@daniellemorrill I'm not their demographic, but I've found the principle to be solid: slick visual design can create audience alienation.
Ugh: http://hellosoda.com/ mines your profiles to measure insurance (etc) risk. Idea: auto-generated profiles optimized for trustability.
Working from Cape Cod is very productive this trip. Finding myself concentrating on what REALLY has to get done.
The New York Times made us a convenient list of terrible employers: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/18/technology/data-crunching-is-coming-to-help-your-boss-manage-yo...
TIL that Partners in Kryme followed up on their 1990 hit T.U.R.T.L.E. Power with Rock the Halfshell, a 2015 cover of Rock the Casbah.
As my sarcasm and dry irony don't always translate well to chat, I am henceforth denoting such messages with a tiny emoji banana. 🍌
Google's ambitions require everyone to have great wifi in their homes. Solution: make a router that works. http://www.wired.com/2015/08/google-onhub-wi-fi-router/
@codeguy A little late, but sticking a hand up for Known, too: https://withknown.com/opensource
Last blog post is on 3 platforms; so far none is winning outright. http://werd.io/2015/what-would-it-take-to-save-edtech https://medium.com/building-an-open-startup/what-would-it-take-to-save-edtech-9a09183f29bb https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-would-take-save-edtech-ben-werdmuller
Just underwent the same thing. I hate flying. Inspired by its effect on PTSD, I played a bunch of Tetris this time round - and it genuinely calmed me down. For what it's worth ...
@jgmac1106 @ErnaKotkamp @Gouwehand For good reasons, I think. But if the org worked like a s/w company, real design would be baked in.
"Who are we excluding if we do this?" A smart approach from CloudFlare. https://blog.cloudflare.com/ensuring-that-the-web-is-for-everyone/
@jgmac1106 @Gouwehand @ErnaKotkamp Interesting! I was trying to steer away from that kind of monolithic solution towards tiny tools.
"In teaching, one size never fits all." Saving the future of #EdTech: https://medium.com/building-an-open-startup/what-would-it-take-to-save-edtech-9a09183f29bb
Howl is a new discovery app for podcasts. But can a content stable also be Netflix? http://m.fastcompany.com/3049750/most-creative-people/is-howl-the-netflix-of-podcasts-weve-been-wait...
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