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Also to be celebrated are Ernie Hsiung (of LittleYellowDifferent), Nikkil Bob and Kevin Cheng of OKCancel who also worked on the project. Small, agile, fun projects for the win!
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I do love these sites, even as I know they’re sort of pointless. Like proper art these. Explorations of form without the need for any utility other than to delight.
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Wonder what the software is like. Useful and good for Fire Eagle. Was interested in what was going to happen since the iPhone deformed the direction of smart phones (in a cool direction) in the US.
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As usual. Frankly, the man’s a god and his tiny animations and cartoons are genius. Tiny little hands. Very cute.
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It’s difficult to explain and occasionally hard to believe. Very much worth having an explore. Some of it is beautiful.
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He grows all these freaky root and branch like growths all over his body to the extent that he can no longer use his hands. Totally disturbing.
Category: Links
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Perhaps this is of niche interest, but I’ve always wanted to work with Chad again after our time in Techdev together, and the Hack Day London we organised with that nice chap from the BBC. All that stuff. Yay.
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Disturbing OAuth cartoon that is keeping me awake. Just in case you’re unsure why I care, it’s because OAuth is useful and is right in the middle of the micro-thin FireEagle front-end…
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I’m going to have to get myself some of these when they become available at the end of the year.
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There are other ones like it at the moment, but so far this is the one I like most.
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Fascinating journey through some of the most interesting display type that’s cutting edge at the moment. Gorgeous stuff. Somehow reminds me of all the Penguin covers from the 1960s I’m seeing on Ffffound.
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In late 1998 they say there were only 23 blogs in the world. By the time I started plasticbag.org in late 1999 there were probably somewhere in the high hundreds. Things have changed a lot since then.
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It’s really beautiful. I’ve spent at least an hour roaming around it over the last few days.
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“God you’re gorgeous! Yes, but my heart is like a stone….”
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Ah, if only. The true reason is much more prosaic. Still it made me laugh. Just to let people know, Fire Eagle will actually have a much more normal name when we launch.
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I really need to get up the slides for it. I think the thing is that I spend so much time on my talks that I can’t bear to just use them once. But if the slides are out in public already, people don’t enjoy them so much. Difficult.
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Really nice implementation. Mr Hammond worked on that particular project I believe. Well done to him and everyone else involved. Elegance!
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Lots of lovely people I respect and love worked on it, and it’s increasingly taking the seed crystal of exposing collisions between people and extrapolating it in all kinds of fascinating directions.
- I’m afraid I got rather cross with Nick Carr again for doing another one of his posts about why everyone’s missing the point… Arguing that the Web 2.0 rhetoric is keeping people too focused on the browser would be rather less stupid if he’d actually read any of the Web 2.0 rhetoric, focusing as it does significantly on data, services and the way they manifest everywhere.
- There’s uproar around BlogNation (replicated here on owstarr.com) as a former contributor decides to eviscerate the founder, Sam Sethi God knows if it’s true or not.
- Hm. According to Sam Sethi himself the writers will be paid before Christmas, which does seem to suggest they haven’t been paid to date… Yeah, that’s just dodgy, that right there.
- Valleywag looks at Cisco’s new cubicle-less working environment and is suspicious of the ergonomics Unusually sensitive of Valleywag, I thought. Personally, I consider cubicle culture demonic and counter-productive. A combination of conversational and quiet spaces would be my preference.
- Not safe for some workplaces: Late night potty mouth and all-round entertaining individual Charlie Brooker takes a look at the ‘Ten Biggest Cocks in UK Advertising’ Sent to me by my younger brother and possibly rather beyond the standard acceptable threshold for some offices, exemplifying as it does the very best swears in contemporary UK usage applied vigorously and often to adverts…
- Another appalling Charlie Brooker video that you absolutely should not watch: 10 biggest Cocks and she cocks in advertising Actually there are bits where you do shift a little uncomfortably, even if–like me–you just think swearing is funny and cool. My mother would be appalled. I’m like Dexter only with bad words instead of murdering people.
- Slightly more seriously, the Open Rights Group and the electoral commission looked into e-voting and found it was massively flawed. The Government doesn’t care. Deeply depressed by this one. One of those situations where very intelligent professionals work hard, independent groups agree with their conclusions and yet they’re completely ignored by people with power.
- OAuth Core 1.0 has been published. We’re using OAuth on Fire Eagle should that be interesting to you in the slightest. For those of you who don’t know, OAuth is a spec for the kind of process that Flickr does when you tell it you can share information with a third party site.
- LiveJournal’s moving to Russia! Bumped into David Recordon yesterday at an Oauth brunch and he mentioned that there was some kind of gathering today, but he didn’t say why. I guess this is it. Anil kept schtum as well. Cheeky swine.