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Entries Tagged as 'Attention'

Congrats to the Touchstone Team

July 29th, 2006 · No Comments · HumansAndTech

Props to the Touchstone team for receiving funding, getting a glowing TechCrunch reception and generally heading in a positive direction.

Touchstone is an “Attention Management Engine” – it’s a combo of Growl, RSS aggregator, and Widget system. The trick is that it tries to be intelligent about what it notifies you, and how it does it. [...]

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Dynamic Favicons

March 16th, 2006 · 35 Comments · HumansAndTech, Links, SoftwareDev

Favicons should ideally be easy to manipulate, as easy as manipulating the web page's UI. (Favicons are the little website icons you see in the address bar, browser tabs, etc.) For example, a chat app like Meebo could signal that your buddy's trying to contact you, a mail app like GMail could indicate You [...]

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