April 2010
13 posts
ABtests.com →
cameronmoll: See examples and statistics from actual A/B tests, and upload your own to share with others. What a killer idea.
Apr 26th
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Hey Blippy, law requires that credit card numbers...
There is no reason why blippy should have been able to expose credit card numbers to Google’s crawler. Any person who’s handled credit card numbers knows that this type of security problem is impossible to have if you’re PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliant. Basically, it’s illegal to store credit card data unless you comply with PCI guidelines. In order to be PCI...
Apr 23rd
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Apr 23rd
Good Read: Making Geometric Type Work →
theleagueofmoveabletype: Making Geometric Type Work Excellent post over on Typographica about designing geometric sans-serifs, and how to make them more readable. Fantastic work, Mr. Moore. Great stuff.
Apr 22nd
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The NY Nightowls first meeting is Tuesday.
I just sent something out to everyone who emailed me this week about the New York Nightowls coworking group. If you’re interested, head to http://www.meetup.com/NY-Nightowls/calendar/13255755/ and quickly RSVP. The venue is New Work City and the maximum number of people we fit is 30. It’s unreal how fast an idea can go from tweet to execution when twitter and tumblr are involved. In...
Apr 22nd
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bijan sabet: Freemium backlash? →
rafer: It’s easy to kick someone when they are having trouble I guess. Ning announced a significant layoff and the critics pounced. I guess I wasn’t surprised at this point. But the thing that surprised me was the negativity about freemium. Just because some companies struggle with freemium doesn’t… Rafer sez: Agreed. I’ve started to refer to it as the Conversion Bubble. I disagree. The...
Apr 19th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 16th
“Spam is unanticipated, impersonal, irrelevant junk…”
– (Seth’s Blog: Cannibalism and spam) aka why I think Facebook Ads, Google AdWords, buying email lists etc etc are complete bullshit. That’s nice that advertisers can pay very little to send a “targeted message” at a segment of people who meet their needs. What I ask of you dear advertisers is to...
Apr 15th
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Apr 14th
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Apple, Adobe, and Indianhead Mills
Almost 40 years ago, James E. Robison, of Indianhead Mills, published the following in the company’s policy manual: The objective of our company is to increase the intrinsic value of our common stock. We are not in business to grow bigger for the sake of size, nor to become more diversified, nor to make the most or best of anything, nor to provide jobs, have the most modern plants, the...
Apr 10th
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SimpleGeo Blog: iPhone OS 4, Background Location... →
kylewritescode: Thanks to GDGT for the photos of the keynote. At SimpleGeo, we’ve been very excited for what Apple was going to announce today. There has been all kinds of speculation as to what features were going to go into iPhone OS 4, but now the rumors are over and there are some very big changes… Certainly some exciting stuff ahead. Kelly Sutton was the first to turn my attention...
Apr 9th
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