Listening now: Nicholas Carr – What the Internet is doing to our Brains on Active Player.

Dr. Moira Gunn sits down with author, Nicholas Carr, to discuss the weird, new, artificial world in which we now live, through the pages of his new book, The Shallows: What is the Internet Doing to Our Brains.

Source : Nicholas Carr – What the Internet is doing to our Brains from IT Conversations via Active Player

While posting through TweetButton, Twitter translates your URL to a short URL, say in this example, http://active-player.inspions.com to http://t.co/0toCfbl.  This is all but normal.

But a nice improvement Twitter did was instead of just posting the short URL in the tweet, it posts a readable URL while still linking to the short URL.

It totally cool improvement and makes tweets more readable.

Compare it with this following tweet of this very post, but using Google’s short URL.

Just watched Lifecycle of a Wireframe by Nick Finck on Active Player. Wonderful session.

Dive deep into the process used to create wireframes, a key deliverable for user experience designers. Hear about the principles that guide this process, how to create great wireframes (all the way down to the nitty-gritty page or screen level), and how to identify and deliver solutions that meet your clients’ business goals and solve their problems. Walk away with a better understanding of what delivering awesome wireframes entails – from methodology, to process, to delivery – and how to do it yourself. If you’re an information architect, interaction designer, visual designer, or regular old user experience-curious creature: this one’s for you.

Source : Lifecycle of a Wireframe from MIX 2010 ( Feed ) via Active Player

While we can just start with a white paper and pencil to get started with wire-frames, We could also create great wireframes right in MS Power Point itself. You may download this  MS Power Point template for creating wonderful wireframes in Power Point.

Just watched Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory – Daniel Kahneman (2010) on Active Player.

Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy — and our own self-awareness.

Source : Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory – Daniel Kahneman (2010) from TEDTalks ( Feed ) via Active Player