Byte Engine - Matthew Schultz

Not sure how visible it is in this photo, but those white things are hail

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:28:00 -0400

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One of my "I need a laugh" go-to images

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:27:55 -0400

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8-Track Pr0n

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:11:00 -0400

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"We don’t do time sheets. I’d rather have our staff spend that half hour each day being creative."

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:08:33 -0400

“We don’t do time sheets. I’d rather have our staff spend that half hour each day being creative.”

- Jake Lefebure, co-founder of Design Army (via fletter) (via davidkaneda)

Lunch!

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:28:52 -0400

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Testing Posterous from my front yard (via iPhone)

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:44:00 -0400

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"Bells and whistles are software jewelry. Most software looks like Mr. T."

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:48:50 -0400

“Bells and whistles are software jewelry. Most software looks like Mr. T.”

- Jason Fried (via davidkaneda)

A robot rises over Tokyo « Flickr Blog via (DF)

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:04:32 -0400

A robot rises over Tokyo « Flickr Blog

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iPhone Field Test Mode

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:54:00 -0400

*3001#12345#* then Call

1000fps video. Via DF

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:42:49 -0400

1000fps video. Via DF

I’ve avoided SASS because it forced me to learn a new...

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:06:49 -0400

I’ve avoided SASS because it forced me to learn a new syntax, but LESS looks very interesting.

http://www.colorotate.org/

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:12:46 -0400

http://www.colorotate.org/

Lionhead Milo Project

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:24:00 -0400

Lionhead Milo Project

The New Tweetconomy™

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:19:29 -0400

Want a new mixtape, but the economy has your pockets feeling kind of empty? Would you pay a tweet for it? At this site DJs TRV$ and DJ-AM are charging fans a tweet to download their album. Interesting. The price of entry for free content used to be your contact information; now the price is a tweet. I think this speaks to how far marketing and Twitter have both come. Are you tweeting yet?

Streamy

Fri, 22 May 2009 14:56:16 -0400

Streamy

“Dear American Airlines, I redesigned your website’s...

Wed, 20 May 2009 11:42:00 -0400

“Dear American Airlines,

I redesigned your website’s front page, and I’d like to get your opinion.

I’m a user interface designer. I travel sometimes. Recently, I had the horrific displeasure of booking a flight on your website, aa.com. The experience was so bad that I vowed never to fly your airline again. But before we part ways, I have a couple questions and three suggestions for you.”

— Dustin Curtis

GoodBurger, near Union Square, NYC

Tue, 19 May 2009 18:08:58 -0400

GoodBurger, near Union Square, NYC

Facebook + OpenID = Huge

Tue, 19 May 2009 16:11:04 -0400

As reported on ReadWriteWeb, Facebook is allowing users to log in using OpenID. Some folks get how big this step is, but for the folks who don’t, you should read this post by Chris Messina. Essentially, as my co-worker Alisa Hansen is constantly preaching about, it’s about data portability.

I won’t regurgitate the RRW or Messina posts, but the short version is that while the web was designed to be social, it was built to share documents. Sites (i.e., social networks) have devised their own ways of creating, storing, and managing identities, assets, and interactions - data. A popular idea is that the time has come to standardize and commoditize these components, including how they interact. While some think this could hurt innovation, others see it differently.

There have been arguments about whether or not you own the data in these social networks (you do), but that’s not the critical point. Not only does the data belong to you, but so too should the ability to freely access, distribute, share, move, send or otherwise manipulate the data as you see fit. That’s not easily possible right now because each site has devised its own way of doing things. Have you ever tried to move your pictures from Flickr to Facebook or vice versa? It’s a huge hassle, but it doesn’t have to be if standards existed to support seamless intra-service interaction.

And it’s not just about the data itself. Acting on your data by viewing a pic, sending an IM, watching a video, generates more data; not only about your data, but direct and tangential data belonging to other people, brands, etc., all of it trackable and measurable. Shouldn’t your actions belong to you too? Shouldn’t you be able to determine who can see what you’re doing, what is being done with it, how it is stored - and if it’s being used as the basis for advertising - how much it is worth?

The reality is that it’s a nascent industry, and everyone is making it up as they go. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a standard for representing a person and their data, in whatever form it exists?

Look, social networks are fun: part interaction, part news, part entertainment, and when someone figures out how to properly monetize the huge amounts of data being generated, there is an equally huge revenue stream; it’ll happen, it’s just a matter of time. Until, however, the users of these sites understand that they get to make the rules about their data - all of it - the status quo will never change. Standards-based open initiatives such as the Data Portability Project and OpenID are critical to freeing your data, and why Facebook, the largest and one of the most closed social networks, allowing OpenID as a login method is HUGE.

I'm still here...

Fri, 15 May 2009 19:46:11 -0400

Work + Life = Busy.

Be back soon!

The Death of FriendFeed?

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:38:12 -0400

Facebook has released the Open Stream API enabling developers to bring your personal activity stream to the outside world. This has some very large implications, including - my prediction - that it will kill off FriendFeed, but not Twitter, and that it further establishes the groundwork for a Facebook advertising platform.

Why will FriendFeed die, but Twitter live? FriendFeed’s identity is an aggregation platform, and while can do everything that Twitter can do (and more), it’s lacking the one essential quality that will carry it into the future… personality.