Scraps
Things I’ve collected – some for reference, some for interest, some just to increase the signal on.
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Who would have thought that your appliances needed to be able to tweet in order to talk to you. Embedded Link Twine, A Tiny Gizmo That Holds The Internet’s Future | Co. Design Twine, A Tiny Gizmo That Holds The Internet’s Future. Twine, a puck filled with sensors, detects anything from moisture to magnetism: Stick…
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It’s both clever and a bit clunky, and I guess polling is supposed to be on the way from the googleplex. In the meantime, here’s one way to do it… Reshared post from +Gabriel Vasile HOW YOU CAN MAKE POLLS USING GOOGLE PLUS – workaround We all know that for the moment there’s now official…
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If you’re a mac user fond of QuickSilver there’s a replacement that might be worth looking into. QuickSilver is a shortcut-mapping launcher utility. It’s no being actively developed any more. Maybe Alfred is an improvement. Reshared post from +Chris Messina I’m a couple days behind here, but I’m stoked for +Vero Pepperrell and +Andrew Pepperrell‘s…
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This has been done before, but it’s a cool writeup of it, and just cool to see- especially for Information Design geeks. Reshared post from +Pete Cashmore Where do people look when they visit your Google+ profile? We did an eye-tracking analysis (linked below) of various social networks — Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and others —…
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Might be new, might be a refresher, but this abuse of the infographic needs to be read by many. Family members and the last bunch of undergrads I talked with included. Just should have been a paper instead. Reshared post from +Daniel Ely Rankin Become a google search guru! I’ve not used many of these…
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Settings in one click on your iPhone with Shortcut Reshared post from +The Next Web One-Click Access to specific iOS Settings (brightness, network, wifi etc..)! Embedded Link Shortcut brings Settings widgets to your iPhone, no jailbreak required While you might consider it handy to have the vast majority of your iPhone's settings all in a…
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Money put in perspective by the XKCD guy, but don’t let that stop you from looking at this. Reshared post from +Steve Sherlock Embedded Link xkcd: Cost of everythingRecently Popular. Best Math Question EVAR Best statistics question ever 786 comments. unfacebook Where people don’t use Facebook 18 comments. Venn piagram The Venn Piagram 15…
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Nice informal discussion on who has implemented GTD and stuck with it and who hasn't and why. Reshared post from +Mike Elgan Honestly, who has tried to do "Getting Things Done"? (I'm plus-sourcing a column I'm working on.) Who has tried to implement the "Getting Things Done" system? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done Have you been able to implement…
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GoMo. Reshared post from +KevinGrendel Lim Tool that shows you how your website looks on a smartphone. It even gives you a report on whatโs working and what you can do better. #mobile http://goo.gl/NpiIi (It might be a bit slow to load, but be patient. It’s a cool tool.) Embedded Link GoMo: An Initiative From…
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Track market share of search engines, browsers, and OSs (Mobile too). Reshared post from +KevinGrendel Lim Browser stats this week: http://goo.gl/8HvwX Embedded Link StatCounter Global Stats – Browser, OS, Search Engine including Mobile Market Share Tracks the Market Share of Search Engines, Browsers and Operating Systems including Mobile from over 15 billion monthly page views.…