Monthly Archives: November 2009

Don’t make me a target

The augmented reality view in Brightkite’s mobile app. Brightkite, a location-tracking service, recently launched version 2.0 of their service after merging with Limbo and taking $9M in funding this past April. In recent months I’ve found myself using Foursquare more and more, though I still update Brightkite from time to time since it powers the [...]

New microsyntax for Twitter: three pointers and the slasher

Image based on Kevin Van Aelst’s original. Update: These basic “tags” have been christened “slashtags” by Chris Blow. They are also now supported in Atebit’s popular Twitter client Tweetie 2 on the iPhone. Since it’s apparently all the rage to design your own features for Twitter now, I figured I’d build on my success with [...]

Open source design and the OpenOfficeMouse

I admit that my initial reaction to the OpenOfficeMouse (to the right in the above graphic) wasn’t … positive. After all, I’ve been acclimating to my new Apple MagicMouse (seen on the left above) for the past week and really like it, especially in comparison with the previous model with the stubby and malfunctioning nipple [...]