Effective today, 20 May 2010, I’ve deactivated my Facebook account due to my concerns over privacy, general lack of use and interest in better online services.
Deactivate your Facebook account
I will be deleting my account on 01 June 2010 – unless I get a change of heart.
You can read more about the reasons behind this here and here.
An interesting and useful insight from Max Klein:
The subtleties in outsourcing using RentACoder
The Londonist maps free Wi-Fi in London up to July 2009.
The comments add more locations.
Interesting reading from the team at Secret Cities. How they ‘crowdsourced’ the migration of their Facebook group:
blog.secretcities.com
The big agencies only pay lip service to digital. They hire and knight smart digital thinkers who ultimately have no authority, no real work, and contempt directed at them from the rest of the organization. It’s no surprise why they don’t stick around. The big boys also farm out to small digital shops that undervalue themselves and lose credit for the work. By the by, almost no superbowl ad last night drove to a URL (GoDaddy has been doing this for years and no one else has caught on) and no brand I saw used their Adwords in an interesting way (even though people were sure to hit search).
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what consumes me, bud caddell
Tim Malbon at Made By Many thinks we should be asking what an agile advertising agency looks like
The Future of Agencies: What Do You Think?
BBH Labs
“How do Web startups release three or four new versions of a product in the time it takes publishers to launch just one new feature on their online platforms?”
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O’Reilly Agile Software Development in Publishing – Tools of Change for Publishing
Bill Taylor – Harvard Business Review
Google engineers are encouraged to take 20 percent of their time to work on something company-related that interests them personally. This means that if you have a great idea, you always have time to run with it.
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The New York Times
Scott Berkun
This list describes twenty user experience deliverables with links to relevant resources and examples. Clearly, these artifacts of the process are not the whole story. We must also think about the relationship between goals, methods, and documents. And yet, for many of us, deliverables are the coin of the realm and merit special attention.
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User Experience Deliverables