My new startup is focused on lettings fans more easily get money straight to artists: http://saycheers.co - feedback encouraged
So many times I've been jamming to a track and really had such good will towards the artist and would love just to "tip" them some money, but alas had no way to do it. Now we're building that way.
Nice idea. The star grading rating features gives instant feedback as you hover, so I expected the same from the thumbs up/down rating feature. Also, changing color to green/red when I click should be instant, not once the ajax has finished. Good job!
I think this is really great! As a customer, I'd much rather sign in with this than Facebook or Twitter, as then I know there would be no social side-effects - e.g. posting on my behalf or similar - which is sometimes anxious making when confronted with a social login button. This separates easy sign-in from social sharing.
Nice idea! Liked the design until the green & yellow background colours... They're much too bright and contrast with the text makes it very hard to read. Otherwise, good luck!
Whenever I think of a possible new hardware device, (which inevitably involves it being connected to the internet!) my first thought is: how will the UI of connecting to wifi work? Most often with a lot of devices, "setup" == "connecting to wifi", so having an easy way to do this using a standard smartphone based UI is a very interesting idea.
Allowing faceless connections to wifi networks could allow for a new range of small, screenless devices, or at least devices with smaller screens and reduced interaction.
So the basic premise is that it would vary the spacing based on how well you remembered the fact. Would start daily, then if you know it well, go weekly, then monthly etc.. The idea is that it's dynamic and mimics your memory decay. Memstash doesn't get feedback from each alert, it just shows you. There is no interaction or feedback to know how well you remembered each item which would then inform the spacing. You can read more here if interested: http://www.supermemo.com/articles/theory.htm
I have a terrible memory, and want to remember more about the little things that happen in my life, and remember the facts I come across that I find interesting. Spaced Repetition Learning is a proven tool for improving memory, but still isn't available in a well designed simple app. (I've tried them all!). I am busy building this app as a side project. I was excited when http://memstash.co/ launched but it doesn’t use spaced repetition, the key aspect of improving memory. There are so many fascinating things around me, and with this app I will remember everything I want to.
Great article. I haven't used App Engine before but plan to very soon. I was just at the Google Developer conference in South Africa and the reason they cited the price increase was to force more efficient implementations, implying that the cheap pricing allowed people to be lazy. At the time I thought that was a positive spin, but it seems to have worked in this case. Good work!
99 designs is a great "easy" resource. They do both "commissioned" logo designs and recently introduced off-the-shelf logos too, which look better than they sound.
Wow, completely agree about how the layout, and emphasis on different headlines, topics, categories, advertising etc.. are all huge indicators of society's interests and conceptions of the world. That said, I would be surprised to learn that the nyt doesn't store their front page every day into some archive? If they don't, then someone must!
This is very cool, albeit a little bit slow and laggy. Lots of fun can be had with sharing a screen with oneself... Let infinite recursion begin.. :) But more seriously, this would be great for sharing ideas for a distributed team. Nice work, and simple homepage design is great. Also great that there is Adroid and iPhone app.
It would be awesome to know the exact details on how these are made. Is it a histogram basis with thresholds to choose which colour is shown, or simply the entire frame compressed to a couple of pixels thick, and then just include some percentage (like 1%) of frames. These are great, you really can tell a lot about a movie, like how long mostly unchanging scenes last, and the overall colour palettes used. Great stuff!
This is an awesome splash page. The background makes it interesting, and all the example pins with questions gives the reader a very good idea of what they would use the service for. It's not just another, "we're coming soon, you have no idea what we do, but put your email here anyway" splash pages that we see so often. Great work.
This is super cool. I haven't signed up yet, and obviously haven't seen the quality of the results, but it's a great idea, and definitely something I would pay for for my next project. (Naming is definitely one of my weak points)
Your two days worth is looking like a great site! Well done! :) Two points: On the tour page, there are two "tour" headers right under each other, which is strange. I recommend the tour bar in the header section just leaving the tour header in the main section. Secondly, on homepage, under "why do you ask for offline access" typo anyony=>anyone. Also, no-body really reads the lots of text in footers (or anywhere really!) so if you have something important to say (like why you want offline access), somewhere physically closer to the facebook login step would make more sense. And lastly, who did you design? If you did it in just 2 days, that's amazing, well done!
I see it's easy to sign up to put the rewardLevel code on one's website but nowhere to sign up to become a reward offerer? I assume it's only for a handful of known clients for now, will this change and eventually allow any business to offer it's products/services to be shown in the rewards network?