February 2010
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Citibank is so not fabulis. →
This is insane. Citibank arbitrarily blocks a customer’s bank account because of their blog content.
In a bit of strange and disturbing news, fabulis discovered today that someone(s) at Citibank had decided arbitrarily to block fabulis’ bank account due to what was described to us on the phone as “objectionable content” on our blog …
UPDATE: More insanity!
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WatchThe story behind the 2010 Olympic Medals from vbs.tv. Besides the landscape reference and art (no two medals are the same, yet they’re all connected), the medals were made from recycled tech waste.
~via @AdamSchwabe
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How to cold call...
Just had an extremely awkward conversation with smooth talking Zina.
“Hi Lee, this is Zina. May I speak with the owner of the company.”
“I’m sorry, what’s this regarding?”
“This is Zina. Do you do websites?”
“Um…yes.”
“Are you the owner of the company?”
“What is it that you’re calling about?”
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Restaurants and the Web. Welcome to suck.
A conversation dwineman has with himself every month or so:
Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone) Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off. Me: I just want to know how late you’re open. Website: Nope. Me: But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link up in the corner or something? Website: I’m ignoring you. Me: What if I’m on my phone because I’m...
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A sad state of affairs...
Besides the completely obtuse segment of kids in hot tubs, doing body shots, and stripping on CTV’s primetime Olympic coverage, there’s this frightening situation happening on the intarwebs:
Here’s the deal: ReadWriteWeb has written an article discussing Facebook and AOL, along with Google’s Buzz, etc., which is now a top ranking search result when you Google the term...
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Design the platform, not the end product.
Impermanence is the rule not the exception with design. There is no design artefact (ie, a website, brochure, product, etc) that offers a solution as business needs, customer behaviour, etc, evolve.
Design needs to be the foundation for researching, understanding and collaborating on iterations. Immersion and iteration is how you address impermanence, not an all or nothing attitude about design...
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Disney CEO on the iPad →
“With ESPN you have ScoreCenter, which is a great app on the iPhone and provides rudimentary information and scores. Suddenly we have a platform where you can really make those scores come to life.”
I’m definitely down with the idea of having ESPN Gamecasts running on the iPad while I’m watching a game. Fun!
Oh, trouble! They’re all Flash. ;-)
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The iPad: for users, not geeks. →
This is the truth and why I’ll be buying my father an iPad, the man who fights with computers daily and has only been attempting to do that for the last 10 years. ie, in 1999 he was still dictating letters to his staff.
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No shit, sherlock. →
“Problem is, the Windows user experience didn’t translate well to a small screen that uses a keyboard and/or stylus to navigate it.”
One of the areas Apple has excelled and what makes people who say the iPad is just a blown up iPhone sound so completely foolish: the experience is geared to the device and context of usage for that device. Consequently, all the software developed for...
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Tumblr, clearly better designed than Posterous.
@malcolmbastien asks What The Heck Makes Tumblr a “Designed” Company?:
I’m asking this question based of a statement made in a popular blog post that was published two weeks ago, Why Tumblr is kicking Posterous’s Ass
Design is precisely why I’m here and precisely why I disregarded posterous.
Posterous is supposed to be simpler (No signup! Just email!) but they’re...