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Sunday, November 18th, 2007My take on Open Social
Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Riiiiing… Rrrinnngggg.
Hey Hugh, it’s me, Lawrence. I gotta talk to you about this new open standard that’s going to revolutionize the way we drink: It’s called the Dixie Cup.
It’s really great. What we’ve done is wax coated a plain old paper cup, and now it’ll hold more types of beverages… it’s almost universal! I mean, from Grapefruit Juice to a Gin and Tonic, this thing holds up. It’s going to change the way companies think about distributing and consuming fluid.
Right out of the gate we have agreements from Rubbermaid, PG and Acme Co to modernize their fluid distributions to be transitionally contained by this exciting open standard, and Saul’s working on a logo as we speak.
We also see an expanding market for dispenser apparatus; think about it: every house in America with a Dixie Cup dispenser in the kitchen. You could show up at a party with Dixie Cups and KNOW they’ll fit in the hosts dispenser apparatus.
Oh yeah, we turned the cone shape into a flat bottom to increase lateral stability thereby extending its intra-usage utility. Ted’s doing some R&D around optimal radius to metacentric height ratio to maximize stability.
Buy Dave a new phone
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
This is great: Guy Kawasaki opened up a BoutyUp fund so everyone could pitch in and get Dave Winer a new Diamond encrusted iPhone. Details here:
http://www.bountyup.com/bounty/Buy+Dave+Winer+a+Jeweled+iPhone
It was when I was doing a freelance gig, producing the online version of the 1996 Bank of America Annual Report (kindda ironic, as that’s where I work now), and after showing my client the usual four tiers and types of pages the site would comprise, and getting them approved, and going into production to grind out a couple hundred pages just to have the client (yep, that was you, Cliff 
) say:
“Blue… could we change all those table headers from grey to blue?” (more…)
How project teams learn about agility
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007Listening to conversations between designers and developers is an endless source of amusement. Contributors and visionaries from both camps will always have expectations and frame questions from the view of their own professional specialty.
It gets even better, when a programmer and a designer discuss working Agile methodologies, and gets even better when they have varying appreciations of what exactly agility is. (more…)
Please sign your emails You
Wednesday, November 21st, 2001Please sign your emails
You know what annoys me. People who put include really handy signatures in their e-mail, but only now and then, so when you try to find their number by looking at the bottom of the last mail they sent you you have to sort through 6 months of posts.
No biggy, just a peeve.