CONSTANTLY CURIO.US

"If I said anything you disagree with, think was confusing, stupid, or just plain wrong, please tell..."

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:33:48 -0500

“If I said anything you disagree with, think was confusing, stupid, or just plain wrong, please tell me. I won’t take offense – don’t sugar coat it – just tell me. That’s the best way for me to learn and get smarter.
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Honest, direct, and clear debate is so much more powerful than bullshit.”

- FeldThoughts

“We shape our tools, and our tools shape us.” -...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:34 -0500

“We shape our tools, and our tools shape us.” - Marshall McLuhan

Great @wilsonminer talk about designing our environment.

marsbot: 1/25/12 Screen Printing in the new office: An After...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:53:16 -0500

marsbot:

1/25/12 Screen Printing in the new office: An After School Experiment.

Very nice.

New letters & numbers (and @e_olsen). (Taken with Instagram...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:56:39 -0500

New letters & numbers (and @e_olsen). (Taken with Instagram at Three West Collective)

Fan Mail. Nice feature, Tumblr.

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:51:08 -0500

Fan Mail. Nice feature, Tumblr.

“MEN WANTED: FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY. SMALL WAGES, BITTER...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:25:47 -0500

“MEN WANTED: FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY. SMALL WAGES, BITTER COLD, LONG MONTHS OF COMPLETE DARKNESS, CONSTANT DANGER, SAFE RETURN DOUBTFUL. HONOUR AND RECOGNITION IN CASE OF SUCCESS.”

-Sir Ernest Shackleton

(The men who responded.)

I didn't sign up for your _______.

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:17:43 -0500

“I didn’t sign up for these updates!”

Users must think, say, or subconsciously be frustrated by the type of updates they see on their favorite social networks.

In the photo above, my Path friend may be making a joke (or may actually be annoyed) that I’ve recently been checking-in on Foursquare via Path. To me, it’s a nice way to update Path friends, while letting Foursquare tally and share my location. To him, it’s likely not what he thought he was signing-up for when he accepted my friend request.

In the same vien, Facebook doesn’t work for me, so I rarely use it. At the root of this is the fact that I am “friends” with a wide-variety of people; people from my hometown, schoolmates, business colleagues, community members, family, and my real life friends. These people are all connected with me on Facebook because we know each other in some capacity, not because they decided to subscribe to my every thought and event in my life.

Twitter, on the other hand, is a place where I can share my thoughts freely. Everyone (friends and strangers) who follows me has chosen to do so knowing that I will tweet my thoughts, links, ideas, and conversations. If they like my stream (or put up with it) they continue to follow me, otherwise they’re free to unfollow.

I also love Foursquare. I know what I am signing up for when I connect with a friend on the platform - their location based check-ins. And I can easily manage notifications of their activity.

These single-purpose, focused networks will continue to chip away at the value of omni-networks, as users continue to narrow what they truly care about and what they decide is just noise.

For now, I try to follow this advice:

A great visualization of Big Cartel’s growing number of...

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:59:00 -0500

A great visualization of Big Cartel’s growing number of stores:

“Growth

Our amazing community of independent sellers hit a couple mind-blowing milestones in 2011. First, a little over a year after hitting our 100,000 store mark, we’re now about to open our 200,000th store. 200,000! That’s enough to fill Wembley Stadium twice, and still have people partying in the parking lot.

Second, and even more impressive, is what those stores were able to accomplish. Collectively our stores did nearly $100,000,000 in sales in 2011. That’s huge! That’s more than some entire countries make in a year. (okay, really small countries)”

- Goodbye 2011. Hello 2012.

Obama Administration Against SOPA

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:39:38 -0500

barackobama:

“While we believe that online piracy by foreign websites is a serious problem that requires a serious legislative response, we will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.”

- The White House, responding this morning to a petition on SOPA and online piracy

A Short Intro to Notabli

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:11:00 -0500

I’m excited to share a bit about a project I’ve been working on for quite some time with Jory and Mike.

It’s somewhat against my DNA to share something that is not 100% ready for you to rock today, but this web app/service, called Notabli, has somewhat taken on a life of its own and it is time to share it with the people I care about.

Notabli allows parents to capture, share, and remember the most important moments in their kids’ lives. We’re excited to show and tell more, and we’re working hard to make Notabli amazing. We’ll let you know when the time has come.

Until then, we’d love it if you signed up to be notified of our launch at Notabli.com (whether you’re a parent of a baby/child or not - hey, things happen…).

More soon.

(You can keep up with our progress on Twitter, our blog, or Facebook - whichever happens to be your tool of social media madness consumption.)

Photo

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:48:44 -0500

"Facebook's 'frictionless' sharing doesn't enhance sharing; it makes sharing meaningless."

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:40:18 -0500

"Facebook's 'frictionless' sharing doesn't enhance sharing; it makes sharing meaningless.":

kylefox:

The quote above from The end of social totally sums up how I feel about Facebook’s new frictionless sharing: automatically posting read news, watched movies, or listened-to songs.

Facebook’s real value comes from Likes. When a friend shares something, it means they’ve put their seal of…

Via my girl: LOVE this Hello Giggles video!! Makes ME want to...

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:55:41 -0500

Via my girl:

LOVE this Hello Giggles video!! Makes ME want to go dance at a laundromat. bit.ly/uUJhpn
— Laura Marlow Latka (@LauraMLatka) December 14, 2011

So, I asked Svpply to build me build a recommendation set for a...

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:29:00 -0500

So, I asked Svpply to build me build a recommendation set for a SISTER. Two of their six gift recommendations included ruffled panties and “night walk” platform shoes. Not happening.

"Design brings content into focus; design makes function visible"

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:05:17 -0500

“Design brings content into focus; design makes function visible”

- Jennifer Morla (via gregmelander)

Did Tumblr recently add the EXIF data to photos uploaded and...

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:56:40 -0500

Did Tumblr recently add the EXIF data to photos uploaded and shown on the Dashboard? Pretty slick.

G’s new tool set. (Taken with instagram)

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:15:57 -0500

G’s new tool set. (Taken with instagram)

“You can’t ask for a gift. Sometimes we do buy...

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:55:00 -0500

“You can’t ask for a gift. Sometimes we do buy things and there is a gift in there. It’s because we paid a certain amount, but what we got back was larger than what we paid. It’s that gap in between the two that becomes the gift.”

Do Things the Long, Hard, Stupid Way

Taken with Instagram at Three West Collective

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:11:19 -0500

Taken with Instagram at Three West Collective

Thanks, Facebook...

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:34:00 -0500

This is an example of Facebook caring more about their own interests—growing the “social graph”— than what is in the best interest of their users.

The tricky part is that this Smart List explanation message only displays when you attempt to add someone to a Smart List from your News Feed, not from elsewhere within Facebook. My apologies to anyone who received a “suggestion” from me to add more info to their profile. The information you share on your profile should be up to you and nobody else.

The last thing I want to do, on any social network, is send my friends/followers/etc. notifications or emails that are not specifically relevant to our communication.