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A Case Study of “Designed By Developers”: Stack Overflow

July 21, 2010
A Case Study of “Designed By Developers”: Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow was set up by two successful high-profile businessmen, attracts over 7 million unique visitors a month, and has received $6 million in funding. So I found it a little jarring when I visited the site to see this: My eyes puked from the motion sickness of not-knowing-where-to-look-oh-my-god-everything-is-everywhere-ness of the page. It’s a...
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The Uncomfortable Truth about Twitter Autofollowing: It Works

July 10, 2010
The Uncomfortable Truth about Twitter Autofollowing: It Works

The number of real Twitter followers you have matters. And using borderline-spammy techniques to get those followers works too. I run a blog called Amorphous Blog, which has a Twitter account at @amorphousblog. I spend quite a lot of time researching and writing posts for...
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Pimpin’ Mah Blogs

July 8, 2010
Pimpin’ Mah Blogs

This is my home on the web, but I run (or contribute to) a number of other blogs that you may or may not know about. For the sake of self-promotion, you might want to check these out and subscribe to the RSS feeds!...
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Interaction Design Laws

July 6, 2010
Interaction Design Laws

Fitts’s law is a model of human movement in human-computer interaction and ergonomics which predicts that the time required to rapidly move to a target area is a function of the distance to and the size of the target. From: Fitts’s Law, Wikipedia the steering...
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Random Graph Generator

July 1, 2010
Random Graph Generator

I thought it would be kind of fun to create a random graph, using words from Twitter. So! Just head on over to: http://danzambonini.com/randomgraph/ and you’ll see a new random graph every hour (well, if you refresh the page every hour)! Please be warned:...
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