Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Looks like great effort went into this childrens iPhone app: ABC Oddity / Nice infographic on The Effects of Bike Commuting on Obesity. I’m actually pretty surprised that even the fitter countries have obesity rates as high as 34%. / Calling all Cars – remote engine slowdown, auto maintenance alerts, remote door unlocking, the cars of the future are upon us and they’re pretty darn sophisticated. / Principal researcher at Microsoft, Bill Buxton gave a talk at last weeks Future of Web Design which was certainly one of the more interesting ones (progressive enhancement using CSS3 was just given too much stage time, and that’s coming straight from the mouth of a CSS lover) / Tintin, nice sketchbook on Flickr / Madelyn’s invite to her very first birthday / Susan and I have been hooked on brussel sprouts this season, but usually of the roasted variety. Looking forward to giving this shaved brussel sprout salad a go. / Ember Media Manager seems to be the most stable app for managing cover art and .nfo files for your XBMC installation.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
The CSS working Group is looking for feedback on CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3 working draft. CSS3.info did a nice job of pointing out the specific sections of the spec they’d like feedback on, and provide you with a spot to leave that feedback. You have until November 17th, 2009 to share your opinion, so get to it. / Speaking of CSS3, Opera is organizing an event that will cover all things Cascading Style Sheets, Friday Nov 20th – A free conference titled Standards.Next. Throw that in to round off your week of the Future of Web Design and the Web Expo 2.0 and you’ve got yourself a fantastic week, here in New York City.
Friday, November 06, 2009
Baby Sound Board, a small app for your child with original illustrations to entertain and teach your little ones. Coming soon to the most popular platform in the world. / Tonight, Friday Nov 6, 2009 Stephen Key is having a solo show at Yes Gallery in Greenpoint Brooklyn. / Nice set of wood textures on Flickr / Photogrpahy of a marijuana harvest from Good Magazine / Mark Bittman on what’s wrong with what we eat, add this to your list of good food related information intake. Locavore was 2008′s word of the year, I’m late to this game. Mr Bittman points out, between 1950 and 2000 the world’s population doubled, meat consumption increased 5 fold. Eat plants! / My first thought when I came across this Monsanto advertisement was that it belongs in Total Recall in one of those ‘holy cow, the future is really messed up‘ type of contexts. Down with GMO’s, let’s go soda tax!
Saturday, October 31, 2009
The game for the site that has kept me busy for quite some time now, DJHero.com is now available for purchase. / Nice looking point and click game machinarium / This New Yorker cover has everyone talking. The mailing address on my copy obscured the illustration enough for me to miss the people holding iPhones, until I saw the cover illustration online. Ironic, no? / dog people go to parks, cat people sit inside on computers / Facebook now accounts for 1 in 4 internet pageviews, holy smokes! Get in on that traffic, you’d be amazed at how very targeted your Facebook advertising can be. / Please stop trying to put screens in front of my face / Halloween
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Recently I mentioned Facebooks great walls are holding back garbage, with regards to a must read Wired article titled Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out.
Facebook’s personalized search, widely accepted as their best path towards maximum monetization, is becoming increasingly less relevant as our real social connections, both online and off, now have the ability to rise to the top of the most coveted spot online; Our search results page. Google Social Search is a just launched, opt-in experiment within Google labs.
“It’s strongly connected to Google Profiles and Gmail. For example, if you add a link to your Twitter page on your Google profile, Google will find the people you follow and the content they produce: blogs, photo albums, videos, reviews. If your query returns useful results from your social connections, Google will display the results at the bottom of the search results pages.” Also Included in your search results are items from your Google Reader subscriptions and websites, public profiles, and other content linked to from your friends’ profiles.
Social search includes results from the public connections of your immediate circle of friends. In other words, friends of friends are counted as members of your social search. Think of them as ‘friend of a friend’ recommendations that take place in the real world more often than we may realize. Your trusted sources are also being included in your social circle via the content you’ve chose to subscribe to in Google Reader.
What makes Google’s approach to personalized, or social search, more relevant than Facebook’s is that Google is using content of a much higher value. Content that your immediate circle and extended circle are creating and trusting on the rest of the internet. Add this wide network to your search and you’re looking at seemingly limitless, very high value, and pretty damn relevant, search results.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Apple has patented CSS transforms and CSS animation properties! Since Apple has decided to not support the latest unified Flash Player this would make it seem they’re going their own route with the mega popular iPhone. Wow, this is pretty darn ballsy. I wonder the implications this will have on webkit and non-webkit based browsers alike, and of course, the future of Flash on the mobile platform. This will certainly garner the attention of big media in the near future. For now it’s low on the radar. | View an example of CSS animation and CSS transforms if you’re using a recent build of Google Chrome or Safari.
The Awesomeness Manifesto made the Twitter rounds a couple of months ago. I’m ready to talk about it now: Point taken, innovation should include “Ethical production, Insanely great stuff, Love and Real Value”. But to apply overarching economic theory to such low levels of the goods and services creation process is kinda silly. Re-branding “innovation” as “awesomeness” adds very little value, in my opinion.
Nice Flickr photostream | I adore these bookshelves, just as soon as my baby girl’s balance improves and the square footage of our apartment increases. | Google PowerMeter’s first device partner – Making Google Power available to everyone, currently on backorder. | The flu is really only a problem if you watch cable news, right? Have a look at Google’s Flu Trends. Legitimate concern, or is the tail wagging the dog? | The illustrations of Meg Hunt | James Bond squirrel- Mission Peanuts | ualuealuealeuale | How to use tabs in Google Chrome
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Fortune Magazine’s Why business loves Charlie Rose and some interesting words from the article: affectation: a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display. primacy: the state of being first in importance. protean: Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms. seriatim: in a series; one after another. canard: a deliberately misleading fabrication. | The banner image comes from the set of Holga images taken by Susan and myself during last summer’s cross country move.
Monday, October 19, 2009
“Looking for design in the Supermarket (as opposed to a specialty retailer like Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s) is a bit like bird-watching indoors. To end up here, Design ideas need to trickle down well past the middle-brow and survive extreme pressures of low margins and fast turn.” | Amazon Introduces same day delivery | Google launches Fetch as Googlebot within webmaster tools | I need a firplace for these Burning Cities Firescreens.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
A few months ago Wired Magazine wrote a piece about the potential of Facebook surpassing Google search in Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out. Their largest argument to make this point:
“At press time, [Facebook] was also planning to launch Facebook Search, allowing users to scour one another’s feeds. Want to see what some anonymous schmuck thought about the Battlestar Galactica finale? Check out Google. Want to see what your friends had to say? Try Facebook Search.”
The future of search most assuredly involves your network of friends, family & peers, but the spot for that search will not be Facebook. Their largest hurdle is that Facebooks Great Wall is holding back a Great Mound of useless garbage.
I’m convinced that the content within Facebook will never rise to a level of usability required to dominate the internet in the fashion Wired believes. Facebook, or someone else specializing in this type of content will always thrive, but will remain as they are today; a completely separate, much less useful version of some other kind of web.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Some fantastic walks in New York are coming up for the week of October 18-24, including “Sustainable Skyscrapers: Times Square Goes Green”… learn about the reactive interiors and intelligent materials that make up the Bank of America Tower and six more of the city’s greenest buildings. | Some Lectures of interest are taking place soon at SVA, including Jason Fried (37Signals), Callie Neylan (NPR) and Matt Mullenweg (WordPress), amongst others.
Over 1,860 issues, covering the years from 1936 to 1972 of Life Magazine are now available on Google Books. Get started by selecting a thumbnail from the thumbnails of every Life Magazine available. Dig into an individual magazine via scans of each page. More details on the Google Books blog. Google Books, Making printed material collections less relevant by the minute. Well, more relevant.
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