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Twitter / @HATProject/HomeAlone
december 2009 by infovore
"All the characters fom Home Alone, the project starts on the 22nd." 22 Twitterbots, performing Home Alone, in realtime, starting Dec 22nd. Awesome. Bonkers, but awesome (and takes the concept I used in Twit 4 Dead to a new level).
drama
performance
twitter
bots
homealone
narrative
distributed
december 2009 by infovore
Process Perfection
july 2008 by infovore
"The bottom line is, there are laws on the books in the EU that stand in direct conflict with the needs of Google's architecture, and no amount of hand waving will make that fact go away." Smart artcile about the legal issues of cloud computing.
architecture
google
privacy
law
cloudcomputing
distributed
computing
hosting
july 2008 by infovore
Wish I’d seen this « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
april 2008 by infovore
"...what exemplars like Dopplr and Fire Eagle demonstrate beautifully is [that]... the seams between systems are as important to the way a service is ultimately experienced as the more obvious interface between system and human user."
application
web
design
development
interaction
data
ownership
portability
distributed
april 2008 by infovore
Git Magic - Preface
april 2008 by infovore
"Git is a version control Swiss army knife. A reliable versatile multipurpose revision control tool whose extraordinary flexibility makes it tricky to learn, let alone master. I'm recording what I've figured out so far in these pages." Really excellent.
git
vcs
sourcecontrol
versioncontrol
distributed
programming
development
april 2008 by infovore
Modernista!
april 2008 by infovore
"You are viewing Modernista! through the eyes of the Web. The menu on the left is our homepage. Everything behind it is beyond our control." Inventive, certainly. Not quite sure how much I like it, though.
design
web
agency
portfolio
crazy
distributed
april 2008 by infovore
5 Reasons Distributed Teams Suck | Socialtext Enterprise Wiki
october 2007 by infovore
"when ever you have a new team member you have a new team". Ross Mayfield is pretty accurate, in my experience, of the issues with distributed working.
work
distributed
teleworking
october 2007 by infovore
Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » There’s no reason why WoW couldn’t be represented by anything other than an RSS feed
september 2007 by infovore
Great selection of links to Raph Koster's "Design For Everywhere" - a talk at GDC to the games industry about designing games (and, by inference, software) for use in any context. Important!
games
play
network
distributed
casual
presentation
ubiplay
september 2007 by infovore
ESV Bible Blog » Blog Archive » Mechanical Turk Recap
july 2006 by infovore
The ESV Bible team crowdsourced their interlinked search database to Amazon's Mechanical Turk. That turned out quite well for them.
crowdsourcing
mechanicalturk
amazon
outsourcing
distributed
processing
july 2006 by infovore
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