Perpetual Prototype

Neil MacDonald reviews Designing Social Interfaces at his site Perpetual Prototype: An Information Architecture Blog, writing

If you are considering designing a site with social features, this book is a must read.

Meg Whitman is a biter

Tipped off by my old buddy and collaborator Levi Asher, I learned that Meg Whitman and her as-told-to coauthor do in fact favor recycling, at least when it comes to book titles:

Since I own the domain called thepowerofmany.com, I’m thinking about redirecting it somewhere interesting at least through election day. Any suggestions?

via (Twitter / Levi Asher)

Passing Thoughts from 2010-01-14

• designing #
• designing with a glass of red wine #
• Boot and Shoe Service on #Yelp: Wanted to try the new restaurant and see Pandora at the Grand Lake. Couldn't get in … http://bit.ly/8lNgb2 #
• making far-from-pixel-perfect mockups #
• This is how I do this http://flic.kr/p/7vzhVF #

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Passing Thoughts from 2010-01-13

• http://2010.iasummit.org/calendar so far i've just perused the workshops and they look fantastic #
• aw man, too many great sessions to choose from: http://2010.iasummit.org/calendar #
• Passing Thoughts from 2010-01-12 http://tinyurl.com/yz5kk33 #

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Passing Thoughts from 2010-01-12

• a new lazarus, i have cast off my boot and crutches #
• RT @inkblurt @louisrosenfeld @ferrarajc New Ning community exploring the intersection of #gamedesign and #ux: http://is.gd/64woL #
• RT @staciehibino: Awesome job by @nancyf on "Keys to Success as a Volunteer Organization" #baychi http://slidesha.re/871sOR #
• reid is to lott as insensitively blunt political handicapping is to retrograde support for segregation #
• what is information architecture? best explanation wins a grand: http://www.flickr.com/groups/explainia/ #
• learning to use flash builder to build flex apps #
• breaking the cassandra barrier http://icio.us/nste1s #
• RT @A_Silvers: Nifty first entry in the #ExplainIA contest. http://twurl.nl/qa8tq8 (via @morville) #
• Pete Barry (@pjbfcp) is available, sez "I am currently not paid to think. What a waste. Do you need help? http://pjbfcp.com #ux " Act now! #

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The book has arrived!

the book has arrived!

Originally uploaded by erin_designr

We started our book proposal around June of ’08…

Certification of live birth

Turns out I was born in Kenya too!

BT intent on his monitor

BT intent, originally uploaded by xian.

A snapshot of the evening entertainment last night at Yahoo! for the kickoff of the iPhoneDevCamp 3.

hells yeah

hells yeah

Originally uploaded by xian

if it’s really him, why not?

Designing Social Interfaces, Rough Cut edition now available from O'Reilly Media

Designing Social Interfaces – Rough Cut | O’Reilly Media

Originally uploaded by xian

The unedited, 500 page first draft of our book is available now in PDF format for review by anyone who can’t bear to wait till September for the first (“real”) edition to come out.

Yay!