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Edward Vielmetti wonders whether there’s any significant work done on the crossover of physical and virtual communities. Thomas Vander Wal replies that his work on the local infocloud touches on this.
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Vander Wal describes his concept of the local infocloud as “information resources that are familiar and easier to access than the whole of the web”. Most importantly he includes real-world resources.
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Blue Flavor bashes the recently launched People Aggregator for its bad design. Rightly so, I guess. Perhaps PA should solely focus on delivering an infrastructure and leave the design of apps to others?
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Huge amount of persona-related resources.
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“Lovemarks are a new way of thinking about the things we love. Lovemarks are better than brands, because they are about Love and Respect: they speak to us as thinking and feeling human beings. Lovemarks embody Mystery, Sensuality and Intimacy.”
links for 2006-07-13
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Excellent description of a Backpack setup for use with the GTD system. Inspirational (if you’re a GTD-cultist).
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A good case study of bringing a wiki into the corporate arena. Doesn’t cover much that I didn’t already know (all the wiki virtues are described) but of interest because of the real-world success-story.
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Short but sweet piece by Anderson on the wisdom of crowds, co-creation and user-generated content (or “authentic media”, as Powazek would have it.)
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“design is communication! […] Design encompasses much more than you think. If you are still clinging to the idea that design is merely decoration, or that something has to be visually appealing to be successful, you are as thick as the mud you’ve been
links for 2006-07-07
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A neat app that visualizes your iTunes library. Probably too heavy to run on my poor iBook, but cool none the less.
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Macromedia mocks up a RIA that writes to RSS-like file formats and calls it a marriage of the read/write web and Flex 2. I don’t know – it comes across as a custom browser to me.
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Vander Wal would prefer to be called a technosocial architect and believes we should be focussing on the role information plays in people’s lives, not on the applications through which they get that information. I wonder how this compares to the designe
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The first in an excellent two-part interview with game design god Warren Spector: he’s firmly entrenched in the Peter Moulineaux school of design, where a game should be a series of interesting choices.
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The latest AP newsletter contains an interview with Michael Bierut, mostly on the role of visual design in UX, politics and design and being a conscious designer.
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Well known, but somehow I’d never bookmarked this one. Tog’s first principles should be observed by all IxDs.
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Google’s PayPal-killer prohibits you from using its services for selling occult goods. The question is of course, will they enforce it?
Plazes gets a major overhaul
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 even clearer plazes is all about location, location, location.
links for 2006-07-05
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Shallow piece on upcoming Mobile Web Best Practices recommendation of the W3C-MWI.
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Emerce once again proves they’re clueless by including talk about Flash Lite in a piece that’s supposedly on mobile web standards & best practices.
First few Florence shots
Before getting ready to watch the Germany vs. Italy match, I’ve managed to sort through the photos of our first day in Florence. You can go here to start at the first new one in the set. There’s around twenty.
There’s a disproportionate amount of street art shots in this batch, here’s the one I like the most:
Mobile gaming directions
Yesterday we had another fun and interesting IA Cocktail Hour. Thanks to the kind folk at Media Catalyst for the hospitality and Olly and Boyd for their presentations. I thought I’d put up the slides of my short talk on where I think (non-console) mobile gaming is or should be headed. I’ve added some notes, so there’s more than just pretty pictures to look at. If you have any thoughts to share, don’t hesitate to do so!
links for 2006-06-29
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Zeldman has a nasty experience with Flickr. He seems to have missed the notifications Flickr sends out before your account expires, but I do agree that hiding all but the most recent 200 photos is a bit silly. It always annoyed me.
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Automattic offers WordPress support and customization to enterprise users. Interesting construction. I’ve been involved in setting up a few WordPress blogs in an enterprise context and customization was one of the main issues we came up against.
links for 2006-06-28
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Excellent tool for getting organized.
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A report on the state of electronic play. Via Peter.
More Rome photos
I finally had the stamina to go throught the rest of my Rome photos. Another near 50 shots are in the set over at Flickr now. Next up is Florence!
Here’s my favorite of this batch:
