HTML5 is picking up adoption and has increasing developer interest. Look for example at this basic but elegant drawing program called Harmony. Hit Save to get a PNG (pronounced “ping”) of your artwork. Jolly.
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Entries Tagged as 'Interesting'
Harmony: HTML5 Drawing App
March 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Inspiration, Interaction design, Interesting, technology
Tags:html5
Another Blogger Down
March 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Interesting, social media
After yesterday’s goodbye from Spolsky I’ve read today that Alex Payne (engineer at Twitter) also quits blogging for the time being. His rationale:
Lately, I’ve found the cathartic returns from blog-format writing to be diminishing. The ideas I’m trying to express never really get put to rest in my head when I write, now. Instead, they [...]
Spolsky Quits Blogging
March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Inspiration, Interesting, Observe, technology
Joel Spolsky founder of Fog Creek software and blogger at Joel on Software is quiting blogging with a modest marketing campaign. Perhaps he is right, perhaps he is wrong. I personally appreciated his blog even-though his articles were often print-quality level. Like a true blogger he says goodbye with an insightful personal post with some important lessons:
To really [...]
Tags:blogging·joespolsky·marketing
YouTube: A Storytelling Mechanism
March 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Inspiration, Interaction design, Interesting, technology, video
YouTube is a true marvel of an alternative storytelling mechanism. You start with one video and you yourself determine how the plot continues. I’ve pasted a storyline of myself:
Sunglass Catch
“Catching Glasses” Explanation
Gondry Shoes
And so each person creates his/her own story — no director required. Not surprising one of YouTube greatest innovation is the related video-feature.
Tags:storytelling·youtube
Video: Gifford on True Tuesday
February 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Inspiration, Interesting, Trends, technology, video
It seems Dutch media-companies are flooding Silicon Valley by interviewing tech folks. This video is part of series made by Dutch hosting company True and is called True Tuesday. Below I’ve embedded the 2nd part of an interview with Michael Gifford with some valuable insights. Mr. Gifford has considerable experience on the hardware-side of media technology (e.g. SUN, [...]
Tags:truetuesday·xbox
Fixation
February 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Interesting, Observe
What if — opposite to one’s believes or studies — a person actually performs better doing a completely different job? It seems several people around me are ‘caught’ in this behaviour. Even if I cannot look inside theirs hearts and minds, they do seem to be aware of it themselves as well. But due to [...]
Tags:career·maslow·motivation
Video: Mac Startup Sound
February 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Inspiration, Interesting, technology
Nice video by Dutch Mac-bloggers One More Thing in which they interview Jim Reeskes, the person who created the Mac startup sound.
Tags:apple·mac·startupsound
Documentary: Food Inc. – Hungry for Change
February 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Inspiration, Interesting, Trends, documentary
Although most people are probably aware of most things being said and shown in Food Inc. It is saddening to see how modern or civilized societies have been detached from nature and its pulse. Tomato’s all year round as well as fast-food being cheaper than grown food. Food Inc. shows us a modern food story from patented seeds by Monsanto [...]
Thoughtless Acts on Steroids
February 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Inspiration, Interesting, Observe, Participation
A trademark of American product-design I almost dare call it. Observing how people really use or abuse products is what gave IDEO and alike their reason of existence. The book from IDEO designer Jane Fulton Suri called Thoughtless Act? Observations on Intuitive Design is from 2005 but still very relevant. The book is a collection of observations on [...]
Improve readability with Readability
February 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Inspiration, Interesting
Every since David Pogue wrote about Readability it is buzzing around the web around Readability. Readability is a bookmarklet which improves the readability of text. It does so by (temporary) transforming the text of webpage in a book-like styled text without any clutter in a readable font on a plain background. See the video below [...]
Tags:bookmarklet·readability
