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“This month, Brandt was arrested in Salem and charged with 16 counts of tagging and 16 counts of malicious wanton destruction to property. In the graffiti underworld, this was big news.”
links for 2008-02-16
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[The guy who bought LiveJournal] “How American Andrew Paulson is building a growing Internet empire in Russia”
Cool digitized handwriting from LIFT 08 – Fontself
There were these guys at LIFT 08 who were digitizing everyone’s writing so that we could post and comment in our own handwriting. It’s just awesome.
Alas, they won’t give us the fonts. Just yet.
Link: Fontself website usage | LIFT conference:
links for 2008-02-15
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“Taking a page from Hollywood science fiction, the Pentagon said Thursday it will try to shoot down a dying, bus-size U.S. spy satellite loaded with toxic fuel on a collision course with the Earth.”
Something about the Clock of the Long Now chimes
The Clock of the Long Now will have chimes that play 10 tones, in unique combination, every day over the course of 10,000 years.
I tend to listen to a bunch of Long Now seminars in a row and noticed something about the chimes played at the start and end of every recording: they are the same.
So that got me thinking. They should be playing different chimes every day. And, I am not sure about the algorithm, but if you can calculate the chimes for each day, then why not play the chime particular to the day of the seminar?
I also started wondering if there was somewhere I could hear the chime for a particular day. And indeed there is. Seam M Burke, on his site Interglacial, has built a generator of MIDI chimes for any date. Brian Eno, in his exploration of the chimes (he was a big part of the idea behind the 10 notes and chimes) came out with a CD, too. The folks at the EMUSIC-L site also have been toying with this, trying to make better tones through their own chimes generator (MIDI is a bit ugh), but I haven’t played with it.
from: Clock: Chime Generator (Long Now Foundation site)
Nice little video of Socialthing
Yup. These social network aggregation services are popping up all over.
Check out this video Socialthing made of what they are offering (link below, too). Pretty cool. Though I already see a few big holes.
Link [via Alex]: socialthing!: Get your digital life in order
socialthing! is a digital life manager that puts what you do online into one place. See everything that’s going on with your friends in all the sites you use, post stuff to multiple places at once and more!
Link: Socialthing! blog » Blog Archive » st!cast 01 – Friends and Adding Services:
This is the first screencast showing some of Socialthing!’s features. In it I show you how to add services to your Socialthing! account, how to group a person’s many online identities into one identity (that person) and how to leave us feedback.
Yahoo! Design closed down?
I just can’t believe that Yahoo! Design closed down (link to rumour below). I think the department might have closed and that there are designers elsewhere in the company. Or do they just outsource it? I’ll have to follow this story.
Some days I think _our_ company can be rude to our Design group. But, we still value them – design is in the company’s blood (heh, it’s a Finnish company, right?).
Link [via David Smith]: RIP: Yahoo! Design closed down – data visualization & visual design – information aesthetics:
an anonymous source just informed me the entire Yahoo! Design Innovation team (once coined yHaus) has been laid off, part of a closing-down of all innovation teams at Yahoo. in addition, their work has been completely removed from their original website. infosthetics has posted their work here & here, & luckily had stored some copies of their works locally.
infosthetics feels bad for the people involved. how does Yahoo! wants to increase their share price by firing creative, talented people? Google, Swivel, Many Eyes, Stamen: are you hiring?
links for 2008-02-14
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”We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians,” Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Wednesday in the Parliament.
Yahoo does social-network aggregation with OneConnect
Hm. Social networking aggregation fused with mobiles is THE thing of 2008. I saw this coming from a long way off, but am surprised that Yahoo was able to come out with something already.
But, it’s good to see the heat getting turned up. I think there will be many ways to do this and everyone will be able to learn from those that come before them.
There’s also a video (see below) showing what it’s all about.
Link [via atmasphere]: Yahoo launches OneConnect | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone:
On Tuesday, the company announced at the GSMA Mobile World Congress here OneConnect, a new tool that allows mobile phone users to aggregate their social-networking updates and messaging in one spot on their phones. The service integrates directly with a phone user’s address book and allows people to share status updates and messages from a variety of messaging and social-networking platforms. This means it can provide status updates from Facebook or MySpace.com as well as provide access to e-mail and archived instant-messaging chats.
links for 2008-02-13
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“This is a directory of Fortune 500 companies that have business blogs, defined as: active public blogs by company employees about the company and/or its products. According to our research, 51 (10.2%) of the Fortune 500 are blogging as of 2/7/08.”
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[Interesting speculation]
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[Putting in a good word for another team] An Evening with S60 is back in the States and touches down in Miami on Thursday February 28th from 7 PM to 10 PM at Dolores but you can call me Lolita Restaurant, 1000 South Miami Avenue. It’ll be an evening of go
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[How funny. I just yesterday had to arrange my wallet to make it easy to un-shield my RFID buss pass. But got the thrill of knowing how to subvert random scanners, as shown in this segment.]