For the last year or so I’ve been managing my friend Nir Eyal's email list, with thousands of subscribers. In the beginning we used MailChimp, and it worked pretty well. Then we decided to move to Aweber, mostly due to many glowing reviews and the fact that they allowed single-opt in (meaning that a user could add their email to the newsletter without confirming the email address). It turns out that single opt-in is a bad idea anyway....
Jony Ive + LSD = iOS 7! Re-blogged from a pretty funny Tumblr blog messing with the brand new iOS 7 interface and Apple's lead designer, Jony Ive. Personally I really think the new design is a great improvement, incorporating many of the best elements of the current Android design. Still a funny blog :)...
Just to be clear, Tumblr is probably not deleting our unfinished posts on purpose - this is more likely a bug in their Android app. Earlier today I wrote a blog post on my phone, using the official Tumblr app. After I was finished, I decided to wait until I was in front of my computer to publish it, so I could find a suitable picture for the post. I clicked back, and a pop-up asks me if I want to save the post as a draft, or discard it....
About a month back I decided to move from Unblock US to Overplay.net for accessing Netflix and other media content from around the world. In short, it has been a great experience. One thing that is difficult to know in advance though is the level of customer service you can expect. Although Overplay supports more locations and more of the services I use on a daily basis than Unblock US does, they did not have support for the Google Play stores....
The New Yahoo » yahoo: By Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo! Photos tell the stories — stories we’re inspired to relive, share with our friends, or capture simply to express ourselves. Collecting these moments is a part of our everyday. Since 2005, Flickr has become synonymous with inspiring imagery. Today, we’re... Perhaps Yahoo will become a serious player, once again? I'm starting to like what I see :) So, where to store your precious photos?...
texburgher: LinkedIn “Profile Strength” If you fill the circle all the way up, you advance from “All-Star” to “Baller” but nobody’s ever done it and lived to tell about it. True story. This has been a mild annoyance for me, as I had no clue how I to fill the circle 100%. Turns out it's not possible. I guess it's LinkedIn's way of telling you that your profile will never be perfect, and that there is always room for improvement....
Wakeup Hero Feature Test: Hero Call » wakeup-hero: At Wakeup Hero we’re big fans of the Lean Startup methodology. As a result we test our assumptions before building a finished product. One of our assumptions is that a personal wakeup call (dubbed the Hero Call), is a nice and effective way for our users to make sure they get out of bed when they have something important to do (such as an exam, a meeting, air travel, etc)....
For a few years now, I've been contemplating changing my name. Or at least adding a middle name that I can use as my last name outside of Norway. Why? My last name is virtually unpronounceable in any language except Norwegian and maybe Swedish. Try to pronounce it yourself: K j e m p e r u d. I bet that if you're from any other country than Norway or Sweden, you have no idea how to even approach that....
Dan Ariely on how meaning motivates....
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