Tesla's Clever Brand+Product Strategy
27 July 2012
Will Oremus published a column in Slate about the Tesla S luxury sedan. The column was part tech review of the car and part cultural commentary on what it...
Like being kicked when you're down: Fireworks File Recovery
25 July 2012
Me: Hmm, it's been a little while. About time to save this Fireworks file! [CMD-S] Fireworks CS5: *CRASH* Me: Good thing there's on-crash file recovery. MacOS: BigComplicatedProjectFile.fw.png size 232...
Inbox Surprise via @iansilber
10 February 2012
via @iansilber: "This reminds me of an app I made called Inbox Surprise that would basically allow you to spam someone's inbox with something like this: http://cl.ly/3C08030R3M1v1P3M3s0l. Basically take...
Groupon is hiring UX people, all levels, all functions.
19 July 2011
All roles can be in our Palo Alto product / development office or in our Chicago HQ. We're looking for people in all roles who have a strong grounding in...
New job as Dir of UX at Groupon
2 June 2011
Today seems like an opportune time to announce that tomorrow is my last day working at LinkedIn. On Monday I'll start a new job as Groupon's director of user experience,...
Disjoint thoughts on productivity
23 May 2011
Fried goes on to suggest that the perceived distractions of Facebook and web surfing at work are false, with "M&Ms" (managers & meetings) making up greater, involuntary, more disruptive and...
LinkedIn Today: Congrats to LI UED members...
10 March 2011
LinkedIn just launched LinkedIn Today, its social news aggregator for professionals. Props to the members of the LI UED team who have been hammering away at this for the past...
UI shit like this drives me *batty*: I hate Outlook
24 January 2011
A snippet of a chat I had today with a coworker:Monday, January 24, 2011 11:56 Ellen Beldner: outlook is a bitch so i'm just going ot communicate with you via...
Should you take a pay cut to work at a startup?
21 December 2010
Elad Gil: Bootstrapping: Raise Debt From Your Employees Elad has written several interesting posts about getting a startup running. I worked with Elad and Othman, cofounders of Mixer Labs, doing...
Statistical linguistics made possible by Google Books
16 December 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19877-googles-fossil-record-digitises-5-million-books.html Already, researchers have traced the accelerating evolution of the English language, mapped the rise and fall of various people, and uncovered patterns of censorship and suppression in Soviet Russia,...
Apple: Dual-Link fail; Store product review fail.
25 June 2009
At our company almost everyone uses a MacBook Pro with a 30" Dell monitor. We all frequently have the DVI distortion issues that Gizmodo reported. (I've had my display fritz...
Dear Pandora: Popup FAIL
6 May 2009
I was tuning up a new station and all of a sudden, something clicked -- you started playing music I wanted to hear. I wanted to buy a couple of...
Out of control outgoing links
9 April 2009
Okay, I already knew that I hate and detest the new-ish Facebook practice in which you don't just navigate to outgoing links; you get taken to a Facebook page with...