Borislav Kiprin's Blog http://borislavkiprin.com My POV on digital marketing, user experience, social media, photography and other observations. Tagging along with my Twitter shares of interesting links and tweets Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:34:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 BorislavKiprinBloghttp://feedburner.google.com Borislav’s Weekly Twitter Bragging for 2012-02-26 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BorislavKiprinBlog/~3/yzE8OjEsil0/ http://borislavkiprin.com/2012/02/26/borislavs-weekly-twitter-bragging-for-2012-02-26/#comments Sun, 26 Feb 2012 07:00:00 +0000 Borislav Kiprin http://borislavkiprin.com/2012/02/26/borislavs-weekly-twitter-bragging-for-2012-02-26/ Twitter Bird

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In that conversation I used the phrase “the purest form of hypocrisy” and my friend stopped me there immediately and said “You don’t know how right you are!”. But why did I use this phrase?

For some time I am observing the world around me trying to please everyone and act, as if one can be friends with everyone, fighting for being liked by everyone and more over interjecting in other humans’ communication supposedly aiming to add value… by trying to help everyone.

  • One cannot be liked by everyone, simply because the former does not like the latter in all cases.
  • One cannot please everyone, simply because the former is not pleased by everything that the latter does or says.
  • And more over, interjecting in other humans’ communication aiming to add value ends up in most cases considered as an aggression, especially not being asked.

To put all this into perspective, let’s consider the social network giants Twitter and Facebook and your behavior there:

  • Are you liked by every single follower/friend of yours?
  • Do you like every follower/friend you have there or you keep them close for some other reason?
  • Do you appreciate every single burp of 140 characters or less?
  • Do you like every single post of Farmville friend’s achievement posted on your Facebook News feed?

The key about friendship is in quality, not in quantity. As humans we are limited by so many factors that contribute to our stance, behavior and environment. And we can do just so much. So we end surround ourselves by true friends, hidden frienemies or enormous amount of fellows we are hoping to fill that deep hole of insecurity and loneliness we feel deep down in our inner self.

Next time when you see someone being friends with 1,365 Facebookers or follow back 8,836 tweeps, ask yourself if this is candid or false! Look at your friend/following/followers lists and ask yourself who of all these people/brands add value to your life! Ask yourself whom you would like to keep on engaging and conversing with and don’t be afraid to click on the unfriend/unfollow/block, delete button! This is after all your life and it is normal that it stretches up to its limits, but not beyond.

The purest form of hypocrisy is to like everyone… And, if I may add, the greatest lie is to believe that everyone likes you.

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I don’t know why Steve Krug’s starts his second book by letting us know that he hates writing. Contrary to his believe, I think he is born to explain usability in both verbal and written format. Even though I know a bit about Usability and User Experience, he managed to blow my mind again by putting “scary” (to many) concepts and action into something easily understandable and moreover actionable.

“Rocket surgery made easy” will guide you through identifying problems on you website, app or any product that is used by humans by observing the user experience (UX) people go through while using it. The book offers a simple and yet actionable advice on how to approach the different aspects of usability research.

So, no matter what you do for living, if you are engaged in product management, development and marketing, do get the book. You will go through the 168 pages within no time and in the meanwhile, you might learn a couple of new words and definitely have a laugh here and there.

Steve, please write more! You got it all right.

You can get the book at Amazon as usual, as well as any other major ebook store. Just click on the icon below to get transferred to the Amazon.com book page.

 

Read the book? Share you thought below in the comment section!

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The blogosphere is going nuts about this Google interactive guides and I thought must share it with you, my readers. In this guide you will find the key figures for Google Inc. from the very start of the company – literally when Larry Page and Sergey Brin met back in 1995.

Thanks a lot to Online PhD who researched, coded and offered this to us the Internet geeks & nerds!

By the way this interactive guide can’t be seen on my iPad or the Android phone I have. So for optimal viewing go for the desktop browser or your laptop!

Enjoy!

 

Created By Online PhD

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There was a lot written already about Steve Jobs, his life, legacy and death. There was also a huge interest in the biography that Walter Isaacson. In fact, the book is so hot that it quickly became Amazon’s bestselling book in 2011.

I finished Steve Jobs’ biography couple of weeks ago. I did not know however, what to write in my usual book review post. I guess I am still trying to assimilate most of the events described there. Or I simply can’t accept the fact that a revolutionary individual with great capability is gone. Nonetheless, there is this blog post written on an iPad.Jobs had it tough. So did the people around him. But the outcome of his life is pretty much more than many of us will never achieve. Steve and his team at Apple were game changers and I hope we will continue having the same great user experience while using the products they have created.

The is so much that can be mentioned here, but I choose not to. Instead I will go for just a few of more lines and leave you, my reader, to make your own conclusions when you read the book.

Walter Isaacson has a great vocabulary and writing skills. I feel however, he could have expanded a bit more on each chapter of Jobs’ life. But I guess time prevented him from doing that. I am also wondering why in most of the cases he refers to Steve Jobs’ wife only by her family name. It kind of looks odd to me.

If you own a Mac, iPhone, iPod or iPad, do read the book! If you are a product designer, UX professional or marketing manager, do read the book! If you are a person interested to see what sets apart great men from regular Joes, do read the book! If you are wondering why the world went silent and then exploded when Steve Jobs passed away, do get the book!

Walter Isaacson, thank you for revealing some of Steve Jobs’ life path.

Steve Jobs, thank you for everything! Rest in peace! I will remember. Your products are a huge part of my everyday life.

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