This makes my brain inside out.
1 week ago.Hundreds of sprayed wooden blocks, stop-framed to within an inch of their life make for an abstract feast. Rogier van der Zwaag’s last six months has been spent making the next three minutes of your life an absolute joy.
Very cool concept video from the Touch project playing on the concept of digital ‘nearness’ — reminds me very much of this analog version.
2 weeks ago.Lot of action right now.
2 weeks ago.The Streisand effect is a primarily online phenomenon in which an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information has the unintended consequence of causing the information to be publicized widely and to a greater extent than would have occurred if no censorship had been attempted. As early as 1993, John Gilmore observed that “the Net treats censorship as damage and routes around it.
— Streisand effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 2 weeks ago.
2 weeks ago.1. Write down the problem.
2. Think real hard.
3. Write down the solution.(via)
“Nearly five years ago—back when Flickr was still in its infancy, and Facebook was on just a few college campuses—we founded Tiny Pictures with a view to helping people share experiences as they happen.
Radar was born a short time later, and focused on delivering a real-time, mobile stream of pictures and conversation shared by you and your friends on any phone…long before the iPhone made this a far easier experience to develop.
From the beginning, the pictures shared on Radar weren’t necessarily “photographs” as such, especially when cameraphone quality was laughably poor. More often than not they were a way of sharing a status update with your friends, or ‘checking in’ somewhere, or somehow conveying more than just the content of the picture.”
Back before the world began TwitPic-ing (indeed, before the prevalence of internet-connected cameraphones was widely accepted as a Really Big Deal), Radar set out to be the best mobile photosharing/commenting platform for small groups of friends. I’m very proud of what we built with Radar, and I think we created something that was really unique and special at a time when it was difficult and scary to resist what Everyone Else was doing. In fact, I still think that’s true.
So it’s with a heavy heart that we announced today that we’ll be winding Radar down over the course of the next couple months. You can read the full announcement here.
To the many, many, people who had a part in making Radar into a living, breathing, frivolous, profound reality: thank you. Please don’t be a stranger.
I’m excited for what’s next.
2 weeks ago.
