We all travel on bits of light. This is a small sampling of one man's path through the ether.
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This idea is such an obvious observation. This needs to take off on a global scale ASAP. The real advantage is that cowboys would have jobs again herding livestock all over the place. If anyone knows any groups working on this in North America, please point me at them.
I’m not sure you will find better life advice anywhere. Thanks Commander Hadfield.
Moves is disrupting Fitbit, the Fuelband, and all those other nonsensical gadgets.
I’ve been using Moves for about 2 weeks now and I really, really love it. It’s an app that essentially functions as a pedometer and runs in the background tracing where you’ve been throughout the day and measuring your steps.
It is not some goofy thing I have to wear on my wrist or on your bra. It’s not something I have to remember to charge. Fire it up once, and it’s on for as long as you have an iPhone. It may not be as “good” as a Fitbit or Fuelband, but it works just fine, it’s available to everyone with an iPhone for free, and it runs in the background of your life. And, most importantly, I haven’t noticed an impact on my iPhone’s battery.
It’s a classic disruptive innovation.
I bought a Fuelband a few months ago, synced it with my iPhone, and connected it to Facebook. Facebook said “You have 37 friends with a Fuelband. Click here to see how many people have live data in the past week.” I clicked and saw 2 people. I immediately returned it to the Nike Store. I knew that goofy thing would be in some drawer in a month after the novelty wore off. And I don’t like to throw away money for gimmicks.
My iPhone is not a novelty. And Moves now runs in the background of my life letting me know how active or inactive I’ve been that day. Interesting, motivating, and exciting stuff. Congrats to the Moves team. Y’all are killin’ it.
There is no doubt that design & development need to go hand-in-hand in order to create a successful product, but which comes first? This is a question I still get asked more than a few times a week. There is no one-size-fits-all answer of course, but I firmly believe designing first is the…
One could argue the other direction as well, especially if you are a programming shop working on a concept and have to bring in designers to polish the app. Egg meet Chicken meet Egg!
New Grizzly Bear album Shields set to BBC’s Frozen Bear documentary. Watch it quick before the copyright cops clobber it.
