Category: Links

A way to track your reading through Twitter. Via Iskander.

Schulze & Webb’s social radio is here and it looks awesome. Very inspiring work.

“GameBrix enables everyone to create Flash games online without any programming.” Another entry into the game creation space.

Thought I’d bookmarked this already. Saw this at GDC – EA’s effort into social gaming and game creation. Pretty comprehensive effort.

“New York Talk Exchange illustrates the global exchange of information in real time by visualizing volumes of long distance telephone and IP (Internet Protocol) data flowing between New York and cities around the world.” Via Mr. Greenfield.

Could it be that makers of infoviz are reluctant to include predictions for fear of being wrong? I see no reason why the extrapolations desired by Alex aren’t feasible. People will need to be able to discern possible futures from unavoidable destiny.

“Is it less subversive to point out a problem without being able to suggest or allow the exploration of solutions?” Useful editorial in light of my upcoming talk in Amsterdam.

“Phidgets are a set of “plug and play” building blocks for low cost USB sensing and control from your PC.”

“Hello. We’re the toy designers behind roadkill. We’re not your usual humdrum toy designers though. We’re Toy Terrorists. We squash and burn and bludgeon and maim.” Subversive toys? Why not.

“I guess you could even argue that mining was closed down prematurely because Thatcher hated the miners, and that the agency business is being closed down prematurely because everyone hates advertising.”

“Design For Mobile will be the first North American mobile user experience conference.”

Video of an experiment involving a work by Tuymans exhibited in public space. Precious few stopped to look.

Time lapse video of a Banksy piece getting a lot of attention from people.

A how-to guide for making Mario blocks and putting them up in public space.

Tom’s take on Shirky’s Web 2.0 talk: “[…] most of us fall into neither the “hardcore” all-choice category […] nor the “totally passive category”; rather, we hover around the middle, scaling up and down to either end.”

“We’re processing hundreds, if not thousands of times more information per day than previous humans – how are we meant to make sense of it all if we have no downtime?” I know I feel like that sometimes.

“Acting as a “Windows Update for games,” the Raptr client keeps your games up to date seamlessly using background downloads and a lightweight interface. Raptr automatically tracks your gaming stats and achievements and shares them with your friends.”

Video of a talk by Ben Fry at See Conference #3. Some familiar old pieces and a few awesome new ones that employ gestural interactions.

Slides for Freitas’s talk at MX ’08; comparing experience design to restaurants. Two of my favorite subjects, can’t go wrong there.

“Half the UK population has grown up playing computer games. They aren’t addicted, they aren’t psychopathic killers, and they resent those boneheads – that’s you – who imply that they are addicted and are psychopathic killers.”

“[…] the entire idea seems to function more as an attitude – that new projects should be spawned by whoever has the best ideas, not who is in what place in the hierarchy, and [Google’s] culture is based on this fundamental belief […]”

A book I found through Mr. Greenfield and have been meaning to buy. Quoted here by Matt Jones.

The story of how BarCamp came to be, as told by Tantek Çelik.

Alexandra’s made a small compilation video of interactive work at the Salone del Mobile (Milan Furniture Fair). Some interesting looking work, but how is it all interactive?

I like the idea of wearables as amplifiers for behaviour, like this cycling jacket. Via Tinker.it.

Video made as easy as shooting a photo with a digicam. Looks like a nice addition to the mobile office.

The story of iconoclast developer Mucky Foot offers some good insights into the workings of the games industry along the way.

Open source alternative to WhatSize. Via Molly.

“Shapetween is a library for Processing that provides an easy way of animating elements within a sketch in a variety of ways.”

Handy tool for batch calculation of latitudes and longitudes based on addresses.

“Modest Maps is a BSD-licensed display and interaction library for tile-based maps in Flash (ActionScript 2.0 and ActionScript 3.0) and Python… …And Processing”

Silly short horror rock musical (but with pretty decent production values). Definitive proof Obama is a cultural phenomenon. Sort of.