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Kristin is a UX Designer living in the suburbs of Chicago with her husband and two boys.
This website is a stream of her daily activities, updated via iPhone, with an occasional blog post here and there.
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How Google Wave is Changing the News
It’s not too often that legacy media learns a new mass communication tool along with its audience. But that’s exactly what’s going on now because of Google Wave. Although it’s still invitation only and in preview, the real-time wiki collaboration…
Facebook Launches Share Buttons for Publishers
Sharing content on Facebook hasn’t generally been as easy as it has been on Twitter. Part of Twitter’s advantage is just how easy it is to share from blogs and other websites. A lot of this has to do with…
HOW TO: Create a Branded Version of TwitPic
More and more brands are starting to use Twitter, whether it’s to promote new products or connect with customers. The only problem that some brand marketers have with using Twitter is that it can be difficult to have a conversation…
Facebook 3.1 With Push Notifications Coming Soon
Early this morning developer of the iPhone Facebook application, Joe Hewitt, posted that Facebook 3.03 is on it’s way to squash a few bugs. Even bigger news is that update will then be followed by Facebook 3.1 which will include…
PhoneView Desktop Companion for iPhone on Mac OS X
PhoneView is a desktop companion that fills in the holes left by iTunes for any iPhone user on the Mac (sorry Microsoft faithful). Some of PhoneView’s features are as follows: Use your iPhone as a disk Play and export music…
Compare The Old and the New Google, Side By Side
*Update: it seems that comparegoogle.com has stopped working, but you can also check out a similar service called http://www.comparecaffeine.com. Remember Google Caffeine? It’s the new Google search engine that’s going to replace the old one. We’ve tested it thoroughly, and…
HOW TO: Get Your Data Out of Google
One of the best things about the Internet and the proliferation of social media and cloud computing services is that more and more information is tied to a server — not an individual device. That means you can easily access…
Can't sleep? Go online for insomnia therapy
Sleepless people sometimes use the Internet to get through the night. Now a small study shows promising results for insomniacs with nine weeks of Internet-based therapy.
Huggies Targets Social Media Moms With New Campaign
Brand sponsored social media campaigns are everywhere. From SeaWorld, Starbucks, and Dunkin’ Donuts, to Cadbury, A&E, and even Universal, it’s officially the hot trend to replace or supplement traditional marketing campaigns with social media. Huggies, the maker of diapers, training…
Polar Rose Adds Facial Recognition to Your Flickr Photos
Since the debut of the new iPhoto, which comes complete with facial recognition plus integration with Flickr and Facebook, tagging your friends in photos has become a much easier process. In a similar vein, but on a broader scale, Polar…
Is UNO the New Scrabble on Facebook?
In case you don’t remember the Scrabble fiasco on Facebook from last year, here’s how it went down in a nutshell: a developer built a wildly popular application called Scrabulous that was ultimately shutdown by the game’s license holders, only…
Preview: iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 1 Software Walkthrough
Just like January 2007 when Steve Jobs held up the first iPhone at Macworld and showed the world full screen multi-touch, and March 2008 when Jobs, along with Phil Schiller and Scott Forstall stood up at the Apple Town Hall…
Microsoft Turns to Social Media to Promote Internet Explorer 8
Microsoft has released the latest version of its Web browser, Internet Explorer 8. While the features include improved security and supposedly faster performance, we’re more interested in how the company is promoting IE8 through social media. Once again, Microsoft is…
Foursquare is the Breakout Mobile App at SXSW
Many of us have been anxiously awaiting a smarter Twitter that not only lets us update our status and connect with friends online, but also lets us find our Twitter friends — in real-life — when we’re in the same…
Cut and Paste! Palm Pre-Features! No Video! No MMS! Kevin Rose Diggs iPhone 3.0 Rumors!
Kevin’s back. Back again. Digging iPhone rumors. Tell ya friends! Not iChat Mobile this time, unfortunately, but Gizmodo is reporting that during his SXSW live Diggnation, Kevin Rose - who’s flubbed almost all iPhone rumors, but nailed iTunes and iPod…
In one of the most remarkable inside-media interviews in recent memory, CNBC’s Jim Cramer sat down with the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, and was made manifest for his network and industry’s failures (according to Stewart) to properly fulfill their mandate…
Flickr Photos Become Stock Photography at Getty Images
Many of us use online stock photography when we’re looking for images to spice up a presentation or blog post. A lot of us also love to scour Flickr for the same purpose, since with a little digging we can…
Maggiano’s Gives Away Food to Gain Twitter Followers
Here’s a social media promotion that will likely be effective, but not nearly as edgy as what Skittles is doing: free food. Maggiano’s, the Italian restaurant chain, is offering up a $100 gift card if you simply tweet “Follow @Maggianos…
Turn Your Facebook Photos Into Printed Albums
Digital photography has brought us the benefit of being able to take as many photos as we like without additional cost, but also the curse of nearly never having the actual physical photos in our hands. With Facebook, it’s gotten…
Seattle P-I Might Try Online-Only Version of Newspaper
Last week saw the end of Denver’s Rocky Mountain News after nearly 150 years in the newspaper business. Looking to avoid a similar fate, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has been considering launching an online-only version of its daily newspaper, and is…