December 2011
24 posts
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A look back at FUSE Labs in 2011 →
fuselabs:
2011 was a busy year for FUSE Labs as we launched CompanyCrowd, held a very successful Kodu Cup challenge, and most recently launched Socl. Our General Manager Lili Cheng recently wrote a post recapping the year for Inside Microsoft Research.
One thing this article doesn’t capture (rightly so:-) is the biggest thing for FUSE Labs as it relates to me is that I joined the team in...
We actively incorporate user feedback. And it...
fuselabs:
When you are FUSE Labs doing social research, you’re essentially an island of engineers and researchers working away at building a concept. You have hypotheses, but it’s not until you bring in real live users and watch their behavior, that you start understanding the deeper dynamics of what you have enabled.
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It’s hard to underestimate how surprised we were with...
We actively incorporate user feedback. And it...
fuselabs:
When you are FUSE Labs doing social research, you’re essentially an island of engineers and researchers working away at building a concept. You have hypotheses, but it’s not until you bring in real live users and watch their behavior, that you start understanding the deeper dynamics of what you have enabled.
Read More
It’s hard to underestimate how surprised we were with...
Justin Williams' Use Of Social Networks →
parislemon:
I find myself largely in a similar boat with Justin Williams in terms of how he uses the various social networks out there.
His thoughts on Path strike me as something I’m hearing a lot now amongst the people I know and/or follow:
Path: I never used the original version of Path, but I love using the new version as a way to give my closest friends and family members an inside look...
Tumblr Staff: Blogs hosted on custom domains just... →
staff:
Blogs hosted on custom domains just suffered an outage lasting 1.5 hours. The culprit was a badly configured network device operated by one of our service providers, making the issue difficult for our engineers to resolve quickly.
Our custom domain infrastructure is unfortunately a holdover from…
New Feature: Randomly Follow This Tumblr →
theclearlydope:
Every few days or weeks or whenever I think of it, I’m going to choose a tumblr to follow so that when they open their dashboard they can be thoroughly freaked out by all the new followers. I’m basically trying to be the Oprah of tumblr.
UPDATE:
YES!!!!!!
Fun idea, I followed a random tumblr today, let’s see how it goes.
Fwd: Rhinofy-Winter
You can find better playlists than Bob’s. I’d love to hear a weekly
playlist unconstrained by a label for instance. Of course Bob would ask if
I’d pay for it and the answer is of course not. Too many other options.
But if you do nothing else to understand the music business this year
subscribe to his newsletter (what an old word). And disagree and vent and
call BS. And know...
Hey Path… when I select a music post why do I get 12 copies of “Sunday, Bloody Sunday”? Seems like maybe checking my Spotify feed would work better.
Deep-voiced "vocal fry" thought to be creeping... →
Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net
A small sample-set study of young American women to be published in Journal of Voice found a high incidence of “vocal fry,” a form of low-register speech once classed as a speech disorder and thought to cause damage to the vocal…
I read this article twice and still don’t quite get it. But now I will start listening. Vocal fry...
Off to the Market in search of duck legs. Foie gras. Other tasty things.
The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy |... →
bricin:
Time to start holding our Congress-people and President accountable.
Why is the Department of Homeland Security involved in OWS? These
people aren’t terrorists.
Why is a Tea Party rally okay, but an OWS rally not?
Where are the right-wing gun nuts on this? Surely they realize that
when the black helicopters come for OWS they will be all warmed up for
their mission right?
Task for...
Lord my abs hurt from Monday’s workout. Does Crossfit ever stop hurting (kind of hope not:-)
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I assume this won't work →
This link describing an anti-email jihad at one tech company is making the rounds. It’s happened before. I’ve seen this happen as teams have zero email days.
Why it fails is simple: email is better than the alternative in many cases. IM can be superior but it requires all important people to be online at the same time. Hurdle #1. It also requires all important people to have similar...
“Over the past decade six of the world’s ten fastest-growing countries were...”
– The hopeful continent: Africa rising | The Economist (via mediafuturist)
This is the kind of misleading statistic that should never be published as-is. I assume it’s true of course. But it’s meaningless. If my income grew at 6% and Warren Buffet’s only grew at 1% I would never...
Email sabbatical →
Someday… someday… but not this month
