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05.31.2008

Keeping Up With Social Tagging

An Adobe Connect-based screencast of a presentation on Social Tagging, Social Bookmarking by Thomas Vander Wal, commonly credited for coining the term folksonomy. [+]

05.03.2007

What's A Modem?

Dial up is no longer king in the US as AOL Slips to No. 3. With 12 million subscribers, AOL lags behind AT&T (12.9 mil subscribers) and Comcast (12.2... [+]

04.29.2007

Org Charts in the Age of Web 2.0

I love Forbes' new *experiment* -- tapping into the knowledge of Web users to help construct org charts for various companies wiki-style: Forbes: Org Chart WIki. Reminds me of They Rule. [+]

02.01.2007

Featuritis or just fudged numbers?

Two-thirds of Brits Use Just 4 Functions on their Phones. Pretty sensational. Except I'm not sure how many functions in total their phones had? Five? (If so, then 4 out of 5 isn't bad at all.) How useful were those other functions? For comparison, most people only use about 10% of the features of MS Word (and, no, this wasn't intended to be a jab at Microsoft). Frankly, who says the customer has to use all the features anyway? As long as they're happy with the product, who cares if he/she only uses one thing? [+]

11.25.2006

Podcast Numbers Remain Abysmal

Podcast usage numbers from earlier this year haven't improved at all. According to a survey by Pew Internet and American Life Project, only 12% have downloaded a podcast and only 1% "would download a podcast on a typical day." BBC News: Podcast numbers show 'few hooked' [+]

08.27.2006

WDW Presentations

Google videos of presentations from Web Design World 2006, Seattle includes Jeffrey Veen on Designing Next Gen Web Apps and Molly Holzschlag on Designing for Web 2.0: From Markup to Microformats, from Semantics to Ajax. [+]

08.27.2006

Location-Based Bus Ads

GPS-powered geo-targeted ads: London Bus Ads Change as Locations Do. [+]

08.14.2006

Hilarious Error Messages

Screen captures of error message head-scratchers: Pop-up Potpourri: Announced By God. [+]

08.13.2006

Retrospective of Past Operating Systems

The Evolution of Desktops via Room 101. Gee, even in black and white, Mac's OS2 still looks pretty darned good by today's standards. [+]

08.03.2006

IMs, Texting More Popular Than Email Among Teens

E-mail losing ground to IM, text messaging, according to an Associated Press article, presumably because "young people [are] driving [the] switch to instant gratification communication." Huh? Last time I checked, I can delay and selectively respond to IMs and text messages the same way I do with emails. I'd say the reason IMs and text messages are gaining popularity is they're most similar to a dialog format. Once again, MSM misses the point. [+]

07.29.2006

Compute! Magazine Archive

OMG! I just found this Classic Computer Magazine Archive: Compute! Magazine and I nearly cried. This is how I created my first (infinite) loop, my first game. This is how nerdy kids like me... [+]

07.23.2006

Gadgets Get Nekked

For hackers and physical computing enthusiasts, here's a site that bares it all for you. TakeItApart.net disassembles all sorts of gadgets...so you don't have to. [+]

07.09.2006

Roll Your Own Eye Tracking Tests

DIY eye tracking using Open Eyes, open source code: Real-Time Eye Tracking, found via Digg. [+]

07.06.2006

Security Firm Urges PC Users to Switch

The BBC News and The Register each run stories endorsing Macs as they advise PC users to switch for security's sake. To help OS X newbies, here is a switcher's guide to Mac OS X software. [+]

06.28.2006

MSFT Demographics Predictor

Interesting technology demo from Microsoft's adCenter Labs. Type in a query and it predicts a customer's age, gender, etc. Demographics Prediction. According to this, simplifierlab.com tends to attract males between 18-24. Where have I heard this before? [+]

06.25.2006

Majority are at 1024 x 768 resolutions...now what?

Nearly 80% of all Web users worldwide are at 1024 x 768 resolutions or higher and more than half are at 1024 x 768 according to OneStat. While it's tempting to start designing pages that occupy the full 1024 width, don't. Keep in mind that most folks typically don't expand their browsers... [+]

06.09.2006

SEO Myths

Three common search engine optimization myths debunked: (1) You can be guaranteed consistently high rankings... [+]

06.08.2006

iTunes: Emerging Channel for PDF eBooks

The latest issue of The Fader is available for free on iTunes. Of course, MAKE magazine, had released PDFs through iTunes on occasion in the... [+]

06.07.2006

Accessibility for the Elderly, Visually-Impaired

Two interesting products that address accessibility for the visually impaired and the growing elderly population. SpeakOn, developed by blind entrepreneur Chris Mairs, is a new device that challenges the paradigm of current screen readers such as JAWS to make the web accessible to the blind. According to Mairs... [+]

05.21.2006

Microsoft's 4,000-Page Open XML Draft Standard

"At 4,000 plus pages, a 6.7MB Microsoft Word document, the Open XML draft standard is less of a standard and more of a painfully detailed description of how Open XML could be used to display almost any possible Microsoft Office... [+]

05.17.2006

One of the Top Three Vices

Amiglia is a smart, best-of-breed Web 2.0 genealogy application created by fellow ITP alums, Paul and Milena Berry. And, it's free during their beta period. "[Genealogy] is the third most popular pursuit...behind the twin vices of gambling and porn," ... [+]

05.17.2006

Tech Speak

I advocate simplicity in everything. But articles like this, Why the Tech Industry Needs to Change Its Language, only tell half the story... [+]

05.16.2006

Highlights from the 2006 ITP Spring Show

If you weren't able to catch the ITP Show last week, you can be there vicariously through these pre-show videos: Day 1; Day 2. Wired also recently featured the show within the context of the Infinite Games project. Cool Hunting also has a few highlights from last week's ITP Spring Show. [+]

05.02.2006

Poor Usability for Mobile TV

Research conducted by Amberlight reveals that while consumers want mobile TV, they are "put off by poor design and user experience." picturephoning.com: Poor user experience puts consumers off mobile TV in droves. [+]

04.25.2006

Looking to Work on a Mobile Social App?

Friends at Kamida -- the folks who brought you Socialight -- are hiring. They are offering internship opportunities for developers and designers and are also looking for a full-time Lead Engineer. See details... [+]

04.16.2006

ITP Thesis Week 2005 Live Webcast!

Thesis presentations for NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP ) graduating students will be webcast live from Tuesday, May 2 through Friday, May 5. Newsweek calls ITP "the Harvard of Interactive". See http://itp.nyu.edu/thesis for the updated schedule and list of presenters. [+]

04.15.2006

Samsung's Virtual Screen for Mobiles

Samsung has applied for a patent on a virtual, projected screen as an alternative input mechanism to QWERTY thumb keyboards, according to a report from unwired.com. View illustration of proposed concept [+]

04.05.2006

Low Usage for Podcasts

Although "podcast" topped the list of new words for the past year, apparently the masses (myself included) haven't truly taken an affinity for it with a paltry 1% admitting to using podcasts regularly, according to Forrester Research. Read the overview from Charlene Li's Blog: Forrester podcasting report - just 1% use podcasts. [+]

03.22.2006

Latest Version of NetNewsWire Lite Released

Just announced: Ranchero Software: NetNewsWire Lite 2.1b18 released today... [+]

03.10.2006

MSFT Origami

Microsoft finally released official product shots of the much-ballyhooed Ultra-Mobile PC (aka Origami Project). Ultra compact computing: great idea. Execution: butt-ugly... [+]

08.21.2005

RSS Continues to Befuddle

Think New York blog readers are tech savvy? Well, apparently not when it comes to RSS. Only 11% of blog readers use RSS to monitor stories, according to a recent article from Editor and Publisher:New York Blog readers, thought of... [+]

06.28.2005

Just Released: iTunes v4.9 with Podcast Support

Get the latest flavor of iTunes featuring built-in podcast management here and load some podcasts from the iTunes Podcast Directory. Interested in publishing your podcast to the iTunes music store? Here's a PDF spec on how to do it. Apple... [+]

04.17.2005

The Myth of Ajax

While browsing through Slashdot today, I ran across an entry on Tivo Hacking using Ajax. I then went on to follow this thread on how Slashdotters view Ajax as nothing more than marketing ploy for an old technique with a... [+]

03.10.2005

MT Spam Plugin

No, it's not MT Blacklist. Introducing MT-Keystrokes v0.1.4, an MT plug-in that uses human keystroke input to determine whether the comment was entered by a person or auto-generated by bots.... [+]

03.01.2005

TextDrive's Hosting Deal

TextDrive has an insane limited time offer: $399 lifetime hosting plan. Since the first hugely successful offering — dubbed the 'VC200' — in June of 2004, TextDrive has grown rapidly, now serving over three thousand domains, and has come to... [+]

02.28.2005

Firefox Usage Gains Declining

Report from Web Side Story: Firefox's usage growth rate seems to be on the decline. Oh no! Say it ain't so :'(... [+]

12.21.2004

Missed the ITP Winter Show?

Just in case you missed the show or if you would like to refresh your memory if you did get a chance to visit, here's a video clip of the ITP Winter Show.... [+]

12.12.2004

NYU ITP Winter Show

For two days, on Sunday December 19 2-6pm and Monday, December 20, 5-9pm, students from NYU's Interactive Telecommmunications Program will present their semester's work. The *digikids*, as one friend put it, will showcase projects such as: ptooie, the packet-sniffing plant;... [+]

12.01.2004

Technorati Favelets

Technorati is beta-testing a better way of tracking blogversations through the Technorati This toolbar widget. The favelet or bookmarklet can be used in the following ways: Select some text on any web page. Click the Technorati This favelet and it... [+]

11.25.2004

Source Code Search Engine

A search engine/database for source code: http://www.koders.com/ [+]

11.10.2004

Firefox 1.0 Released Today

Before I go on singing the praises of Firefox, let me offer a little personal history. I was working at AOL when they acquired Netscape which, at that time, was an elegant browser that was considered superior to the leading... [+]

11.08.2004

MT-Friendly Web Hosts

I found a fairly robust run-down of Movable Type friendly Web hosts from Elise.com. This site, as it happens, is powered by Movable Type 3.1 and hosted by ICD Soft. ICDSoft, as mentioned in Elise's site, does have the quickest... [+]

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