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The power of less: What happened when I removed every inessential thing from my website

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by on October 5, 2014 at 6:05 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, How-To's, LifeHacks, tunein

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James Clear writes about using behavioral science to master your habits and improve your health. His free guide, Transform Your Habits, has been downloaded more than 80,000 times. This post originally appeared on his blog. When I built my first website a little over three years ago, I had no idea what I was doing. Naturally, I figured that looking at what other websites and blogs had on their pages would be a good place to start. I started seeing sites with social media buttons, email popups, advertisements, comments and all sorts of other things. At first glance, these things seemed important. After…

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The psychological addiction behind Facebook’s success

Oct05
by on October 5, 2014 at 4:05 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Investigations, Social Media, tunein

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Dr. Liraz Margalit is the Customer Experience Psychologist at ClickTale. The past decade has been a time of incredible growth for social media, and Facebook in particular. The fact that the site has even topped Google as the most visited site in the US suggests that Facebook has become an integral part of how people connect and communicate with the world around them. Facebook allows registered users to create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and – above all – keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues. However, Facebook’s ability to keep people connected is only part of the reason…

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How you could track your sleep pattern with the Apple Watch

Oct05
by on October 5, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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The Apple Watch’s battery is rumored to last somewhere between 8 and 12 hours a day and you’ll have to charge it each night. Some people (bloggers, journalists and readers) seem to think that this means it won’t be able to track your sleeping patterns.  That would give the Fitbit, Pebble and some other health trackers an advantage over the Apple Watch, as these can be worn at night and only need to be charged once a week or so. It might very well be that the Apple Watch will need to be charged at night, and when it is charging you won’t be able to wear…

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3 radical habits of highly successful remote teams

Oct05
by on October 5, 2014 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur, tunein

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This post originally appeared on the iDoneThis blog. Working remotely requires a totally different approach from how we’ve come to define our workday. We’re so used to the commutes, having to deal with our cubicle neighbor, the water cooler chats, and shuffling in and out of meetings. That’s the way we know how to get stuff done. Removed from shared physical spaces, remote teams have none of that. The physical workspace — from layout to furniture configurations to break-room — create a certain working environment that affects how you communicate and collaborate. Without those traditional areas in play, remote teams face a…

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Netflix gets a more visual layout on mobile, iPhone users can soon search titles by actor too

Oct05
by on October 5, 2014 at 10:20 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Netflix has given its Android mobile and tablet app a bit of a refresh this weekend, as the streaming giant rolls out a more visually-focused layout for search results. This move echos its existing interface on the Web, TVs and game consoles, and Netflix adds that the iPhone incarnation will be included in this update shortly. As you can see from the before-and-after shots here, a new grid-style wall of cover art (right) replaces the old column approach (left), which means they’ve also removed the production year from the first-glance information. But this new approach does mean they can squeeze…

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