Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

What Is Web 2.0
Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generat ...
by Tim O'Reilly
09/30/2005
The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 m ...

I was recently talking with Jeff Barr, creator of syndic... chief web services evangelist. He let drop an interestin... has both SOAP and REST interfaces to their web services,... usage is of the REST interface. Despite all of the corpo... SOAP stack,

What is Origo?
Hello, I am Origo. I am a 3D printer for ten year olds.
You can draw your very own things in 3Dtin and I’ll bu ...
Right now, I am just an idea. I will be as easy to use a ...
... want it to be. Most of all though, I’m a tool for you.

Goals
“Make a break with the past and go in a new direct ...
A well designed concept supports usability and acces ...
Think! Being innovative and creative ensures our sta ...
... Really nice art, acceptance through beauty (sexy!) :-)

Store, share & discover realtime sensor, energy and envi... objects, devices & buildings around the world.
Pachube is a convenient, secure & scalable platform that ...

Valuable data should be published and used as a public g... economy and society.

For 32 years, Paul Ekman was a Professor of Psychology i... Psychiatry at the University of California at San Franci... his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago... University. He received his Ph.D. from Adelphi Universit...
His interes

Taking the phonebook to a whole new level
Villagers in Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset got togethe ...
Community book exchange
The iconic and much loved village phonebox was offered t ...

Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal
[ A letter to the editor of Datamation, volume 29 number ...
The story of Mel is a related article. ]
Back in the good old days-- the "Golden Era" of computer ...

Foxconn, a Chinese company that assembles Apple products... employees to sign a pledge promising that they won't com... according to the Daily Mail.

LAS VEGAS—Mercedes-Benz on Tuesday expanded its in-veh... offerings by incoporating services like Facebook, Yelp, ... dashboard via a service dubbed mbrace2.
"It works seamlessly, automatically, and 24-7. I admit t ...
Powered by Hughes Telematics, mb

I interviewed a lot of people recently, and ...
This was a "proper" programming job with a back-end data ...
We asked some *basic* questions about databases (stuff l ...
Most of the graduates didn't have a clue - this is basic ...
... By fjfish on 3 Jul 2

When people complain that the iPhone doesn't do multitas... necessarily mean they're desperate for a bunch of apps t... iPhone simultaneously. (Sometimes they do; more on that ... a major productivity hurdle on the iPhone is the fact th...
So when App

Our bodies may some day become extensions for smartphone... devices, if a new Nokia patent is any indication.
Nokia has patented magnetic material that would alert we ...

The trick to great design is knowing how to think throug... that users don't have to. In The Obvious Interface, Robe... of Designing the Obvious, presents over 30 stories that ... put good design principles to work on real-world web app... interfaces

Small, standards compliant, Javascript WYSIWYG HTML control
The name says it all. This Javascript file can be added ...
Key features
Small
... a class name to turn a textarea into a WYSIWYG control.

Project pepper

Peer-to-Peer Architectures for Federated Search of Complex Digital Libraries

The set of providers of Digital Libraries and services on the Web is growing both in absolute numbers and in terms of diversity. From a user poin...

The subtitle to Kida’s book is “The 6 Basic Mistakes...
A skeptic is just a person who wants to see and evaluate ...
In this book, he winnows the common problems that get in ...
* We prefer stories to statistics.
... * We have faulty memories

Natural building construction
Pattern observation and site analysis
Renewable energy and appropriate technology
Reading the land and natural cycles
... ...and much, much more!

Paul Churchland, in his recent “Chimerical Colors: Som... from Cognitive Neuroscience” (2005), describes very od... experiences that are predicted by a neural model of chro... processing. In brief, the differential fatiguing and rec... processing

The project deals with data from a list of the social re... the Danish people. The list is the result of an opinion ... consultancy company in Denmark. I have used the context ... opinion polls within each interest to shape and design d... so the rece

But most importantly, data-driven science is less intell... then hypothesis-driven science. Data mining is sweet, an... Plotting multivariate data, maps, “relationships” an... visualizations is hip and catchy, everybody can understa... thinking ab

Archiving digital photos is hard if you want to do it ri... change. When Phanfare started back in 2004, Flash 7 was ... format on the web. Now H.264 is the standard for high qu... resolutions are always increasing. Phanfare can change w... carrying yo

3. Language, Thought, and the "Extended Mind"
"Memento's Revenge: Objections and Replies to the Exten ...
"Author's Reply" to symposium on Natural-Born Cyborgs. ...
"Minds, Brains and Tools" (with a response by Daniel De ...
... ought" Pragmatics And

According to the interactive conception of mind, our min... the details of our gross bodily form, our habits of acti... intervention, and the enabling web of social, cultural, ... scaffolding in which we are historically, evolutionarily... and here-an

Minds, Things, and Materiality.
To appear in Renfrew C. and Malafouris L. (eds.), The Co ...