Posts categorized “Inspiration”.
Idee: Bos en Lommer Open
Sorry, this post is in Dutch only.
Al enige tijd geleden heb ik getweet hoe we in Bos en Lommer (wijk in Amsterdam-West) draadloze internet zou kunnen delen. Vrij snel daarna werd het geretweet door enkele lokale twittervaders, maar echte actie heb ik er nog niet zien. Dus vandaar dat ik er nog maar een post aan waag.
Just a form
This week we started using Wufoo for our Stayokay contact form. And it just made me happy. To create a forms I just had to drag my fields onto a form, I just needed to worry about the field mechanics (type of content, required or not, etc.).
Secondly Wufoo allowed me to add ’intelligence’ to the form by creating rules (field, page, or form). These rules make the form behave the way I want it to. For example by showing a pair of extra fields when a certain value is chosen.
Video: Hammock-drive Development
Great video to think about… and apply!
Coping with our connection addition
The trend over the last weeks on the interwebs seems to be about disconnecting. Some interesting snippets on disconnecting, or at least about our discrepancy of social media and our social lives. For myself I’ve installed two Chrome extensions Disconnect and Keep My Outs. It makes me feel sooo safe.
Taleb Quote
[...] I believe that the internet, because of the extremely high noise to signal ratio, makes communication slower and more difficult than it was in the days of letters, telegrams, & faxes. So, pace the technoidiots, it is very likely that twitter (the noisiest media) slowed down the riots in Egypt.
Donttrack.us
A collection of instruments/tools on why and how to regain privacy in your browser.
Who’s the Boss, You or Your Gadget?
NYT article on how to connect business ‘always-on’ behaviour and true social/family mode.
Work from the library
Nice article on how/why to work from a Public Library.
Airplane Mode
For lots of people I think this article just nails it: people are in fact are being a-social with their always-on technology.
Although I think the snippets above are somehow related, I do have the feeling that there are in fact two distinct topics. One is our ability to connect and retrieve information about anything ALWAYS. And the other how company’s are hooking up to this behaviour. And yet again the words of Kevin Kelly pop into my mind about the attention economy:
Where ever attention flows, money will follow.
