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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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Tatango to Broadcast Its Every Move With 24×7 Live Video
Tatango, a group text messaging startup we’ve previously profiled, is going Big Brother and letting you watch their every move. The company has launched Tatango.tv, a website with multiple live cams of the company’s office, which include shots of the…
Find Out the Most Influential Users on Twitter with the ReTweetability Index
Dan Zarrella, Mashable contributor and self-proclaimed viral marketing scientist, is applying his science of retweets to a newly launched site, the ReTweetability Index. The ReTweetability Index isn’t just a list showing the top Twitterers or the ones with the most…
Spice Up Your Presentations With SlideRocket’s Service Directory
SlideRocket, the slick online alternative for pristine presentations that launched in public beta last year, is expanding their virtual marketplace with more content partners and a brand new services directory. SlideRocket’s Marketplace already enabled users to purchase premium content to…
Twitter CEO Evan Williams Interviewed on Charlie Rose [Video]
Twitter CEO Evan Williams let us know last week that he was making an appearance on Charlie Rose, and today, the video is online. In the interview, which lasts about 20 minutes, Williams explains the Twitter phenomenon, some of the…
Skittles Site Receives an Extreme Social Makeover
Many companies are starting to realize that whatever content they offer online still can’t match the various social media offerings out there, where the community contributes to the whole. Few, however, have taken it so far as candy maker Skittles,…
Die IE6! Die. Go to Hell Already
Dear IE 6, Its been a good run, now please leave. Internet Explorer 6 is web designer’s nightmare. Sometime a web site that you design nicely looks really bad in IE6. You can take a look at some of best…
Twitter Fail Whale Tattoo is Awesome, Kinda
If you must ink some kind of web 2.0-related geekery on your body, there’s a whole lot of awful choices and only a couple of good ones. Within that scope, Twitter’s fail whale doesn’t fare too bad; in fact, “normal”…
Is Silver The New Black For Sears Tower?
Could one of Chicago's most famous landmarks be getting a new wardrobe? The owners of the Sears Tower, which has soared over the city's skyline since 1973, have proposed a silver paint job for the iconic black tower. So why…
Evernote and Shoeboxed Make Receipts Universally Accessible
How do you manage receipts and business cards? The super human among us file, categorize, and store their receipts and business cards for financial tracking, tax purposes, and networking needs. Most of us, though, are not super human, which means…
First Guest Post and Contributions
Its 49 days into 2009, and I have made my first Guest Post and have contributed to a few great articles around the blog world. This year I wanted to offer my ideas to other blog and websites. Guest Posts…
Facebook Connect Adds a Cut-and-Paste Comments Widget
Social is the new trend for both Google and Facebook’s Connect platforms. Just a week after Google’s social bar announcement, Facebook’s getting even more social too. The social networking powerhouse is making it even easier for bloggers and publishers to…
DocsToGo Demo’d on the iPhone!
What’s that? iPhone news at MWC09? It’s true. I just got back from a meeting with DocsToGo and they showed off an early version of their app. So far Word document editing is a go, Spreadsheet editing is definitely in…
Turn Your Business Card Collection into a Valuable Online Database
What do you do when you get home from a conference or networking event with a pile of business cards? If you’re diligent, you might go through them one-by-one, sending people a “nice meeting you” email and inviting them to…
I Can Has Cheezburger to Launch “Son of a Tweet”
Pet Holdings, the company behind sites like I Can Has Cheezburger, Fail Blog, and GraphJam, is moving into the realm of tracking Twitter memes. They’ve purchased a website called Twittypic that monitors Twitter for popular pictures and videos and posts…
Google Chrome for Mac (First Screenshots)
Google’s first try at building a web browser was almost an unexpected success: Chrome is fast and quite reliable, and I’ve made a habit of firing it up whenever my trusty old Firefox goes out of breath. Unfortunately, it’s available…
When You Love WordPress Very Much, You Tattoo It On Your Arm
This is nice, in a slightly creepy, and yet delightfully geeky kind of way: a fellow named Ed Morita decided to tattoo a WordPress logo on his forearm. It’s not just a plain, boring logo type of tattoo, there’s all…
Got $40,000? You Could Buy Jenny’s Number on eBay
The song “867-5309/Jenny,” from the Tommy Tutone 2 album, is an 80’s classic that most of us still love, and continue to blast and sign-a-long with from our cars, stereos, iPods, and karaoke bars. Sing it with me: 8 -…
Got $15,000 for an iPhone Accessory? Mamiya Has the DL28 Digital Camera System!
Every week, the TWiT.tv network produces MacBreak Weekly netcast (podcast). Every week, the panel on MacBreak Weekly announces their “picks of the week”. This week, noted photographer Scott Bourne’s pick was a $15,000 iPhone accessory: the Mamiya DL28 Digital Camera…
Twhirl Updates: Will You Dump TweetDeck?
Die-hard Twhirl fanatics (like me) can celebrate the start of the weekend with a fresh new update to the desktop Twitter app. Albeit just a preview release, Twhirl v.0.8.8f is here and includes a few extra gems for Twitter, Seesmic,…
Twttrstrm: Squidoo Turns Twitter into Yahoo Answers
A few attempts have been made to turn Twitter into a more robust Q&A platform than it already is. For example, services like Twtpoll and Strawpoll let you create a question and will then give you a unique URL to…