September 2011
1 post
Make Things →
July 2011
2 posts
ClojureScript
Very exciting.
https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/
Wishing We All Weren't So Excited About Google+
I love G+; for the majority of my use cases, it is indeed > fb. However, it’s not clearly > > than fb and I wish we (myself included) were a little bit less excited about a product is essentially a better, hybrid copy of a 7-year-old social network (fb), a 5-year-old social network (twitter), and the conclusions from a more-than-one-year-old presentation (Paul Adams’ The Real...
April 2011
1 post
A Narrative of What Twitter Was, Is, And Might Be
One of the most interesting things about Twitter is that, despite it being so minimalist and simple and seemingly single-purpose, it is so darn difficult to come up with concise and satisfying definition of what it is. Twitter is used to do so many things that no one interpretation is satisfying.
Over the last four years, the narrative about Twitter has reflected this difficulty, evolving...
January 2011
2 posts
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Synchronous Communication, User Awareness, and the...
This piece looks at how user awareness and synchronous communication have been lagging on the web, and why this might change in 2011+.
Background
A major trend in UX design over the past decade has been to move away from page-load based interaction toward real-time interfaces — from web pages to web apps and the read/write web, if you will. Although real-time interfaces initially appeared...
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Five Side Project Ideas
Here are five side projects to which I am thinking of dedicating my non-work time. The first four are programming projects and, of those, only two have the semblance of a business model (I’ll let you decide which ones). The fifth one is more of a multimedia undertaking.
I have a few more ideas in mind, which I’ll be writing about over the next month. I don’t anticipate picking...