Pleasure and Pain

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Flickr introduces video

April 9th, 2008 · 5 Comments · User Experience

Flickr announced today that they are now offering video. Now when you log in to Flickr, this is what you see: Before I go any further, I have to admit that while I watch a lot of video online, I don’t post much video online. Aside from helping my mom post her videos to YouTube, [...]

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Update on Amazon’s TextBuyIt

April 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Pleasure

As you may have read on Wednesday, I bought a book through Amazon’s new service TextBuyIt. I was really impressed by the user flow and was able to buy the book I was looking for in about two minutes. Even more incredible is that the book showed up at my house yesterday morning, just two [...]

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Text message your order to Amazon

April 2nd, 2008 · 9 Comments · User Experience

Amazon launched a new service yesterday called TextBuyIt in which you can look up and compare product info via SMS and purchase with your pre-existing account. I tried it out this morning by texting “Purple cow” to short code 262966 (“Amazon” on the keypad). A moment later I got a response that read: Reply w/1 [...]

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The JDate Toolbar

March 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Technology

I’m Jewish and I’m single, so it shouldn’t be any surprise to you that I’m on JDate. It’s raining and I’m home on a Friday night, so obviously I signed on. And what did I see? The JDate Toolbar! I’ve used JDate on and off for years, and one day when I have the time [...]

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Links from 3/2/2008 to 3/5/2008

March 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Linkage

Facebook Hires Google Executive as No. 2 – New York Times iPhonic: Steve Wozniak has another pop at the iPhone Will Tomorrow’s World Still Need Designers? / frogblog / frog design 35 Ways to Stream Your Life – ReadWriteWeb Data is the New Links Tim Berners-Lee Says Sites That Don?t Give Users Their Data Back [...]

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