Posts Tagged ‘location’

Design-Related Endnotes for MoMo AMS #7

In Articles on 2 September 2008 tagged context, diversity, events, global, interaction design, IxD, location, mobile, Mobile Monday Amsterdam, momoams, open source, regional, value with 6 comments

Yesterday I attended my first Mobile Monday in Amsterdam. The theme was “value” and in my mind, I had already equated the term with “user experience”. This was a mistake. Contrary to my expectations, the event was well outside of my comfort zone. Discussions were dominated by business and technology perspectives. I found the experience [...]

Plazes Gets a Major Overhaul

In Articles on 5 July 2006 tagged location, plazes, social software, web applications with Comments Off

My favourite social web app gets another makeover, and this time it’s major. The most important change I’ve noticed is that they’ve ditched the buddy list altogether (which was getting impractical due to large amounts of users) and have started focussing more on maps. This is a change I can only applaud; as now it’s [...]

Plazes Can Make You Famous

In Articles on 30 March 2006 tagged Bright, location, me, plazes, vlogging with 5 comments

Well – sort of. Yesterday I received a surprise visit at the office from guerrilla vlog reporter Marie-Claire. She’s doing a piece on plazes and decided to visit some people who were online in a radius of 2 to 5 km. The interviews will be posted on the site of Bright – Netherlands’ own Wired-killer. [...]