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mikemoka

1,152 karma · joined March 14, 2011

I am an UX Lead, I design digital artifacts and physical/digital strategies, contact me here: http://goo.gl/3tDtA
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mikemoka··on The Antivirus Era Is Over
what about http://www.sandboxie.com/ ?
mikemoka··on The Antivirus Era Is Over
What do you think about sandboxing,is it possible to think of each process as a separate virtual machine in order for them to be "rootkitproof"?
mikemoka··on Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs
if flash wasn't dying already I would have asked if this could have been useful to enable flash games or videos on the ipad... but the answer would have probably been "no" anyway
mikemoka··on Apple Keynote video for iPhone5 introduction is live
nfc maybe?
mikemoka··on Apple Keynote video for iPhone5 introduction is live
Yes but I can't believe that this is the phone J. spent the last months of his life co-designing. This product has a "more of the same" feel to me, I would call it iPhone4SS actually.

ps.if you prefer android just read the name in a l33t way.

mikemoka··on Apple Keynote video for iPhone5 introduction is live
Ok so just to recap the differences with the iPhone 4S:

-taller screen

-4g lte connection

-better camera

-better earphones

-better graphics

-new connector: no backwards compatiblity

-new software: no jb for a while, apple maps still less reliable than google maps, apple youtube app removed and the new google one can't play videos in the background

-no nfc

mikemoka··on NexPhone: One device to rule them all
This will never work well because of a very simple fact, the phone experience, still one of the main aspect considered nowadays when purchasing a phone, would be seriously diminished when the phone is docked because you would have to use a bluetooth headset to answer the calls and it would be impossible to see who is calling you if you move away from the docked phone for a minute, because you won't probably carry a laptop around or because you probably won't take the time to remove the phone from the dock to light up a cigarette.
mikemoka··on Apple sues Polish grocery store over the letter A
This demonstrates that you are educated and have a special love for teaching, an adorable trait that, honestly, I very much appreciate. I would like for you to consider though that priming might not apply here unless Apple legal team has been doing this stuff more than once before Steve Jobs passed away, and I just didn't notice or remember a single article about it.

Not to mention that the case you pointed me to (and more on http://www.engadget.com/search/?q=apple+trademark) look way more legitimate, because there is some kind of a visual resemblance with the Apple logo, the grocery store on the other hand is totally different visually and I think it is extremely unlikely that a consumer may be confused by it.

mikemoka··on Apple sues Polish grocery store over the letter A
Of course not, but the aggressive legal strategy that we are witnessing nowadays is something that has clearly been decided at the top in my opinion.
mikemoka··on Apple sues Polish grocery store over the letter A
That's the problem with a company heavily based on the charisma, creativity and the aura of a single person, no matter how great he or her was. When that person passes away the company loses confidence, and poor decisions ensue.
mikemoka··on How I cracked my neighbor's WiFi password without breaking a sweat
Correct me if I am wrong but the solution proposed is to use a free vpn under your control, my question is why do users have to trust you with their data?
mikemoka··on Once a somebody, now a nobody: Starcraft 2 has destroyed my life
it would be very interesting to know how is he doing now (since a year has passed, as you can see the post linked is from 2011) and why he didn't try to teach martial arts professionally
mikemoka··on Google Fiber Plans & Pricing
I'm surprised that I wasn't able to find the word privacy mentioned in the first page.

I think that Google is clearly losing the "don't be evil" credo, whatever you may think about a specific industry.

Google is trying to do everything, Google is not satisfied with ads and is trying to remove the middlemen, all the possible ones.

They tried to attack the fashion ecommerce niche with Google Boutiques, they tried to attack Groupon with Google Offers, now they become an Internet Provider, but why? Here are my two cents:

-they will be able to know everything, and I mean everything, their users do online, and they are one of the few organizations actually able to parse and exploit this size of data -they will be able to know the identity of their users -they may be able to control the speed or stability of the connection to specific sites, they may even hijack specific banner ads without anyone noticing

mikemoka··on Marissa Mayer Has a Secret Weapon
A friend of my cousin saw the title of the link, then he said "What do they mean? Do they also talk about gossip in here?"

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mikemoka··on XBOX Clone made in Unity/WEBGL + iPhone/Android Controllers
I think it may be quite a new take on online gaming, do you agree?
mikemoka··on Google to launch Amazon, Microsoft cloud competitor at Google I/O 2012
In my opinion a digital market is never "cornered", Google simply doesn't know how to improve over those competitors, and how to provide users with a good enough reason to switch. If Google knows its clear that its current organization doesn't allow to pursue the right choices in some areas, and you can notice by looking at several recent "flops" (boutiques.com, g+,...) .

You can have all the money in the world and all the world class runners you want, but your team will still lose if you run even just on a slightly wrong track.

mikemoka··on Bye Bye Craigslist
Quite a misleading title..I think many clicked thinking to read about an unexpected shutdown of Craigslist actually
mikemoka··on Introducing The New IFTTT
I am happy about their foray into the physical world but there is a much more critical feature still missing in my opinion: the possibility to check for a desired trigger (e.g. stocks) at a specific time/date or, in general, the possibility to combine multiple triggers at once
mikemoka··on Chromebox
I may be mistaken but I don't remember being able to keep the template of a word document while editing it in google docs, changing examples anyway, slightly more complex excel files could also not be supported I think.
mikemoka··on Chromebox
I don't know, what if they need to edit a report with a company template someone made in Word? There are full fledged PC for sale at less than that price. Salespeople are often on the move and would probably use a netbook I think.
mikemoka··on Chromebox
I have no idea. Why would a business buy something like that? Please elaborate.
mikemoka··on Ahmadinejad speaks at Columbia University - 2007
I'd say that, if they let a political figure that according to Wikipedia is both domestically and internationally criticized, this testifies that they actually believe in freedom of speech.
mikemoka··on I'm calling this Bubble 2.0, and it's ready to burst
Everyone keeps talking about the new bubble.. there is a slight difference from the 2000s anyway..hasn't anyone noticed the 2 BILLION PEOPLE online?...
mikemoka··on Improved Google Weather
.. this is clearly an April Fools joke.. "do you agree to be responsible for the weather in Seattle?". I'd say yes, but I have a feel that Chuck Norris,who's actually in charge, might not like that.
mikemoka··on Tacocopter - Flying Robots Deliver Tacos To You
Ok so, how could they protect a UAV from thieves? Anyone could jam the remote control signal or use a net to block it on the ground.They could add an effective gps based alarm and insure the drones,this is a real problem though, only while UAVs are still quite expensive imo
mikemoka··on Milk Inc. to shut down Oink on March 31st
I second that
mikemoka··on Apple releases Ipad 3
Everyone is speaking about bandwidth speed, but what about the first major product launch of the post-Steve era? What was your impression about it? A little bit of something clearly wasn't there if you ask me
mikemoka··on The all-new Basecamp is live
I am sure they A/B tested the new design, even though it appears somewhat less effective on a first look.
mikemoka··on Mossad "pastes" a message for Anonymous
do you think it may be believable? it looks quite a bit exaggerated in my opinion..
mikemoka··on Fun With Live Video in WebGL with WebRTC
Interesting, but can anyone find an use case for this beside an in browser "second life" clone?
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