January 2012
3 posts
N.A.S.A. Feat. Kanye West, Santogold, & Lykke Li -...
N.A.S.A. Feat. Kanye West, Santogold, & Lykke Li - Gifted (Flirtphonic Remix) by Flirtphonic
Tumblr geht wieder los.
Nach einem langen Winter wird’s hier wieder blühende Landschaften geben. Naja, mal sehen.
November 2008
1 post
ever more focussed
I stopped using FriendFeed now. I am not likely to tumble much either.
I think I’ll have to start a proper blog soon. Yikes.
rainer ftaghn
July 2008
2 posts
Changes to my Tumblog
I stopped syndicating my Google reader Shared itmes just now. I will only tumble fro the web now. for my shared items, check out either Greader itself, my twitter-stream or FriendFeed.
Google learns to crawl Flash →
Posted by Ron Adler and Janis Stipins, Software Engineers Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners,…
June 2008
6 posts
The new internet traffic spikes →
Theo Schlossnagle, author of Scalable Internet Architectures, gave a great explanation of how internet traffic spikes are shifting: Lately, I see more sudden eyeballs and what used to be an…
BBC Rejects hCalendar Microformat Because Of... →
The BBC have announced that they’ll be removing hCalendar microformats from their online programme listings, because of the accessibility issues with the ABBR design pattern.
To…
Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3 typography showdown →
Ralf Herrmann’s typography blog has a great post up comparing the type handling of Safari 3, which doesn’t support kerning or OpenType layout features, with Firefox 3, which does in theory….
FriendFeed and The Future Of Distributed... →
Interview with FriendFeed
Steve Gillmor and I did a video interview with Bret Taylor from FriendFeed. There are some interesting responses and content in here and it expands on a few points that…
Web Culture And The New Ethos Of Work [From... →
I gave a presentation at the recent Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, entitled Web Culture And The New Ethos Of Work. The text below are the slide notes I developed prior to the presentation, but…
May 2008
3 posts
The Social Revolution: Why The New Web Matters →
[I gave this talk at the Next08 conference a few weeks ago, in Hamburg.] What is the web worth? How would you go about valuing it, if you had to? Is it worth all the tea in china? If…
Urban Research: Shibuya vs. Marunouchi →
Shared by Rainer
ah, shibuya.
Last September we compared Sugamo and Harajuku and found so many interesting differences in the urban design for young people and the elderly. Today, PingMag…
Microsoft Bails, Yahoo's Google Threat Appears to... →
Posting what I was just sent:
Microsoft Withdraws Proposal to Acquire Yahoo!
REDMOND, Wash. — May 3, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced that it has withdrawn its proposal…
April 2008
5 posts
With Nile Guide, You Can Whittle Down Your Travel... →
Usually when people decide it’s time for a vacation, they don’t start from absolute scratch. They have ideas as to what types of experiences they’d like to have, even if they have no clue as…
What makes a design "Googley"? →
Posted by Sue Factor, Writer, User Experience Group Late in 2007, our User Experience (UX) group—which does user interface design, visual design, user research, web development, and user interface…
AlertThingy, The FriendFeed Desktop Application,... →
AlertThingy, the Adobe AIR desktop application for FriendFeed that we previewed last month, has just launched. It is one of the first applications built on the new FriendFeed API.
The…
Sharing My Location Just the Way I Like It →
I’ve been waiting eagerly for FireEagle. It launched at ETech (video & Radar post). It’s Yahoo’s service for brokering locations. The app itself is very simple and clear; it’s the way it…
Announcing Project Virgle →
Posted by Sir Richard Branson, President and Founder of Virgin Group In my life, I’ve had a lot of exciting adventures and launched a lot of ambitious business ventures. I’m delighted today to…
February 2008
3 posts
Ohne -ophon und jetzt auch ohne e7. →
Und ein Teil Deiner W??rme bleibt auch bei uns.
Ohne -ophon und jetzt auch ohne e7. →
Und ein Teil Deiner Wärme bleibt auch bei uns.
Social Graph API: One small step for Google, one... →
By Tim O’Reilly
Google’s announcement today of the Social Graph API is a major step in the development of what I’ve called “the Internet Operating System.” In a nutshell, what the Social Graph API does is to lower the barrier to re-use of information that people publish about themselves on the web. It’s the next step towards the vision that Brad Fitzpatrick and...
January 2008
3 posts
Is OpenSocial Social at All? →
There was a lot of hype surrounding the launch of OpenSocial. Mike Arrington reported about a “select group of fifteen or so industry luminaries [who] attended a highly confidential meeting at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View to discuss the company’s upcoming plans to address the ‘Facebook issue.’” As the post unfolded it began to sound like a Hollywood movie, or at the least a television...
The Costs Of Being A Creative →
I was sitting here, at 6:45am PT, having just gotten off a conference call about the design of my greatest obsession, Workstreamr (about which more is forthcoming in a few weeks, I promise), and I happened upon a tweet from my dear friend, Hugh McLeod. Hugh has a written a post on the the costs of being a creative (which, no surprise, includes the backhanded appreciation of the benefits of such a...
Towards a Design with Intent ‘Method’ - v.0.1 →
As mentioned a while back, I’ve been trying to find a way to classify the numerous ‘Design with Intent’ and architectures of control examples that have been examined on this site, and suggested by readers. Since that post, my approach has shifted slightly to look at what the intent is behind each example, and hence develop a kind of ‘method’ for suggesting ’solutions’ to ‘problems’, based on...
November 2007
7 posts
The 9 most badass Bible verses →
Funny Cracked article about nine “badass” parts of the Bible. (When did Sylvester P. Smythe’s humor magazine start using such naughty words?)
We’ve all been there. You’re walking along, minding your own business, when a gang of cocky, young bastards start hurling abuse at you. Most of us would just keep walking, or maybe, yell some insults back or flip them the...
Video of ultra creepy animated dentist training... →
This frightening animated robot is for training dentists. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather practice dentistry on a white cockroach.
Simroid’s body and control system was developed by Kokoro Company Ltd., creators of the Actroid receptionist robot. Like her Actroid sister, Simroid is equipped with a system of air-powered muscles and soft silicone skin. However, she has...
Theory And Practice Of Conceptual Design →
I have been spending the last few days working on the design for a new social application (still hush-hush project), where I am working with some outside designers. I recently presented a workshop in Berlin called Building Social Applications, and one section dealt with an approach that I use for designing social applications. The full presentation can be found at slideshare, here. (Wow: just...
Studie: The end of advertising as we know it →
Eine sehr interessante Studie des IBM Institute for Business Value. Die empirische Untersuchung berücksichtigt 2400 Konsumenten und 80 Kader der Werbeindustrie. Neben den USA, Japan und Australien reicht die Umfrage auch nach Deutschland und England. Ein paar Kernaussagen: - Nutzungszeit Internet hat Fernsehen (ist je länger je mehr ein Background Medium) bereits überholt. Hauptunterschied ist,...
Dopplr's Berlin Release: Trip Pages and a... →
By Brady Forrest
Dopplr, the traveler’s social network, punctuates its releases with conferences. Today they are announcing the Berlin release to coincide with the Web 2.0 Expo Berlin. In it they are including a number of features that they have trickled out since their last release (Amsterdam to coincide with Picnic). In it they are releasing trip pages, a blog badge (viral marketing),...
OpenSocial: It's the data, stupid →
By Tim O’Reilly
While I’m a huge fan of the idea of an open social networking platform, I’m bemused by all the enthusiasm over Google OpenSocial. As I sit with what I learn, the mild skepticism I expressed the other day has turned into full blown disappointment. This is nothing like the social network operating system that I got so excited about when I first heard Brad...
Gadgets that changed the world →
I must applaud the individual who compiled the list of 101 gadgets that changed the world. It’s even in alphabetical order! You might scoff at some of the ‘gadget’s as they may not fit the mold in which we think about gadgets today, but they were gadgets way back when, so keep that in mind as you trickle through. It’s a great list that includes the condom, Gameboy and bra. Is there anything...
October 2007
7 posts
BBtv: Zombie Yoga. 100 undead doing poses in the... →
Today’s Boing Boing tv episode:
The invite said “Bring a Yoga Mat - Dress Like a Zombie.” When filmmaker and Boing Boing pal Jason Wishnow set out to create a trailer for Scott Kenemore’s new book “The Zen of Zombie : Better Living Through the Undead” (yes, people make video trailers for books!) a vision came to his brrraiiiiinns. Why not gather 100...
Decapitated doll head pencil sharpener →
Last night my daughter and I watched the Night Gallery episode about the killer doll from India and it freaked her out (in a good way).
I probably should get her this Living Dead Dolls pencil sharpener, which reminds me of the creepy killer doll from Night Gallery. (Aww shucks — it’s sold out.)
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Why your cellphone headset cord is always in a... →
By Tim O’Reilly Since I just made mention of Science News in my response to Scoble’s comment on my blog entry about tech blogs all drinking at the same watering hole, I thought I’d point to an actual Science News story that might be of interest to the Radar audience: Math Trek: A Tangled Tale. Go read that article, about an experiment by Dorian Raymer and Douglas Smith at the...
Light →
The lighting set from Minimal Tokyo’s Spielfilm generating an algorithmic response to the sound - walking the line between abstraction and visual closure. In the future perfect clubbing experience - our ever sensor filled world has, for medical purposes and insurance discounts extended to monitor our bodies in real time - your heart rate, pupil dilation, body’s reaction to the world...
Visualizing Fitts’s Law →
Introduction In preparation for the redesigns and overhauls we implemented in Wufoo, I took some time to revisit a few HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) fundamentals with the hopes of gleaning something new out of the decades of research dedicated to making interfaces easier to use. One thing that surprised me was how most of the material was pretty dense, heavily geared towards mathematicians it...
Compete.com Analyzes How Facebook Users Spend... →
By Tim O’Reilly
There was a great post a couple of weeks ago on the compete.com blog about how Facebook users spend their time. It’s all summed up in a nifty graphic to boot. This is a great information visualization, packing in lots of useful information. Not unsurprisingly, people spend most of their time browsing profiles, but using applications is getting up there in terms of...
More Adobe AIR Apps →
Lots of new Adobe AIR applications are launching today at the Adobe Max conference in Chicago. In addition to those in the previous post, they include: —A new Adobe Media Player that lets you watch shows in Flash either online or off and manage your shows in an iTunes-like application. Videos from CBS, PBS, Yahoo Video, Blip.tv, Revision3, and others are available. —A dedicated eBay Desktop for...
September 2007
4 posts
iPhone & iPod: contain or disengage? →
Back when we had commies to worry about, someone came up with the concept of “engage and contain”: eg, rather than avoid them as we’d been doing, we should trade and talk and travel there, and by doing so be able to contain their evil. Similar ideas exist today on China and Iran (And, honestly, people — do we really worry about being attacked by Iran? Really? Is this even...
Social Networks And Group Formation →
This is the first in a three-part series on academic research that illuminates social networks, of the most important trends in design today.
Humans suffer from information overload; there’s much more information on any given subject than a person is able to access. As a result, people are forced to depend upon each other for knowledge. Know-who information rather than know-what,...
Pixelsebi unterstützt das Open Social Web →
Today, Joseph Smarr, Marc Canter, Robert Scoble, and Michael Arrington released A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web, calling for services to support a more open approach to identity information. The document is simple and effective: We publicly assert that all users of the social web are entitled to certain fundamental rights, specifically:
Ownership of their own personal information,...
Mobile Internet Update - 10 Fehler des mobilen Web... →
Eigentlich sind mobile Internet Seiten kleiner, einfacher und schneller als Ihre Desktop-Brüder. Da liegt die Annahme nahe, dass diese Seiten auch entsprechend schnell erstellt sein müssen. Theoretisch stimmt das schon, wenn jedoch das Ziel der Seite eine möglichst grosse Nutzung ist, dann muss man sich noch einge mobil spezifische Gedanken machen. Im Folgenden ein Versuch die zahlreichen...
August 2007
5 posts
Google Earth’s Hidden Surprise: A Flight Simulator →
We’ve always known that Google has wanted to challenge Microsoft’s desktop dominance in a number of areas, but to date we didn’t know that extended to gaming.
Hidden inside Google Earth is a secret Flight Simulator that takes full advantage of Google’s extensive satellite imagery.
To access the hidden feature, open Google Earth and hit Command+Option+A (note it must be capital A) or Ctrl+Alt+A...
New Release 2.0: Information Visualization →
By Jimmy Guterman If you spend much of your time in meetings, chances are you’ve been confronted with a slide that attempts to tell a story. It might look something like Peter Norvig’s witty reduction of Lincoln’s thrilling Gettysburg Address to a soporific PowerPoint deck. The examples we see in corporate conference rooms now are less funny but just as useless. One of the few positive side...
Visual clutter detection →
David Pescovitz:
MIT researchers have designed a software tool that measures “visual clutter.” According to the scientists, the system could someday help designers create better displays, maps, and data visualizations and steer our attention in various ways. The prototype tool, written in MATLAB, is freely available here. From the MIT News Office:
“We lack a clear understanding...
34 More Ways to Build Your Own Social Network →
A few weeks ago we posted 9 Ways to Build Your Own Social Network, a review of several hosted, do-it-yourself white label social networking solutions. Conspicuously missing from that round-up were many additional companies that specialize in the creation of social networks. These companies were intentionally overlooked in the first post because we wanted to focus on self-service websites. In this...
July 2007
16 posts
Cleaning up with carpets →
Following the recent post looking at aspects of casino and slot machine design, in which I quoted William Choi and Antoine Sindhu’s study - “[Casino] carpeting is often purposefully jarring to the eyes, which draws customers’ gaze upwards toward the machines on the gambling floor” - Max Rangeley sends me a link to the Total Influence & Persuasion blog, discussing casinos’ carpeting strategy...