FIX THE WORLD
    • Video with Tim O’Reilly about working on stuff that matters http://bit.ly/inv7l
    • Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence talks about COINS http://bit.ly/JxSAs
  • MARKETING
    • Good news for customer service: http://bit.ly/14vKLS
    • Video of Jeff Bezos about Amazon and Zappos http://bit.ly/2xUfJp
  • DESIGN
    • YouTube now has 3D: http://bit.ly/PwFeE
    • Arieff’s take on Design Policy Initiative for the NY Times: http://bit.ly/6RUV1
  • SOME FUN
    • This is gorgeous (via Kottke): http://vimeo.com/5606758

Have a great weekend.

By Roland Smart | Comments (0)

Twitter Digest

July 17, 2009 – 5:04 PM

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I was on vacation, which explains why things have been a bit quiet lately.

  • UNDERSTAND/FIX THE WORLD
    • The Guardian: Manchester Report: 20 ideas for solving the climate crisis
    • Bruce Sterling’s dystopia at Reboot 2009
    • Groupable: an interesting site brings together sponsors and organizations
    • Sixty physics principles explained
  • MARKETING
    • McKinsey Quarterly: The consumer decision journey – Consumers are moving outside the purchasing funnel—changing the way they research and buy your products. If your marketing hasn’t changed in response, it should.
    • MarketingVox: a dressing room technology that made me laugh …. and maybe cry.
    • AdFreak: a brilliant banner ad, can you believe it?
  • DESIGN
    • Biofeedback meet music: The Yamaha Bodibeat
  • SOME FUN
    • ThereIFixedIt.com

Have a great weekend.

By Roland Smart | Comments (0)

Twitter Digest

June 27, 2009 – 11:55 AM

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This week in the Twitterverse:

  • UNDERSTAND/FIX THE WORLD
    • NY Times: Zuckerburg says something interesting about privacy and Moore’s Law
  • MARKETING
    • MarketingVox: AdSense goes mobile
    • Influential Marketing Blog: Virgin + Google = a day in the clouds
  • DESIGN
    • Tech Crunch: Tonchidot gives an amusing presentation on the future of mobile tags
    • Hobnox: a cool audio tool that I don’t know how to use yet
    • Wired: I’ll be damned if Bing didn’t completely rip off Kayak, such is the web?
    • Identity Forum: naming our logos
  • SOME FUN
    • Wikiality: what happens when what we create becomes reality
    • Wired: and porn comes to the iPhone
    • Wonderful speech by John Hodgman with Obama on whether or not he is a nerd

Have a great weekend.

By Roland Smart | Also posted in Culture | Comments (0)

Twitter Digest

June 20, 2009 – 10:47 AM

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This week in the Twitterverse:

  • UNDERSTAND/FIX THE WORLD
    • The Wall Street Journal: Safeway has a new approach to healthcare
    • English, do you write it?
    • Wallpaper: Robbi Cooper flips the camera on porn
  • MARKETING
    • NY Times; Good article about marketing speak
    • You knew it was only a matter of time before “paypertweet” companies got started. Some people never learn.
  • DESIGN
    • A brilliant wedding invitation
    • Hugh MacLead: Drawing business problems and other funny stuff
  • SOME FUN
    • If you love sticky notes you’re going to LOVE this
    • Great Design Mind piece about construction cones
    • Food vendors in San Francisco should be interested in these inventive carts

Have a great weekend.

By Roland Smart | Comments (0)

Twitter Digest

June 12, 2009 – 2:12 PM

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This week in the Twitterverse:

  • UNDERSTAND/FIX THE WORLD
    • BusinessWeek: How cloud computing will change business
    • Online Journalism Blog: Making money from 21st century journalism
  • MARKETING
    • Upcoming Event in SF: Tech Bloggers & Marketing 2.0 – I’ll be hosting this @ Adaptive Path
    • AD AGE: The Facebook vanity URL land grab
    • Ogilvy white papers on marketing in a recession (with lead gen sign up)
  • DESIGN
    • The USPS has a brilliant new way to determine if your package will fit in the box
  • SOME FUN
    • A perspective window by Adelbert Ames that just messes with your head

Have a great weekend.

By Roland Smart | Comments (0)

Twitter Digest

June 5, 2009 – 3:55 PM

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Have a great weekend, and COME TO MY ART OPENING THIS SATURDAY EVENING.

  • UNDERSTAND/FIX THE WORLD
    • TED Talks: Pattie Maes demonstrates some of her mobile “sixth sense” work
    • AD Age: Pharma and the iPhone
    • How to be happy diagram (via kottke.com)
  • MARKETING
    • BooneOakley created a brillian website using YouTube
    • A video time-line that projects into the future of mobile
    • Current: Ambient marketing anyone?
    • Clay Shirky: Transparency Is The New Marketing
    • Ideas Project: Clay Shirky on social media
  • DESIGN
    • CardObserver, business cards galore
  • SOME FUN
    • Wonderful photographs from the National Archive restored, a photo blog
    • Another tech bubble? What tech bubble?

Have a great weekend.

By Roland Smart | Comments (0)

Twitter Digest

May 31, 2009 – 11:35 AM

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Apparently Twittering is inversely proportional to how busy I am:

  • UNDERSTAND/FIX THE WORLD
    • NY Times article about companies refreshing their logos, too bad most of them aren’t actually improved
  • MARKETING
    • TechCrunch: An interesting article about monetizing Pandora
  • DESIGN
    • A great visualization of race data by IndiStar.com
  • SOME FUN
    • A beautiful art piece with american cars that offers more than a little irony

Have a great weekend.

By Roland Smart | Comments (0)
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