Category Archives: Interfaces

The New York Tech MeetUp- The March Edition

Image by ShanaLC via Flickr I know it is late.  I’ve had a humongously amazing, yet busy week. (and I don’t normally talk like that)  I feel so thankful that I am finally really starting to become less shy with people in the NY Tech Community.  Everyone I am meeting has been wonderful.  Y’all are great [...]
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Seesmic Look! Would it work for my Ex?

Image by David Berkowitz via Flickr So Loic Le Meur and Seesmic decided to release Look. And being Shana-licious, I stuck it on a netbook to test. As many people have commented, it is an extremely beautiful UI.  This doesn’t mean I am not going to nitpick at it.  The question is, Would I recommend this to my [...]
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FailProduct: Mendeley

Image by quinn.anya via Flickr This is one of those products which makes me so sad.  It actually could be a really useful product. As soon as I saw it, I realized why college is so depressing when it comes to research.  it’s because no matter what you do, the stuff out there, sucks. Part of this is [...]
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The New York Tech Meetup RoundUp Take 2

Image by Esthr via Flickr September is Education Month.  Which is awesome because I am heading back to my last quarter of actual class this September if all goes well.  Scary times for all.
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Aggregators, The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly

Image by Dead Air via Flickr Another post that is imperative to write about. *sigh* I hate feeling like I can’t keep a good idea a secret.  I feel bad that this company didn’t realize a good idea in their own product when it was staring them in the face. So when I was at #NYTM, I [...]
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The Matryokshka Doll Principle

Image by Jeff Belmonte via Flickr The Matryoshka Doll Principle, Chinese Box Design, however you would call it. This principle will be a guiding force for the rest of your career.  It forces you into a quality product.  I see it all the time in products, particularly tech products that we all crave, as a technique [...]
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The Artist’s/Coder education: Blind Contour

Image via Wikipedia I wanted do a series about the art of design, rather than the more practical humdrum side. Most people find it very difficult to think creatively this way.  It takes a lot of practice, beyond native intelligence.  It is not a matter of just knowing how the facts work, but also a matter of [...]
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Growing Pains and Disqus

Image by BenSpark via Flickr Disqus is definitely one of the most powerful commenting systems out there.  Beyond having fabulous customer service, it also is seeming to promote a really social commenting community on blogs, as seen from Fred Wilson’s (currently) 183 comments here.  Whatever solution to solve the overwhelming feeling of seeing that many comments [...]
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Zemanta Part 2- It ain’t (exclusively) your fault- it’s emails.

Image by Tom Raftery via Flickr While others have already established that Zemanta is the essential blogging tool for adding yourself to the blog link cloud of awesomeness,  Zemanta for email is leaving me ehhhh and lost for the perfect use.
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Zemanta, From Mission to Product Part 1

Image by chucks via Flickr Since the very first post of this blog, Zemanta, a plugin for richer content sharing in one’s writing, was implemented.  While it has been getting rave reviews from both trade and general press for the illustrative wealth it provides through semanticaly-related linksharing and images in blogs, most articles ignore the fact [...]
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