March 2009
16 posts
WatchInfographic-style retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, by Tomas Nilsson, and set to Röyksopp Information Aesthetics
Everything I Learned About Game Design I Learned... →
Slides* from a talk at GDC by Scott Rogers. The core concepts here are applicable for any content-driven creation, especially if it is interactive. Boing Boing
* Check back later for video & audio of the talk
Toshiba's interactive billboard controlled by... →
The sign, which promotes both the company’s laptops and the display itself, allows both passers-by and YouTube-goers to play a game simultaneously.
10 things a web designer would never tell you →
Douglas Bowman
Building Fast Client-side Searches →
In order to deliver fast-on-the-wire and fast-in-the-browser searching through tens of thousands of records, the Flickr team toyed with (and abandoned) JSON, and rolled their own solution. One that parses over 10k entries in less than 200ms. Jason Kottke
Measuring the Design Process →
John Gruber
The electric car you subscribe to →
This is an extended interview (original) with Shai Agassi, CEO of Better Place. The company is audacious, pioneering, green, smart, and well-funded.
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Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable →
Clay Shirkey puts forward an impressive and well-argued essay on why the essential economics surrounding newspapers has irreversibly shifted, and why no existing models adequately fill the gap.
His central premise revolves around the high costs of print distribution, and how today’s all-too-easy-to-share environment changes the nature of both information dissemination and consumption.*
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“Any economy which charges ever less for ever more intrusive ads will eventually...”
– Mandy Brown John Gruber
Hadoop gets support, spotlight →
An open-source implementation of the system Google uses to crunch astonishing amounts of data, Hadoop is finally coming out of the shadows. New firm Cloudera plans to sell support for the technology.
“The best argument against web fonts, however, isn’t legalities—it’s aesthetics....”
– Håkon Wium Lie
“Technologies are simply some of the raw material from which important companies...”
– Saul Hansell
Opera Fingertouch →
Ever click on the wrong thing on your touchscreen phone?
Accepting the fact that your finger is a poor substitute for a stylus, Opera Fingertouch highlights clickable items when ambiguity exists. The items fly to the fore, in an animation reminiscent of Apple’s Exposé. John Gruber