Ten Things I Want From My Phone
Ian Hay wrote an interesting cell-phone-related blog post entitled Ten Things I want from You, the result of a survey he sent out to a number of friends (including those of us at Radar) about what...
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New Content Preview Features on oreilly.com
Allen Noren, our director of online marketing, just let us know that the Copyright Clearance Center‘s RightsLink feature is now live on oreilly.com. While this feature is designed to make it easier for...
View ArticleWhat Does It Mean For Public Space to Go Digital?
Over on Genuine VC, David Beisel has written a thought-provoking piece entitled What Does It Mean For Public Space to Go Digital? about the future of advertising in public spaces. Here are some of the...
View ArticleClever UI: Subway Map for Intranet
“A Map-based Approach to Content Inventory” caught my eye. I love the aesthetics of subway maps, the clever way in which they distort space while still presenting a more aesthetically true...
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Chart Junk in the New York Times
Checking out the New York Times’s infographic on the housing bubble, I thought “wow! Look at how much prices climbed!”. Then I read the fine print and realized they’ve completely distorted the vertical...
View ArticleFinding opportunities
Tim Bray has been analyzing forms of communication. He’s been looking at twitter, mail, IRC, etc. in terms of immediacy, lifespan, and audience. He says, “I’m going to keep fooling with this. You see,...
View ArticleSandy, remind me about that New Year's resolution @sms
Rael Dornfest’s Sandy, an email and sms-based personal assistant (whose name, I should confess, was inspired by Sandy Torre, my executive assistant at O’Reilly when Rael was CTO here) has just added...
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The LiveScribe Pulse Smartpen
The coolest thing I saw at our Tools of Change for Publishing Conference last week was the LiveScribe SmartPen. This amazing pen includes a microphone and an optical sensor that synchronizes the audio...
View ArticleRadar Roundup: Ubiquitous computing (ubicomp)
The Street as Platform (Dan Hill): amazing essay by Dan Hill (yet another genius formerly at the BBC) about the invisible cloud of data in a city street. “We can’t see how the street is immersed in a...
View ArticleiPhone rants and raves
On twitter, <a href=http://www.twitter.com/mparekh@mparekh (Michael Parekh) lamented the other day: Had my 3G iPhone Crash 5 times so far, hanging up on boot screen. Full Restore every time, each...
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