Voyeuristic tendencies on social networks are easily exploitable. And LinkedIn apparently keep good track of it. They made this nifty holiday greeting. As LinkedIn allows you to see ‘Who’s Viewed Your Profile?’ many people, including myself, find themselves clicking there every once and awhile. To drool over “potential future employers” or just to discover their friend has viewed their profile. This time Snow E. Man had viewed my profile.
By a twist of destiny I attended a one-day workshop for the development of an air quality measurement device. The workshop was initiated by Ed Borden (Pachube) and preceded by two other workshops held in Amsterdam and New York. Instead of endless philosophizing about the ever imminent Internet of Things (or IoT), this workshop was aimed at working a prototype. Name of the prototype: the AirQualityEgg.
Although my personal preparation was non-existent, there were folks coming from the UK, Belgium and even Spain. Really inspiring to see such enthusiasm around a theme which impacts us all.
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Started working on a tiny Rails-app called Elenco (Italian for ‘list’). It is basically a reformulation of the classic ’company directory’:
Such a mundane task for people to find other people within your organisation/corporation, but most of the times the solution offered: just sucks! Hopefully this will solve the problem for me and my colleagues. I will scrutinize the ‘design’ with the Laws of Simplicity.
The screens are in Dutch but I guess you get the idea. And yes this probably exists… I mean it has too! I just couldn’t find it.
Striking example of how a hostel in Milan (Italy) La Cordata preferes their own holiday over earning money. Assuming a peak of foreigners visiting Italy in august…
