ive been meaning to write about this conference for more than a week now but things have just kept on popping up. as i said in a previous post playful was a different type of games design conference not only featuring game designers in fact i think there were only two that were actually just that but mainly people who were passionate about games and had a different perspect...... [Show More]
playful Post Source: rooreynolds.com Posted: Nov 01 2008 15:06:32
here are my notes from playful .
james wallis spaace woke us all up by blowing our minds.
why are they called plays when there is no play
2 types of entertainment spectacle and narrative
oulipo
the story of three alert peas first interactive fiction you can try it for yourself here
oulipo treats both the writing and the reading as playful. la dispar...... [Show More]
london to boston Post Source: adactio.com Posted: Oct 11 2008 01:43:04
when i bump into someone i havent seen for a while i am often greeted with a remark along the lines oh im surprised youre actually in the country. hardeeharhar. thats my cue to point out that because going to foreign climes is different and exciting thats when im more likely to write something here on adactio.com. but i spend most of my time in brighton going to the ...... [Show More]
dopplr has announced stage two of its funding which includes a decent roster of angel investors. i was lucky enough to get involved in this round alongside esther tom saul and others.
i think matt and matt have done a great job at dopplr. both are capable of producing a product that is very sympathetic to what users want. and the whole team inc lisa marko and dan has done a g...... [Show More]
message queues are cool. its official. now banks and financial institutions have been using big enterprise java message systems for years. but its only really over the last year or two that the web community at large have got interested. wonder what all the interest is in erlang scala or haskell distributed systems and a lack of shared state hopefully leading to some sort ...... [Show More]
on friday i attended dconstruct in brighton which is a great conference looking at designing the social web.a for the keynote speech steven johnson from outside.in spoke on the urban web.a he recalled a story of a cholera outbreaks in londons soho in the 1850s which were found to be centered around one particular pump on broad street by investigator john snow and local r...... [Show More]
dconstruct 08 Post Source: usabletype.com Posted: Sep 03 2008 23:42:00
ill be attending dconstruct on friday down in brighton. its my 4th year running and its one of the conferences on the circuit that i generally dont want to miss. since the inaugural event back in 2005 when just 70 or so people got together in fabrica to talk about the latest buzz web 2.0 theres been a very special vibe around the oc...... [Show More]
to the rca for innovation night tied in with the colleges summer show. the evening included awards for students in the helen hamlyn centre which uses peoplecentred design to support independent living and working for ageing and diverse populations.
focusing on the needs of people often ignored by mainstream business and design is obviously a good thing and no matter how young and he...... [Show More]
live blogging media futures conference 2008 . track 1 skills in the innovation processmd ashresear ch design development facilitated by andy hobsbawm . ian worley monotone waffle of some sort or other banalities about research. or rather bad presentation skills later edit research is a technique for creating a gut feeling. david lipkin great design insights from the creators of...... [Show More]
etech is over Post Source: donotremove.co.uk Posted: Jun 09 2008 07:00:00
etech is over and a great time was had by all. our presentation was dogged by technical difficulties that meant i ended up using old slides but everyone seemed to enjoy it regardless. with hindsight i think charles and i should have been more clear with our objectives the talk wasnt about collective intelligence per se but rather complexity and how that effects interface decisions... stil...... [Show More]
as is customary or as customary as twice can be here is a quick roundup of the sessions i attended at media this year with links to slides where available which as i type this is pretty muchunava ilable41 .
sessions which i found particularly interesting should be covered in more detail later and ill update here as i find morepresentations.
de...... [Show More]
xtech 2008 Post Source: www.bbc.co.uk Posted: May 12 2008 12:07:51
last week dublin saw a gathering of software engineers information architects and technologists to discuss the web on the move at the annual xtech conference.
for years we have been developing and promoting open data standards enabling data portability. recent developments have led to webwide programming apis and virtualization. its no longer just our data on the move its...... [Show More]
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links for 20080507 Post Source: rooreynolds.com Posted: May 07 2008 09:56:46
boris johnson facts the writers of lost asked boris how they should end the series. aftera chucknorri sfacts.com
nyt microsoft may build a copyright cop into every zune the consumer wants there to be quality premiumproduced content and in order for that to continue to be a viable business there needs to be significant protection around it. ...... [Show More]
in case you didnt notice yesterday was earth day. im not a big fan of whateverdays but thereve been a couple of interesting events in the last 24 hours that stimulated my interest.
first dopplr added a carbon calculator service. discussing it last night with mattb i mentioned the fact that for the first time a web two service makes me feel guilty and felt a bit asha...... [Show More]
in case you didnt notice yesterday was earth day. im not a big fan of whateverdays but thereve been a couple of interesting events in the last 24 hours that stimulated my interest.
first dopplr added a carbon calculator service. discussing it last night with mattb i mentioned the fact that for the first time a web two service makes me feel guilty and felt a bit asha...... [Show More]
contacts added Post Source: guttertec.onaswarm.com Posted: Apr 19 2008 00:51:38
you added these contacts on friendfeed.com
johannes kleske
you added these contacts on soup.io
jens ohlig
you added these contacts on twitter
amanda mooney
andreas dittes
andreas kupfer
andrew badera
ayrkain says
bbc technology
barcamp ruhr
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social xmpp Post Source: feeds.nata2.org Posted: Mar 26 2008 03:26:16
last week my friend mark pinged me and mentioned that i should get together with a friend of his who was in town for pycon. i am always into meeting new people so i had dinner with brian dorsey . it was awesome. i was able to rant and rave about all my ideas interests and whatnot with new and possibly interested. brian immediately suggested that he introduce me to a friend of his who he though.... [Show More]
para concluir la paranoia por haber comprometido la informacian de mi disco duro os informo de que he revocado mi clave pgp y ya no es valida como firma ni para cifrar. si no sabais qua es una clave pgp os recomiendo que leais un artaculo que escriba al respecto hace un tiempo . si aun con todo no tenais ni puta idea de qua es esto de las claves podais ignorar completamente este...... [Show More]
laptop stickers Post Source: rooreynolds.com Posted: Mar 24 2008 11:38:05
ever since the dedicated followers of fashion post about laptop stickers used a photo id snapped of cory doctorows heavily stickered thinkpad ive been an even keener observer of laptop stickers and their owners. ive been avidly photographing them uploading them to flickr and tagging them laptopstickers . here are a few examples.
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that was playful Post Source: www.pokelondon.com Posted: Mar 11 2008 18:26:45
on friday a bunch of pokers went to a rather splendid event called playful httpwww .thisispla yful.com the event was part of the london games design fringe but was supposed to be a bit broader and more well playful than some of the other events in the program. and playful it certainly was. from learning about roos hacking the xbox guitar through to proceedural development of t...... [Show More]
todays verbal delight features semantic web hacker and philosopher tom morris initially talking about
using xml to describe realworld things mentioning the advantages of rdf. he
then describes his experiences with the ruby programming language and offers
thoughts on practical aspects of working in the distributed environment of
the web. tom tells of ideas he has around using...... [Show More]
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