21.05.2013
The One-Person Product
Tumblr has come a long way… I truly wish them all the best.
:’-)
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Hi, I'm Matthias. I love music, nonsense and people that don't take life seriously. I enjoy tinkering with web stuff and craft interfaces with passion. This tank is full of random things I stumble across and enjoy. Stay hungry, stay foolish - never settle.
16.05.2013
Amazon Staff Meetings: “No Powerpoint” | Moving People to Action
Staff meetings at Amazon begin with 30 minutes of silent reading.
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15.05.2013
“As a founder, your job isn’t to make a great product. It’s to build a great team that makes great products. You are who you hire.
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You are a founder, which means each word you say lands like an anvil. Even in a very small company, and especially in a larger one, it takes fortitude and courage for a team member to honestly critique your work.”
– Aza Raskin on Psychological Pitfalls And Lessons of A Designer-Founder
14.05.2013
“It’s peer respect that drives us. That’s the one thing that makes us do what we do.”
– Rodney Mullen @ TED on Skateboarding and OpenSource14.05.2013
Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s transmissions from space
Couple of cool facts about astronaut Chris Hadfield, the commander of the International Space Station who’s been Tweeting, Reddit-ing, and YouTube-ing from space:
1) The idea to go behind the scenes with social media was hatched 3 years ago at the Hadfield family dinner table — the Hadfields were trying to figure out how to generate interest for the Canadian Space Agency, which is facing major budget cuts. Hadfield wanted is “to help people connect the real side of what an astronaut’s life is – not just the glamour and science, but also the day-to-day activities.”
2) Hadfield does the posting and responding himself, but Hadfield’s son, Evan, is his unpaid assistant, doing most of the maintenance work: “I make it so that he can simply float up to the computer and post without wasting any of his valuable time.” (I love his Twitter bio: “Internet janitor”) Evan also fed his dad tips about what was going on down on Earth, so he could snap photos.
3) When he gets back: “He’s gonna land on Earth, he’s probably gonna vomit on himself, and then he’s going to pass out. That’s what happens when you come back from space.”
I love this quote from Canada’s first man in space, Marc Garneau, who said he wished he’d had social media during his flights:
“You need that feeling that you haven’t been abandoned up there. You need to feel that there are a whole bunch of people on the ground that are watching over you,” he said. “I think the connection is much stronger now because [Hadfield] has all these people who are tweeting to him and he’s tweeting to them.”
Filed under: show your work
13.05.2013
“This is water. This is water.”
This is water by David Foster Wallace and theglossary.com
09.05.2013
Mistaa - Meine Stadt - Dope!!!
02.05.2013
Prototype Real / Digital Info Interface System
Using projection and gestures to create interactive relationship with information - video embedded below:
Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a next generation user interface which can accurately detect the users finger and what it is touching, creating an interactive touchscreen-like system, using objects in the real word.
“We think paper and many other objects could be manipulated by touching them, as with a touchscreen. This system doesn’t use any special hardware; it consists of just a device like an ordinary webcam, plus a commercial projector. Its capabilities are achieved by image processing technology.”
Using this technology, information can be imported from a document as data, by selecting the necessary parts with your finger.
More at DigInfo here
RELATED: This is very similar to a concept developed in 1991 called ‘The Digital Desk’ [link]
01.05.2013
Zini the Wuslon – from back in the days when the TV used to be hip and exciting.
30.04.2013
Dota 2 character animation: Llama Courier (via @adblaufasan) - You gotta love that little fella.
30.04.2013
Dota2 character animation: Gnome Pig (via @adblaufasan)
28.04.2013
Window Socket - Kyuho Song & Boa Oh
So this is an absolutley brilliant idea! Just attach the plug on to a window and it will harness solar energy. A small converter will convert it into electricity which can be freely used as a plug when you are in the car, on a plane or outside.
Love this design and I really think it has a great potential.Want one now!
