All around the internets volume 17.
A Passionate Rant about Social Media
"I blame the executives who ask their teams to do whatever they read wascool in this Sunday's NYTimes Magazine, or heard was cool this morning
on MSNBC, or was told was cool at the last TED conference without
bothering to ask if it's the right thing for the long-term success of
their company."
Air Bed and Breakfast
"AirBed & Breakfast is an online marketplace for peer-to-peer traveling.
"We enable people to earn money by renting out extra space, and offer travelers a viable alternative to hotels."
50 Twitter Tools for Designers & Developers
Deconstructing Analysis Techniques
"In many respects, analysis is crucial to realizing the value of our research since good analysis can salvage something from bad research, but the converse is not so true. This is where the literature tends to fall a little silent, jumping over the analysis techniques straight to a discussion of how best to document and communicate the findings from analysis. This article seeks to begin to redress that imbalance by breaking down the analysis black box into its major sub-techniques."
Ethnography is not an in-home interview
"At it's best, ethnography supplies the biggest picture. The trick is how to do those interviews in home but still generalize to the larger cutural, competitive and strategic factors that make it make sense. From a parochial point of view, I like to think of this as putting the anthropology back in the ethnography. But if I too am obliged to take the larger view, it's also a matter of putting the IDEO, the Lafley, and the McKinsey back in ethnography."
"These are places (except for Orlando) where spectacular natural scenery is visible from medium-density residential neighborhoods, where the boundary between suburb and city is hard to detect. These are places with loose social structures and relative social equality, without the Ivy League status system of the Northeast or the star structure of L.A. These places are car-dependent and spread out, but they also have strong cultural identities and pedestrian meeting places. They offer at least the promise of friendlier neighborhoods, slower lifestyles and service-sector employment. They are neither traditional urban centers nor atomized suburban sprawl. They are not, except for Seattle, especially ideological, blue or red."