Ryan Coleman gives a brief but inspiring presentation about the process of how we see and how that knowledge allows us to create designs that are more visually efficient. This is a nice introduction to a field every information designer should look into.
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This talk is a much shorter version of the very useful presentation:
Not that I’m a crazy blogger or anything, but I was finding the blogger system to be rather annoying. As such, I have decided to move my blog over to a wordpress installation. Let’s see how this works!
Andreas Kluth (San Francisco correspondent for The Economist) talking about real and virtual campfires, and predicts the dissolution of standalone social networks (such as FaceBook and MySpace) as we know them.
Anyone interested in the next generation of internet technology really needs to listen to this podcast. Its clear, concise and really gets at the heart of many social graph issues and human behavior.
Flash Video is by far the best way to deliver video on the web. Every online video sharing site (YouTube, Google Video, etc) use flash video. For smaller websites, flash video supports on-demand streaming without a video streaming server. The problem previously was that all flash video players previously were commercial offerings (or required that you purchase Adobe Flash Pro).
Luckily a dutch guy – Jeroen Wijering – has now created an Open Source alternative. From his website:
The player allows you to show your videos more controlled and to a broader audience than with Quicktime, Windows Media or Real Media. It supports playback of a single Flash video file, RTMP streams or RSS, XSPF and ATOM playlists (with advertisement possibilities), a wide range of flashvars (settings) for tweaking both behavior and appearance and an extensive, documented javascript/actionscript API