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Jun 27th, 2011 @ 4:38 pm
Productive Flourishing’s tips to gaining influence online
Building your influence online helps you attain a bigger and stronger web presence, which you can easily leverage to get more customers.
Here are the steps:
1. Show up. You can’t start to build your influence online if you aren’t already established where you customers are. Find out where they hang out, and go there.
2. Remember the campfire. You need to start with kindling like tweets and Facebook posts, but don’t let the fire burn out! You have to keep feeding it.
3. Be consistent. If you’re going to show up fully online one week, and then take two weeks off, don’t bother showing up at all.
(Source: productiveflourishing.com)
@ 3:43 pm
Concise Objective-C tutorial
@ 3:19 pm
Building Custom Map Annotation Callouts – Part 1 (via Asynchrony Solutions Blog)
Jun 14th, 2011 @ 10:43 am
And this brings us back to the philosophical discussion above. If we accept that all Reality happens in our mind and is by definition, Mediated by our senses…then surely any technology that extends our memory, provides additional information, clues, hints or expanded interaction is a form of Augmented Reality. (via Time to review the definition of AR…again - AR UX)
Jun 3rd, 2011 @ 10:50 am
Standard iPhone Element Sizes (Width x Height)
A helpful listing of view dimensions.
May 27th, 2011 @ 7:59 am
IVCON - 3D Graphics File Conversion
IVCON can read and write a small variety of 3D graphics file formats, converting from one to the other. This is by no means a perfect or even correct program! It was home-grown, and developed, as needed, to handle a particular set of files. It can make mistakes, or crash, rather more often than software you pay for, written by someone who knows what they’re doing.
May 24th, 2011 @ 9:11 pm
Chargify — Recurring Billing, Subscription Billing, Web 2.0 and SaaS Billing
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Augmented Reality and The Millennial: Seven Examples of How Luxury Brands Are Engaging Digitally by Hidden Creative.
• Wealthy Americans under 35 are avid consumers of a wide range of new media on smartphones and tablet computers - 70% own smartphones (40% iPhone, 24% BlackBerry); 23% already have an iPad
• On average Millennials spend 246 minutes emailing compared to 137 minutes speaking on the phone.
• Compared to their older wealthy counterparts, millennials spend far more minutes on average each week texting (121-42), instant messaging (89-30) and video chatting (75-9).”
• Television, radio and print newspaper consumption habits are dying out in favour of online video (78%) than those who regularly read a printed magazine (76%) or newspaper (68%).
May 21st, 2011 @ 2:49 pm
Terrain visualization with digital elevation models and GDAL / TileMill / FAQs - MapBox Support
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5 research-based design principles for porting iOS apps to Android
by @dmitryn
1. UX differences between Android and iOS are only noticed by expert Android users.
2. When in doubt, Android users reach for the hard buttons.
3. iOS UX elements whose function is clear can be successfully used by Android users.
4. iOS UX elements that are redundant with Android hard buttons should not be used.
5. iOS UX elements whose purpose is unclear without iOS familiarity should be replaced by Android conventions.
