Himsit Concepts

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  "Striving to be constitutionally incapable of capitulation"
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  Linked Data activist, entrepreneur, designer, programmer, student, philosopher, interested learner, actor, singer, Apple-minded perfectionist
• @MicahHerstand

  • Google Voice competitor with features specifically for small business ("press 1 for sales, 2 for..."). Still free! http://tr.im/Riif (@RWW) about 9 hours ago from web
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  Micah Herstand
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  What I'm Reading:

• InspireUX
  • Design is not just about solving for the negative; It’s about creating a positive.
  • New inspireUX design and quote archive launched!
  • Focus on the idea of a product experience, instead of experience that only deals with the user
  • It is important to confine user interactions to appropriate complexity
  • The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world

• ReadWriteWeb
  • Delicious Chrome Extension Early Beta Now Available
    Bookmarking service Delicious has just rolled out a Google Chrome browser extension. Like other Chrome extensions we love to play with, this one is lightweight, fast and useful. There's no bulky sidebar here. Bookmarks can be created and saved with a miniscule "TAG" button and they can be searched from Chrome's excellent omnibar. So, do y […]
  • Open Thread: Should Social Media Experts Be Required to Know Their Tech?
    Social media gurus: We all know one. If you're lucky, you know only one. They are the attendees of tech parties, the "Twitter consultants," the armchair generals of the Internet, and their numbers grow by the day. Yet most of them couldn't distinguish a line of code from a badly punctuated haiku. What's to be done with the social med […]
• Macrumors
  • Six Months Later: 'iTunes LP' Format Performance Remains Lackluster
    GigaOM provides an interesting reexamination of Apple's "iTunes LP" format for enhanced album content six months after the format's debut. While iTunes LPs were touted at its launch as a means to reignite sales of albums as opposed to indivi... […]
  • Verizon Viewing iPad as Opportunity to Push MiFi Service
    Engadget reports on a leaked internal memo from Verizon to its staff members promoting Apple's iPad as an "opportunity" to sell its data plans, seeking to encourage customers to purchase a Wi-Fi iPad model and pair it with Verizon services su... […]

• Wired
  • Multitasking Earbuds Stress Great Design, Not Sound
    Cool looking and inexpensive, the Remix earbud from VMODA doesn't quite deliver solid sound quality. […]
  • Mach 6 Cruise Missile, Ready for Prime Time?
    This spring, the Air Force was preparing for a groundbreaking test of the X-51 WaveRider, a hypersonic cruise missile that would reach speeds of up to Mach 6. But it looks like the WaveRider’s debut flight will have to wait while some technical issues are addressed. […]
• Engadget
  • Computing pioneer Chuck Thacker wins Turing Award
    Chuck Thacker may not be quite the same household name as some other computing pioneers, but it's pretty hard to overstate the influence he's had on the industry, a feat for which he's now be honored with the A.M. Turing Award -- widely considered to be the "Nobel prize of computing." While Thacker is now a "Technical Fellow […]
  • HTC Legend already trickling into customers' waiting hands?
    That certainly was a timely review, wasn't it? Dutch site Tweakers.net is reporting through a number of its forum members that previously ordered HTC Legends are being scheduled for delivery as early as today, beating the phone's announced early second quarter availability by a solid three weeks. That's great news for anyone comfortable sticki […]