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6/18/2011 · 5 min read · 4 comments

What Are Your Favorite Podcasts?

I’ve always got a good collection of podcasts on my iPod. In fact, I probably listen to podcasts more than I listen to music. I usually download a new batch of podcasts every couple weeks. I’ll fill up…

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4/15/2011 · 1 min read · 1 comment

New Mentos “Kiss Me” Wrappers

It’s been a good week for new Mentos sightings. I found another new roll (or new packaging at least) in CVS today. The candy is the regular Mentos mint flavor, but the roll has a heart in place…

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4/14/2011 · 2 min read · 5 comments

Mentos Rainbow Discovered in USA

I was meeting a friend for lunch a few weeks ago on the health sciences campus at The University of Iowa. We were grabbing a sandwich in the EMRB Cafe when I happened across a heavenly roll of…

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3/15/2011 · 2 min read

Improv For Everyone

PresentersAmanda Hirsch Writer, Actress, Online Story Strategist AmandaHirsch.ComJordan Hirsch CTO jordanhirsch.net “The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects…

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3/15/2011 · 4 min read

The Convergence of Traditional and Internet TV

PresentersMichael Petricone, SVP, Government Affairs Consumer Electronics AssociationNed Sherman, CEO Digital Media Wire IncTodd Weaver, Founder & CEO ivi Inc There are several policy and legal issues with the convergence of TV and Internet. ivi TV Todd Weaver’s…

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3/14/2011 · 3 min read

Anatomy of a Design Decision

PresenterJared Spool, Founding Principal User Interface Engineering Presentations@uie.com to get a copy of slides from this presentation. How do designers make decisions? Gray’s Anatomy book, 1858 describes the entire human body. This changed medicine by giving everything a…

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3/14/2011 · 1 min read

Live Action Angry Birds

Between some sessions I ran across a live action Angry Birds room. You had to dress up like one of the birds and then fling plush Angry Birds at a cardboard structure of plush Green Pigs. I knocked…

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3/14/2011 · 1 min read

The Future of Microformats

PresentersBen Ward, Software Engineer TwitterFrances Berriman, Sr Front End Developer Nature Publishing GroupPaul Tarjan, Web Hacker FacebookTantek Celik, Independent tantek.com A couple years ago a microformat was started for recipes on the web, it was picked up by…

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3/14/2011 · 2 min read

The Hero Inside: Invisible Customer Support

PresentersJon Swartz Tech Reporter USA TodayKimarie Matthews VP Social Web Wells FargoToby Richards GM, Community Microsoft Corporation What does proactive support mean to you? Companies need to use new technologies to reach out to customers as never before.…

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3/13/2011 · 4 min read

Cure for the Common Font

Presenters Frank Chimero, Office of Frank Chimero Jason Santa Maria, Creative Dir Mighty LLC Stephen Coles, Type Dir Typographica/Fonts In Use Tiffany Wardle, Typegirl More Information: http://j.mp/fontcure There are hundreds of thousands of fonts available and grows every…

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3/13/2011 · 4 min read

HTML5? The Web’s Dead, Baby

PresentersBranden Hall, CEO Automata Studios LtdEmily Lewis, Principal Web Designer Emily Lewis DesignErik Klimczak, Creative Dir Clarity ConsultingRick Barraza, Creative Director Cynergy Systems, MS SilverlightThomas Lewis, Principal Technical Evangelist Microsoft Is the web dead? Should people be building…

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