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Comment on The new Apple iPad – Who will use it? 4 Potential Personas. by Daniel Murray

Daniel Murray — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:47:30 +0000

Where is Cary going to get her textbooks in digital format?

Comment on Facebook turns a year older, gets another facelift. by Kristen Vang

Kristen Vang — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:46:48 +0000

@Jamie – nope, you’re not missing any drastic changes!

But, I will say that I think that while these design tweaks seem minor, they make a lot of the site features more accessible…not so much for those that know the interface inside and out, but navigation seems more intuitive for new users that mightn’t be familiar.

Comment on Facebook turns a year older, gets another facelift. by Jamie Favreau

Jamie Favreau — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:34:15 +0000

I still haven’t gotten my new FB layout. I guess I am NOT missing much!

Comment on Fat Fingers? How people really use the iPhone. by Kristen Vang

Kristen Vang — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:56:35 +0000

Great find, I've spent far too long believing my difficulty with the touchscreen was due to having Homer Simpson fingers. The old iPhones didn't even enable the landscape-orientated keyboard for texting or emailing. When it did become available (with the 3GS model and the 3.0 OS), my WPM doubled (but is still embarrassingly low). Here's hoping more apps and perhaps even the home screen dashboard become landscape enabled.

Comment on foursquare lands in Perth. by suzie

suzie — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:06:23 +0000

Thanks for that, i will enjoy reading links later…
I came up with a getsomething company.. and ran out of time to look further..
Also foursquare, what does it mean or stand for …is it an American term for Hopscotch.. ?? Goodness knows where that came from!

Comment on foursquare lands in Perth. by Kristen Vang

Kristen Vang — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:52:48 +0000

@suzie The masterminds behind foursquare are Dennis Crowley, Naveen Selvadurai, Harry Heymann, Nathan Folkman and Mike Singleton. I got to know Dens during my days in NYC. He first launched Dodgeball (a similar service to foursquare) which Google later bought... and killed.

Comment on foursquare lands in Perth. by suzie

suzie — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:41:26 +0000

hey do you know who is behind 4Sq?

Comment on foursquare lands in Perth. by suzie

suzie — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:34:47 +0000

Me too, this has so many ops, let alone ones written for the nexus phones, apps can be wriiten in Java and multiple senarios can be applied.. watch that space and this … am in Idea Overload!

Comment on foursquare lands in Perth. by Carolyn

Carolyn — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:30:26 +0000

Great post. I’m totally sold!

Comment on Thank you, Jimmy Wales. by Kristen Vang

Kristen Vang — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:44:55 +0000

Gregory,
Thanks for sharing the link, it’s an interesting read. I hadn’t heard many of those allegations before now.

I admittedly know little about Wikimedia’s financials or “Jimbo’s” transgressions (sheesh, that word is certainly getting its 15 minutes of fame!). But, what I do know is that Wikipedia has been a great utility for me personally. In the same way that I expect to pay for any useful online service (whether it’s directly via subscription or a freemium model or indirectly via advertising or data collection/trend mining), I felt some sort of remuneration was deserved.

And honestly, if “Jimbo” wants to piss away my $20 donation on first class tix to Korea, I’m not really fussed – just so long as Wikipedia keeps on delivering for me like it has countless times in the past.