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By day, I'm a product manager serving a group of fantastic engineers at Square.
By night, I fight crime and solve mysteries with a robot pal of my own creation.
By midday, I like a snack, generally a cookie.
Part of this biography isn't true (hint, I like cookies and engineering, I don't own a robot)
Monthly Archives: March 2004
I’ve got my eye on this
There are some early, and interesting results from Poynter’s latest eyetracking study. (Hat tip to Jay). Here’s a quick rundown: * Users really like text — photos, multimedia elements and the like got lower viewing than text and text-links * … Continue reading
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Like the nipple ring
The firestorm brewing over TypeKey is raging to new heights. There was something about the whole bru-ha-ha (aside: who remembers Wolf3D) that reminded me of an event being blown out of proportion. BurningBird brings up the point that has been … Continue reading
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If you can’t fail gracefully…
Don’t blame the user, this message brought to you by Jeremy Zawodny. If you can’t, just can’t, provide a limited or reduced-functionality version of your site/software/widget/widget-as-a-rental-service etc. then don’t blame the user. Afterall it’s not that their browsers don’t support … Continue reading
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Reading (BYOR)*
It’s a busy day at work, I’ll post some of the neat-o-keen ™ MT hacks I’ve worked up later. Meanwhile…. * Mark has a great take on TypeKey. Also, check out his entry on assets and Web logs. * ALA … Continue reading
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Die C, die!
From this Slashdot entry about Portable .Net: The death of C has been greatly exaggerated. It will adapt – it always has. Gee, does it really have too? All kidding aside, C really should die, or at least be half … Continue reading
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