future of ~the internet~

I'm speaking more to the parts of user experience that deal with interface design and actual web interactions and the closest the article you sent gets to that is: "Customer experience includes having the lowest price, having the fastest delivery, having it reliable enough so that you don't need to contact anyone. Then you save customer service for those truly unusual situations."

That's kind of a far cry from web experience! That speaks more to supply chain, which Amazon does remarkably well.

― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Friday, September 23, 2011 8:36 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i'll own up here that when i said 'bezos on that other level' i was sorta pulling it out of my ass as shorthand for 'amazon knows what its doing wrt ux'

hahaha

I want the name and title of all of your managers, hoos, so I can give them credit when you do something insightful

and that the consistency of ux bespeaks a consistency of vision that suggests a braintrust, and that i'd be surprised if bezos himself wasn't part of that in some way

I like how markers makes fun of things while at the same time being extremely sincere about them. It's like he's merged the sarcastic meaning with the literal meaning.

i do live prime tbh

i love physical books and being able to get them in two days is really nice -- esp. w/ amazon's selection & prices

love, not live

coming soon amazon liveprime

order your life in realtime

damnnnnnnn *orders life*

free 2-day shipping!

well, for only $79.99 a year

has a hoos ever worked with IA, UX, or web teams?

yah i've done junior IA stuff as an intern and its where i want to be eventually

lookin at u of balt's UX/IA grad program for next fall, fingers crossed

free 2-day shipping!

― rebels against newton (Z S), Friday, September 23, 2011 5:10 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

well, for only $79.99 a year

― rebels against newton (Z S), Friday, September 23, 2011 5:11 PM

XD

speaking of

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/amazon/

The prevailing American story line right now is seething anger at politicians: that they’re corrupt, or heartless, or socialist, or dumb. But the Amazon story, and many other recent developments, suggest that the problem is significantly deeper.

Far beyond official Washington, we would seem to be witnessing a fraying of the bonds of empathy, decency, common purpose. It is becoming a country in which people more than disagree. They fail to see each other. They think in types about others, and assume the worst of types not their own.

It takes some effort these days to remember that the United States is still one nation.

It doesn’t feel like one nation when a company like Amazon, with such resources to its name, treats vulnerable people so badly just because it can.

more ~past of the internet~, neat but kinda pointless resurrection of geocities data

http://vimeo.com/29523075

http://cdespinosa.posterous.com/fire

damn

thx for that

“Think of it as a product like foursquare or Klout initially, but around your financial life,” Mr. King said. “Wherein a typical bank might say–you come to them, and you say you want a credit card–and you’re a customer with a score of say 580, the bank’s going to say ‘no, you’re marginal, you’re too high-risk.’ But we might give them a card based on other things. Say they have 10,000 friends on Facebook and Twitter. We’ll say okay, they have high influence–we should probably pay this guy to get access to his friends list!”

~You May Soon Be Able to Get A Credit Line Based on Your Klout Score~ with this thing Movenbank

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aXV-yaFmQNk#!

why don't embeds work anymore??

They work if you take that "Feature=player_embedded" stuff out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXV-yaFmQNk

oh thx good to know

Liked it up until the pointless Steve Jobs idolatry, at which I vomited on my shoes.

true

the nearly universal tone of the comments is WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PARENTS which kind of surprised me?

but then i'm a guy who regularly posts on future of ~the internet~

An international group of online hackers is warning a Mexican drug cartel to release one of its members, kidnapped from a street protest, or it will publish the identities and addresses of the syndicate's associates, from corrupt police to taxi drivers, as well as reveal the syndicates' businesses.

The vow is a bizarre cyber twist to Mexico's ongoing drug war, as a group that has no guns is squaring off against the Zetas, a cartel blamed for thousands of deaths as well as introducing beheadings and other frightening brutality.

"You made a huge mistake by taking one of us. Release him," says a masked man in a video posted online on behalf of the group, Anonymous.

"It won't be difficult; we all know who they are and where they are located," says the man, who underlines the group's international ties by speaking Spanish with the accent of a Spaniard while using Mexican slang.

"We demand his release," says the Anonymous spokesman, who is wearing a mask like the one worn by the shadowy revolutionary character in the movie V for Vendetta, which came out in 2006. "If anything happens to him, you sons of (expletive) will always remember this upcoming November 5."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJORGO1Q2VY

whoah

They're going to shut down their Facebooks accounts too?!?!

"It won't be difficult; we all know who they are and where they are located," says the man, who underlines the group's international ties by speaking Spanish with the accent of a Spaniard while using Mexican slang.

need to watch the vid again but i'm pretty sure it's text-to-speech, sounds to me no more high-minded than 'mexican hacker using tts voice w/default spanish accent.'

p sure the only thing this guarantees is that kidnapped anon is now headless anon.

anon veracruz fb page is saying none of their people have been kidnapped, the guy who orig posted the video says 'opcartel' is going forward, sanctioned or not.

u do realize though that if a list of names comes out, no matter who puts it out, all those people have targets on their backs from the many, many people gunning for the zeta's top spot, right? xp

like if this goes forward its gonna mean a lotta z connected ppl gonna wind up dead and vcruz is gonna get even messier as the cycle of reprisal intensifies.

and yeah prob broader reprisals by z against net activists in general, can easily see them putting their victims in anon masks to make the point.

well yeah it could be some almighty bloodbath, but I don't see how threats like this are going to make the kidnappers 'see sense'. could look worse for them to back down to some vague anon threats. nb i don't know much about this situation in general so zeta thinking is beyond me.

idk about 'seeing sense,' sounds like all anon wants is their mans released

but yeah i mean this is a no-win for the z's imo

https://squareup.com/cardcase/tabs

https://www.dwolla.com/

if you're mentioning that, I'm gonna rep for the local payment up-and-comer

rad

When the kidnapped activist was freed on Nov. 4 with a note from her captors threatening to kill 10 people for every name released, OpCartel was quickly called off. “We blackmailed them,” says Barrett Brown, an informal spokesman for Anonymous, noting that the Zetas don’t often release victims alive. “And they blackmailed us.”

Raul Castro’s daughter and a dissident Cuban blogger have engaged in a prickly back-and-forth on Twitter.

Mariela Castro’s debut on the social media service began smoothly enough when she sent her first tweets Tuesday talking about a visit to the Netherlands and her work as the country’s leading gay rights activist. Then dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez fired the first salvo.

“They tell me Mariela Castro opened a Twitter account,” Sanchez wrote. “A question for her, ‘When will we Cubans be able to come out of other closets?’”

Two more tweets directed at the first daughter quickly followed: “Welcome to the plurality of Twitter ... here nobody can shut me up, deny me permission to travel or impede entrance,” and “How can one ask for acceptance only in one area? Is tolerance total or not?”

Castro, who is the head the National Sex Education Center, shot back at Sanchez by name, saying, “Your approach to tolerance reproduces the old mechanisms of power. To improve your ‘services’ you should study.”

Later, she grumbled about “despicable parasites” criticizing her on Twitter: “Were you ordered by your employers to respond to me in unison and with the same predetermined script? Be creative.”

Cuba accuses dissidents like Sanchez of being mercenaries in the hire of Washington.

On Wednesday Sanchez tweeted, “I would love it if everyone on the (Communist Party’s) Central Committee got on Twitter. We would tell them in the virtual world what they don’t let us in the real one.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/raul-castros-daughter-opens-twitter-account-gets-into-war-of-words-with-dissident/2011/11/09/gIQAXPML5M_story.html

Can someone parse this "update"?
http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/anonymous-mexico-opcorrupcion/

Finally read the Lanier. Think much of the crit was handled way upthread, but <3 for reminding me that there was a time when we hoped that everything wouldn't be slathered in advertising and that there might be some alternative ways of funding things.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b7lQNiW2GI8/R6MWRH3q8UI/AAAAAAAAAA8/k1-0Jw0YXRM/s320/wired.gif

But one name stands out, maybe because it was designed to. And for the moment it's sticking: zippies. It stands for Zen-inspired professional pagans, according to 50-year-old Fraser Clark, shamanic zippie spokesperson, club manager and editor of Encyclopedia Psychedelica (EPi), the magazine that first identified the "hippies with zip." According to EPi, a zippie is "someone who has balanced their hemispheres to achieve a fusion of the technological and the spiritual. The techno-person understands that rationality, organization, long-term planning, consistency and single-mindedness are necessary to achieve anything solid on the material level. The hippie understands that vision, individuality, spontaneity, flexibility and open-mindedness are crucial to realize anything on the spiritual scale."

Finally read the Lanier. Think much of the crit was handled way upthread, but <3 for reminding me that there was a time when we hoped that everything wouldn't be slathered in advertising and that there might be some alternative ways of funding things.

― stet, Monday, January 23, 2012 12:51 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tru

so this is a long lecture, 45ish minutes when you cut out the intro, and like a lot of dense lectures its kinda better to watch-with-the-slides than just listen to it, but god i fucking love this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMxz7rzwee8