Publications & Projects

moodya! moodya! Read more »

Socialite – shrinking my Dock 1 for 3 apps

Socialite – by Realmac Software (the company that behind RapidWeaver and LittleSnapper) is a nicely shaped little mac software that eases up our life to stay in touch with the social networks and services that matter to us – or not ;-).

From news on Digg, photos on Flickr, statuses and photos on Facebook and Twitter updates, to full Google Reader RSS syncing, Socialite keeps all your social networks in one convenient place.” (Source: Realmac Software)

Socialite_by_Realmacsoftware.png

Read more...

“Project: CODE_RUSH”: Great Video documentation about Netscape and Mozilla

project_code_rush_banner.jpg

If you’re into software and the internet, enjoyed reading books like Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Its Inventor (by Tim Berners-Lee), Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet or Dreaming in Code (about the Chandler project) and Mozilla’s Open-Source Software products like the browser Firefox or the email client Thunderbird are amongst the list of your favourite computer programs then – well chances are very high that you might enjoy the movie Project: CODE_RUSH. Relax and enjoy! :-)

Code Rush [...] is an inside look at living and working in Silicon Valley at the height of the dot-com era. The film follows a group of Netscape engineers as they pursue at that time a revolutionary venture to save their company – giving away the software recipe for Netscape’s browser in exchange for integrating improvements created by outside software developers.” (Source: Project: CODE_RUSH)

(Via t3n Magazin.)

Read more...

Google did it again: Google Wave Rocks!

This is truly amazingly hot stuff! … and – again – incredibly well engineered!! Honestly, I can’t wait to get my hands on Google Wave!

Google Wave Screenshot

Actually I should say: Weaving and Surfing Waves! :-)

Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Watch the demo video below, sign up for updates and learn more about how to develop with Google Wave.
(Source: Google Wave Preview)

Resources

Update: Meanwhile I managed to “play” at least a little bit with the Wave Sandbox – using the 2nd test account of a generous colleague (thx M.!) – while still waiting for my Wave Developer Account request to be processed.
Pretty impressed by the Wave UI but also wondering what the transformation management strategy of Google will look like when Wave hits the average users, as Wave clearly requires quite some rethinking…

Read more...

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 project Natal, truly amazing!

Microsoft Xbox 360 Project Natal

No Strings (or Controllers) Attached.
Introducing Project Natal, a revolutionary new way to play: no controller required. See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it. If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak you and your friends can jump into the fun — the only experience needed is life experience.
(Source: Xbox 360 Microsoft Project Natal)

(via Twine)

Read more...

Web Trend Map – must see!

Awesome piece of work, both research and design/ layout!

The Web Trend Map is a yearly publication by iA Inc. that maps the 333 most influential Web domains and the 111 most influential Internet people onto the Tokyo Metro map.

The following diagram is the final beta version of the map.


Click to display bigger version of the map (even 6740 x 4768)!

In additional you’re invited to provide feedback in the comment’s section of the page, but remember:

No hate (we know we suck), no love (we know you still love us), no novels (we know that you know a lot).
Source: informationarchitects.jp

Like it! :-)

(via createordie.de)

Read more...

Go and scr.im your email address

Scr.im is a simple but nicely built free service (currently in beta) to convert your email address into a short, cute and safe link that you can share on the web.

Why would you want to do this? Well, of course to get less spam! ;-)

How does it work? Instead of tricking around to obfuscate your email address with some nasty JavaScript hack people willing to email you will go to this URL (e.g. http://scr.im/matthias) that will reveal your email address, after a simple test that automated scripts and bots cannot pass.

screenshot_scr_im_matthias.png

Read more...

The duck in me…


(Image Source: Wikipedia, some rights reserved)

Yesterday I recieved a notification that my “Personal Annual Report for 2008″ for my Dopplr account is available and awaiting my download – but until now I didn’t found time to actually have a look at it…

… only in order to learn:

  • You [me] took 8 trips in 2008, which added
    up to 43,602 km or 12% of the distance to the moon.
  • In 2008, you [me] spent 339 Day at Home [and] 27 travelling.

… resulting in:

Your personal velocity for 2008 was 4.97
km/h, which is about the same as a duck.

What’s your velocity?

Read more...

About tech opinion leaders [placeholder] and the Mac

Made me smile :-):

Most tech opinion leaders use Mac (a statistic I just extracted from my behind). You should support us first.

(Via Just Browsing, Browser of the Week: Google Chrome.)

Sure: just replace [placeholder] by:

- and the author of this blog –

Read more...

What if there were NO news today?

Would LOVE to see this some day… Meanwhile – just laughing out loud! :-)

(Via swissmiss: The day there was no news.)

Read more...