David Hoffman

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Sun, 06 May 2012 19:42:42 -0600

"These measurements are tracked year-round by Billboard and its data partners, including Nielsen..."

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:16:00 -0600

“These measurements are tracked year-round by Billboard and its data partners, including Nielsen Entertainment and Next Big Sound.”

- 2012 Billboard Music Awards

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Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:14:05 -0600

released 05 June 2012

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:19:00 -0600

released 05 June 2012

"A product is not a set of screens — it’s the stories those screens enable."

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:54:21 -0600

“A product is not a set of screens — it’s the stories those screens enable.”

- Design Staff – Story-centered design

"I should say that quite a few of the systems are set up to send me mail each day with a report on..."

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:04:09 -0600

“I should say that quite a few of the systems are set up to send me mail each day with a report on the previous day (how much I typed; how many steps I took; etc.). I find this a useful form of self-awareness and self-management. But it has the side effect that it checks that the systems are still running. Systems that aren’t checked “on“ have a nasty habit of decaying and failing.”

- The Computational Quantified Self: A Q&A with Stephen Wolfram | Quantified Self

from a follow-up Q&A to his recent widely circulated post.

"I think I’ve got this quantified self thing for the masses figured out. Don’t even..."

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:34:47 -0600

“I think I’ve got this quantified self thing for the masses figured out. Don’t even bother mentioning tracking, self-improvement, or the gadgets. Just show them stuff like this and attach some sentimental value, and there you go.”

- Personal map of 2.5m GPS data points, 3.5 years in the making

sounds about right.

"A healthy product company is, confusingly, one at odds with itself. There is a healthy part which is..."

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:24:04 -0600

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A healthy product company is, confusingly, one at odds with itself. There is a healthy part which is attempting to normalize and to create predictability, and there needs to be another part that is tasked with building something new that is going to disrupt and eventually destroy that normality.

Failure to create some form of predictability will result in chaos. Failure to create some sort of well-maintained Barbaric chaos inside the company guarantees that a fast-moving, ambitious, risk-taking and ruthless someone else - someone outside the company will invade, because they know what you forgot: hacking is important.

”

- Rands In Repose: Hacking is Important

Home Screen – March 2012.

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:28:09 -0600

Home Screen – March 2012.

"All these years after the iTunes Store first launched, Hollywood still doesn’t seem to get it: the..."

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:41:01 -0600

“All these years after the iTunes Store first launched, Hollywood still doesn’t seem to get it: the only way to stop people from pirating is to make it easier to get content where you want it, when you want it, at a fair price.”

- Help! I’m Being Forced To Pirate Game Of Thrones Against My Will! (via arainert)

"We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by..."

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:32:49 -0600

“We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by what power users want.”

- Arash Ferdowsi - How I Built It: Dropbox - WSJ.com (via jericsinger)

Stephen Wolfram Blog : The Personal Analytics of My Life

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:05:24 -0700

Stephen Wolfram Blog : The Personal Analytics of My Life:

And in time I’m looking forward to being able to ask Wolfram|Alpha all sorts of things about my life and times—and have it immediately generate reports about them. Not only being able to act as an adjunct to my personal memory, but also to be able to do automatic computational history—explaining how and why things happened—and then making projections and predictions.

As personal analytics develops, it’s going to give us a whole new dimension to experiencing our lives. At first it all may seem quite nerdy (and certainly as I glance back at this blog post there’s a risk of that). But it won’t be long before it’s clear how incredibly useful it all is—and everyone will be doing it, and wondering how they could have ever gotten by before. And wishing they had started sooner, and hadn’t “lost” their earlier years.

exceedingly curious to see how this plays out.

Sacha Greif: Analytics Showdown

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:46:00 -0700

Sacha Greif: Analytics Showdown:

My main conclusion is that the whole process of setting up and trying out different analytics solutions is pretty stupid. You’re basically doing the same setup twice and sending the same data to two different services.

I’d love for someone to centralize all the data, and then dispatch it to various analytics providers. This way you’d only need to set things up once, and then could try out various services without any changes to your codebase. I imagine this could even be done through a client-side Javascript script.

Anyway, one can always dream… (unless you actually want to build this, in which case let me know!)

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My most played Rdio albums. Let’s be friends on there,...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:43:50 -0700

My most played Rdio albums. Let’s be friends on there, yea?

5-way google hangout with our NYC office and Mr. Dave Pitman.

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:22:12 -0700

5-way google hangout with our NYC office and Mr. Dave Pitman.

"when TiVo launched their product they told us all what they had. They said, “We have a product that..."

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:45:11 -0700

“when TiVo launched their product they told us all what they had. They said, “We have a product that pauses live TV, skips commercials, rewinds live TV and memorizes your viewing habits without you even asking.” And the cynical majority said, “We don’t believe you. We don’t need it. We don’t like it. You’re scaring us.” What if they had said, “If you’re the kind of person who likes to have total control over every aspect of your life, boy, do we have a product for you. It pauses live TV, skips commercials, memorizes your viewing habits, etc., etc.” People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it, and what you do simply serves as the proof of what you believe.”

- Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action | Video on TED.com (via soxiam)

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Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:41:33 -0700

cashcats:

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dock – feb 2012.

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:38:58 -0700

dock – feb 2012.

"Instead of tapping into the anticipatory mood that greets most public contests, the Grammy telecast..."

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:30:48 -0700

“Instead of tapping into the anticipatory mood that greets most public contests, the Grammy telecast encouraged Tweeters to participate in a parallel awarding process based on snap judgments of the performances and grounded in personal taste.”

- How Social Media Saved The 2012 Grammys : The Record : NPR

"The Roman architecture critic Vitruvius advanced the notion that well-designed buildings were those..."

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:55:10 -0700

“The Roman architecture critic Vitruvius advanced the notion that well-designed buildings were those which exhibited firmness, commodity, and delight. The same might be said of good software. Firmness: A program should not have any bugs that inhibit its function. Commodity: A program should be suitable for the purposes for which it was intended. Delight: The experience of using the program should be pleasurable one. Here we have the beginnings of a theory of design for software.”

- Bringing Design to Software - Ch. 1 Kapor