I’ve been using social media tools for several years. I typically engage through Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, this website, and also discussion forums. It wasn’t until recently I’ve come across a social media measurement service that gauges your overall influence across the social media landscape. The service is called Klout (www.klout.com). I won’t go into a full review of
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Sarah was excited about helping her mother prepare Thanksgiving dinner. She watched as her mother cut both both ends off the ham before putting it in the pan and then into the oven. “Mom, why did you cut off both ends of the ham?” Sarah asked. “That’s the way my mother always did it, so that’s how I do it.”
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I love cool designs, especially cool designs that are functional. In my Twitter stream today @gaksdesigns tweeted a link to the One – an all in one tea kettle that will go from stove top to serving. I am completely in love with this design and believe that I-MUST-HAVE this in my house. Unfortunately, although the makers were winners of
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In the world of design we have so many tools and methods to make rapid prototyping simple and easy. So much time and money is spent trying to refine the process, but many times, simpler is better. If you are unfamiliar or uncomfortable with paper prototyping, I highly recommend this next video. Sometimes we have to go back to our
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So you need a teapot You hear on the news that a new gourmet tea shop has opened. Your mother-in-law loves tea and is coming for a visit. Your rush out to purchase this highly coveted tea but realize you don’t have a teapot. It doesn’t need to be a fancy teapot; just an ordinary, every day teapot. The color and material are not all that
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A quoi ça sert? (What’s it for?) Asked by President Jacques Chirac of Prime Minister Tony Blair upon being shown the Millennium Dome – which has no discernible function. Born to question That I am an analyst is a predisposition, being both genetically imprinted with some random mutated analysis gene and further etched by the environments in which I have

