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Yahoo is where the cool things happen. Google is more structured and better in getting attention for new (beta) productlaunches, but Yahoo is knitting all their applications together into this incredible grid of everything.
Bruce Mau Design is working on the project Massive Change and is searching for a superior thinker, stategist or designer and asks them to answer three challenging questions.
1. In the future, how will we communicate?
2. Will we shift from the service of war to the service of life?
3. How will we eradicate poverty?
The BBC reports blogs will peak at a maximum of 100 million next year. 200 Million blogs died already. I think social network websites could largely replace private blogs. Most networking websites already offer blogging-like funtionalities.
Here in the Netherlands the discussion about bluespamming is living up. Is it allowed for unknown broadcasting equipment to intrude your personal life (mobile phone)?
Maybe someone should create an anti-spam directory/library where a transmitter needs to get authorization (by public votes) before intruding. In this way we can keep the art and get rid of the spam.
On Bruce Sterling his blog there is an essay by Tom Sherman about vernacular video. Video-art is moving backwards from avant garde to protectionism. When video is everywhere. Vernacular video, read the essay.
Last week I was reading a Wired article (March edition) about how the video rental service Netflix is awarding $1.000.000 to the person or group who can improve its recommendation algorithm by 10%.
Todays popular websites use smart algorithms to determine what we want or might like. Google is famous for its mix and so is [...]
At the Next Web conference there was an overall urge for relevancy. You noticed it in presentations and startups. Unfortunately there weren’t many speakers that had exiting answers. In his presentation Robert Scoble made clear that for most new web applications ‘The first experience sucks‘.
Why?
This is inherent to how these new web applications work. The [...]
Since we started with the concept of EN we had a certain idea of what it would be like. Now we have the first working version the possibilities seem endless, but what is the killer application or function? What is it that gives new options to the things we do with news?
In this post I’m [...]
EN.nl (and.nl) is a new project where we are experimenting with new media, users, technology and journalism. This project is an open project where the public process plays an extremely valuable part in designing and shaping the news website.
The online news industry really changed over the last years. I think we’re at a point where [...]
Last week I did an experiment with a linear story and loading photos from Flickr. This week I made a second experiment using the same code and adding a map. I will try to tell a second story.
About the story
This story is about how fast urban areas are growing. These growing areas aren’t in the [...]