Interesting piece from Salon.com mirroring what I observe from people in this business. I’ve known people who left their IM status permanently active to give the illusion that they were always working. Reminded me to George Costanza leaving his car parked in the lot to seem like the first to arrive and last to leave. [...]
Check out “Closing the Digital Frontier“ in The Atlantic, h/t Slashdot. It’s hard to argue with the premise that sanitized platforms with apps on top will eventually bring the downfall of the interwebs as we’ve known it for 15+ years through a browser. Isn’t it? I’ve been thinking about this, and it really does make scary [...]
Interesting stuff. Yes, the Android Market needs some cleanup, but then again, isn’t much of this more a reflection of the interwebs, where thar be dragons. Compare this to the sanitized App Store, complete with its quirky approval process and Big Brother-approved content. Jon Lech Johansen\’s blog The points about billing and for-pay app development [...]
I have a smug desire to point out that AT&T, the primary reason a lot of people won’t buy an iPhone, has expanded its smartphone offering with another Android phone. Namely, the HTC Aria, which runs watered down Android. AT&T locks down Android again with HTC Aria Yeah, I did an informal poll about reasons [...]
This blew me away; Hitwise reported that “facebook” was the top search term across the three major search engines (Google, Yahoo, and Bing) in March 2010. Dig deeper and you’ll find that some variant of “facebook” accounted for eight of the 30 total spots. Data collected by Hitwise I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, since [...]
Photo by Arenamontanus on Flick used under Creative Commons You probably know we think a lot about games and game mechanics here. This is largely Paul’s doing, since he’s done a lot of thinking about what makes games fun and if/how the fun of games can be applied to other typically un-fun activities, namely work. [...]
Reid and Audrey's map helped Portland PD find the boom. I present the following story not to make a point about social media, the utility of Twitter, the power of the real time interwebs or any of that. The only reason I’m sharing it is that I love the hacker spirit and what geeks can [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]