May 2012
11 posts
LinkedIn Forgot the “Me” in Social
All social begins with me. Social...
– LinkedIn: Social Interaction Design Lessons Learned (not to follow) - 2 of 2 :: Personal InfoCloud
Marko Ahtisaari’s speech about ‘Patterns of Human Interaction’ at Copenhagen Design Week (by Nokia Danmark)
Marko is fantastic as usual.
Thanks to the Berg Friday Links I found the Suit up or Die Magazine and Cut the...
– HTML5 Demo Watch :: Off the Top :: vanderwal.net
Optimizing Facebook’s CSS back in 2009 was a memorable project. They had...
– Velocity Profile: Nicole Sullivan - O’Reilly Radar
part of building for the web is accepting that everything is in a constant state...
– In Flux | Trent Walton (via adactio)
The sad truth is that to win on the Internet you have to do good reporting and...
– This is so much that is fantastic in this article, the whole thing is worth a read.
Alexis Madrigal in The Atlantic (via kthread)
I’ve long held contempt for free, and while ads are not free — they are also...
– ‘I Can’t Go For That’ — The Brooks Review
After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman in her 80′s stood before me....
– The Cab Ride I’ll Never Forget | Zen Moments - This story is a real gem
April 2012
14 posts
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Oh, I’m not worried,” Jane McGonigal said. “I’m a gamer. I’m used to failing.
– Jane McGonigal, Designer of SuperBetter, Moves Games Deeper Into Daily Life - NYTimes.com
It called me names!
Sorry. Don’t take it personally. This is about as...
– Klouchebag | The Standard for Asshattery
The hypothesis underlying our work is that the character of an urban area is...
– Livehoods
So 16 percent of bestselling titles are exclusive to the Kindle Store — and the...
– Daring Fireball Linked List: Good Quarter for Amazon
CrowdStar’s CEO Peter Relan said in an interview that the longtime social games...
– CrowdStar No Longer Developing Social Games for Facebook - Tricia Duryee - Commerce - AllThingsD
(via Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - Slow Jam The News with Barack Obama (4/24/12) - Video - NBC.com)
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Valve is different.
Gabe tells it this way. When he was at Microsoft in the...
– Valve: How I Got Here, What It’s Like, and What I’m Doing | Valve
Major changes are unfolding in organisations, however, that are reshaping how...
– Six keys to the digital workplace » Step Two Designs, James Robertson
March 2012
6 posts
In this respect, part of what sets cities such as New York and London apart...
– Cities must be cool, creative and in control - FT.com
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, directed by Chad Freidrichs, explores the complex set of...
– In Defense of Pruitt-Igoe - Housing - The Atlantic Cities
Yet the demand to do that work on an iPad and from the cloud is seriously huge....
– What the New iPad Won’t Do | Cloudline | Wired.com
So by all means, lets keep having fun. But let’s also remember that the goal is...
– I’m getting sick of the bullshit | Seth Levine
February 2012
16 posts
Then there’s Flipboard, the iOS app for browsing status updates, pictures, and...
– Clive Thompson on Analog Designs in the Digital Age | Wired Magazine | Wired.com
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Stitching in Dreams
Discussing dreams with someone this popped out:
“Great things have come out of them. My dreams get wild and near real at conferences & reading cross discipline deeply in short periods of time. I often think my sleep and dream time is stitching together of disparate ideas and trying to make a whole view created from a collision space of ideas gathered from a day.”
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In Turing’s 1950 paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” he argued that...
– Q&A: Hacker Historian George Dyson Sits Down With Wired’s Kevin Kelly | Wired Magazine | Wired.com
Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are...
– Q&A: Hacker Historian George Dyson Sits Down With Wired’s Kevin Kelly | Wired Magazine | Wired.com
An ontology is a conceptual map of a domain: calendars, mass transport, weather,...
– JOHO - February 20, 2012
This is how culture develops: insular groups create their own vernaculars,...
– JOHO - February 20, 2012
The speakers saw informality not as the negation of planning but as a variegated...
– polis: How Should Architects Approach Urban Informality?
Cory Doctorow, a novelist and columnist for the Guardian, commented at the Boing...
– Google admits tracking Safari users | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Place is reflective of health. Studies have shown that people living in urban...
– Design is Preventive Medicine - WORLD PROPERTY CHANNEL Global News Center
The recurring theme: Apple is fighting against cruft — inconsistencies and...
– Daring Fireball: Mountain Lion
What Can Enterprise Apps Learn from Consumer Product Design? GigaOM Net:Work 2011 (by tvnportal) Thomas Vander Wal talks with Bernd Christiansen - CTO, Citrix Online Services Division and Claudia Kotchka - Innovation Advisor, Consultant, former VP of Innovation Design and Strategy at P&G
Tristan Perich: 1-Bit Symphony (Part 1: Overview) (by Tristan Perich)
Simply brilliant.
As an artist who probably makes a substantial income from licensing his music,...
– Neil Young is right — piracy is the new radio — Tech News and Analysis
It’s not just that experts are vulnerable to confirmation bias—it’s that they’re...
– Highlighted by Alper Cugun in The Filter Bubble
Twitter‘s global advertising revenues are forecast to grow to $540m by 2014,...
– Megaupload users could soon lose all their files | FT Tech Hub | FTtechhub - Industry analysis – FT.com
January 2012
12 posts
You can also e-mail a copy of all your notes. Just tap the iPad’s screen to call...
– Tip of the Week: Making Notes in iBooks - NYTimes.com