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
WatchMarko 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
Watch(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
WatchWhat 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
WatchTristan 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