links for 2007-05-31
May 31, 2007
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polytouchscreen and what looks like SeaDragon technology (photosynth)
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CBS will announce today the acquisition of Last.fm for $280 million, according to an unverified source.
links for 2007-05-30
May 30, 2007
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Really good round up of ‘how to scale your web app’. Loads of great presentations.
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Yup – will attend some of hackday..
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Cluetrends Manifestation.
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“We built it for ourselves and basically launched it to our friends.” The PR line for Web2.0. Use it or lose it.
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Mr. Jobs understood, however, that his stores would sell not merely products but also gratification.
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Groupsites are powered by CollectiveX and combine the best features of websites, blogs, listservs, and social networks. This site is a meeting place that provides members of 24weeks with a shared calendar, discussion forums, files and member profiles.
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Bruce Sterling on design: video. Grab a coffee and kick back.
links for 2007-05-29
May 29, 2007
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what a super slow communications device might be
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“I think ‘propositions’ and the thinking behind them (sales, persuasion, messaging) is generally rubbish.”
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Lost was so attractive to advertisers that Channel 4 was tempted into giving the 36-minute episodes a slot of 65 minutes in order to cram in as many commercials as possible. This tactic drew censure from the broadcasting watchdog Ofcom.
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Guide to the best seats on a tube. Very good.
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Interactive game for choosing the best urinal.
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zeroinfluencer as ascii portrait
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Each sector of these piecharts is proportional to the area of the colour on the respective flag
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Programming the LOL way. All LOLCats, LOL, ALL CAPS.
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The entire prologue and first chapter of David Weinberger’s new book, Everything is Miscellaneous.
links for 2007-05-28
May 28, 2007
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Using some fairly sophisticated programming and tracking hardware, peoples’ movements are recorded and translated into an animated mixed-media mural that reflects the creative license afforded by the new Adobe CS3 software package.
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Fleeing the cubicle for the kitchen, this iron lets you cook up a keyboard of tasty carbs every morning.
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This series is part of an ongoing research on visual ways to dissolve pornographic imagery in abstraction and absurd.
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lonelygirl15 spinoff chapter
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Where is the new Black
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“Web Design is 95% Typography”. So, that’s 5% non text media huh? Hmm.
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The creators of the online phenomenon “Lonelygirl15” have joined forces with social networking site Bebo to create a British spin-off story that will use brands to help define the characters.
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Open source winemaking . Crowdsourcing the grape. Opening the bottle, if you will.
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Platforms. Useless platforms. Lose the users and they become irrelevant.
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Not cheap and cheerfull. Free and useful.
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Lindsay Kemp is a British dancer, actor, teacher, mime artist and choreographer. Most notably Kate Bush and David Bowie.
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I can imagine many villagers showing them the bird. Who, outside Islington, drinks smoothies? One to watch me thinks.
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Both Ruby, Rails, and their underlying infrastructure have come a long way in recent months, and this article will get you to a leaner, meaner Rails install in less time using fewer steps.
Hacking vs. Interestingness
May 27, 2007
Right, I’m attending with Bob and Keith, though I’ll be arriving late on Saturday as Interesting2007 is happening during the day. Armed with a laptop and copy of VVVV, I’m looking to do some audio and visual synthesis at Hackday based upon web API calls.
Judging by the size of the venue this is going to messy. Fun, but messy.
It’s a shame these 2 events are overlapping in time. Both are encouraging the media meddling mentality. Interesting2007 is encouraging/challenging the emotions of engagement, whilst Hackday is exploring the techniques of engagement.
links for 2007-05-27
May 27, 2007
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General Motors is asking Saturn dealers to have one or more of the competing models in the showroom so customers can look at it, sit in it and drive it.
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artist. technologist. meddler.
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Well, sort of. On the StudioDell site where they have all their DellTV-ish howtos and infos, they’ve got a new 5 minute video called: “Linux 101: What’s all the Fuss?”
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reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher.
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Here are 4 AJAX Training and Implementation Documents that will give you a greater understanding of AJAX and demonstrate how to implement applications using it and how to migrate your web applications to this technology.
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“One way or another we all have to integrate.”
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Maybe they can call it The Sims: The Movie. Electronic Arts has sold the movie rights for The Sims, the best-selling computer game of all time, to 20th Century Fox, Variety said Friday.
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“The founders of the next Google are eating yellowtail tonight”
links for 2007-05-26
May 26, 2007
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wall mountable printer
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Ghost Cowboy is about real tales from the 19th-century American frontier, when the Old West was young. Most of the posts here are actual news items from the 1800s and early 1900s.
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“The sooner we view the web as a process, not a place, the quicker we will understand it. It’s two flows. The flow of information and the flow of attention. “
links for 2007-05-25
May 25, 2007
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“Elahi has documented nearly every waking hour of his life during that time. He posts copies of every debit card transaction, so you can see what he bought, where, and when. A GPS device in his pocket reports his real-time physical location on a map .”
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Ad in which three blokes get a taste of Paradise as they go on a trip. If Carlsberg organized holidays, that’s what they would be like…
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It is their job to drive a tangerine coloured camper van, armed with six CCTV cameras, a gyroscope and various other sensors, up, down and around the highways and byways of Europe to check the accuracy of the firm’s digital maps.
links for 2007-05-24
May 24, 2007
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The MagicMouse is a true 3D mouse. Users can move the cursor about the screen simply by pointing and moving their index finger.
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One of the best strategic game designers I know.
links for 2007-05-23
May 23, 2007
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Mozilla has 90 employees and revenue of more than $100 million in the last couple of years.
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Platform Pr0n
links for 2007-05-22
May 22, 2007
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Liberating your Tuesdays from meetings.
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Google and Salesforce Poised for Deal
IF true THEN massive change to commerce WHERE applications become smart enough to see MS pushed into changing their office strategy. MS will seek rich media experience leaving Google to ride the data.
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The (Bayesian) Advantage of Youth. Many-to-Many:
In the last 15 years or so, I’ve had to unlearn every one of those things and a million others. This makes me a not-bad analyst, because I have to explain new technology to myself first . It makes me a lousy entrepreneur.
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Pac-Man’s skeleton – SlashGear
Ever wonder what Pac-Man’s skeleton would look like?
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Managing-Innovation.com aims to provide instructors and students in the area of innovation and technology management a place to find resources to help them in their learning and teaching.
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Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium tests. It is implemented as a Firefox extension, and allows you to record, edit, and debug tests.
“Get your ass off my salad bar.”
May 21, 2007
myspace = ghetto
facebook = mall (shopping centre)
blogs = suburbia
facebook = bikesheds
digg = bus stop
google = neighbours fence
twitter = down the pub
linkedin = clubhouse
delicious = Garden allotment
secondlife = Anywhere, whilst drunk
WoW = Scifi Rugby
youtube = hairdressers
Bebo = village hall on a friday night
skype = telephone
AIM = water cooler
internet = salad bar
Really, where is disruption in our lives with online services? Where is the innovation? Where is the remarkable?
That’s the problem with pluralism and convergence. Exponential shifts are harder to see when network values modulate each other, defining each others identity.
As code and interaction increase each others ubiquity, you begin to develop perceptions of engagement; this maybe physical, mental or social.
As software negotiates with interaction, metaphor language assists in lowering access to entry. Inversely, how do social normals inform software development? This constant invariance, the basis to asymmetrical communications, is under the command of user experience and user interface ‘architects’. Both design by committee and design by author has been replaced by design by beta. But, the role of mediator (nee editor) holds the responsibility of social Velcro.
If we’re encouraged to rewire the web, we will fall prey to simulacra. Optimising for happiness is not a technology solution, nor is it editorial. Working with the flaws in communication, engagement and interaction makes life richer.
So consider changing some of your habits and watch how the software adapts.
links for 2007-05-21
May 21, 2007
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Looking like Tron picked up a racket, Blackminton is a faster, nighttime version of badminton where players covered in fluorescent paint hit a glow–in–the dark shuttlecock on black–lit courts.
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GrandOpening is a store.
links for 2007-05-20
May 20, 2007
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I looked around the crowd and, every now and then, a real punter would look up and I could, for a brief moment, feel the hate.
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Open source as open source
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