The Wege pointed me to an excellent article by Joshua Schachter on the issues w/ URL shortening services. It’s consistent my concerns and my Insecurity of Short URLs post. As I alluded to that post, I see 3 opportunities for URL shorteners, all of them revolve around increasing trust (branding, security, backup). Let’s take that …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
The Long Promise of the Mobile Web
I distinctly remember back in 1999, working for one of the first User Experience firms, when I first saw an internet-based service on a mobile phone. Then, diversity meant some devices had 7 lines of text other had 3. A few months later, I moved onto a new gig where I was designing location-specific websites …
First Crack 119. Justin Grammens on Mobile VOIP
I have a hypothesis that mobile VOIP over WiFi will replace mobile carriers for the majority of phone conversations within 5 years. For a reality check, I called up Justin Grammens of Localtone Interactive and Mobile Twin Cities. From the picture he paints, I think we’ll see this well within 5 years. Maybe 2. Projects …
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Pragmatic Programmers eBooks now in Kindle Format
I’m a big fan of buying Pragmatic Programmers books with their the accompanying PDF. Yesterday, I popped over to their site to check for updates and noticed they’ve added .epub and .mobi (Kindle) to their electronic publication format options. Such a huge win, thanks to everyone at Prag Prog that made this possible. Now, perhaps …
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Glad I’m Not the Only One Parallel Reading
“I got a Kindle just over a week ago. It has changed the way I think about reading. I have a couple dozen books on it and I go back and forth between them in a way that I have never done with books. I am in the process of reading about six books in …
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Kernestly
This weekend I made some significant head way on one of my key 2009 projects: Kernest.com. Right now, Kernest is also the most likely candidate for my 5 minute Ignite Mpls presentation.
What the Hell Happened?
I’m confident the past couple years will be discussed and dissected by economics students for decades to come. Here’s just two graphs visualizing the monetary movement that have made my jaw drop: In both of them, there’s little to no movement for 5 years. Then…WHAM! It doesn’t really matter what these graphs measuring – the …
Blame the Entertainer?
I was baffled by uproar from the Stewart v. Cramer bit a few days ago. I got the sense that I misunderstood what Cramer did on his show (attempt to time the stock market). Stewart made it seem like Cramer was driving the ambulance, rather than simply chasing it. Then I remembered that Stewart’s show …
Kindle 2 as a New Electronic Medium
I do an awful lot of reading that isn’t on “books”[1] and Amazon Kindle has quickly become where I send PDFs by default – just like audio and video files get sent to iTunes by default. And, after a couple weeks with the Kindle, I’m confident it is a new medium requiring a new interaction …
Bull Markets are a Lazy Way of Measuring Happiness
Bull Markets are a Lazy Way of Measuring Happiness