This video is awesome and brilliant, even if you don’t care for the song. There’s so much going on each second that it’s difficult to focus on any one thing.
Even more interesting, you might notice it’s a single Steadicam shot, no cuts. Apparently, that shot took 60 takes over two days to get. Wired has [...]
Thought of something interesting (see disclaimer) yesterday, namely observing the evolution of how design solves problems with software.
Take a common requirement for the interwebs and its viewer, the browser, like wanting to view more than a single web page at a time.
In the first few iterations of browsers, this was possible only by launching multiple [...]
Happy holidays everyone. I got you a heat map. Do you like it?
I’m technically on vacation this week, but I cannot take a vacation from the Interwebs. While browsing feeds yesterday, I saw this post from Gizmodo titled “Foursquare, As Seen by the Predator”.
My crush on foursquare is well-documented, and I’ve always liked “The Predator“, [...]
Photo by davidseth on Flickr used under Creative Commons
Since last week’s post on the interwebs and fear, a couple other un-related posts have come across my reader that have me pondering the future of our beloved intertubes.
First was Chris (#mrhashtag) Messina on “The death of the URL“, followed by Tim “What is Web 2.0″ O’Reilly [...]
The good thing about having a blog without a narrow focus is that I can blog about pretty much anything.
And I do.
Case in point, auto-tuning. Until a few months ago, I wasn’t familiar with the practice of auto-tuning, which applies effects to people’s voices. I guess it’s usually applied to singer’s voices to give them [...]
The Word from the Web – 11/06/2009
The chatter about the show on the InterWebs is slowing down a bit, but we still found some interesting reading about your experiences at Oracle OpenWorld 2009. If you haven’t been featured in our Around the World series, take this opportunity to add your two cents in our comments [...]
After several days under the weather, I emerged today to several thousand unread feed items.
Normally to get through a lot of content, I scan the titles of the items for interesting stuff before reading further. Today, I think I passed up PhotoSketch (h/t Techmeme, Gizmodo) at least four times before it stuck, but when it did, [...]
So, I’m back from my brief hiatus.
Interestingly, traffic spiked on Friday the 4th when I posted that note. Not entirely sure why, but maybe some of you saw the post title in your readers and thought something noteworthy had happened. Sorry to disappoint.
Part of the reason I took time off was to perform parental IT [...]
So, I take a couple days off and Facebook buys FriendFeed. A bit ironic considering there hasn’t been much to discuss lately.
Chet cordially invited me to comment on the acquisition, and even though I planned to anyway, let’s just give him credit for being the tipster.
Image by nestor galina from Flickr used under Creative Commons
There [...]
Another interesting tidbit from earlier in the week, also forwarded to me by tipster Chet, was an announcement (h/t TUAW) from USAA, a privately held bank and insurance company.
Surprising, since bank’s haven’t been getting a lot of good ink lately.
USAA plans to update their iPhone mobile banking app to allow certain customers to deposit [...]