Will Normal Folks Ever Use Twitter? A thoughtful analysis of the first impression that new users experience when signing up for Twitter.
Careful with the Google Buzz
It’s not asking if you want to join or activate Buzz. It’s asking if you want to learn more about it.
Even if you click “No” (or, in California-speak, “Nah, go to my inbox”), you are still enrolled in Buzz. The “Buzz” box still appears in your sidebar. The nice folks at Google just assume you want to be part of their new world where “[i]f you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”
Lawyers (or journalists) with Gmail accounts: Careful with the Google Buzz & Gmail’s “turn off buzz” (still) does not turn off Buzz; here’s how to really do it
For the life between buildings – some notes on the iPad
As for me, I couldn’t help but make a few observations – I’ll try to take a different angle, at least initially, approaching it from urbanism as much as product/service design, particularly not having seen the thing in the flesh yet.
cityofsound: For the life between buildings – some notes on the iPad.
Glitch
Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield’s new venture Tiny Speck is working on a new game: Glitch.
Glitch is a massively-multiplayer game, playable in the browser and built in the spirit of the web. It is currently in development and will launch late in 2010. Private alpha is beginning shortly and a public beta period will begin this summer.
Cnet has more information. As you may know Flickr’s foundation originally started out as a multiplayer online game before turning into a social photo-sharing website.
Overcoming Creative Block: 25 strategies to spark your inspiration.
Is ChatRoulette the Future of the Internet or Its Distant Past?
The first time I entered ChatRoulette—a new website that brings you face-to-face, via webcam, with an endless stream of random strangers all over the world—I was primed for a full-on Walt Whitman experience: an ecstatic surrender to the miraculous variety and abundance of humankind. The site was only a few months old, but its population was beginning to explode in a way that suggested serious viral potential: 300 users in December had grown to 10,000 by the beginning of February. Although big media outlets had yet to cover it, smallish blogs were full of huzzahs.
Is ChatRoulette the Future of the Internet or Its Distant Past? – New York Magazine.
How the internet looks as vintage books
These old-fashioned social media book covers by Graphic artist Stéphane Massa-Bidal encapsulate the idealism behind some of the world’s most popular social sites. These old-fashioned social media book covers by Graphic artist Stéphane Massa-Bidal encapsulate the idealism behind some of the world’s most popular social sites. His vintage depictions look somewhat like mid 20th century magazine ads.
How the internet looks as vintage books… « How to be a Retronaut.
iProcessing
iProcessing is an open programming framework to help people develop native iPhone applications using the Processing language. It is an integration of the Processing.js library and a Javascript application framework for iPhone.
This article on ReadWriteWeb is fascinating. Or rather, the ensuing comments are – lots of people mistakenly believe the article is the new Facebook login page, probably because of a high google ranking for “facebook login” or something similar. Reminded me of this. Also this.
Quality control without the quality
We’re paying for the inconvenience of quality control without the quality part. In fact, lots of software has lower quality because of the App Store process.
The App Store: Quality control without the quality – (37signals)