Your Personal API (February 6th, 2010 - 381 views)
Everyone has a Personal API these days. Look at my blog sidebar – I put my photos on flickr, my messages on twitter, my location on dopplr, my places on foursquare, my bookmarks on delicious, my music on last.fm, and they’re just the regular ones let alone everything else.
Your mix of APIs might look slightly [...]
Game Mechanics: Putting the Fun in Functional (June 14th, 2009 - 1,263 views)
Games themselves are nothing new, they have been around for thousands of years – so it makes sense that we have figured out what makes them work. Game designers know which elements they need to include to make a game truly addictive, and if you can apply those same ideas to social web design you [...]
Your iPhone is simply a new interface (March 25th, 2009 - 1,353 views)
I have been thinking about this for a while now, but it took Mick’s Mobile Killed The Desktop Star post to remind me to write it down. The correct answer is “derrr Mick, of course!”
When the iPhone had just launched and everyone was asking my opinion I suggested that they think of it as a “mini-laptop” [...]
12 Web Services That Shine (December 29th, 2008 - 1,334 views)
I just wanted to highlight some really well-built websites I might not use every day, but like anyway.
They have a strong brand, they have attention to detail, they have a vibrant membership. They do it right. They are well built.
Meetup
Their vision is “Let’s use the Internet to get people off the Internet.” They run the [...]
