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November 30 2011
The New Flavors
The HiiDef team launched a major redesign to Flavors.me, and I’m so pleased to see it in the wild. My colleagues have been hard at work on this set of updates for the past several months, including a new layout system and a new way to view and share content: streams. Check it out in [...]
October 06 2011
September 23 2010
“The Future of the Book” by IDEO
Design and innovation consultancy IDEO has developed three “reading concepts” for the future of digital books: Nelson, Coupland and Alice — rather silly names that seem better assigned to jeans than concepts. What they’re really talking about are three different approaches to hypertext-ifying books. Some of this is already being done, but not, that I know of, directly within the reading experience, as is displayed in their short film. I’m sure that with time, there will be “an app for that” regarding each of these: Nelson: Contextualizes books within popular debate (footnotes and citations extended and made current) Coupland: Contextualizes books within your social network (think GoodReads or Readernaut) Alice: Turns books into games (think...
May 30 2010
Things Recently Bought
Urbanears Headphones in “Ocean” ($54.50)
I’ve been looking for headphones off and on for a while. All I’d been using were earbuds, which are terrible for your ears. (I already have tinnitus, and don’t need it to get any worse.)
Priority one: they look good. Priority two: they cost under $60. Priority three: they sound good.
This [...]
January 27 2010
Tracking the Apple Announcement
Today Apple unveils its latest product, which most assume will be a tablet. Like my friend Ben Ward, I’m not too excited about this one. As he put it:
… whilst I’m sure whatever it is will be outstanding in the aesthetic, my interest is less concerned with the reveal of a beautiful artifact, but to [...]
December 20 2009
Christmas Gift Guide: Last-Minute Edition
For most of my adultish life, I’ve been a last-minute gift-giver. Once I was so wrapped up in college and travel that I completely spaced on ordering presents for my parents. My brilliant solution was to hop online on Christmas eve, click “add to cart” on a couple hastily-chosen items, and print out pictures of [...]
December 07 2009
2009 Christmas Gift Guide: First Edition
I’m somewhat of a digital pack rat, collecting shiny objects that come through my reader, Twitter stream, and elsewhere. So it’s no surprise that when I set out to compile a collection of gift recommendations, I ended up with about 60 items. I’ll spare you the full list, but will post at least one more [...]
June 30 2008
June 29 2008
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