Temptation Bundling and Commitment Devices are rather like the carrot and the stick of personal motivation; Temptation Bundling is where you only allow yourself a particular treat when you’ve done something you don’t particularly like doing (like only watching your favourite trashy tv soap while working out at the gym). Whereas Commitment Devices are ways… Read More Temptation Bundling and Commitment Devices
So, as we approached the charitable, loving, family oriented season of goodwill that is know as Christmas this year (2014), those clever bods at Facebook (‘Move fast, break things’) decided to treat us all to a flashback of some of the highlights of our year just passed. As it turns out this wasn’t such a… Read More Facebook’s “Year in review” and how the business failed to understand the way its users interact with it
Here’s something that’s a little bugbear of mine: Passwords. Now, we all have a way of remembering our passwords for all the hundreds of different apps and systems that we use on a daily basis – current thinking is that, with so many to remember, we might as well just write them down on a piece… Read More “I can’t remember that!”
This is an advance on the JQuery scripting I used for control of fonts and borders in my last post. It works in a very similar way but I’ll explain a little more clearly this time. The area we need to measure is the viewport – this is the part of the browser that actually… Read More Advanced Responsive Proportional Control
so.cl (pronounced “Social” apparently) seems doomed to failure. Aimed at the notoriously fickle student market this is a social tool to share your search results complete with some sort of video sharing system that they’re refering to as ‘Video Parties’ – anyone want to guess how long it will be before it becomes the best… Read More Uh-Oh! Microsoft has another go at social media
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