My Blackberry user friends have all chuckled when I complain about my iPhone woes, and clearly I’m not the only one (see Apple’s discussion: forum: iPhone 3G Reception Problems? You’re Not Alone and C-NET’s coverage roundup here) . This makes my Blackberry friends happy, turns out their not-so-sexy phone is coming out to be [...]

I first came across this “technographic ladder” idea in a AMA web workshop in New York. Charlene Li explained that not all of us interact with website in the same manner, nor we can expect all of our users to be engaged in the same way. In her book, Groundswell there’s a whole chapter dedicated [...]

1. CHOOSE A SIMPLE THEME: I experimented with 7 different themes for my blog and messed it up quite a few times in the process. I ended up with this plain super simple template and then just played with the font. I recommend you start by thinking what you want and then spend sometime looking [...]

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I’m in the process of redesigning my blog. I’ve gone through a few rounds with some of my super designer friends who have been advising me on developing a logotype (a lot more work than expected [...]

Jeff Khadavi is the founder of the soon to be born GoTime.com, a site that leverages social network, data mining and venue info to do answer the quintessential question of what’s going on tonight.

He came to one of my class at UW and proudly announced his Columbia MBA drop-out status. He knew that he would [...]