The iPad, Gestures, and Community
February 18th, 2010
Multitouch and gestural input needs community consensus on meaning and representation.
View CommentsChatSnapper – Alpha
February 17th, 2010
An early rough cut of a quick project: a ChatRoulette app with screenshots built in.
View CommentsChatRoulette, Elevators, and Panopticons
February 17th, 2010
ChatRoulette is blowing up. Mostly with naked dudes, it seems. Let’s try some crowdsourced course-correction.
View CommentsOn Storytelling
February 16th, 2010
Sure, it’s Chip Kidd’s nightmare and neglects entire sub-genres of modern literature, but to me, the relative homogenization of story formats on the Kindle is great. It’s making me read more often and with less prejudice.
View CommentsWonder Bread iPhone App
February 10th, 2010
In my absence from interactive marketing and subsequent rebound in my faith in humanity, Wonder Bread drops some reality on me.
View CommentsToo Much Buzz!
February 9th, 2010
The word “Buzz” as a product name is a joke. Especially when applied to yet another microblog/status site and API.
View CommentsAmazon vs Apple Has Gone Too Far
February 8th, 2010
I received a message from Amazon this morning letting me know that the Kindle Developer Kit application process was ready for the general public. I clicked the link and was taken to the KDK site, only to be told that Safari isn’t supported.
View CommentsMarketing the iPad
January 28th, 2010
Overall, I think the iPad is an interesting device and once the dust settles I think the price point will be attractive for a supplement to our “main” computers. The iPad will fill a spot for people who consume more than they create – a large audience, for sure, and one most of us fit into depending on context and day-part.
View CommentsKindle vs Apple iPad
January 25th, 2010
Many have chimed in, ahead of the Apple tablet announcement, on whether the new Apple device will be a “Kindle killer”
View CommentsOf Mice and Men
October 23rd, 2009
We lost a cute house and an amazing opportunity… but gained… an amazing opportunity?
View CommentsI Am the Former CTO of The Barbarian Group
October 16th, 2009
I don’t have a big announcement drafted, but if you are a friend or colleague who uses my Barbarian Group email address, please switch over to my tobyjoe.com address.
View CommentsCartilage: A Monk Skeleton for DataMapper
August 28th, 2009
I wanted to bootstrap a Monk project using DataMapper. It was very easy, so I extracted the skeleton and put it up on GitHub.
View CommentsLazybones: A Monk Skeleton for CouchDB and Sinatra
August 27th, 2009
I created a skeleton for MonkRb that leverages CouchDB and Sinatra.
View CommentsUX in Bed
August 21st, 2009
One of the questions I ask when working on a new project is, “Where will people use this?”
View CommentsBuilding Erlang on Snow Leopard
August 17th, 2009
The macports install of CouchDB requires Erlang (naturally) and Erlang requires WxWidgets and Tk, which are probably pointless for most uses, and won’t compile on 10.6.
View CommentsMicrosoft Deprecating IE6 the Right Way
August 12th, 2009
Microsoft Office web apps will not officially support IE6. But they also won’t block it.
View CommentsMy iPhone User Experience Book!
August 10th, 2009
It’s shorter than I would have liked, and took longer to write, but it’s nice to have it in my hands.
View CommentsRenewed Interest in Rails
August 7th, 2009
An episode of FLOSS featuring David Heinemeier Hansson rekindled my interest in Rails.
View CommentsDon’t Stop Supporting IE6
August 6th, 2009
Planning to drop support for IE 6? Instead, redefine “support” and stay positive.
View CommentsWildly Successful AR Ads for Best Buy
August 6th, 2009
Out of 43 million copies of their circular, 6500 people interacted with their AR tool. Wow.
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