Categories

From Pages to Streams

Thought provoking article on Techcrunch about the shift from dedicated web pages to real-time streams.

“The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.”

This real-time stream has been building for a while. It began with RSS, but is now so much stronger and swifter, encompassing not just periodic news and musings [...]

The Insider & Facebook connect

More and more sites using Facebook connect (a platform which allows integration of FB content on external sites) are popping up. CBS’s celebrity gossip site TheInsider is among the first to do so. Anyone can log in using their Facebook ID, and then can choose to have any comments, article votes, or poll responses show [...]

Project Living Profiles :: the moodmeter

For the past several months I’ve been working with the living profiles team at the Art Center College of Design. The project is part of the larger HealthDesign initiative, designing new open-source methods for keeping personal health records and sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Here’s a framing of our project:

The Art Center College [...]

On sympathy groups and why I diss(like) Twitter

Overload [def]:: to load to excess; overburden; fill to excess so that function is impaired – precisely how i feel about social networking sites recently. Plunged from their initial excitement to being yet another procrastination tool – one that minimizes the already little amount of sincere conversations I have with friends. Even though Twitter seems [...]