http://jenniferdewalt.com/node/how_were_feeling
…and for those who missed it yesterday
http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/2/5576280/twitter-gets-emoji-web-support
Have a lovely Thursday!
“Sites which inform users that cookies are running and then offer the option to disable them – implicit consent – are seeing exceptionally high acceptance rates of up to 99.7%, according to customer data platform QuBit’s analysis of 500,000 interactions since the EU Privacy Directive was enforced on 26 May.
By comparison, sites that seek explicit consent from users before receiving cookies are seeing consent rates of just 57.2%.
The report also found that using a notification-only method, which only informs users that cookies are running on the site, results in a 99.9% consent rate.”
http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/news/implicit-consent-best-practice-on-cookies/4002151.article
“New 3-D Printing Technique Makes Any Object Transmit Sound” by turning them into speakers.
“Stylect, a shoe shopping app for iOS, has a Tinder-esque UI, underpinned by its own recommendation engine, to help women find and purchase the perfect pair of shoes.Swipe right if you like. Swipe left if you don’t.”
http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/01/swiping-is-the-new-liking/
Love interests can exchange photo, text, and video messages, voice memos and even their favourite songs.
Also includes Photobooth, which offers a four-window boardwalk-esque Photobooth experience, Halfsie that takes a Frontback-style photo of you on top and them on the bottom, as well as Secret, which sends a “steamed up” photo which the recipient must wipe clear to see.
http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/01/howaboutwe-launches-youme-messaging-app-for-couples/
“I came up with the idea for Tinitell when I was hanging out with a friend who is also a father,” says founder Mats Horn. “His son wanted to go outside and play, but he didn’t have a cell phone. He had lost a cell phone once before, and we didn’t feel like lending out our smartphones. Worst of all, we couldn’t join him outside because we were busy cooking dinner. His son ended up playing in his room with his iPad, and I thought that was sad.”
A cloud service for favouriting, saving, organising and sharing web items, not just pages.
Send money to your mates through Wallet by voice commanding Glass to “Send Money.”
http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/05/google-wallet-is-coming-to-glass/
Be an android user and walk past a store and be alerted if a store carries an item that you have previously searched for.
Can’t tell you whether the item is in stock though…yet…
Spam which will require captcha forms/similar* to vet out
Have a record of comms, however since we are capturing the users email address we can send them a copy when they submit the form so not really a problem.
http://mrwweb.com/email-address-contact-form-debate/
http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/6959/contact-form-or-mailto-link
http://www.takeflyte.com/flyte/2011/03/contact-form-vs-email-link-which-is-better.html
http://www.smallbusinessbrief.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10937
“When hundreds of thousands of Tweets are fired every second, a one-in-a-million chance — including unlikely sounding scenarios that could harm users — happens about 500 times a day. For Del Harvey, who heads Twitter’s Trust and Safety Team, these odds aren’t good. The security maven spends her days thinking about how to prevent worst-case scenarios while giving voice to people around the globe. With deadpan humor, she offers a window into how she keeps 240 million users safe.”
http://www.ted.com/talks/del_harvey_the_strangeness_of_scale_at_twitter
“When you look at sporting achievements over the last decades, it seems like humans have gotten faster, better and stronger in nearly every way. Yet as David Epstein points out in this delightfully counter-intuitive talk, we might want to lay off the self-congratulation. Many factors are at play in shattering athletic records, and the development of our natural talents is just one of them.”
http://www.ted.com/talks/david_epstein_are_athletes_really_getting_faster_better_stronger
“In this delightful talk, philosopher Yann Dall’Aglio explores the universal search for tenderness and connection in a world that’s ever more focused on the individual. As it turns out, it’s easier than you think. A wise and witty reflection on the state of love in the modern age.”
http://www.ted.com/talks/yann_dall_aglio_love_you_re_doing_it_wrong
He’s not wrong. How food tastes is influenced not only but shape, but also by colour and texture.
Finally, something that all good restaurateurs know: how we experience something is based on our beliefs about the history of that something. Why do you think we all care about the origins of our broccoli?
Rounder forms taste sweeter whereas angular forms, more bitter
and
Seeing food made over time and also repeated exposure, makes a food less desirable.
Cabin pressure causes cotton mouth to set in. Nothing but ice cream can taste good. Shame:)
http://beta.slashdot.org/story/166571
The eponymous Maillard Reaction, named after Louis-Camille Maillard, occurs every time you heat a mixture of sugars and amino acids. Before Maillard, people just made educated guesses about how cooking works.
“Why do we like an original painting better than a forgery? Psychologist Paul Bloom argues that human beings are essentialists – that our beliefs about the history of an object changes how we experience it, not simply as an illusion, but as a deep feature of what pleasure (and pain) is.
