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"If you go to apple.com with a webkit powered browser (Safari/Chrome in Mac or Windows) and play some of the new videos promoting the new iMac and Magic Mouse, the videos are played using html 5 video tag. When you try to play the same video using IE or Firefox the QuickTime video player kicks. Even though the latest Firefox browser support html5 video tags, its implementation is limited to Ogg Theora, the video files on apple.com are MP4."

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"Usability evaluations are good for a lot of things, but determining what a team’s priorities should be is not one of them. Fortunately, there is an explanation for these counterintuitive outcomes that can help us choose a more appropriate evaluation course."

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"Recently, I was made aware of a group of angel investors that were charging startups to pitch them.

Yes, you heard that correctly: the rich people (angels) are charging the poor people (startup entrepreneurs desperate for cash to fuel their dreams) to hear their pitch. No, I’m not kidding. This is actually happening — and it’s widespread."

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"One of the puzzling things is how Obama used social media to his advantage during the campaign but has failed to use it successfully now... It’s like they read Chapter 1 of ‘How to Develop a Social Media Strategy’, but never finished the rest of the book."

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Great stats on twitter - imagining that it was made up of 100 people.

- 20 people would be dead
- 5 people would be creating 75% of all tweets
- 55 would be women and 45 would be men
- only 5 people would have more than 100 followers (although that kind of breaks the metaphor a bit)

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In a sign that they may finally have come up with some ideas about how to make money, the nice folks with the unlikely names at Twitter have changed their terms of service. It seems to me that there are a couple of problematic things in there...

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Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard has landed. This time around, Apple goes light on the glitz in favor of some heavy work under the hood. John Siracusa dives deep into Apple's new OS offering to see what's new, what's still the same, and whether it's worth upgrading.

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Wireframing is one of the most valuable parts of any web design project. It can save a designer tons of time by hashing out the details of a site’s architecture, functionality, and content prior to actually starting a visual design. But if done inefficiently, it can end up costing more time and can even create bigger headaches for both the client and the designer.

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It’s almost as if, on one hand, marketers and advertisers, driven by supportive businesses open to change, need to adopt Social Media. On the other side of it, the “Identity Management platforms” (isn’t that what Facebook really is?) need to figure out a way of allowing targeting of influentials without cutting their own throats by violating privacy issues.

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In this post-manystuff* internet environment, it seems pertinent upon my person to make a list. A list of all the different ways that a modern graphic designer can hold a poster! When a poster is held correctly, it is done great justice! When a poster is held correctly, it is totally blogged all over the internets!

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The American Time Use Survey asks thousands of American residents to recall every minute of a day. Here is how people over age 15 spent their time in 2008.

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I just set up an automatic backup of all 3000 of my friends' Twitter messages and became able to search through their Twitter history two years into the past with just five minutes of easy clicking. Only two things are required: Dave Winer's new Twitter OPML tool and a Google Reader account.

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List user experience publications. This is a question that keeps coming up in discussion is about User Experience resources, specifically about publications. So here is a list of industry publications which I read on a semi-regular basis, most of which I subscribe to their feed or email newsletter. I am hoping you find these useful.

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A company called Sweb Apps has just launched a new service which lets anyone build iPhone apps, even if you don't have a technical background.

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JH Portfolio provides an admin section for adding portfolio entries, this includes Project Title, Brief, a Main Image, category, main content, additional images, external links etc. The portfolio is ajax powered, so switching between portfolio entries is speedy, but still search engine friendly.

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We’ve put together this guide to save you the time and frustration of figuring it out for yourself. With 23 different email clients tested, we cover all the popular applications across desktop, web and mobile email.

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