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其實'眞的假的'還蠻討厭的!
語助詞就還蠻可愛的~~ 大概是因為我也用習慣ㄌ
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張雨生談莫扎特

毛毛的~~ 張雨生車禍前三天，接受華視「針線情」的訪問，談到他最崇拜的偶 像莫札特。張雨生表示自己的偶像是莫札特，他覺得莫札特很偉大： 「他不是人，是神！」張雨生很羨慕他的才華，聽說他作曲都不打草 稿，而且曲中充滿和平，他希望自己有一天也能做到這樣。


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Twitter is Not Your Average Social Network

OK... eventually, I will move all these newsharing / inspiration news to another blog... but now...

Twitter is Not Your Average Social Network

via Mashable! by Stan Schroeder on 6/2/09

A study conducted by Harvard Business Review reveals that most Twitter users don't actually use the service much, or even at all. In fact, 10% of active users are responsible for over 90% of all Tweets.

According to the research, conducted on a random sample of about 300,000 Twitter users in May 2009, 25% of Twitter users don't tweet at all, while 50% of users tweet less than once every 74 hours. Active users, on the other hand, tweet a lot, which makes Twitter a lot more like Wikipedia than an average social network (see graph below, courtesy of HBR).

Although this may sound strange at first, Twitter really is more like Wikipedia than, say, Facebook. Twitter is not so much about connecting with your friends, it's about broadcasting information. Although it doesn't necessarily take much creativity to create a tweet, only the most creative users actually persist in tweeting every day over a longer time period.

However, Twitter is also similar to a instant messaging tool, which should have a very different curve, with a larger proportion of users contributing to the number of overall tweets. It seems that Twitter's micropublishing component is winning over its chatting component.

The Harvard Business Review study reveals another interesting tidbit: men seem to follow men more than women on Twitter. There are more women than men on twitter - approximately 55% of all users are female - but an average man will follow a man in 65% of all cases, while a woman will follow a man in 56% of cases. It's hard to pull any meaningful conclusions from this anomaly, except one: Twitter is different than other social networks. But you already knew that.

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Cupcake Cones

OMG... Someone is thinking!
This is great and eco-friendly!

Cupcake Cones

via Instructables: exploring by scoochmaroo on 6/8/09

Delicious, clever, and surprising, these cupcakes impersonating ice cream cones are sure to delight!

My mother used to make these for my brother and me when we were kids and had to bring in birthday treats to school. I had extra cake batter left over from making Cake in a Jar (coming soon), and ...

By: scoochmaroo

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RidetheCity.com Gets An Update In Time for Biking Season

Can't wait to have it for Bay Area... so I can test how "safest route" is better than safe route.

via Google Reader:

RidetheCity.com Gets An Update In Time for Biking Season

via TechCrunch by John Biggs on 5/22/09

RidetheCity.com is a service that maps the best bike routes in New York. You add a starting point and an end point and the service finds dedicated bike lanes, greenways, and other "safe" routes for you to take on your two-wheeler through the mean streets of the city.

We've just been given permission to let you folks beat up their latest incarnation, RidetheCity 2.0 with a few interesting updates. Co-creator Jordan Anderson reports:

- Much faster routing and overall performance
- Better looking maps
- SMS support
- Sort of wonky, but workable multi-language support
- Better info. about bike shops and rentals

The new service uses CloudMade Web Maps Lite tiles for a far prettier interface and it seems snappy as heck. The map is considerably nicer to look at and the sharing system is great - you can send an SMS message with your directions to your phone for orienteering on the go.

There's even a bonus for Brooklyn-based readers: RidetheCity is having a launch party on Saturday at Radegast at 113 N 3rd Street in Wiliamsburg, Brooklyn from 2pm until 6pm. They'll be giving out RidetheCity schwag and one lucky person will win a Bicycle Habitat gift card.

The new site will go live tonight but feel free to test it on their sexy beta server until then. They even have a widget for those so inclined.

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Design: environmental & neat

http://www.dezeen.com/2009/05/07/wattcher-by-marcel-wanders-studio/

This will be super useful in my house. The place I stay is pretty old. Sometimes, without paying attention of the electricity usage, 跳電 occurs. So, we have an unwritten rule in the house: before you start to blow dry your hair, LISTEN!! And, sometimes, I have the rush when I "got" the right to use my hair dryer; and opposite rush when I hear the dryer goes on in the other room while I reach for mine.

THIS potentially allows me to see, if the line can hold up to 2 dryers :).
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Design: Trendy and environmental

If I have a house, a good decent size of house, I will consider this




nice trendy and environmental divider. You can get them here.
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UI - WeatherChannel

WeatherChannel redesign is indeed needed. Can't believe such a popular website just happy with what it has.

Here is a retouch of the site by weatherflash

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Running Man's side job

Where does the running man go when he is not working full time at AOL?



He is in Yahoo!TW promoting safe internet for kids.
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favorite: 多多綠

多多綠, next to grapefruit green tea, is one of my favorite bubble tea! It's basically yogurt drink + green tea and more :)

This is the recipe I found online. I am going to give it a try.
抹茶/绿茶粉2小匙、柠檬1/2颗、养乐多1瓶、蜂蜜适量。
做法：
1、柠檬去皮，切片榨汁。
2、倒入养乐多、绿茶粉和柠檬汁，一起搅拌均匀。
3、依喜好甜度加入蜂蜜，务必立即饮用。

I think I am missing lemonade before.. that's why it tastes like something is missing ;)
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UI - article: Most new ideas aren't

http://metacool.typepad.com/metacool/2009/04/8-most-new-ideas-arent.html

Most new ideas aren't. Someone, somehow, somewhere already thought up the essence of what you're thinking about.

... Best of all, standing on the shoulders of giants is a free activity.

... Innovators ship, dreamers don't.

So what's keep you from making your idea real?

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UI - Betray of User Experience?

This is what I would call, when business is on the line, UI betrays UX. Or, this simply is when UI needs to take a step back and rethink better way to bring ads to the eyeballs.

This UI was part of add-on to my usability testing. I didn't like it even on the spot: When a user comes to this page, reading the articale, their eyes got attracked to the images at the bottom. Great Job Publishers! I have to say, the publishers (at AOL, and its correspondent lines of publishing) put up the most inticing and interesting images online. I am always tempted to give it a click. Then bad experience starts....

Instead the images just natually pagnated to the next asset, it pops a window with 1 cube ad, 3 text ads. It disgusts me before my mind got draw back to the image(s). As I browse a few more images, the flicker rate is so high, it annoys me. And, lastly, it's usually a pool of contents. Content that interested to my purpose might just be 10 images, but I got throw into a pool of 100.

I am all for content association. However, I feel the experience should also be designed.
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Design: Handy :)

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UI - When negative things are "in trend"

Nowadays, webs are super. When you are reading one thing, it will kindly advise what you can read next. But, the wording is normally coined, "you may also like..."

However, when the popular search terminologies are something unwanted... the sentence becomes a bit scary:



Who may also like swine flu? Not me.
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路上學到的教訓

"每個階段都是一個關卡，但是千萬不能輕言放棄，不要怕路上的小石頭，挫折算得了什麼？就像有的人覺得自己失戀了，走了好大一段冤枉路，但在這段路上學到的教訓，才是箇中滋味呀！"
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UI - Status Message

ERR.. this annoys me every wed. why does the message status has to be in 2 lines? I had to look twice every time when the status message pops. Every Wednesday, it moves to two lines... fix it... WED is fine~
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痞克四 Picks: Perfect Stranger

I like their songs...

Perfect Stranger


Fly Away

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王偉忠

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LvfFxahza0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqznH0i99TQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19ubWAGOtGU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ly-ENxHVkM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQwa2sTrPEo
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User Experience Designer - Pioneer of a new emerging profession

http://www.jjg.net/ia/memphis/
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Don't mind what other said about you... it's the effort that counts!

Despite of how little I like about Curt Schilling, he got a pretty good post today about critique:
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I receive daily quotes from athletes all around the sports world through a pro-athlete website service. Some of them are very good. The best ones are usually the most simple. Today’s was a particularly good one.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.~ Arnold Palmer

Off of that someone at 38 Studios sent me one from a book on Teddy Roosevelt that I thought was not only spot on, but pretty powerful.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

http://38pitches.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/curt-schilling/general/i-love-inspirational-people/
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