June 2008
20 posts
Why Less Is More And How To Unlock the Web →
Features, I’ve recently come to realize, can be obstacles. Problems. The more powerful an application is, the more specialized it is, and thus with increased power its intended audience…
Apture Simplifies the Search for Content with Cool... →
There’s a new company called Apture launching a new product today with one major objective in mind: make content-sharing easier on the Web. I spoke at length with Apture co-founder Tristan…
Amazing Art →
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Programatically Drawing Trees With Recursion →
KYOTO BOOM / BROWNINGHAM 9:30 p.m., Sticky...
kyotoboom:
Give it up for a few people making big noises. As anyone who followed the Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase earlier this year knows, Kyoto Boom kicks out new-wavy jams befitting arena stages. Drummer Duke Boyne and guitarist Dave Raymond are extremely adept and precise at what they do, but the bigness comes, most of all, courtesy of Scott Cook, who plays keyboard and bass and sings...
Use jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX to build a client side... →
Interactive Advertising's Coming Out Party →
Consider this: A viral online video phenomenon won a Grand Prix at the Cannes International Advertising Festival that was usually reserved for only the best in traditional TV advertising. A cyber…
HOWTO make giant, removable vinyl wall-stickers →
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Instructables user Britsteiner has posted a great HOWTO for making your own gigantic reusablke vinyl wall-stickers. As the instructions point out, this is perfect for rental places like dormitories…
Musicovery your musical moods →
One of my favorite aspects of the Cookthink search tool is being able to search by mood, to find recipes for when I’m feeling angry, depressed or excited.
Now, through Musicovery, I can…
Zoomii: A Virtual Book Browsing Service →
There’s no denying that browsing for books is much more fun in a bookstore rather than online, except if you have a Kindle. Walking through tons of shelves to find that perfect book can be…
Google Drives Towards Microsoft and Adobe With... →
Google launched Gears last May, and for the first year of its release it was considered a minor, niche product that a few developers and users may take advantage of to allow offline…
2008 Design Trends →
About a year ago, I compiled a huge list of artistic sites. It seems like the trend has carried on in 2008 and is growing stronger (thank God the glossy style is gone). So what’s hot now?…
Algorithmic Ink in JavaScript →
The always-excellent Aza Raskin had a little bit of fun recently - inspired by my recent Processing.js work - to port the popular Context Free Art language to JavaScript, using Canvas.
Two Cardinal Sins of REST API Design: Lessons you... →
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Moving My Domain To Tumblr
I have had an inactive blogger account for over a year. I never liked it and never felt motivated to post. Jones was talking to me about some of Tumblr’s features and it sounded like it might be something I will use. We’ll see. My blogging track record has been pretty bad so far.
Too Many Accounts
I decided to add this Tumblr feed to my website. Now my site is a mess disorganized mess included an unused blog, a Plurk feed, and my LinkedIn link. I might go ahead and add my Flickr account and my never used Twitter feed to continue making it craptastic.
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tumblr keeps getting suggested to me as a better platform compared to twitter or plurk. I am not sure what it can do that the others are not able to. Twitter seems to have the reach, and plurk has a cool interface.