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fitbit
Reading Time: 2 minutesHot on the heels of my endomondo review from last week, comes news about fitbit. The company closed a round of $12 million in series C funding. The money ostensibly is to launch and gain market traction for their new product, the Aria, a wirelessly connected scale and body fat percentage sensor. I thought I … Read more
Withings – Bad Name for a Scale
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFitbit’s new Aria isn’t the first wireless scale. A French company called Withings has had a wireless scale on the market since at least 2009. I believe Withings is going to fail. The products look cool in an international space-age plastic frog design kind-of-way, but the name is poison. I don’t know what it sounds … Read more
Endomondo Review
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen I was younger, I’d go running with my girlfriend in the park. When I chose our route, I would mix in hills (they are hard to avoid), and maybe stretch the distance a bit. She was a runner, but hated running hills, and often took the difficulty of my chosen route personally, as … Read more
Pomodoro Time Management
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re like me you just wrote down some New Year’s resolutions. I was on the site 43Things, and I noted that someone had listed using the Pomodoro Technique as one of theirs. I looked it up and was intrigued. I’ve tried Getting Things Done and a few other list-making methods that promised to make me more efficient, but I … Read more
Oh Behave!
Reading Time: 2 minutesOh Behave! may be the simplest and easiest way to parenting an obedient child. One of the age-old problems with discipline is not knowing what to do, it’s being consistent. Giving a kid a two minute timeout should be easy. It’s not. First, you need a clock. You must watch it diligently to catch when … Read more
Social Proof or Mob Rule?
Reading Time: 5 minutesPhoto: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pabak/ When I first saw Twitter in 2008 at the Web 2.0 show, I didn’t get it. I still don’t. And apparently I am not alone. A recent Yahoo Research Study showed that .05% of Twitter users generate over half of all Tweets. I’m talking about you Justin Bieber. (#winning.) Being in the social … Read more
Identity Crisis
Reading Time: 2 minutesGraphic Design is basically problem-solving in 2 dimensions. The reason you can’t do a good job of it yourself is that there is no problem for you to solve.