March 2010
A quote from Anil Dash
In a year, when every website is covered in full motion video ads instead of Flash animated ones, we’ll rue the day the iPad launched. Anil Dash
Something I noted a while back, but Anil puts it better. No ClicktoFlash for html5 video too, still publishers will be happy…
Unlink Your Feeds: A Manifesto. →
Listen. You need to unlink your feeds. I understand why you did it. I’ve made the same mistake myself. But it’s hurting your friends, it’s hurting you, and it’s hurting the Internet. You need to stop. You need to stop automatically dumping your feeds from one account into another…
Go read the whole thing
The iPad needs its HyperCard - O'Reilly Radar
The iPad needs its HyperCard - O’Reilly Radar: “What’s missing today is HyperCard, or an equivalent tool that can be used to create a new wave of applications for the iPad”
Absolutely, the iPad needs more content creation tools than just iWork and the omnigroup apps, I’m hoping for web friendly scripting database tools too.
Putting people first » Book: Ubiquitous computing...
Smart Things Ubiquitous computing user experience design Mike Kuniavsky - The world of smart shoes, appliances, and phones is already here, but the practice of user experience (UX) design for ubiquitous computing is still relatively new. Design companies like IDEO and frogdesign are regularly asked to design products that unify software interaction, device design and service design — which are all...
Photoshop 5 Content-Aware Fill Sneak Peek
YouTube - Content-Aware Fill Sneak Peek, breathtaking. If you’ve not seen this it is worth watching all three, especially the last multi-photo panorama expansion.
Amazon.com's Two-Pizza Team Rule →
Amazon.com’s Two-Pizza Team Rule: “If a project team can eat more than two pizzas, it’s too large.” Verner Vogels
(Via Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino.)
The Little Fella on Vimeo →
The Little Fella on Vimeo
Cute, surprising video of animated dog, the cat videos in the same account are great too
iPad Application Design » Matt Legend Gemmell
iPad Application Design » Matt Legend Gemmell: “The iPad is a target for apps from the desktop, not just from smartphones. There are some very interesting opportunities here.
We already have iPhone apps on the iPad (they can run at their native size in the middle of the screen, or be scaled up to fit). That’s useful, but it’s not particularly interesting. Far more relevantly, we can...
LRB · Will Self · Diary - on In Our Time
LRB · Will Self · Diary: “In time she grew accustomed to blind TV – now she’ll even listen to In Our Time with some enthusiasm, although I’m not convinced she’ll ever be quite enough of a dilettante to surrender fully to a programme that instructs rather than educates, and flatters its listeners with the implicit message that it is better to be very broadly shallow than deeply bored into any...
“Blog platform down ahead of upgrade. It’s like Apollo disappearing behind...”
– @manuscript, Steve Scott
Oh - my editor's surprised cat
Oh.: “ Eilonwy cat marvels at snow deeper than she is.”
(Via simonstl.com.)
morning sounds, the drone of radio4, birds tweeting, the obstinate no of the three year old…
…xx http://flic.kr/p/7GZdki
The xx were atmospheric and great live at shepherds bush, good fun evening
hootsuite has perhaps the most ridiculous timezone drop down I’ve ever seen, 450 elements with (GMT as the prefix for most
and they want my twitter password, I’m sorry hootsuite but no.
In a very much changed shepherds bush for the xx gig later, been a while since I was out this way
what an odd couple of days, now excited on one part and anxious on another…
that was quite something well done canada
remote working in a cafe in leyton while central line mends itself
“Detrained” at leyton due to ill passenger at bethnal green, central line suspended - looks like it’ll be a long journey to work
Change of name chopped onions
And change of purpose, no more echoes of elsewhere. Just the stuff that doesn’t warrant a full post on take one onion.
