Tag Technology

iA’s 2006 Facebook Designs, Redesigned

A design firm that will be familiar if you’ve followed discussions about online news design over the past few years recently shared their updated mockups for a redesign of Facebook. And they’re pretty.

iA’s 2006 Facebook Designs, Redesigned

Riders on the Storm

David Brooks on how recent Internet use research continues to dismantle Cass Sunstein’s original “Daily Me” thesis.

Riders on the Storm

Infrequently Asked Questions of FAQs

A useful FAQ about FAQs from A List Apart.

Infrequently Asked Questions of FAQs

8-Bit NYC

A map of New York City, Legend of Zelda style. I’ll go on the record as wildly preferring this method to the “web visualized as subway map” approach that’s been so persistent in recent years. I will also approve of Super Mario Bros. 3 mappages.

8-Bit NYC

The Internet? Bah!

Clifford Stoll’s 1995 predictions included “…no computer network will change the way government works.”

The Internet? Bah!

Anatomy of a Large-Scale Social Search Engine

Aardvark has published a whitepaper outlining some of the technology and much of the logic behind their social search engine.

Anatomy of a Large-Scale Social Search Engine

GNILLEY presentation at Game Jam Sydney

This is a game in which you attack your enemies by yelling loudly into a microphone. (Spotted via Engadget.)

GNILLEY presentation at Game Jam Sydney

The social behavior incentive (how your app can be as addictive as Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare)

Good advice from Robert Scoble on building social software.

The social behavior incentive (how your app can be as addictive as Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare)

Controlled Serendipity Liberates the Web

Nick Bilton on the cause, method, and effect of human curation of the Web.

Controlled Serendipity Liberates the Web

Top 10 Internet of Things Products of 2009

I continue to be fascinated by the busy intersections where the physical world and the Internet overlap. Here’s a solid roundup of products making that happen in 2009.

Top 10 Internet of Things Products of 2009