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Friday Linkfest

Here are these week’s interesting reads:

• What I learned in four years at amazon. My favorite part is how he says innovation and frugality go hand in hand. My least favorite part is how he doesn’t say what job he had there.
• How designers fail. More about attitude problems among young designers (sense of entitlement) but a good read nonetheless.
• Whatever Happened to ? – Nice list of tech products that dominated for awhile and disappeared. Anyone remember Hayes modems? This list is for you. It’s an inventory of case studies of innovators dilemma.
• 10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of | How-To | Smashing Magazine – #9 is the killer that makes me want to hunt web developers down and make them use their own pop-ui 5000 times a day.
  
• Why advertising is failing on the Internet – This article has some major assumptions that I don’t think pan out, but it’s well written, relatively short and makes it’s points clearly.