Today REWORK is now in stores-
Alright, the big day is finally here! REWORK is now available in stores. You can order the US version online from the following booksellers:
Amazon.com
Barnes & Noble
Borders
Indie Bound
800 CEO READ
International versions are either out already or coming soon. Check with your local retailer. There’s also an audiobook version read by Mike Chamberlain (listen to a sample).
At the book site, you’ll now find a PDF that includes f…(more)
- Today QUOTE: The competitor to be feared is one who never
- The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
—Henry Ford
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- Today VIDEO: Our new office, pre-construction. Lease signed
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Our new office, pre-construction. Lease signed today. Move in scheduled sometime in July. Full story, floor plans, and vision shortly.
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- Yesterday [Lingo] Slack, YAGNI, and low ceremony
- Three terms that came up repeatedly during our San Diego retreat:
Slack
All the stuff that doesn’t fit neatly into bigger, concept-driven iterations. We save one of our programmer/designer teams for slack work — small scope things that build up, a bug that needs to be fixed, a quick support assist, etc.
YAGNI
You ain’t gonna need it. It’s easy to get carried away discussing how you could possibly do this, that, or the other thing. It’s harder to step back an…(more)
- Product Blog update: Basecamp email improvements, Highrise case studies, etc.
- Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:
Basecamp
New in Basecamp: Stylized email notifications
We created new email designs for milestones (and 48-hour milestone reminders), file uploads, messages, to-dos, and comments.
New in Basecamp: Post a message via email
You can now email a message directly to a project. This means you can post messages without even being logged in. Just send a message via email from your desktop, web-based email client, or mobile phone, and it’l…(more)
- PHOTO: I ran some statistics on the last few years
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I ran some statistics on the last few years of Basecamp activity and uncovered this strange, recurring anomaly.
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- The long take
- A long take is a single, unbroken camera shot that lasts much longer than a typical shot. While the idea’s been around for a long time, it feels like it has extra impact in today’s world of hyper-editing and constant angle changes. Some examples below.
It feels almost cliché to be linking up an Ok Go video at this point, but ya gotta hand it to the band; They have really mastered the art of making “event” videos. Check out this amazing long take video featuring the No…(more)
- Two different worlds
- I walked into a Sprint store today to check out the Palm Pixi. AT&T has been bad enough lately that, while I’m not ready to chuck the iPhone, I’m at least growing curious. Unfortunately “walking in” is about all I could do.
Every smartphone in the Sprint store was locked under glass cabinets. The untouchable phone displays were covered in fake screenshot stickers. Two weary looking gentlemen in polo shirts manned the back counter and a queue of six customers (shopp…(more)
- Today Lifelock Dinged $12 Million for Deceptive Business Practices
- The Federal Trade Commission is alleging Arizona-based Lifelock engaged in false advertising by promising customers that if they signed up with its service their personal information would become useless to identity thieves. The FTC fined it $12 million as part of a settlement agreement.
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- Today Pink Floyd, EMI Brawl Over iTunes Royalties
- Pink Floyd and EMI are locked in a royalty battle -- yet another example of an emerging dispute between rights holders and publishers over payment for intellectual property born before the explosion of online digital sales.
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- Today Apple's Secret iPhone Developer Agreement Goes Public
- Previously secret, the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement has been acquired and published with the help of the Freedom of Information Act.
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- Today Mile-High Mega Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Power Plants
- Korean scientists propose attaching gigantic, 6.5 million-square-foot kites to ships to drag them through the ocean and generate energy.
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- Today Safe and Affordable Jetpack: Just $90,000
- For years, man has been trying to build a jetpack which would be safe and cheap enough to use by anyone other than Lee Majors on the title sequence of The Fall Guy. It turns out we’ve been doing it wrong. Instead of starting with a pack and adding on the jet, we should have torn the giant engines from a plane and strapped them to some poor schmuck.
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- Today Amazon Is Building a Better Browser for Kindle
- Browsing the web on one of Amazon’s Kindle e-readers is like taking a step backwards in time. It’s clunky and has only limited support for web standards, and bare-bones JavaScript capabilities. But now Amazon may be looking to add browser engineers to the Kindle team, according to job listings on the company’s website.
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- Today Motorola's Backflip Will Make You Come Unhinged
- Despite some of forward-thinking hardware, Moto's Backflip is crippled by a horrid Android skin. And there's only so much one can do with 3.1 inches.
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- Today March 9, 1454: This Man Is a Continent ... or Two
- Amerigo Vespucci is remembered in the names of two continents, not because he was first to visit them, but because he was first to realize that they were something new to Europeans.
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- Today The pros and cons of Twitter marketing
- Twitter offers a cheap, quick way of spreading your marketing message. But it can just as easily cause your brand some major damage, reveals Paul DouglasContinues...…(more)
- Yesterday Paul Dawson
- EMC Conchango is known for producing functional customer experiences that last a long time. Oliver Lindberg catches up with the agency’s experience director, Paul Dawson, to chat about their approach and the recent acquisitionContinues...…(more)
- Stephen Fry
- We’re delighted to bring you a special interview with the man who sent Twitter mainstream: actor, writer, presenter and national treasure, Stephen Fry.In this video interview, Fry talks candidly to .net editor Dan Oliver about his use of Twitter, online money-making, mood swings, the Daily Mail and his ability to bring down websites with a single tweet. Watch it here.Continues...…(more)
- Q&A: Mike Beltzner
- At the end of January, Mozilla unleashed Firefox 3.6. We hook up with director of Firefox development Mike Beltzner to spill the beans on the latest improvements, what’s bubbling in the labs and the state of the browser warsContinues...…(more)
- Pad science
- What effect is the iPad going to have on web design and development?Continues...…(more)
- The brains behind : 4chan
- 4chan is the web’s largest – and most notorious – imageboard, responsible for such popular memes as lolcats and rickrolling. We talk to its creator, mootContinues...…(more)
- Why Google isn"t evil
- Geoffrey Cain reveals how Google.org, the philanthropic wing of the search giant, is using its algorithms to save the worldContinues...…(more)
- Become a one man web agency
- Web design can be a complex affair, and when you’re doing it all by yourself, working with big clients and running your own business, what’s the best way to approach a project and stay on top? Elliot Jay Stocks looks at the life of the independent designerContinues...…(more)
- Today Chomp Closes In On 300,000 Users, Launches App Review Site And Chomp Connect
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When Chomp launched eight weeks ago in the iTunes store, it launched as an app for reviewing other iPhone apps. The app shows you a stream of realtime reviews, which you can filter by everyone or just your Facebook freinds. The app is showing some traction and should hit 300,000 active monthly users sometime tomorrow, according to co-founder Ben Keighran.
While it started out as an app, today Chomp launched a complimentary Website with full app search capabilities and links for each app. Th…(more)
- Today Embrace Your Inner Geek At The New Linux Store
- The Linux Foundation, the non-profit that supports the growth of the Linux kernel, has launched a merchandise store where people can purchase a newly launched line of original T-shirts, hats, mugs and other items that reflect “geek culture.”
According a release sent out by the Foundation, merchandise available in the Linux.com store is “designed to reflect the unique and varied culture associated with Linux” and will support the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds. For examp…(more)
- Today NYT: Facebook Location Features Coming Next Month
- Facebook is finally going to enter the location game at this April’s f8 conference, according to a report this morning on the NYT’s Bits blog. And they’re looking to take Google head on.
We’ve been hearing rumors about Facebook’s location features for a long time, but the buzz has picked up in the last few months. Those rumors got legs in October, when we noticed that the site had added language explicitly talking about location features to its rewritten privacy p…(more)
- Today Just In Time For The Location Wars, Twitter Turns On Geolocation On Its Website
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When I wrote that location would be this year’s Twitter at SXSW, I also meant that Twitter’s geolocation would be this year’s Twitter at SXSW. The service has just turned on geolocation on its website today for the first time.
While Twitter’s geolocation feature has been live through its API since last November, there was no sign of integration into the main twitter.com site until now. As you can see in the screenshot above, for tweets tagged with location, right next to…(more)
- Today It’s Official: We’re No Longer Updating Our Twitter Accounts, We’re Tweeting
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Twitter has quietly changed the wording on the button users need to press to update their statuses on the Twitter.com website. It took them 10 billion (or so) tweets to realize we don’t ‘Update’, we ‘Tweet’.
A lot of people are noticing the change, although I have to say I had to hit the refresh button of my browser a couple of times before I saw it too. Could be Twitter bucket testing or a caching issue on my side.
Update: it changed back to ‘Update’
T…(more)
- Today PANIC! Study Finds That Students are Addicted To Their iPhones!
- 200 students surveyed in a Stanford study were found to be "addicted" to their iPhones. "When asked to rank their dependence on the iPhone on a scale of one to five – five being addicted and one being not at all addicted – 10 percent of the students acknowledged full addiction to the device, 34 percent ranked themselves as a four on the scale, and only 6 percent said they weren't addicted at all."
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- Today Team Europe Ventures Starts €6m Fund For Early Stage Startups
- Team Europe Ventures, the Berlin-based VC firm, has launched a new €6 million fund for early stage startups in the Internet and mobile Internet space. The fund is mainly targeting companies in Germany and Europe, but also in the USA, and the focus will be on the seed stage, with 4-5 startups being invested in per-year for a maximum of €500K per company.
This is bound to be good news for startups in Europe, and particularly in Germany where seed funding is seen to be a problem for early stage…(more)
- Today Autoquake Gets Another £6m Investment From Its Backers
- Autoquake, an online used car retailer in the UK, has raised another £6 million round of venture capital and venture debt financing from existing investors Accel Partners and Highland Capital Partners. The debt is being provided by Kreos Capital. This is after raising £4m from Accel and Highland only last year. That takes its total funding so far to £20 million. The money will be used to expand internationally.
Autoquake’s plan is to disrupt the car retail industry by selling quality us…(more)
- Yesterday The year open data went worldwide: Tim Berners-Lee on TED.com
- At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED U in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up. (Recorded at TED University 2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 20:07)
Watch Tim Berners-Lee's talk on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 600+ TEDT…(more)
- New Best of the Web talks: Richard Feynman, Srikumar Rao
- Richard Feynman: Physics is fun to imagine
In this archival footage from BBC TV, celebrated physicist Richard Feynman explains what fire, magnets, rubber bands (and more) are like at the scale of the jiggling atoms they're made of. This accessible, enchanting conversation in physics reveals a teeming nano-world that's just plain fun to imagine.
Watch Richard Feynman's talk >>
Srikumar Rao: Plug into your hard-wired happiness
Srikumar Rao says we spend most of our lives learning to …(more)
- Exclusive photos: The LXD in rehearsal
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This morning, we shared the LXD's tremendous TED2010 performance with the world. But on the night before TED started, some of us on staff got a private preview, when we snuck away from our pre-TED prep to watch them practice for the first time on the TED stage. Photographer Duncan Davidson caught these intimate shots of the LXD dancers, choreographers and friends.
See lots more photos of LXD in rehearsal >>
Photos: TED / James Duncan Davidson
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- In the Internet age, dance evolves: The LXD on TED.com
- The LXD (the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers) electrify the TED2010 stage with an emerging global street-dance culture, revved up by the Internet. In a preview of Jon Chu’s upcoming Web series, this astonishing troupe show off their superpowers. (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 17:30)
Watch The LXD's performance on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 600+ TEDTalks…(more)
- Help the Abreu Fellows win a grant
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The Abreu Fellows are in the running for a $250K grant from Pepsi. You can vote for them once a day ... all month.
The Abreu Fellows program is a project of Jose Abreu's 2009 TED Prize wish -- to teach children around the world to play music using El Sistema ("the system"), a proven and self-sustaining model that teaches kids life skills along with musical skills.
Learn more about El Sistema >>
Watch some El Sistema alums play in perhaps the best orchestra you've ever seen >>
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- Before Avatar ... a curious boy: James Cameron on TED.com
- James Cameron's big-budget (and even bigger-grossing) films create unreal worlds all their own. In this personal talk, he reveals his childhood fascination with the fantastic -- from reading science fiction to deep-sea diving -- and how it ultimately drove the success of his blockbuster hits "Aliens," "The Terminator," "Titanic" and "Avatar." (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 17:08)
Watch James Cameron's talk on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk,…(more)
- The riddle of experience vs. memory: Daniel Kahneman on TED.com
- Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy -- and our own self-awareness. (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 20:07)
Watch Daniel Kahneman's talk on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate it, comment on it an…(more)
- Temple Grandin video Q&A on CNN.com
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CNN.com caught some wonderful fresh-from-the-stage interviews with TED2010 speakers. Today, watch this fresh, fiery video interview with Temple Grandin, moments after she delivered her standing-ovation TEDTalk.
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- Today Flash and Standards: The Cold War of the Web
- You’ve probably heard that Apple recently released the iPad. The absence of Flash Player on the device seems to have awakened the HTML5 vs. Flash debate. Apparently, it’s the final nail in the coffin for Flash. Either that, or the HTML5 community is overhyping its still nascent markup language update. The arguments run wide, strong, and legitimate on both sides. Yet both sides might also be wrong. Designer/developer Dan Mall is equally adept at web standards and Flash; what matters, …(more)
- Today Web Standards for E-books
- E-books aren’t going to replace books. E-books are books, merely with a different form. More and more often, that form is ePub, a format powered by standard XHTML. As such, ePub can benefit from our nearly ten years’ experience building standards-compliant websites. That's great news for publishers and standards-aware web designers. Great news for readers, too. Our favorite genius, Joe Clark, explains the simple why and how.…(more)
- Accent Folding for Auto-Complete
- Another generation of technology has passed and Unicode support is almost everywhere. The next step is to write software that is not just “internationalized” but truly multilingual. In this article we will skip through a bit of history and theory, then illustrate a neat hack called accent-folding. Accent-folding has its limitations but it can help make some important yet overlooked user interactions work better.…(more)
- Training the Butterflies: Interview with Scott Berkun
- Whether it’s in front of a huge audience or a handful of executives, smooth public speaking is essential to a successful web design career. Yet most of us are more afraid of speaking in public than we are of death. In a lively give-and-take, Liz Danzico interviews Scott Berkun, author of Confessions of a Public Speaker, for tips on how to prepare for public speaking, how to perfect your timing, and what to do when bad things happen.…(more)
- Words that Zing
- When someone consults a website, there is a precious opportunity not only to provide useful information but also to influence their decision. To make the most of this opportune moment, we must ensure that the site says or does precisely the right thing at precisely the right time. Understanding the rhetorical concept of kairos can help us craft a context for the opportune moment and hit the mark with appropriately zingy text.…(more)
- The Problem with Passwords
- Abandoning password masking as Jakob Nielsen suggests could present serious problems, including undermining a user’s trust by failing to meet a basic expectation. But with design patterns gleaned from offline applications, plus a dash of JavaScript, we can provide feedback and reduce password errors without compromising the basic user experience or losing our visitors’ trust.…(more)
- Using SVG for Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part II
- In Part II, dig deeper into the technology behind using SVG for your site design. Explore how to incorporate SVG in a cross-browser friendly manner, including using SVGWeb to ensure that the SVG shows in Internet Explorer. And discover the unique characteristic that makes SVG ideal for page backgrounds: scalability.…(more)
- Using SVG For Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part I
- Many of us think of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) as an also-ran: fine for charts and tables, but not much else. Yet SVG can actually enhance a site’s overall design, and can be made to work in even the most stubborn browser. In Part I of a two-part series, Shelley Powers covers important basics of working with SVG, including browser support and accessibility.…(more)
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