December 2010
“Gilt maintains a tight locus of control over their product selection with highly...”
– How does Gilt’s business model work? - Quora
“Nielsen: Median age of viewer — NBA (39.3), NHL (43.4), NFL (46), MLB...”
– Twitter / @darren rovell: Nielsen: Median age of vie …
“Another mind boggling statistic about Angry Birds, and you should sit down for...”
– Peter Vesterbacka, Maker of Angry Birds Talks about the Birds, Apple, Android, Nokia, and Palm/HP | Mobile and Social Media
“In fact, there are huge individual differences in user performance: the top 25%...”
– Short-Term Memory and Web Usability (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
The Cognitive-Visual Strategies of Top Athletes -... →
“If a stranger is standing nearby, shoppers are more likely to pick the expensive...”
– People Power - Farnam Street
Press for the Proverbial Wallets
jkestner:
Designboom blogged the Proverbial Wallets a few weeks ago, and it trickled up from there. Some of the highlights:
CNN anchors asking each other “Omigawd, which wallet is your favorite?”
Boston Herald page 3 feature that launched a thousand local news crews
CBC Radio interview with my partner in crime for the early prototypes, Daniel Leithinger
Article in the mX commuter...
“So when Uma matter-of-factedly said to me, “I become a different person...”
– Uma and her Cameras - Creative Leadership
“Things improved, however, when the research team resorted to peer pressure. The...”
– Making buildings more efficient: It helps to understand human behavior | Grist
“In a 2007 experiment in California, homeowners given an emoticon on their bill...”
– Making buildings more efficient: It helps to understand human behavior | Grist
““Not only did we make it absolutely clear that these pills had no active...”
– Placebo effect works even if patients know they’re getting a sham drug | Science | guardian.co.uk
“Another problem with the net is that it’s still ‘technology’, and ‘technology’,...”
– DNA/How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet (via iamdanw)
“In fact the only power buttons I push any more are for my TV, the Receiver...”
– Random Thought: The Eventual Demise of Power Buttons — The Brooks Review
“gay males earn less than straight males and lesbians earn more than straight...”
– Basic facts (Gay money: The truth about lesbian & gay economics ¶ Joe Clark)
“In the United States, a cellphone’s average life span is 18 months, and yet...”
– The 10th Annual Year in Ideas - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
“what’s really interesting is that this locksmith was penalized for getting...”
– Dan Ariely » Blog Archive Locksmiths «
“The machine still counted at the same pace but displayed the results at a...”
– Adding delays to increase perceived value: does it work?
“Consider a movie whose star is wearing a really cute sweater or using an...”
– StorefrontBacktalk » Blog Archive » Mobile And Impulse Purchases: Perfect Together
“It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively...”
– George Nakashima (37signals)
“The Zuckerberg Doctrine: Developers design products with significantly improved...”
– LAUNCH - Blog - LAUNCH002: What I Learned from Zuckerberg’s Mistakes (via iamdanw)
“Research by Brian Wansink, director of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell...”
– Restaurants Use Menu Psychology to Entice Diners - NYTimes.com
“Sometimes it’s easy to confuse, “the small cadre of people I want to...”
– Seth’s Blog: Everyone and no one
“A cross-cultural survey taken by Satosh Ishii showed that average person in the...”
– What do you do more: Speak, Listen, or Observe? - Farnam Street
“there’s something warm and welcoming about the affirmation that comes with...”
– Why Facebook’s “like” button feels so good - Facebook - Salon.com
“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
– Quote Details: Oliver Wendell Holmes: Man’s mind, once stretched… - The Quotations Page (via ideawhen)
“Regardless of how morphologically close the images looked, and even after the...”
– Rewiring the brain - Technology & science - Science - Mysteries of the Universe - msnbc.com
“The depth of our intelligence hinges on our ability to transfer information from...”
– Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains | Magazine
“However, Nemeth instructed her lab assistant to occasionally shout out the wrong...”
– Twitter Strangers : The Frontal Cortex
“The power of such “dissent” is really about the power of surprise....”
– Twitter Strangers : The Frontal Cortex
“working memory is the “mental workbench” that is the site of applied conscious...”
– Working memory (via ideawhen)
“Before we can adequately define entropy, we need to first define information....”
– Cisco Blog » Blog Archive » On Information Entropy
“The proper metaphor for the life process may not be a pair of rolling dice or a...”
– Grammatical Man
“No caps lock keys. “We’re single-handledly improving comments all...”
– Live from Google’s Chrome event! — Engadget
“This curiosity-driven approach seems increasingly old-fashioned and...”
– Curiouser and curiouser: managing discovery making : Nature News (via iamdanw)
“Tableau acts as a bridge between users of physical and digital media, taking the...”
– John Kestner : Supermechanical objects : Tableau physical email (via iamdanw)
“There’s a bit of a poetic turn in saying “wants”, since of course...”
– Nelson’s Weblog
“If the three-member referee crew was mostly white, white players received 4...”
– BYU study: NBA refs’ calls influenced by race | Deseret News
The Insanity Virus | Mental Health | DISCOVER... →
Schizophrenia has long been blamed on bad genes or even bad parents. Wrong, says a growing group of psychiatrists. The real culprit, they claim, is a virus that lives entwined in every person’s DNA.
“You can select some text, one or more items in a table, one or more icons in the...”
– inessential.com: Select vs. choose 