Last week Mulvey and I were talking about the mental fork created by Apple’s app strategy. Specifically, I mentioned I sometimes get confused when I want to “switch” my context from one thing on my iPhone to another – I’ll hit the home button and search for an app if I’m looking for a web…
Tag Archives: web 2.0
November 24, 2008
Go Play With Drop.Io
I had the opportunity to team up with the folks over at Drop.Io over the summer for a redesign and brand-study of their entire application and I can’t say enough good things about Chad, Sam and the entire Drop.io team. They’re a super-smart, super-passionate bunch of geeks and they deserve all the good things that…
August 28, 2008
Mozilla Ubiquity
I saw this on piecemaker. It’s fresh. the thing that I love most about it is that they’re thinking along the lines of making the browser the central control-point for web 2.0 functionality. Moving into the cloud… I love it. Now MzLabs has to bring this to mobile computing with precise location-specific data and we’re…
June 3, 2008
More Twitter-Like Microblogging
…with BrightKite:
Looks like there’s another Twitter-like contender out there called BrightKite. I just received a private invitation (as an aside, I hate that crap – enough of this exclusivity, in-crowd, 8th grade schoolyard nonsense) and created a profile. There is automatic Twitter integration which is nice, and I love how you can see locations, posts…
May 24, 2008
Many Eyes
I’ll write moe about this in the future, but I attended the AIGA/NY Fresh Dialogue: IN/VISIBLE talk last evening and Fernanda Víegas demoed Many Eyes. This groundbreaking collection of data visualization tools and datasets is bound to make lots of noise as the months and years progress. Taking a youTube/wikipedia approach to democratizing data visualization…