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Incredible book containing 999 design classics. Must have, to buy, etc.
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Huzzah! Matt Webb will be speaking at Reboot 8. His talk was one of the highlights last year, looking forward to his talk on “Making Senses”.
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The apparent grandaddy of facetted navigation systems has gone open source. Some of the demo’s are really nice examples of the power of facets.
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“Radio frequency identification is a technology that is now rapidly developing. […] to what uses can this technology be applied that are not in the logistical realm? […] This reader compiles a number of resources on the technical and philosophical asp
Month: April 2006
links for 2006-04-26
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This book looks interesting, a look at what it means to do interaction design for the mobile platform. I’ve read the first chapter. The style is slightly academic and the approach is quite comprehensive.
Random brick writings
An awesome random phenomenon in Woerden, the Netherlands: Just after moving into his new villa, André van Zuilen noticed the word “dick” on the front of his house. An act of vandalism by a disgruntled construction worker or coincidence*?
Original article in Dutch over at AD.nl. Via Edwin.
- We all know there’s no such thing as a coincidence right?
links for 2006-04-19
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Fun with GPS receivers — this site has an excellent gallery of writings & drawings made over the earth.
links for 2006-04-18
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A US hospital has set up a design lab. They’re designing new hospital interactive systems and evaluating present spaces. Nice example of the application of design in “new” areas.
links for 2006-04-14
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Up With Grups — The Ascendant Breed of Grown-Ups Who Are Redefining Adulthood — New York MagazineAn extremely readable piece on adults that refuse to grow up. Contains photos by Ari Versluis.
Going to Reboot 8
Registration’s done. I’m going!
links for 2006-04-13
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Coates talks to old school media about “social media”. He’s not sure what the term means, but in his ever so eloquent way gives a nice overview of the phenomenon.
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A rather clueless piece by Newsweek on web 2.0. This is a good reminder of the fact that what makes sense to the average technologist is still far from mainstream thinking.
Een internet der dingen (open.info.nl)
“De web 2.0‑hype een beetje beu? Moe van het bijhouden van alle start-ups die als paddestoelen uit de grond blijven schieten? Maak je borst maar nat, want er volgt spoedig (weer) iets nieuws. Niet web 3.0 (het web-OS), maar iets écht nieuws: het internet der dingen Parallel aan al het social software-geweld en de semantische web-discussies doen interactieve media al enige tijd moedige pogingen om de sprong van bits naar atomen te maken. Dit veld wordt gedomineerd door een wirwar aan termen, zoals: “tangible computing” (populair gemaakt door Nokia-researcher Chris Heathcote), “ubiquitous computing” (vaak afgekort tot het onooglijke “ubicomp”), “everyware” (een vrij nieuwe term) en lastpakken als “blogjects” en “spimes” (bedankt Bruce Sterling). Mijn voorkeur gaat uit naar “internet of things”, getuige de titel van deze post.”
links for 2006-04-07
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Some observations on where mobile gaming is headed. From a CES panel.
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Powazek lashes out at the term “user-generated content” and instead proposes the use of “authentic media”: “Authentic media is what happens when the mediators get out of the way and give the mic over to the people who actually have something to say.”
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Morville raves about the arrival of Everyware, a new book on ubicomp, the internet of things, etc. Sounds interesting, to buy.