July 2010
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Did You Know: Twitter's Fail Whale is originally... →
The illustration, picked by Twitter founder Biz Stone from iStockPhoto, suggests a massive team effort to tackle something difficult.
Click the link above to read the NY Times article on the artist and the story behind the illustration.
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Starbucks Mobile Payment: Technology for the sake...
I read an article on Read Write Web today about the expansion of the Starbucks mobile payment program. The program was launched as an iPhone app in September 2009 to Starbucks outlets in Seattle and Bay Area. After expanding the program to over 1,000 outlets in March 2010, Starbucks announced that it would deploy to even more stores across United States.
Here’s a video from September 2009...
Can you create a company based on another...
From a Lifehacker article, I discovered Micromobs, a website that provides private group messaging service. Their usability design is very similar to Facebook Group where you can post something (a picture, pithy comment, etc.) and have your friends comment on them. The overall web design takes the “best of” Facebook and Twitter features, including trending topic and 2-column display.
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How the Microsoft KIN phone was born and killed →
Killing KIN off so soon after launching it is embarrassing for Microsoft, and it represents a phenomenal destruction of value. The purchase price of Danger is estimated at around a half billion dollars, and the most significant product to come out of that purchase has been cancelled after a couple months on the market.
Ars Technica has an great article about the death of Microsoft KIN phone. How...