LinkedIn recently launched Mentions, a new way for members to engage in conversations by mentioning connections and companies in LinkedIn posts.

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It’s no secret color is a very important attribute of design theory, but can changing a button from green to red really result in a 21% increase in conversion rate? Apparently yes!

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Lately in my spare-time I’ve been working on what may be my first real product. That process has spurred the question of “how do I actually execute this thing”. That’s where the Lean Startup model comes in- slowly iterating and refining a product in real-time, all while getting prospect customer feedback and marketing it before you even have a working product.

Too many startups begin with an idea for a product that they think people want. They then spend months, sometimes years, perfecting that product without ever showing the product, even in a very rudimentary form, to the prospective customer. When they fail to reach broad uptake from customers, it is often because they never spoke to prospective customers and determined whether or not the product was interesting. When customers ultimately communicate, through their indifference, that they don’t care about the idea, the startup fails.

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Back in 2011, Epic ported its popular Unreal Engine 3 technology to Flash and showed how relatively high-end 3D games could run in the browser. Well the future is now, as Mozilla And Epic Games Bring Unreal Engine 3 To The Web.

More great news from Mozilla, we’ll now be able to experience rich 3d on the web- without the need of any plugins. If that wasn’t awesome enough, It’s reported the experiences should also translate to Mozilla’s Firefox OS pretty much seamlessly.

Whether or not you’re planning on using Mozilla’s products, this is great news as It once again pushes competitors to respond on both the software and product fronts.

Mozilla wants to make the web a viable platform
for modern games
-V. Vukicevic, Mozilla’s Engineering director & inventor of WebGL

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Some publicity is good to great, some is negative and other just makes you shake your head in disbelief.

According to media sources Red Lobster is now testing lunch service where dinners pay at the counter rather than having to wait or have a ‘waitress” take the order.

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Dieter Rams (born 20 May 1932 in Wiesbaden, Hessen) is a German industrial designer closely associated with the consumer products company Braun and the Functionalist school of industrial design. Together with his design team, he’s responsible for many of the most iconic domestic products of the 20th century. In short, he’s the world’s greatest living product designer.

Back in the early 1980s, Dieter Rams was becoming increasingly concerned by the state of the world around him – “an impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises.” Aware that he was a significant contributor to that world, he asked himself an important question: is my design good design?

As good design cannot be measured in a finite way he set about expressing the ten most important principles for what he considered was good design. Here they are.

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Mozilla has unveiled Firefox OS. It’s not particularly innovative per the developer preview, but hey at least the branding for the product looks cool.

In addition to showcasing demo experiences, Mozilla has debuted the new brand platform, which Wolff Olins has been working on with them since last summer. I think they branded the product well. Very cool and current, yet still human.

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I just participated in my first geocaching experience, and it was a blast!

For those who have never heard of the concept, geocaching is a real-world outdoor treasure hunt. Players try to locate hidden containers, called geocaches, using a smartphone or GPS and can then share their experiences online.

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Whether tending our crops or hunting wild boar, most of our lives as humans were lived on our feet. But with the advent of the TV, computers, and the desk job, we’re sitting down more than ever before in history: 9.3 hours a day, even more time than we spend sleeping (7.7 hrs).

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