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Twitter's new list feature is one of those things that seems simple on the surface and is easily ignored. But it has deeply changed how I get my news and how I interact with the tech community. - Chris Stewart

In all of these new product and cost-focused new trends, a big problem has emerged that all of these movements have not addressed. In an era of "launch and learn" is there a need for a business plan? - Chris Stewart

Guest blogger, Ivan Gaviria today walks us through 5 terms founders should focus on when navigating their first term sheet: 1) Option Pool 2) Dividends 3) Liquidation Preference 4) Board Composition 5) Founder Vesting Ivan is a partner at Gunderson Dettmer's Silicon Valley office, practicing in the Corporate and Securities Group. He has extensive experience working with startup and emerging growth companies through their entire lifecycle as well as representing venture capital, private equity and other investors. For more great resources, we recommend checking our these docs on DocStoc and VentureHacks. - Chris Stewart

I've been doing online communities for more than 20 years, starting in 1985 when a friend had a BBS. One thing I've noticed over and over again is that chat rooms and forums start out fun and then devolve over time for various reasons. But in 2000 I discovered that blogs had the opposite effect. They got more interesting over time. Why is that? - Chris Stewart

The purpose of this tutorial is to explain many aspects of the Facebooker project. The general approach here is provide running live code to be used as a reference for you own implementation. All the code samples in this tutorial are from the actual live code running the application. The facebooker plugin is pulled in as an external as well so the tutorial should be up to date with the latest code. - Chris Stewart

The following is a guest blog post by Matt Mickiewicz, co-founder of 99designs - a multi-million dollar design marketplace, and Flippa (recently launched). Want to build a business on the cheap, and grow it to multi-millions in revenue. Matt is a jedi-master, so take heed... - Chris Stewart

Five internal SFF-8087 Mini SAS connectors support up to twenty 3.5" SATA (I or II) or SAS hard drives; Hot-swappable HDD tray with special designed power-off and lock mechanism. Screwless top cover Smooth border prevent lacerating your skin - Chris Stewart

See if any of these scenarios sound familiar: * You've got a great product, but you can't seem to get people to stick around long enough see why it's so great * All of the fun built into your application requires some basic registration information, but not enough folks are registering * You have a high bounce rate-- visitors just aren't coming back * You're in a crowded market and the nuances that make your service unique are lost on the casual visitor * You're situation involves corporate software, where despite having hostage users, you've seen a really low adoption rate Each of these scenarios point to the same business and user experience problem: How do we get people to stick around long enough to see and evaluate the value we're offering? Or, to put it more crudely: How do we get to first base? (with our users!) - Chris Stewart

I have been working on a new startup called Edglings (see http://www.edglings.com ). It's a product company, building applications that dovetail with Twitter, trying to make the experience of Twitter richer, deeper, and more social. How do I and my partners intend to do that? First of all, by exploiting the microstructure that is starting to spontaneously emerge in Twitter. Innovations like the use of '@username' have moved from convention to core element of the operational Twitter platform. Other innovations, like tags ('#foodporn') and retweeting ('RT') are still floating around as general conventions that are not specifically embodied in the Twitter machinery at a deep level. - Chris Stewart

Web service enabling people to share their knowledge...for a price. "Together we know everything" - Chris Stewart

Earlier on Friday, Mufin launched its music player, which analyzes the songs in your music collection based on their audio content, rather than on human analysis or genre. - Chris Stewart

but are you sure your comp can handle the *reaction*? - vijay

You'd much rather use VMWare Fusion; Fission is sooooo 1945. - Chris Stewart from twhirl

One of the more ambitious companies here at DEMO 2009 is Jadoos, which has started promoting its offering here as the beginning of Web 3.0. If Web 2.0 was all about user-generated content and social networking sites, then Web 3.0 will help you take command of all of those things, said Afrus Tavakoli, chief executive of Jadoos in Sunnyvale, Calif. To do so, the company has created something like a universal remote control for the web. - Chris Stewart

Blog Photos Lists Work About << back to all work Being a UX Team of One View more presentations from Leah Buley. In this presentation, I share practical tips and techniques for generating diverse and surprising design ideas on your own or with the help of others. What you see above is the latest version of this presentation. Alternate versions are listed below. You might also be interested in the links and related resources further down the page. - Chris Stewart

This brightly colored penguin is a funky, stylish and modern accent to your decor. - Chris Stewart

Hi! *waves* If I wear out the exclamation point key on my keyboard, it's because I'm only one short day away from blasting off to Austin, TX for SXSWi. I've created a frame for you to use on your avatar to indicate you're at SXSW. It's like a license plate frame, only cool. And for geeks. Then your friends can follow (or avoid) your tweets while you're there. I'm posting a transparent png for you to make your own. Please pass it along! - Chris Stewart

Virtual currency monetization and payments are hot on the Facebook Platform right now, and Inside Facebook has the exclusive on a new startup that is helping social network application and online game developers do just that. - Chris Stewart

This page is for ideas that can help build, grow, support and discover community members you didn't even know were around. Please add examples of your own programming run out of your coworking space. - Chris Stewart

Welcome to Cogniance, a full-service software consultancy dedicated to helping early-stage companies turn great ideas into even greater products -- swiftly, predictably, and cost effectively. We help some of the world's most disruptive companies deliver on complex roadmaps and scale their capacity by reducing delays and costs associated with setting up and maintaining local teams - Chris Stewart

Every once in a while, a really compelling vision video comes around. One that was passed around internally for a number of UX discussions in the Silverlight/WPF teams, is now public... this one is coming from the Office Labs group. You just have to watch it in its entirety to see all the interesting interaction including touch and speech, the form factors, and the fluid UI, combined with a great sound track for the added touch and emotion. - Chris Stewart

Jamie walks through creating a Ruby library (to ultimately be distributed in gem form) from scratch using behavior-driven development (BDD) techniques - Chris Stewart

The liquidation preference determines how the pie is shared on a liquidity event. There are two components that make up what most people call the liquidation preference: the actual preference and participation. To be accurate, the term liquidation preference should only pertain to money returned to a particular series of the company's stock ahead of other series of stock. - Chris Stewart

Which types of organizations stand to benefit the most from outsourcing? The microfinance industry is just beginning to experiment with this concept and while a recent trip to Ecuador generated more questions than answers, we are beginning to gain some insight into these issues. - Chris Stewart

"ASP or SaaS models would seem particularly likely to fall short of customer expectations when it comes to support functions. One reason that MFIs are so dissatisfied with existing microfinance software vendors is that they provide poor quality support after the sale - and in particular that most of these vendors do not have local support providers in the countries in which their MFI customers operate." - Chris Stewart

As tighter credit markets squeeze several organizations, so does the reality that more microfinance organizations are tied to banking systems. "Increasingly they are becoming more formalized and regionalized by central banks," said Covenant College professor Russell Mask, author of two books on Christian microfinance. "So they are more connected." - Chris Stewart

What made the difference between this woman in Rwanda and the man from Afghanistan? I do not believe the change in attitude resulted from differences in geography, gender, history, or family situation. Rather, I believe the difference resulted from one person believing the lie that he was "too poor to do anything" while another saw that she was too poor to stay the way she was. One looked at his hands and saw nothing while another looked down and saw that these hands had the capacity to improve her life. One had the expectation of foreign charity while another had the expectation of future investment in her business. - Chris Stewart

Your severance package, if you got one, buys you time to figure out what to do next. Maybe you want to go back to employed life, but maybe this time you don't. Maybe this is your chance to strike out on your own. Your severance package has cut you free. Now you have some runway. By the end of the runway, you need to be flying. We're here to help. - Chris Stewart

"I'm Outta Here! How coworking is making the office obsolete" is a book about the people and places that make up a work place revolution. From a single space in San Francisco at the beginning of 2006, coworking has grown to over 70 spaces worldwide at the end of 2008, with more appearing almost daily. Read the book and you'll see why so many talented workers have turned their backs to the office and said, "I'm outta here!" - Chris Stewart

Gone, thankfully, are the days when the user experience and the user interface were an afterthought in the website design process, to be added on when programming was nearing completion. As our profession has increasingly gained importance, it also become increasingly specialized: information design, user experience design, interaction design, user research, persona development, ethnographic user research, usability testing--the list goes on and on. Increased specialization, however, doesn't always translate to increased user satisfaction. - Chris Stewart

Magnolia founder Larry Halff sat down with Chris Messina for a discussion of what happened with the Magnolia bookmarking service. There was a data outage about a month ago that took the service offline. Check Webware, Zoli and Mashable for an explanation of what happened. - Chris Stewart