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- Trimble acquires Spime. http://t.co/f2sxQ51N Nice scoop by @sarahmitroff. Also, it's fun to say "Trimble and Spime" #vb about 3 hours ago
- And by Zeldman I mean @zeldman of course. about 4 hours ago
interesting links- Trimble acquires Spime to grow its GPS business | VentureBeat
- Helicopter Dumps Hot Dogs Over Detroit - ABC News
- Design Is Dead. Long Live Design! | Epicenter | Wired.com
- Web Design Manifesto 2012 – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
- The Prodigal Son by Spencer Reece : Poetry Magazine
- Pot Prosecution Goes Up in Smoke Due to Warrantless GPS Tracking | Threat Level | Wired.com
- What’s next for mobile now that adaptive design has failed? | VentureBeat
- Tour the updated Google Search iPhone app… with bunnies | VentureBeat
- Man, stranded in the desert, makes a motorcycle from his broken car - Hack a Day
- Google+ wants to be your new Flickr | VentureBeat
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- The Facebook Fallacy - Technology Review
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Yearly Archives: 2010
The Undesigned Web
Design reigned supreme in the 20th century, when it was an integral part of the way artists, publishers, governments and political parties communicated to the first mass audiences. Message and presentation were inextricably intertwined, with the latter lending power, impact … Continue reading
Grayson
Grayson is a book by long-distance swimmer Lynne Cox about her encounter with a baby whale and her adventure guiding it back to sea. I came to read it because I’ve been taking my nine-year-old daughter on occasional early-morning swims. … Continue reading
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A Chip Is Born: Inside a State-of-the-Art Clean Room
If you wish to compose an e-mail, index a database of web pages, stream a kitten video in 720p or render an explosion at 60 frames per second, you must first build a computer. And to build a computer, you … Continue reading
Posted in Published Work, Wired Tagged Applied Materials, chips, clean room, cleanroom, R&D, semiconductors, technology Comments Off
Journalism in the Age of Online Collaboration
Savvy journalists have adapted (or have been forced to adapt) to a new, more collaborative publishing model online. Here are my notes from a keynote presentation I delivered on this topic at the OCLC Collaboration Forum, held at the Smithsonian, … Continue reading
Posted in Rough Drafts Tagged collaboration, crowdsourcing, journalism, media, news, Wired 1 Comment
October 7, 1954: IBM Gets Transistorized | This Day In Tech | Wired.com
1954: IBM builds the first calculating machine to use solid-state transistors instead of vacuum tubes. IBM already had a business selling calculating machines, and it was humming along quite nicely. The IBM 604 Electronic Calculating Punch, which IBM introduced in … Continue reading
Posted in Published Work, Wired Tagged history, IBM, punch cards, semiconductors, This Day in Tech, transistors Comments Off
.haiku column No. 1 – Haiku Society of America
Thanks to the internet, haiku is making a return to the kind of collaborative, interactive spirit out of which it originally emerged almost four centuries ago. As the editor of tinywords, I’ve seen this kind of evolution emerge spontaneously on … Continue reading
Frank Bidart: What to make, how to make, what does making mean in our lives? What do we make, why do make, when are we making? How important is making? What is the life of a maker, what is the … Continue reading
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Apple’s Newest Watch Is … Wait, What? It’s an iPod Nano?
What time is it? Who cares! Apple’s newest timepiece puts music, photos and step-counting front-and-center, and lets the minutes fall where they may. Sure, you can check the time, but that’s hardly the point with this attractive piece of wrist … Continue reading
Apple Takes Aim at Cable With Tiny New Apple TV
SAN FRANCISCO — In a sign that its television “hobby” has turned into serious business, Apple announced an aggressively-priced new set-top box that takes aim at the heart of the cable TV and DVD rental industries. The new Apple TV, … Continue reading
Why Does ‘Twitter API’ Keep Asking for My Password?
Sites around the web are getting splashed with a mysterious dialog Tuesday, thanks to a change in the way Twitter handles user authentication. Some Wired.com website visitors see the dialog box shown here when visiting any of this site’s blogs. … Continue reading
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