im kino
2010
0729
status message of the day: im kino («at the movies»)
Magic Trackpad
2010
0727
Mit Desktopcomputern kannst du jetzt auch deinen Spaß haben.
Mit einem Figerklick, Fingerscroll und Fingerstreich.
vs
Desktop users, your time has come.
Let your fingers do the clicking, scrolling, and swiping.
lost in translation | thnx christian
Lookwork
2010
0723
http://www.vimeo.com/13117219
Lookwork Demo
«Lookwork is a visual RSS reader and image-bookmarking service.»
The New Digital Cash
2010
0722
Cash and checks are inconvenient, and not everyone accepts credit cards.
A friend of mine tips the bartender «before» arriving at the bar, and has a drink waiting for him when he arrives.
I would consider that to be an electronic form of payment that is hugely successful. As for using a phone to make payments, I just don’t think people were ready for it.
We’re much more focused on social than PayPal (ironically, given their name). The part of Venmo that is most exciting is Trust. Here’s how this works: I can authorize a friend or merchant I trust to just take money from me whenever they want. It’s like sharing a credit card with a family member or opening a tab at a bar.
And because you tend to only trust people that you actually trust in real life, illegitimate transactions don’t really happen anyway.
Andrew Kortina in Q&A: The New Digital Cash: Venmo
BUT FUCK THIS «Why do I have to connect with Facebook?» BULLSHIT BINGO!!!
unknown error
2010
0719
iTunes: An unknown error (-1) occurred while connecting to the remote speaker
newsletter
2010
0602
sie erhalten diesen newsletter, weil sie ihn sich verdient haben.
sollte dem nicht so sein, antworten sie mit dem betreff “ich lass mir doch nicht vorschreiben, was ich in den betreff zu schreiben habe”. ihre adresse wird dann umgehend aus dem verteiler entfernt. für immer.
Scratch Bandits Crew
2010
0518
Scratch Bandits Crew Teaser (with the Scratch Lunaire prototype) | thnx yann
word-pair combinations
2010
0516
«I’ve began to collect these word-pair combinations that spammers have attempted to add to the email list. I can appreciate combinations […]»
conversation and relationships
2010
0510
I’m still amazed at how thoroughly 140 characters and an @ sign level the playing field on Twitter, erasing relative status and power. When I think of my Twitter […] experiences, I think not of the many relationships that haven’t yielded conversation and relationships, but of the few that have — and I know that those other relationships have that potential too.
Zuschauerquoten
2010
0504
Die SRG sollte im Prinzip einzig darauf verpflichtet werden, das zu produzieren bzw. ermöglichen, was nicht oder noch nicht im Mainstream angekommen ist. Alles was erfolgreich ist, im Bezug auf die Zuschauer- bzw. Zuhörerquoten soll an die privaten Übergeben werden.
the identity system for the web
2010
0422
So now we know what Zuckerberg’s megalomania is, and he’s brilliant, and hired the right guys (the FF team) to make it happen. But think about the role he’s cast himself in for a minute. Facebook is to be the identity system for the web. A company? That just can’t work. I can’t believe he doesn’t know that. Even Bill Gates didn’t have the audacity to propose that!
brilliant allegory
2010
0412
After reading Apple’s UI guidelines several times, you get the main idea: If web design is Lego, this is Duplo.
Oliver Reichenstein – Designing for iPad: Reality Check
Less Talk More Rock
2010
0327
«The native language of video games is neither spoken nor written»
Less Talk More Rock