Connected Products: Legibility & Failure Modes
Note: The following is not a review of The Dash, but a look at some deeper interface and interaction questions around connected products. A few days ago, I…
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Net Neutrality Begone: Startups, stay out of Europe (for now)
A few days ago, the EU passed legislation around Net Neutrality that in name should have guaranteed net neutrality, but in the legal text has such huge loop…
Imperica interviews Warren Ellis
In ThingsCon related news, over at Imperica, Matt Muir has interviewed our friend and keynote speaker Warren Ellis (see all speakers) as he’s getting ready for his trip…
Twitter, why u so US centric?
For my new company Brightfuture [NAME PENDING], I tried to register a Twitter account. Much to my surprise, @brightfuture didn’t seem actively used. No avatar, two tweets (one…
ATT & Cargo Cults
Image by One Laptop Per Child (CC by) As BoingBoing reports, a leaked memo indicates that AT&T will introduce a creepy and stupid policy: If a user…
German startup Gigalocal screws privacy, tweets personal information
A few weeks ago, I tried out Gigalocal. It’s a platform that lets users announce jobs they would like to see done, and how much they’re willing to…
Facebook launches facial recognition, screws users (again)
Facebook has done it again: The company enabled a new feature that uses facial recognition to prompt your Facebook connections to “tag” you in photos they are shown.…