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Dad says…
The best fun I’ve found on Twitter (thanks to @craigritchie) in the last little while: Shit my dad says. Karri Ojanen
IDEA 2009 is open for registration
Attending the Information Architecture Institution’s annual IDEA conference this year should be easy for those of us in Toronto, because the conference will be held here. It’s the first time that the conference is held north of the US-Canada border, and I’m as excited as the rest of the IA & IxD community in TO. [...]
The number is seven
Internet meme: Seven Random Things About You Happy New Year! I’ve been tagged by Marta Strickland, who was tagged by Stacy Lukas, who was tagged by Ken Burbary, who was tagged by… (yes, this is a chain letter type of thing) to list seven random things about myself. The way this whole thing works is [...]
How do you feel? Sites organized by mood
Musicovery is a customized webradio service that lets users search for music not just by genres, but by mood as well. Are you looking for energetic, calm, positive or dark music? Following Musicovery’s idea, I Feel… city guides let users add and recommend places and things to do in a city by mood. Where do [...]
Welcome to the new home of Conceptology
When I first started this blog in 2006, I wanted to make it as easy as possible to set things up. So I chose Blogger, even though I already had a WordPress installation running on my server. Now I’ve finally taken the time to recreate the blog in WordPress, and get it its own domain, [...]
Three Minds
Starting today, I’ll have posts appear every now and then also in Three Minds, one of the two excellent blogs of Organic, which is where I work now. The first one talks about mobile microblogging services. In the post I highlight GyPSii, Plazes and Friend View, but there’s of course plenty of others, Brighkite, Shizzow, [...]
The Economist Innovation Awards
The Economist gave one of its Innovation Awards this year to Matti Makkonen, the Finnish telecom consultant who’s the inventor of SMS and a former EVP of Sonera. Nokia received the Chairman’s Special Award for Corporate Use of Innovation, and Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, the developers of YouTube, got the Award for Consumer Products. [...]
Joost now in any browser
No more need to install an application to watch Joost, which has gone Flash Video and works in your browser. The move was expected, and makes accessing Joost somewhat quicker and easier than the application which, at least on my Mac, was a bit unreliable, even if the video quality was a bit higher thanks [...]
Google’s next generation image search
You know how current image search engines are based on just indexing text associated with an image to determine what’s in the image? That gives pretty weak search results. Now Google is talking about changing that. Their vision of next generation image search uses computers to analyze the stuff in photos, and then the analyzed [...]