May 2009
11 posts
Ignite Show: Hillel Cooperman on the Lego... →
Some people never grow up. Some people wait to have children so that they can become kids again. When Hillel Coopermans’s young ones were four he began his family’s Lego collection. This…
Google Web Elements and Google's Iceberg... →
At Google I/O this morning, DeWitt Clinton announed Google Web Elements, a new simple interface layer to Google Ajax APIs. The goal is to make bringing Google features to other sites as easy as…
The Myth of Macroinnovation →
An idea is making the rounds and appearing in articles like this New York Times piece, and it goes roughly thus: the age of the small inventor is over because to work on stuff that matters…
Wales Plans For Energy Self-Sufficiency With... →
By John Vidal Wales today laid out radical plans to make it one of the most energy- and resource-efficient countries in the world within a generation. The government development…
YCN, 72 Rivington Street, London →
Jiggery Pokery’s window display, as viewed from inside YCN’s new studio/gallery/library space
The Young Creative Network (YCN) has opened its newly renovated headquarters at 72…
Politican as self-tracker - Bob Graham's notebooks →
Politicians have always been self-trackers. In the flow of political action, you need a notebook just to keep track of people’s names. But when a recent political controversy was resolved by…
Scribd Store a Welcome Addition to Ebook Market... →
The document-sharing site Scribd has launched a new “Scribd Store” selling view and download access to documents and books. As part of the launch, there are now more than 650 O’Reilly ebooks now…
Tim Brown on the participation economy →
Nokia’s IdeasProject site features a video interview with Tim Brown, CEO of Ideo, where he argues that that communications technology is leading us back to the kind of…
Bendy Map Projection →
It’s not often a new kind of map perspective is invented, but this one by Here & There looks new to me. It’s an ingenious blend of 3D and overhead orthogonal. The “bent” perspective is…
Here & There, and Wired UK →
As long as I’ve know Jack Schulze, he’s been working with maps. The first one I remember was a way of mapping Barbican, which is a three dimensional architectural maze of a housing and cultural…
From Generalists to Specialists →
A while back Atlassian reached $100 million in all time revenue. We’ve asked some of our employees to give us their take on how they’ve seen the company grow. Better late than never, VP of…