The fashion in France is to build tram lines on grass. Looks a lot better.
However, add a bit of snow…
Zeitgeist 2010: Year in Review
Each year I’m hit by how small the world is.
And onto 2011. Good luck to us all.
Dirk Gently…
I read this repeatedly as a child and often think of the personalized horoscopes and the answerphone messages.
Hope that it’s good.
The Kleptones…
The Kleptones – A Night at the Hip-Hopera
Try telling me that this isn’t art. It looks so easy when there are big colored blocks but the talent required is massive.
Why tell me?
Le Web…
For the first time since 2004 I’m not at Le Web this year.
Why?
Simply I wasn’t willing to pay the entrance fee to listen to people talk about startup funding for two days. Every year, there was less of interest to me and more about startups.
This year was the tipping point.
However, I’m still interested and I recommend Adam Tinworth’s reports on events; and the snow.
Funnily, Adam was the last person I spoke to at last year’s event. To me he’s the full-stop on the Le Web period of my life.
Message to Congress…
President Mitch…
Scripting News: President Mitch McConnell
Good name for a president if nohing else.
Glide 2…
I find this endlessly facinating.
UI for Tablets…
“Graham’s piece reminds me of what I consider the central hook to a great app for these tablets: that it should seem, when you’re using it, that the entire device was meant for it. E.g., a good chess game for the iPhone should make the iPhone itself feel like a chess playing device. When you’re in Mobile Safari, it feels like you’re holding a dedicated web browsing device. Only when you’re in the Phone app does the iPhone feel like a phone.”
This hits it on the nail. Although I’d never thought about it like this before. It explains why something as simple as the calendar app on the iPad is so satisfying and why I love Taska.
Think of the UI design like this and you’ll never want a keyboard or even a silly Playstation keypad on your phone. It also explains why those Swiss army knife utility apps are so unsatisfying.