A simple Android widget that grabs your location and lets you send it via mail or SMS.
Thanks, Ethosophical!
Given some preparation and calibration, you can bake the same cake from the same recipe the same way every time. But a business is not a cake – not even a cake-making business. You can retrofit “success factors” to businesses that made it big, but you can’t then reapply those factors to another business and expect the same results. Every new business is an experiment with too many variables to possibly control for: the concept, the execution, the stability of the people working on it, market forces, political turmoil, the weather, and on and on.
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I’m going to News Foo in Phoenix in a few weeks, and I’m thinking of proposing an Ignite talk there called the Management Wisdom of Battlestar Galactica. I’m a huge fan of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series that was on Syfy. Besides having lead a rag-tag fleet of the last humans left…
Know Your Weapons. (For those seeking a very fast class on DPICMs, a category of weapons referenced in previous post.) More soon.
Very cool news today that Square, a mobile payments company, has rolled out a new mobile donations platform with the Obama campaign — we continue to be fascinated by how social and mobile technologies are going to play a part in this year’s election.
NEWS
Election coverage:
List of 2012 SU Election Candidates
The Cadre Endorses a Presidential Candidate
What We’re Hearing About the UPEI SU Election (with bonus comment from JB!)
Congrats, winners.
Meet The Complete UPEI SU Executive for 2012-2013Grant coverage:
We Get…
(This post is part of News.me’s ongoing series, “Getting the News.” In our efforts to understand everything about social news, we’re reaching out to writers and thinkers we like to ask them how they get their daily news. Read the first post here. See all of the posts, from writers and…
The old 8 to 10 second rule has diverged into the haves and have nots. Broadband users expect faster response times, while narrowband users have been left behind. As broadband becomes more widespread the size of the average web page has increased to over 300KB and the average number of objects has increased to over 50 per page. Users experience psychological and physiological effects when interacting with web pages, experiencing frustration when not completing tasks and engagement at faster web sites. Narrowband users are suffering the most from the speed tax of objects that now dominates most web page delays. Increasing the speed of your site will improve your conversion rates, reduce shopping cart bailout rates, and make your site more appealing to users.
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The Psychology of Web Performance
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It’s comforting to know that sometimes even the most ridiculous questions1 are asked on Google often enough to make them the top result.
Also, Google, get out of my head!
For the curious, here’s the answer. ↩
