February 2012
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Notifications are Evil →
I actually disagree with this completely. In my estimation, notifications are like the informational equivalent of celery - they might be nutritionally negligible, but they satisfy a craving for information that would normally lead to ingesting something you should probably put off until lunch time.
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It's the little details.
My iOS compatible headphones have controls that work perfectly on my macbook air, on my iphone, and on my ipad.
This means three things:
I never feel like I need to buy another pair of headphones for each device
I can let certain behaviours (changing the volume, pausing, etc) remain automatic, as they are the same on every device I use
I both consciously and subconsciously consider every...
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Timehop, and Unintended Consequences
Timehop is, at first glance, about nostalgia. It’s about looking back and seeing the actions of a year ago.
The first order side effect of this is adding retroactive value to your social media interactions from a year ago - you’re no longer just checking in at places for today; you’re building a social history that you can explore, tapping into the same desire for narrative that...
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Pre-Customer Service
It’s one thing to take care of a customer. It’s a very different thing to take care of someone who might become one. It makes me wonder if this might be a potential growth area for many businesses, when it comes to customer acquisition.
[There is a significant disclosure made at the bottom of this post, FYI]
Recently, I made a mistake that is unique to our era – I left my phone (a Samsung Galaxy...