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The Most Important Company of This Year’s SXSW Is: SXSW
Every year, the technology and business press wait anxiously to see who the breakout star of SXSW is going to be. The conference is often credited with helping companies like Twitter and Foursquare...
View ArticleMind Your MeTweets
You know how when someone compliments you, the first thing you do is e-mail everyone you know to tell them about the compliment?No, you probably don’t, because you have the good sense not to do...
View Article“Reality is Interesting to Us”
The fine folks at Frank just released a short, 7 minute documentary about the guys who designed and built my house: Kevin Eckert, Andrew Van Leeuwen, and the rest of Build LLC. It’s a really well done...
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Moving to Micro Four-Thirds
Micro four-thirds cameras aren’t exactly new, but in the three years since their release, they’ve grown incredibly popular. A couple of months ago, I passed the confidence threshold myself and ditched...
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Never Be Another
When someone dies, the phrase “there will never be another” gets used quite frequently. It’s one of those phrases that is both always true and yet almost always not true. It’s true that, yes, no other...
View ArticleYou Aren’t Who You Hang Out With
Every new app you try these days wants to know who your friends are. It’s easy to understand why. On the marketing side, it’s to encourage users to evangelize the app amongst their friends. On the user...
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SOPA and The New Gatekeepers
I’ll admit that on a scale of 1-10, my following of the SOPA/PIPA escapades is only about a 6. This may seem low for someone who runs a platform that hosts 50 million unique visitors a month; all of...
View ArticleTwitter Buys Summify, Gives Everyone a Reason to Use It
Today, it was announced that Twitter has acquired an awesome little Pacific Northwest company called Summify. If you haven’t heard of Summify, they provide what I consider to be the best...
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Choice Quotes from the 2011 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report
I’ve been a Berkshire Hathaway fan since I was in 6th grade, and like many others, I always look forward to reading their annual report. It’s amazing that in the 46 years since Warren Buffett took over...
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How to Permanently Prevent OS X 10.7 Lion from ever Re-Opening Apps After a...
While the latest version of Mac OS X, Lion, is generally wonderful, there is one “feature” that annoys thousands of people to no end: whenever your machine is restarted, every single application you...
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The Continuous Partial Attention Generation
Via Cory comes this photo from Scott Macklin of his son and friends watching the Super Bowl last month:There are several interesting things about this photo (spelled out in Cory’s post), and I now...
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What the Betamax Case Teaches Us About Readability
The Betamax SL6500! I totally had this model!!!Several really smart people in our industry are arguing very publicly right now about a company called Readability and how great and/or evil their service...
View ArticleThe Making of Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Everyone has their favorite album that never appears in any famous “Top 10 Albums of All Time” lists. That album, for me, is Blood Sugar Sex Magik, by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. To me, Blood Sugar is...
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Make Your Twitter Stream More Interesting with the Stellar Tweetbot
If you’re like me, you’re both particular about who you follow on Twitter and perpetually in search of more entertainment in your feed. The problem with following everyone who belches out a random good...
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The Deterioration of Hi-Ball Packaging Design
I’ve been a huge fan of Hi-Ball caffeinated mineral water for a few years now. It’s a crisp, light, sweetener-free way to get a little bit of caffeine in your system on a hot day. In addition to the...
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A Fond Farewell to Newsvine, NBC, and Seattle
The last time I wrote one of these posts, it was 7 years ago and I was getting ready to leave a great job at ESPN to start my own media company, Newsvine.The concept was simple: license the same...
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I’m Joining Twitter
Over five years and exactly 10,000 tweets ago, when I first tiptoed into the lonely textfield that was Twitter’s “What Are You Doing?” box, I typed the following:Current thoughts: This could get...
View ArticleWe Are Expanding the Design Team at Twitter
First things first: we are expanding the Design Studio at Twitter! A few days ago, I opened 8 new positions, which can be viewed here. If you have fantastic design, production, or research chops and...
View ArticleFaves from The Pixel Awards
Pardon the mess around here as I move around some furniture and get ready to start publishing on Mike Industries again, but I wanted to share a handful of sites, apps, and interactive projects that...
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Reboot!
It’s been 7 years since I last redesigned Mike Industries, and it feels like even longer. The old design still holds up considering the largely desktop audience it was designed for, but since it’s May...
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