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Mindless Self Indulgence on Bandcamp

I am very interested in Bandcamp. It seems like a really incredible service. Found that MSI is using them, new track below.

Behance's new blog: The 99 Percent is five nines awesome

Behance, plugs it's new blog, The 99 Percent as:

At 99%, Behance's think tank, we focus on what happens after inspiration — researching the forces that truly push ideas to fruition. Our profiles of proven idea makers, action-oriented tips, best-practices sessions, and annual conference are all designed to help you transform ideas from vision to reality.

This site is excellent.

 
 The 99 Percent

As it states, "It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen," which is so much of what we need in this universe of UX and design: more craft-oriented thinking in public.

Get in there and dig it!

War in Reverse (Billy Pilgrim and the Late Movie) & Reggie Jackson cards

This is great stuff, and will likely be source material in an iPhone app I am working on... Yes, they are connected, but in a way that should only make sense when seeing them in situ.

1974 Reggie Jackson baseball card

More updates to come!

Ze Frank is now working for Time Magazine

Ze's now working for Time, and as TechCrunch points out, you can't embed their videos for crap (see below).

He's so great, I am very happy to see him doing some work that hits a broader audience. I am thinking he should run for office. Plz.

Here's a great TED video of him as well.

Funny and informative, a near perfect preso on social media ROI

Wow, I really enjoyed this presentation by Olivier Blanchard on social media ROI. With amazing archives of photos, it shoots right at the heart of what you should be measuring and considering when investing any time or money in social media.

Social Media stats: Social Media Revolution video

Here's a great question that asks the question, "Is Social Media a fad? Or is it the biggest shift since the industrial revolution?" Good stuff!

New TypePad microblog service - Will this obviate Tumblr & Posterous?

Just yesterday, I wad discussing with Jason Wehmhoener whether folks and businesses should focus on services such as Wordpress and TypePad or defer to simpler alternatives such as Posterous and Tumblr. 

As of yesterday, TypePad includes a microblogging capability and new tiny-templates. This may be awesome.

Ruder Finn Intent Index

A great inforgraphic for the results of the most recent Ruder Finn Intent Index. You have to click through and check out the native display, it's really quite sexy.

About the index (emphasis mine):

Ruder Finn's Intent Index is an ongoing online research study that provides a comprehensive analysis of the underlying motivations or reasons people go online - their intent. Major intent categories list and prioritize specific activities people perform to fulfill their intent online. The Intent Index compares and contrasts intents for separate groups, including men, women, youth and seniors.

The Intent Index underscores the emerging trend that people's online behavior is better explained and understood by similarities in intent rather than demographic differences between them. This has profound implications for professionals embarking on PR, advertising and marketing campaigns.

If they are correct, this turns the use of Personas in design on its head. More about Personas here.

Interesting IxD blog: Wireframes Magazine

I'm constantly watching for resources to help people get introduced to interaction and user experience design. Recently, a friend of mine tweeted a link to Wireframes Magazine, which turns out to perfectly fit that bill. 

This site is full of very useful tips & tricks and has a great rundown on tools of the trade. They also have a pretty fancypants way of exposing all posts, while on the site, press "CTRL".

Working on a project in WPF, started this little Stencil

Here's a little Omnigraffle stencil project I started. My idea is to build out a nice little library of common controls that won't require custom development when using any of the standard WPF control libraries.

Please post ideas & comments to the project page, here. If you want to check in project updates, please do!