MX East - Dan Harrelson (CrowdVine)

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Just Past Halfway

Last Saturday I completed the Marin Century. This was my third time doing the full 100-miles. Prior to that I twice rode the 100K (65-miles). As yo...

Google Transit now on WinMo and S60

Still no transit love for Google Maps on the iPhone, but users of Windows Mobile phones and S60-powered phones (Nokia, etc) can now get directions ...

The Open Yahoo!

Today it was announced by Yahoo! that they are going to, as Christian twittered, add a social dimension into their exiting platform. This is the b...

Upcoming Appearances

Just a quick note that I’ll be presenting workshops at two events in the next two weeks. Next week I’ll be in Toronto for the Agile 200...

My Obligatory iPhone Rant

I’ll start right in… this phone is freaking great. Yeah, there’s little nits that I’ll point out later, but I am firmly an ...

Photos from LIVESTRONG Challenge

Two weeks ago I completed the San Jose LIVESTRONG Challenge. The event was a fundraiser for the Lance Armstrong foundation and thanks to my awesome...

NYC Bike Rack Design Finalists

The New York Department of Transportation is holding a competition for a bike rack design. Dubbed “CityRack”, the DOT is looking for &#...

Bike Film Fest Comes to SF

Starting today and ending on Saturday the 26th, the Bicycle Film Festival returns to San Francisco. Passes are only $30 for all four days. Find out...

Learn How To Manage a Creative Team

At Adaptive Path we are re-launching our Virtual Seminar series with an awesome topic: Ten Tips for Managing a Creative Environment. The 75 minute ...

Would You Trust Plaxo?

I returned from lunch to find this dialog front and center on my screen: Yikes! I use Plaxo to sync my Apple address book with Yahoo! If I believe...

Nokia N95 Review: It’s a Phone!

I’ve come to a realization that I was looking for the wrong things in the N95 I’m reviewing for three weeks. It’s not a computer,...

Nokia N95 Review: Applications

Yesterday I asked a colleague and N95 user Sebastian about pimping my N95. He said I should check out a few applications. On his recommendation, I ...

Test Driving a Nokia Phone

My daily commute is all messed up. I am someone who lives by routines and I have worked over the last year to tune my 2.5 hour commute to/from San ...

Transit Directions On The Go

Google is pushing transit information closer and closer to its users. Yesterday it was announced that Google Maps for Mobile supports public transp...

(New) Web 2.0 Logos

I especially like Phizr (New) Web 2.0 Logos, originally uploaded by shopping2null.

Livestrong Day a Success

Wow, thanks to everyone who supported the Lance Armstrong Foundation recently! Friends and family donated $325 for my upcoming century ride About 1...

A Good Week for Cycling

This was bike-to-work week and it shaped up pretty well from my view. On California’s* bike-to-work day I rode the 10 miles to the BART stati...

Street View in San Ramon

I noticed a few weeks back that Google Street View expanded it’s reach into San Ramon. At launch coverage ended in Castro Valley, about 1/2 w...

When Obama Wins….

Dan Saffer, Rachel Glaves and Andrew Crow started an online meme. All it took was a large number of followers on Twitter, a good idea and persisten...

When Obama Wins….

Dan Saffer, Rachel Glaves and Andrew Crow started an online meme. All it took was a large number of followers on Twitter, a good idea and persisten...

Bay Area Tops for Bikes

Bicycling Magazine released their top cities for cycling for 2008. This year, two Bay Area cities were on the list. San Francisco made the “S...

Design a Better Bike Rack

Registration for the NYC CityRacks Design Competition just closed. It appears that the campaign is proving successful as almost 2000 people/teams h...

When I Was A Gamer

I used to be a gamer. My introduction to computers was through gaming. My desire to learn about how computers worked was driven by new hardware req...

Cycling Goals Check-in

In January I set goals for my riding in 2008: 52 individual rides 1,500 miles 3 organized rides It’s May and a good time to check in and se...

Bike Comic

Xian sent this cycling-specific comic strip my way: Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery

I Am in Trouble

Tracy thinks that Baby Harrelson has my nose, and that’s not a good thing. Due: Nov 4th Now: 13 weeks Sex: Unknown Names: Some clever WHOIS ...

Street View Captures Bike Fall

Chris directed me to this. When the Google Street View car was traveling through Cleveland the camera caught something interesting. A cyclist falls...

Newsom Promotes Google Transit

San Francisco’s mayor Gavin Newsom held a press conference yesterday announcing Google Transit’s support for Muni and BART. There’...

Google Transit for Earth Day

Once again it is time to congratulate Chris and the Transit team. A few months ago they challenged transit agencies to join up by Earth Day. Today ...

Primavera Century 2008

Today I completed the Primavera metric century. That’s 100 kilometers on a bike, about 65 miles. My bike computer clocked in at 63.59 miles t...

A Better Bike Shop Website

Local bike shops suffer from the same problem as all local businesses. These types of business have small staff, small reach and run on shoestring ...

All the Beautiful People

Maggie Mason published the “leftovers” from her photo shoot at the Adaptive Path office. I work with some funny good lookin’ people.

Missed the Bret Michaels Concert in Salinas?

Yeah, me too….. A review of last week’s Bret Michaels concert in Salinas, CA comes from an unexpected place: Swobo. That’s right,...

The 11th Trait of a Rockstar Engineer

In reading the recent post “Top 10 Traits of a Rockstar Software Engineer” I felt that there was a missing 11th trait. The RWW list is ...

Selling my Mountain Bike and Trainer

If you or someone you know are in the market for a great used mountain bike, then please get in touch! I am also selling a stationary trainer for ...

Google Transit Launches in Chicago

Congrats once again to Chris and the Google Maps team for their launch of Transit for Chicago! The launch was picked up by a few local and nationa...

Who’s My New Boss?

Adaptive Path is changing/evolving/growing and we’ve decided to bring on a CEO. We’re looking for someone awesome who can bring the bes...

Picture 115 [Flickr]

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Picture 114 [Flickr]

Dan Harrelson posted a video:

Picture 113 [Flickr]

Dan Harrelson posted a video:

The “New Designer”

Just a terrific quote from brother Khoi: What is the profile of the “new designer”? The new designer is adaptable across multiple ...

Install Microsoft® Silverlight™ Browser Plug-In [Flickr]

Dan Harrelson posted a photo: Uploaded with plasq's Skitch

Does this really make me more secure? [Flickr]

Dan Harrelson posted a photo: This is a new security feature of Firefox 3. If I remember correctly, the Mozilla Labs engineers called the little ...

Alan Cooper: An Insurgency of Quality

On March 25th I attended a presentation by Alan Cooper. He replayed the core of his opening keynote from this year’s Interaction 08. After th...

Have u seen this bike? [Flickr]

Dan Harrelson posted a photo: Missing bike poster in San Francisco, corner of 2nd and Folsom.

Danville is Tops

According to Fortune magazine, Danville is one of the country’s best places to live and launch a small business. Ranked #69 based on it’...

Bikes! [Flickr]

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Bike parking in Berkeley [Flickr]

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A Look Inside Panic and Coda

Anyone who designs and/or develops software should check out this video. Yes, it’s long at just over 1 hour, but it’s worth it. Cabel M...

Staging decoration for my Dad's house [Flickr]

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Antique cars passed my bike ride [Flickr]

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A Return to ImagiNation

Jeff Atwood just took me back to 1991. That was the year that The Sierra Networks (TSN) went live. This was a pioneer in online gaming, leveraging ...

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CERQUIT UI Candy - Sweet Sugar For Your Apps

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XML.com: How to Create a REST Protocol

The Evolution of the Intersection

Figure 1: Colored Bike Lane/Bike Box Treatment All graphics by PDOT (Click to enlarge) Yesterday the San Francisco Bike Coalition pointed me to a ...

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Yahoo! Releases Badges for Pipes - ReadWriteWeb

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BrumBrum

Drink Pepsi: Get Stuff on Amazon

I found out today that REM’s new album will be released on April 1. It can be pre-ordered on iTunes right now, but I’ve become a fan of...

AP Pin Design [Flickr]

Dan Harrelson posted a photo: Rachel designed pins for the Adaptive Path 7th anniversary party. Here's one of my taglines

First Ride on My New Bike

Today, I pulled the trigger on a Trek Madone 5.1, an early birthday gift for myself. It’s been over 7 years since I bought my last bike, also...

Support Me in Fighting Cancer?

This July I will participate in the 2008 LIVESTRONG Challenge. I’ll ride 100 miles in San Jose supporting the cause of fighting cancer and he...

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Semantify - Automate Your Semantic Web SEO in Five Minutes - ReadWriteWeb

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Flickr: The Desire Paths Pool

Party at CNet [Flickr]

Dan Harrelson posted a photo: I passed some sort of gathering in the CNet courtyard on my walk to BART.

Worst Food for Your Tummy

From the New York Times Worst Fast Food Meal: McDonald’s Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips with creamy ranch sauce. Chicken sounds healthy, ...

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About & contact · Touch UX Magazine - The User Experience Magazine Avant Game: The Lost Ring - the alternate reality game for the 2008 ...

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IxDA Discussion: The Five Types of Prototypes IxDA Discussion: [Iai-Members] What do you want to hear—prototyping panel at the IA Summit HAN...

Mouseover for Detail

As anyone who follows me on Twitter can tell, I am shopping for a new road bike. I was on Trek’s site this morning reviewing their Madone 5.1...

Mouseover for Detail

As anyone who follows me on Twitter can tell, I am shopping for a new road bike. I was on Trek’s site this morning reviewing their Madone 5.1...

Watch out for Cyclists

Three or four friends have passed me this, so I figured that it was post worthy.

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the Awesome Highlighter - be nice, highlight

Dangerous Bay Area Roads for Cyclists

The media is keeping on the “stay off the roads or you’ll die” trend for cyclists. This started a week ago after three roadies we...

Me, starting St. Paddy's Day early [Flickr]

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Hooman is Irish? [Flickr]

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The crowd at Irish Bank [Flickr]

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Trek Founder Dies at 73

Dick Burke, the founder and chairman of Trek Bikes died last Monday at age 73. In 1976, with $100,000 in seed money … and a hunch that a high...

Berkeley Tree Sitters, Please Leave

For the last 15 months environmentalists have been sitting in trees, in Berkeley. The activists are protesting the removal of oak trees on campus. ...

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Gridding the 960 ~ Authentic Boredom

Bay Area Cyclists Killed

The San Francisco Bay Area’s cycling community is reeling from the tragic loss of two professional road racers last Sunday. A third rider is ...

Smaller is Better

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the size of things. In doing so, I’ve decided that in many cases, smaller is better. Community...

Come and Celebrate Adaptive Path’s Seventh Anniversary Party

Join us on Friday, March 21 to celebrate Adaptive Path’s Seventh Anniversary Party with beer, wine, and — of course — the Taco Truck. This ye...

Analytics and Testing are Just Design Tools

I am sitting at the tail end of a SXSW panel tackling the question “Does A/B testing kill design?”. Throughout the session I am constan...

Analytics and Testing are Just Design Tools

I am sitting at the tail end of a SXSW panel tackling the question “Does A/B testing kill design?”. Throughout the session I am constan...

Bike Folds to Fit in Backback

Check out this concept bike. It starts out full sized, looks pretty dope in its bike shape and folds up to fit into a backpack. Watch the creator i...

Native Mobile Apps Versus Mobile Web Apps

I recently wrote a post on the Adaptive Path blog positing that calling native mobile apps dead is premature. This is the stance taken by a former ...

Dolphins Gone Wild

Tonya just finished an Public Service Announcement for Project Blue. The video is an entry to the Surfrider Foundation’s contest where the wi...

Google Maps Should Support Biking Directions

I was directed today towards the petition for a “bike there” feature on Google Maps. One of the Cal Poly Wheelmen directed me there. Wh...

Managing Experience

There’s still space available for Adaptive Path’s MX San Francisco event, taking place April 20-22. This year’s event focuses on ...

White People Like Bikes

My colleague Dan Saffer pointed out the “Stuff White People Like” blog. It’s freaking awesome, especially the post about bicycles...

Deleting All Messages

Today, using Yahoo! Mail, I reached Inbox Zero. I noticed that deleting the last message in a folder triggered the app’s “delete all...

Adaptive Path’s First Book

Four of my esteemed colleagues collaborated on a new book, Subject to Change: creating great products and services for an uncertain world. The book...

2008 Tour of California

This week Californians see the best of professional cycling in their own backyard. The Tour of California will take racers from the Bay Area to So-...

A Better Mobile Signal in my House

I have terrible cellular coverage in my neighborhood. The city continues to block the installation of adequate cell towers even though nearby commu...

San Ramon Makes Moves for Future Growth

The city of San Ramon, where I live, is starting the annexation process of the Tassajara Valley. Just to the east of the city’s current borde...

Is Turbotax Too Friendly?

There’s places where it’s appropriate to use colloquial and humorous language in a webapp. Tax filing software is not one them. I think...

Worlds Collide: REM and RWW

This week, two of my interests came together. REM has been one of my favorite bands for almost 20 years. I own all of their CD’s, have been t...

A Wii for Valentine’s Day

For v-day this year I bought Tracy two chocolate Mii avatars in a Wii shaped box. Chad directed me towards this gift idea and although my wife is...

Body Parts, Car Parts and Empty Envelopes

Swobo posted a user-submitted list of crazy things carried around by bike messengers. It’s a freaking hilarious list. Apparently most courier...

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