The title comes from a phrase that stood out for me in this post from RWW. That post highlights some really sweet data pr0n (TwitterThoughts and World Twitter Map) built by Yvo Schaap that uses the Twitter API for data, Yahoo Pipes for parsing and the Google Visualization API for producing the eye candy. All… Read More
Month: March 2009
Another Facebook User Revolt is Coming
Today, Facebook previewed changes it plans to make to their site next week. There are quite a few: A redesigned home page with live updates, filters and a universal publishing model (very much like FriendFeed’s). One minor change that’s part of the universal publishing box is changing the verbiage “What are you doing right now?”… Read More
New iMac, Still New to Me
Update: Turns out Best Buy, where we bought the iMac, doesn’t have the new models in stock yet, but to make room in their inventory, they’ve lowered the prices on the remaining ones by $400. They were nice enough to honor the new price and refund the difference. Win-win, since I wasn’t all that excited… Read More
Play with Purpose
Play is our natural state. It is healthy and fun. In that state, we are engrossed and engaged. Time, as they say, “flies”. As we grow up and put aside childish things, we lose this connection to our natural state and a strong division between play and work emerges. In fact it is worse than… Read More
Twitter Break: Unexpected Use Cases, Search
I read a couple Twitter news items today that interested me. First was an interesting TED talk from Twitter co-founder and CEO, Evan Williams. It’s embedded below, if you’re reading on theappslab. If you’re not, click through and have a look. It’s only eight minutes, so not a major time spend. The title caught my… Read More