Category Archives: links

Lion or Bear? Self-Tracking and Social Identity Users can change roles over time – the device vibrates when your state changes, but you can only see what role you’ve taken on by “mating” your device with another person’s device, giving … Continue reading →

Bean “Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor), designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is Open Source, fully Cocoa, and is available free of charge! MS Word, OpenOffice, etc. try … Continue reading →

An Easy Way to Earn an MLB Salary This is interesting. Meta-betting of sorts. I guess it’s only the same as buying a share in a racehorse. What Don’t We Know About the Pharmaceutical Industry? Four doctors give insights into: … Continue reading →

The Long Now Foundation Every now and then, you discover something ridiculously good and wonder how you’ve not managed to find it before. This is one of those things (thanks Sophie). I’ve only listened to two of the podcasts so … Continue reading →

Dynamic traffic simulation Love this (from Interconnected). I’m no programmer, but I see this as a useful model for expressing the concepts/benefits of OOP. In fact, when I was studying for my MA, I tried to build something like this … Continue reading →

Happy New Year people. I begrudgingly stayed in this evening (it’s Friday). Here’s the guff I looked at: Star Wars and UX Okay, I freely admit to being lured in by the Star Wars thing but there’s some great material … Continue reading →

Google My Location Old news obviously. But great news. Lots of interesting (which led to this) follow-ups. Interaction 08. Hmmmm, this looks rather good. Edenbee is coming Shameless nod to a project we’ve been working on. Super excited about this … Continue reading →

Social Network Transitions Fred Stutzman with a well-written post highlighting the relative strengths/weaknesses of object-centric and ego-centric networks. I completely agree. Do pretty people earn more? An oldie but a goldie. This confirms it, I’m investing in male grooming products. … Continue reading →

I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with Kars Alfrink recently. Kars writes a highly recommended blog for anyone interested in the convergence of gaming, social software and mobile. Liking Flickr’s new photo upload page — multiple file uploads and a … Continue reading →

Too busy to post at the moment. Here’s some random guff: Megan Jaegerman’s news graphics A week’s worth of time, money, and resources Dot Grid Sketchpads Gridpads Data Visualisation Feast Timely reminders Wes Anderson is (nearly) back. Still one of … Continue reading →