December 2008
13 posts
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When Short URLs Break
Update: 301Works.org announced to solve this problem Update 2: Google and Facebook announce their own url-shorteners. Things are getting heated… One of the wonderful aspects of the modern demo-to-market web environment (aka Web 2.0) is the rise of small, cheap utility services. Sure, they’re very often copycats that offer marginal if any improvements on the services that inspired...
Dec 29th
Inspirational Computer Interface Videos
Among the videos are a number of computing-centric futurist classics, like Sun’s Starfire and Apple’s Knowledge Navigator. Stephen Intille’s Inspirational UBICOMP Videos Dr. Matthias Rauterberg’s Videos in User-System Interaction Matthias Müller-Prove
Dec 28th
Analyst Report Says 44% of U.S. Homes Will Own... →
Dec 27th
“Know this; my friends in the iPhone Developer universe that sell/sold their...”
– Mark Sigal, on the developer-side economics of the iPhone App Store
Dec 26th
Visual Processors Help Cars Spot Objects On the... →
Interesting tech from NEC demonstrates the burgeoning maturity of video recognition technologies
Dec 26th
Dec 23rd
MINI uses Augmented Reality via a Print Ad →
Ad by Munich agencies Buzzin Monkey and die agentour GmbH drives consumers online, using a technology that is still very new to advertising. Print the ad [PDF] yourself, and give it a try on the MINI site using a webcam and Internet Exporer 6+. Technabob, Geekologie
Dec 22nd
Music Industry to Abandon Mass Lawuits →
Dec 22nd
“Nowadays, the IT department is where you go to find last year’s tech,...”
– Jon Stokes, on the ‘Consumerization of IT’
Dec 18th
The Uncanny Valley of user interface design →
An essay by Bill Higgins, imploring us to heed advice that should be obvious. A Windows application should look and feel like a Windows application, a Mac application should look and feel like a Mac application, and a web application should look and feel like a web application. John Gruber
Dec 17th
“Most large corporations are afraid of change. Successful product lines, business...”
– John Siracusa John Gruber
Dec 17th
“Instead of under-investing, think of this difficult economic climate as a...”
– Ian Schafer
Dec 9th
“It’s rare that any large/established software project manages to overcome this...”
– James Bennett, in praise of the new (and controversial) release of Python 3.0 Michael Lopp
Dec 6th