February 2008
40 posts
Low Story Delta
1 A state in which a game’s plot and gameplay are so intertwined that neither would work without the other.
Coined by Valve’s portal team - Game|Life
“The iPhone’s cell phone origins belie a simple truth — it’s a Mac in disguise.”
– Paul Kafasis, The iPhone Trojan Horse
The Ebb and Flow of Movies - NY Times →
Fun and attractive visualization of box office receipts from 1986-2007. [via John Gruber]
“Agencies don’t spend nearly enough time strategizing for ourselves. We...”
– Unnamed UK digital agency director, to Eric Picard, Automating the Ad Agencies - ClickZ [via FutureLab] [Emphasis mine]
Celebrating the Semicolon on NYC transit - NYT →
Girls predominate on the social web - NYT →
“The object is an entryway into the continuing relationship with the company....”
– Bruce Sterling - Wired
“Simplify my life, eliminate the complexity, surprise me with magic — these...”
– Lee Green, director of corporate identity and design at IBM - Wired
“Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive...”
– Paola Antonelli, curator of architecture and design at MoMA - Wired
Computer Administrative Debris - Cathy Shive →
[via John Gruber]
“We encourage [the creatives] to design something that’s not too real. If...”
– Arimasa Naitoh, “father” of the ThinkPad, encouraging creative tension between designers and engineers - BusinessWeek
“Let’s face it, mobile software is just not as rich as the hardware. Something...”
– Rich Miner, group manager of mobile platforms at Google - NYT’s Bits [Emphasis mine]
“…In the mobile world, Flash is rare, not ubiquitous. … If Flash does...”
– John Gruber, on why you should really stop wondering when Flash will come to the iPhone. In order to push Flash in the mobile space, Adobe itself suggests using Flash lite. No mobile phone on the market now or in the near future will have the processing power needed to run the Flash that has become...
Super Tuesday's Gadgets - Gadget Lab →
… and continued. Evidence of the right and wrong ways to adopt new technology. “For technology’s sake” is never the right answer.
“TripIt is a beautiful example of the Figure It Out school of user interface...”
– Joel Spolsky
Remaining smartphones may get iPhone-quality web... →
Unlike Mobile Safari, plans to support Flash Lite.
“If you give truth serum to the executive of any phone company — and believe me,...”
– Michael Rayfield, GM of Nvidia’s mobile business unit - Gadget Lab
The Web's Biggest Names Throw Their Weight Behind... →
Forrester: Agencies Need to Reboot - AdWeek →
The rub: Ad agencies need to get “geekier”, while digital agencies are still lacking in branding chops.
The Evolution of Tech Companies’ Logos - Neatorama →
CBS & Loopt to test GPS-based mobile ads - NYT →
An Open Letter to Steve Ballmer: Focus, focus,... →
by Arik Hesseldahl [via Fake Steve Jobs]
Verizon Rejects Hollywood’s Call to Aid Piracy... →
Kudos to Verizon for their logical, pragmatic reasoning surrounding this issue.
Super Bowl XLII: personal favorites
Coca-Cola: It’s Mine
Audi: Piranha
Coca-Cola: Jinx
CareerBuilder: Queen of Hearts
It’s Official: U.S. Social Networking Sites See... →
[via The Register, Fake Steve Jobs]
Mindset List for the Class of 2011 - Beloit... →
Beloit’s annual list of things that are universally true for a new generation. Favorites include:
They grew up in Wayne’s World.
MTV has never featured music videos.
They get much more information from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert than from the newspaper.
Food packaging has always included nutritional labeling.
[via Boing Boing]
Nintendo DS mixed-reality treasure hunt - Pink... →
Clever, and similar to Disney’s efforts.
Leica Introduces Perpetual Update Program for M8 -... →
Leica should be commended for eschewing the ‘eventually-disposable’ model that every other digital camera manufacturer banks on.
MacBook Air Teardown Reveals iPhone Multi Touch... →
By putting this chip in a niche product like the Air, this may be Apple’s way of ‘beta-testing’ multitouch additions to the Mac OS. What is not clear is whether or not multitouch will live as an add-on to the experience, much like the Newton-derived Inkwell technology, or if there are any plans to place it in a more prominent role.
Woody Allen's (mostly consistent) typography →
[via Daring Fireball]
“[Second Life is] still a system with 200,000 different users each day. And...”
– Philip Rosedale, Second Life founder - Der Spiegel [Emphasis mine] [via Newser]