Radical UX starts our day with a look at nine nasty UX truths. These are some excellent pieces of advice, with my favorite being “color is meaningless”. Color can be used to differentiate ideas in a UI, but overall it does seem like nobody cares otherwise. At Ayende @ Rahien, we continue the database internals… Read More Geek Reading July 12, 2016 #1146
By now you may have heard that scientists have found evidence of water on Mars. We have the Reuters report for this story. HashiCorp announced the release of two new open source tools, Nomad and Otto. High Scalability gives us an interesting post about how Facebook tells your friends that you are safe in a… Read More Geek Reading September 30, 2015
Just in case you did not think mobile payments were about to take off, Facebook introduces friend-to-friend payments. Clearly, Facebook wants some skin in the game before the industry really gets going. GigaOm may be gone, but the Structure conference went on because the attendees organized their own conference. This is interesting for a few… Read More Geek Reading March 19, 2015
I can’t believe I made it to 5 years and there are a few thousand people that read this blog. The whole journey has been a bit surreal at times, but it has definitely been interesting. I know that the original content has slowed a lot, but now you see a lot of what I… Read More Happy 5th Birthday To Regular Geek
In my quest to learn the spanish language, I have tried several online learning options. As with any learning experience, if you do not practice enough you will not progress in your learning. The problem most people have with online learning is remembering to practice. For some people, they just forget to do it and… Read More The Art Of The Email Nag
This is a guest post from Samantha Peters. When we talk about social networking, even from a corporate and business angle, we are almost always talking about public social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. These networks allow people and businesses to join freely and interact freely. For a company, the public nature of social… Read More The Benefits and Challenges of Internal Social Networking
Lately, Dave Winer has been doing a lot of thinking. Dave has been around for a while, so when he starts thinking about interesting questions, we should all be listening. However, I am not saying that we should be agreeing with him, just reading and forming opinions. First, Dave complains about mobile apps and how… Read More Is The Web Really Just Links Or Is It Evolving?
This past week, both Google and Facebook made more announcements regarding their ecosystems. Google is slowly integrating Google+ into everything, this time adding features into GMail and Contacts. For GMail, you can now share photos directly from within a message. Contacts are now showing your Google+ circles as additional groups. Facebook launched a new subscribe… Read More Plus Or Like, Choose Your Sharing Weapon
When Google Reader made its recent changes, the first thought many people had was what RSS reading options were there? I think many of those people complained about the lack of the old sharing and the loss of RSS feeds for peoples shares. This means that the people who used Google Reader were not really… Read More Google Reader Is Not About Reading News It Is About Curation
This is a guest post from Jesse Langley. Nobody involved in social media even wants to hear the word bubble mentioned. It’s almost as if the mere mention of this rapidly approaching reality is perceived by social media insiders as potentially self-fulfilling prophecy. But just because social media is experiencing rapid expansion isn’t necessarily an indicator… Read More Solidifying the Social Media Bubble
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