July 2012
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Facebook, Twitter and the economics of attention →
Facebook is stuck in an awkward place compared to LinkedIn, Twitter, and even Google. It’s not a “vertical” social network like LinkedIn. It’s not an “open” social network like Twitter [and] it’s not a default part of using the Web like Google is.
Point made.
May 2012
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“Originality often consists in linking up ideas whose connection was not...”
– Practical wisdom on creativity circa 1957 (via explore-blog)
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I’m currently road tripping throughout Europe. From Vienna to Brussels via Germany in a van. Right now in Germany, on data roaming on the iPhone sharing with a hotspot on the iPad while writing this brief post, reading Instapaper and Twitter.
I love technology.
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April 2012
13 posts
“Lazaridis, who shifted from circuit boards to pagers to BlackBerrys, continually...”
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Amazon Kindle: The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage (via ninakix)
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Biking in Vienna teaser
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Why RSS is not dead, will not be and the major... →
from apas.gr:
The main difference between those two (RSS, Twitter) is time-relevancy. Twitter took off for several reasons. One of them is the “instantness.” Using Twitter, a user gets to know what happens *right now* in the world, real-time, for whatever he’s interested in. RSS is not instant, yet it is contemporary.
A population density map →
This is amazing.
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Instagram for non-Believers →
Francis Dierick:
Instagram brought a lomo-like approach to photography to the iphone & to the masses. Focus on the process, not the result. Take your camera everywhere you go. Use it any time. Don’t worry about any rules. Don’t think. It’s ok to use cheap tricks to make pics more interesting. Just create. Damn the quality. Damn the cheap lenses & film. Translated to the...
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Placeme, tracking your everything →
and I quote:
Placeme may be both the scariest and amazingly futuristic smartphone app I’ve seen yet. It uses every sensor in your handset to track your activities, location and environment. It simply records everything in the background. And that creates the fullest set of personalized data I can think of: Placeme is a complete personal tracking solution.
Placeme is way beyond highlight.me,...
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“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against...”
– An elderly Albert Einstein meditates on science in a letter to Hans Mühsam dated July 9th, 1951. (via explore-blog)
PENULTIMATE Templates for iPhone Apps →
I have been using Penultimate App for iPad for a long time now. It has been my main tool for taking notes and sketching ideas due to its fantastic stylus response. With one of the latest updates, the user has the opportunity to add custom Paper Designs as backgrounds.
March 2012
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distellamap →
Seeing the operation of code in Atari 2600 games. This is a dual reprise of my dismap and mariosoup pieces that look at the code of cartridge games, and how the graphics are mixed in.
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Interrail 2k12 →
Follow this blog. My buddy Zac is doing an interrail trip starting in a few days from Vienna. I’d also be taking part but due to unfortunate circumstances, I cannot. Travel on.
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Movies as Code →
“Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.” Morpheus, The Matrix
The Shining: <?php $Wendy = true; while ($Wendy) { echo "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"; } ?>
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Things to worry about… →
Worry about courage Worry about Cleanliness Worry about efficiency Worry about horsemanship Worry about… Things not to worry about: Don’t worry about popular opinion Don’t worry about dolls Don’t worry about the past Don’t worry about the future Don’t worry about growing up Don’t worry about anybody getting ahead of you Don’t worry about triumph Don’t worry about failure unless it comes through...
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Fish: a tap essay →
This is a short but heartfelt manifesto about the difference between liking something on the internet and loving something on the internet.
It’s available for free in the App Store.
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Honest Spotify Playlists →
Only Half the Stuff I Shazamed
Pitchfork’s Best of 2011 That I Pretend I Knew About From Before
The New People are Early for Brunch Quick Just Type in Miles Davis
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Happy Pi Day →
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
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Watchkpvl:
The story of Tresor
WatchVille Vivante:
The City of Geneva decided to take the challenge to visualize these digital traces created by our mobile phones. The objective of this installation is to make this data visible and allow you to explore these streams of connected people around the city, in their everyday life.
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Space is closer than you might think →
A distance of 62 miles can covered by a car on the interstate in less than an hour. […] To show how small a distance that really is, I made the following image—the orange line in the upper left represents 200 miles away from the surface.
Click for the image. Pretty crazy.
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Scratch Markup Language (.sml) →
The F.A.T. guys did it again:
SML (Scratch Markup Language) is a new file format for recording and replaying turntablism. We’ve developed open-source tools for accurately capturing the record and crossfader movements of a scratch DJ, allowing us to analyze, transcribe, and recreate scratch performances.
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5 Innovations to Transform Cities →
With ultra-low-cost city analytics technology, we are able not only to scan all types of devices around, but to infer movement trends based on the hidden data that arise from people moving around a city, mall or supermarket while carrying these devices.
This is exceptional — and I love big data.
Empty Internet; Review of The Filter Bubble →
The harnessing / circulation of personal data for commercial interests profoundly changes not only what we currently and mostly unknowingly experience online, but also what we can principally experience in the future. Being online now means encountering information that supposedly one has already expressed a liking for, and isolated ‘filter bubbles’ populate networks, only serving highly...
“The Internet is effectively an augmentation of our brains’ memories.”
– John Gruber
