Month: May 2012

  • BYOD Spells Doom For Enterprise Solutions

    stoweboyd: Cisco’s has recently shut down a short list of strangely named products — Eos (social blogging platform), Umi (video conferencing), and Cius (tablet) — and while the first two might be interpreted as Cisco backing away from consumer products, the third is the opposite: companies embracing consumer products. Apparently, companies aren’t provisioning their employees…

  • Posted 05.24.12 | David Cabianca Graphic Design is Dead, Long Live Graphic Design Long Live Graphic Design: A Review of Now in Production: Observatory: Design Observer

  • What’s Modkit Micro? Modkit Micro is a graphical programming environment for microcontrollers. Microcontrollers allow programmers and engineers to add behaviors to everyday objects and electronic gadgets. We created Modkit Micro to bring the world of microcontroller programming to the masses. Modkit Micro helps almost anyone to make almost anything smarter through a simple, yet powerful…

  • Modkit Micro. Programming for anyTHING* *Modkit Micro helps you make (almost) anything smarter—the only limit is your imagination. From stuffed animals that respond to hugs, to window blinds that squint for you. Get started learning, teaching and making with Modkit Micro now. (via Modkit)

  • But Harmon’s management style is not the only factor (or even, perhaps, the main one). Community has never gotten great ratings, and Harmon has reportedly resisted requests from both NBC and Sony to give the show a broader appeal. Of course, this may also help explain its consistent inventiveness and its wild ambition. Many fans…

  • REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN for the Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks, 3rd Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci2012 ON Tuesday, June 19, 2012 AT Kellogg School of Management on Northwestern University campus, in Evanston/IL, near Chicago/IL on the shores of Lake Michigan. FEATURING keynotes Burak Arikan (NYC/Istanbul), Pedro Cano (bmat.com), and Miriah Meyer (Utah); contributors Marco…

  • julian: #spacepod (Taken with instagram) reminds me of the Jetsons!

  • futurejournalismproject: How to Think About Our Networked World On this Memorial Day weekend, Nieman Lab’s Joshua Benton recommends you mix up your relaxation hours with some videos of smart people saying smart things. We second that suggestion, and offer you (the above): a brilliant animated video by Manuel Lima, Senior UX Design Lead at Microsoft…

  • Rapid Physical Game Design & Prototyping + Interaction & Collaboration course design notes, created in collaboration between Bill Depper and Rafael Fajardo.

  • notational: Ackoff Pyramid. Another foundational diagram as has to do with data and info. I think that I am most interested, in a personal sense, with “Insight and Understanding”. It seems to me that too much of the knowledge that I use and think about is “received knowledge” and it might be useful to dive…