Mobile Web Kerfuffle
September 30, 2006 | CommentsMobile Web Kerfuffle: "Thematic consistency does not mean you have to have the same page displayed across different devices -- it allows for different user experience across different devices but asserts that the same URI when viewed on different devices should provide thematically similar results"
Sounds great, tho I hope we don't need a watertight definition of "thematic consistency" to work with this :)
CodingDojo
September 30, 2006 | CommentsJoh is setting up one of these: "A Coding Dojo is a coding session centered around a programming challenge. The challenge is small in scope and often patterned after pragmatic Dave Thomas' idea of Coding Kata."
Future Platforms is providing a location and resources for the event - wiki here. If you're local and can make it along, do sign up...
Between Blinks & Buttons
September 28, 2006 | CommentsBetween Blinks & Buttons: "...a camera that will capture a moment at the press of a button. However, unlike a conventional analog or digital camera, this one doesn't have any optical parts. It allows you to capture your moment but in doing so, it effectively seperates it from the subject. Instead, as you will memorize the moment, the camera memorizes only the time and starts to continuously search on the net for other photos that have been taken in the very same moment.
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YRUHRN?
September 27, 2006 | CommentsAmazon web services write a book: "An emerging project, YRUHRN, is creating the first book designed, written, edited, marketed, and published using the wisdom of crowds involving over 1,000 people. YRUHRN is based on hundreds of people answering the question, “Why Are You Here – Right Now” via the Amazon service, Mechanical Turk."
Virtual pet craze moves to mobile
September 27, 2006 | CommentsVirtual pet craze moves to mobile: "It's easy to mock such pointless silliness, but Nintendogs has sold over 2.5m copies in Europe, so there is money in creating responsibility-driven cuteness, and in many ways looking after a virtual dog has got to be better than slaying hordes of laser-toting aliens."