Submitted by Antonella
from Google Reader:
I recently started using Tumblr about a week and a half ago on the recommendation of my friend, Hiten Shah. I have to admit, that I was really skeptical about whether I would need / enjoy / find use for another microblogging or content sharing service. I was also perplexed how Union Square Ventures could invest in both Tumb (Read More)
Submitted by Mahendra
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I’m following the stories of the Google Chrome OS release today and am a bit concerned about some of the claims that are being made. Mashable even goes to the extent of predicting Google is going to “destroy the desktop” with it. Google is banking on the fact that many users use their computers solely for accessing Twitte (Read More)
Boxes and Arrows:
Prior to becoming a senior UX designer at Popular Front Interactive, I spent two years as a mobile UX researcher within the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Mobile Technologies Group – a lab tasked with both future-casting and then rapidly prototyping innovative mobile experiences.As I transitioned from academia to industr (Read More)
Boxes and Arrows:
IDEA2009 had the world’s foremost thinkers and practitioners converge on Toronto’s MaRS Convention Center to share the big ideas that inspire, along with practical solutions for the ways people’s lives and systems are converging to affect society. Listen and learn from experts in a variety of fields as we all continue the (Read More)
Submitted by Jgmize
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I’ve had a read of ‘Robust vote sampling in a P2P media distribution system‘. It is a very interesting research paper. The idea that grabs me most is the one about using gossip-based network systems to decentralise metadata. Let me explain; if you think of a book on Amazon, it comes with lots of additional information as (Read More)
Submitted by Loucypher
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You want to develop an iPhone app that interacts with Flickr content? This sounds pretty good. And the Flickr API provides you with an authorization workflow that is particularly adapted for this device. And Flickr members love their iPhones.An authorization workflow you say, but why? Let me step back for a moment. First (Read More)
Submitted by Loucypher
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Today at Kynetx Impact Conference Kynetx is changing the future of Web Identity and privacy as we know it by taking the power away from the server and moving it over to users’ desktops, mobile phones, or other client-based technology. Dr. Phil Windley, company CTO and co-founder in his keynote shared that the web client is (Read More)
Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog:
This post is reproduced with permission from Robin Brown’s blog. Brown is a freelance writer and new media blogger. The explosion of the web may have caught out newspapers and a lot of journalists, but early adopters have been able to thrive in an environment where one man’s threat is another’s opportunity. Certainly the w (Read More)
Functioning Form: Interface Design:
As Google's Android operating system appears on more devices, more companies are extending the platform to develop custom user interfaces for their products. Though Google freely distributes Android and allows anyone to adapt its open-source components, they maintain control of the services (applications) they distribute wi (Read More)
Submitted by Jeffpaul
from Google Reader:
Warm and wonderful greetings from Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC), in Los Angeles, where we are very excited for Seesmic to be part of the epicenter of some of Microsoft's biggest platform announcements.In our Day 1 Keynote: along with Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect at Microsoft, we are extremely p (Read More)
User Experience Network:
This coming Monday, 23 November, there will be a coffee meetup in Civic, Canberra for local freelancers and entrepreneurs to meet and connect with other like-minded professionals. If you’re a user experience design freelancer then come along and share your experiences and learn from others from different industries.RSVP now (Read More)
The HR Capitalist:
You can't write them better than this. A disgruntled customer of American Airlines writes up a hard blog post on what's wrong with the AA website. Even goes so far as to draw up a new design for AA. Posts that on blog for the world to see. Interesting from a social media perspective, right? More from the guy in questio (Read More)
Submitted by Loucypher
from Google Reader:
Okay, maybe it’s not that cut and dry (the earth hits meteors all the time – they just disintegrate before hitting ground). Tonight about half of all my Utah friends all at one time reported a light, as bright as day, ascend in a blue-green aura from East to West. For some reason I missed it, although I was up during the (Read More)
Submitted by Loucypher
from Google Reader:
We have TweetDeck and Seesmic as the leading Twitter desktop clients and today Seesmic is making a move to step in with Seesmic for Windows. No this isn’t an update to its existing application, but a full fledged program for Windows that will utilize many features of Windows 7. The project has been in working for quite som (Read More)
DotNetSlackers Latest ASP.NET News:
The first keynote of Microsoft’s PDC 2009 conference in Los Angeles has come and gone. Ray Ozzie kicked it off with some of the main messages that gave everyone insight into how Microsoft sees the direction of IT, programming, processes, and more. It was an interesting session that really focused on a few things, but most i (Read More)