Personally, I have only a few very close friends, and I only open FB once or twice a week to see what their kids are doing. so no, for myself it isn't.
But that's not the point. The point is to have easy to understand cues for the receiver on how important the message is, with the sole goal not to disturb them for messages that do not require immediate attention.
A phone call can always be followed by a confirmation e-mail explaining it again for archiving purposes, but it is incredibly selfish of a sender to assume that the receiver will immediately read and act on the e-mail he receives. Most of us just get too many e-mails to assume every e-mail is important -- it's usually the complete opposite anyway.
I assume because the concept of those messages and the 'undo' action they contain match. The message is a confirmation of sending and the action is to undo sending. Having read the message once and learn about it allows you to dismiss it in future interactions.
Moving this message of 'did you forget an attachment?' to that same message would result in a mixed and unpredictable result -- unpredictable because you didn't know you forgot about the attachment. You expect a confirmation message, dismiss it (meaning you don't even look at it), but instead the attachment message might have been shown there. You wouldn't have known.
That does sound confusing, yes. Perhaps what Thunderbird does, then: shows such information bar as soon as one of the "attachment-related" words is found in the message or subject.
I'd like to see them test this in The Netherlands, where, especially here in Amsterdam, it's quite normal for bike thiefs (or junkies) to steal a bike in seconds and sell them for 15 euro just minutes later.
Success of this device depends on the reaction speed of the owner or other Cricket users being quicker than the thief can steal it. Good challenge, but my money is on the thief ;-)
I started noticing this at home the other day and I quite like it. It allows me to short-cut key directly back to the search box. It will take some getting used to, sure.
Very useful! Thank you ver much! Although I'd like to add one suggestion and that is to surpress an 'echo' on successful navigation. I'd see my path twice right underneath of eachother, which just clutters up the screen.
I'm one of the designers at funda (largest Dutch real estate listing site) -- though on the Personalisation team and not the Search or Presentation teams.
This is definitely a beautiful and useful visualisation and something we've been thinking about for a while too. We've found that in an average real estate search people very much appreciate information about the neighbourhoods they come across when finding relevant properties. The thing I love about this is -- like some others pointed out already about Rotterdam -- is that it tells a genuine story about a neighbourhoods history in a way a real estate agent wouldn't be able too.
In the US there's Trulia Hindsight built by Stamen Design which includes animation: http://hindsight.trulia.com
I've been using Feedly with Reeder for iPhone. In terms of design I think Feedly is one of the better options, but they should really spend more time on making their UI a whole lot more responsive. I've always felt one of Google Reader's great tricks was its asynchronous UI which really gave it that speedy feeling.
Yes, the UI is really sluggish at times, but I can maybe attribute that to the pretty bad mobile-network coverage in my area. The old Reader UI was much preferable in this regard.
Also: The lack of an option to just open a link in the "real" browser drives me nuts. Is this some kind of lock-in attempt?
In normal Scrum terms this is what they call a retrospective, right? A sprint review is one where you present the resulting potentially shippable product to stakeholders.
Also, hi